From a carp to a dragon god

Chapter 342: Immortals and the Netherworld Demon
The City of the Wrongful Dead is one of the ten cities in the underworld. It is dedicated to collecting the souls of those who died unexpectedly before the end of their life span, such as those who died in battle, famine, were murdered, or committed suicide.

There are no tunnels in Middle-earth, the Nine Netherworld is still in chaos, and the Five Directions Ghost Kingdom and the Ten Directions Netherworld City have not yet appeared.

The Emperor of Dongyi secretly built the City of the Dead with the purpose of rescuing his clansmen who died unjustly in the past and letting them turn to the Yuhua Sect to practice Taoism.

However, all his plans turned into nothing. The Corpse Reincarnation Immortal and the Ascension Immortal took the tiger woman to the Feilai Peak of Mount Tai.

Taking advantage of the great catastrophe of heaven's punishment in the East China Sea, he overthrew Feilai Peak in the chaos and escaped into the underworld with a group of zombies and resentful ghosts.

It was planned earlier to climb up from Taoliu blessed land, but unexpectedly, all the souls in Yinshan of the blessed land were refined by Yu Shuyang, and the blessed land could not sink into the Yin and Yang realm.

Later, the Fire Crow Immortal used the Qi of the half-demon clan to fish for the Xuanming underworld, but Yu Shuyang invited the two underworld gods Shentu and Yulei to help him snatch the Qi of the half-demon clan.

After this incident, the Emperor of Dongyi was completely defeated. If it were someone else, he would have simply cast a spell to kill people and steal the treasure.

It just so happened that the people involved were disciples of the Taoist Alliance. Shuiyue Wutong mentioned him repeatedly, and the younger generations of the clan also praised him a lot.

This forced the Emperor of Dongyi to change his tactics, and thus, what happened later happened. He put a magic talisman on the Solitary Garden Skeleton City and gave it to Li Zhen to bring over.

"Cousin, what kind of treasure is this?"

Li Zhen had not seen the Emperor of Dongyi and was not aware of the content of the vision just now. In his eyes, he saw the Skeleton City fall into Yu Shuyang's hands and release its power in an instant.

Yu Shuyang cast a spell to control the City of the Dead, turning it back into a palm-sized Skeleton City. This thing was made from the twenty-four ghost cities in the desolate sea, and it was filled with a mixture of gloomy and ghostly energy.

"Have you heard of the ghost town? This is the capital of the ghosts who died unjustly." Yu Shuyang explained.

This ghost city is very good. If it can be used to sort out the magic restrictions of the twenty-four cities like the Qiankun Long Snake Bag, it will definitely be possible to refine it into a real magic weapon, or even a phantom magic weapon.

Thinking of this, Yu Shuyang laughed to himself. Refining magic weapons would inevitably trigger a heavenly calamity. The ghost town was on par with the White Crow Immortal, and it could probably trigger a catastrophe of heavenly punishment.

"Ghost town? This is where the Ghost King's power lies." Li Zhen's eyes lit up as he spoke. He practiced the way of the gods, so he had to cultivate the incarnation of the gods to practice.

Seeing him like this, Yu Shuyang also thought about the immortals and asked, "Are you worried about the power of incense and vows? Or is it because of the lack of myths and legends?"

The Immortal Way is one of the seven sects of the Immortal Way. The root of this inheritance was created by the ancestors of the Immortal Way and the Shinto Way when they discussed the law and the great way of heaven and earth.

The core of the immortal way is to value life and hate death, and the ultimate pursuit is immortality. However, the Shinto way does not care about life and death and emphasizes morality. There is an essential difference between the two.

When the Immortal Ancestor and the God Ancestor were discussing the Dharma in Taiqing Palace, they discussed the issue of whether the Immortal Way and the God Way could be compatible, so they established a God Way.

This immortal way has been passed down in both the immortal way and the divine way. It can transform immortals into gods and gods into immortals. Its fundamental purpose is to explore how the two can be integrated.

The method inherited by Li Zhen is the method of transformation into a god, which can refine the gods into incarnations of the Dharma, similar to the positions of gods in the Taoist League. Temples must also be built to preach in order to collect incense and vows.

"Brother, don't mention it. Cultivating the way of the immortals is useless. Not only do you have to practice the art of life and death, you also have to raise your spiritual status.

My life is really difficult. The god of money belongs to the category of material gods and is one of the five types of gods. If it were in another world, I would have been very successful long ago.

But in our Middle-earth, the Way of Heaven is extremely prosperous, and the money, wealth, goods, and trade of the material gods are all available, while I have no chance at all."

Li Zhen had a bitter look on his face. He was really upset. Huangshi Baicai had won the title of God of Wealth, and had something to do with wealth and fortune.

The God of Wealth is Xuantan Longhu Zhenjun. Actually, he is not an outsider, but the incarnation of the ancestor of the immortal way in the Central Earth, and also Li Zhen’s direct master.

However, in ancient times, the will of Heaven killed the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance, and four of the seven inheritances were directly wiped out. The first to bear the brunt was the Immortal Path, and all the incarnations of gods were infected by the will of Heaven.

This made Li Zhen very passive. He could only refine the God of Wealth into a God of Transformation and did not dare to use it at all, for fear that he would accidentally attract the Xuantan Dragon and Tiger True Lord and bring down the will of heaven.

Yu Shuyang didn't know the ins and outs of it, but he thought of the Tai Sui Dragon Temple. He wielded the divine pupil between his eyebrows, took out a bit of incense and wish power, and turned it into an incense talisman.

"My divine position has been refined into a talisman. Now there are several fox demons preaching in the Menzhou Temple. Next time you go to the inland of Kyushu, you can go and see them.

If that doesn't work, you can ask them for help, or you can find a temple priest. It's better than worrying about it yourself." Yu Shuyang advised.

He didn't have too many thoughts about Tai Sui Dragon God. After all, he had no shortage of spellcasting methods. In fact, this divine position and talisman was also a method of the immortal way, and could be considered a Taoist inheritance.

"Don't worry. If you are short of a divine position, I can help you find out. The Taoist Alliance has many divine positions, but I don't know if you can use them?" Yu Shuyang helped to find a solution.

Li Zhen shook his head with a bitter face and sighed, "The incarnation of the gods of the immortal way can only comprehend on their own, and cannot rely on external objects."

The core of the practice of the immortal way is to refine the false into the true. The incarnation of the gods is like clothes, helping to comprehend the laws and gather the power of incense and vows to practice magic.

If one relies on external forces and uses divine positions and talismans, it would be like using the false to improve the false. Apart from increasing the means of casting spells, it will not benefit one's own practice at all.

Before Yu Shuyang could comfort Li Zhen, he saw a flying talisman fall into his hand and turn into a grain of rice. It was obvious that it was the work of Yao Jihua.

After crushing the rice bead flying talisman, he heard: "Master Yu, my uncle and I are on the west coast of the island. Please come and pick us up."

Yu Shuyang was stunned when he heard this. He didn't expect that the people sent by the Emperor of Dongyi were Yao Jihua and Yao Zizhong.

"Cousin, the Emperor of Dongyi has sent someone here. Would you like to go with me to meet him?" Yu Shuyang asked back. He had not yet told Li Zhen about the Emperor of Dongyi, mainly because there were too many things involved behind the scenes.

Li Zhen had never met Yao Jihua and the others, but he had heard from his second brother Li Li that his cousin had opened a herb shop on Jinlu Island with the Dongyi people.

"I've heard of the young lady of the Yao family for a long time. I heard that she has been meditating on the righteous beast Zuo Yu, and is also very famous on the Dongling Island." Li Zhen exclaimed with interest.

Li Zhen said this, but he was thinking something else. Earlier, Haixia Patriarch asked his cousin Zhu Zihui to get close to Yu Shuyang, hoping for a marriage between the two families, but was rejected by Zhu Sanniang.

Li Zhen also disagreed in his heart. His cousin was a celestial being, and even if he wanted to marry, the daughter of a noble family had to be from a superior family, such as the young lady of the Yao family.

Yu Shuyang didn't know what Li Zhen was thinking. He cast a spell to release a cloud car, carrying Li Zhen to the west bank. In the air, they could see a group of foxes starting to move towards the Jiujian Taoist Temple.

"Cousin, what do you think of the fox in my Taoist temple?" Yu Shuyang asked, pointing at the fox demon on the ground.

Li Zhen smiled and shook his head, not quite agreeing, saying, "Cousin, you are trying to imitate Xiyu Academy, which is very unsafe.

The Taoist temple teaches only Taoist methods, and those who learn Taoism are all fox spirits. If this continues, is this a Taoist temple or a fox temple? "

Yu Shuyang laughed heartily upon hearing this and said, "The Taoist academy has no prejudice in teaching the Dharma. Now that we are building a Taoist academy in the Qingqiu Islands, the students we recruit are naturally all fox spirits.

Once it's complete, we can recruit students from the East China Sea and the inland areas of the Nine Provinces. All of them, demons and humans alike, can come here to learn the Dao and the Dharma." Li Zhen instantly perked up after hearing this and said, "Cousin, if I go to the inland areas of the Nine Provinces and see anyone who wants to learn the Dao and the Dharma, I can have them come to you here. That'll be considered a recommendation for admission."

Yu Shuyang nodded and didn't say anything else. The cloud car had already arrived at the west bank of the lake island. He pressed the cloud head and it floated down from the sky.

Yao Jihua and Yao Zizhong had just put away the nuclear boat. They had changed a lot since the last time they met.

First up was my third uncle Yao Zizhong, who had already reached the early fourth level of cultivation. He also changed his attire to resemble a soldier, wearing a set of soft cowhide armor and holding a soft-rod gun in his hand.

The second is Yao Jihua, who has actually broken through to the fifth level and has become an immortal. She no longer carries a basket in her hand, but instead holds a purple sesame stalk.

She looks more dignified and beautiful, and has transformed from a young girl in her twenties to a young woman with a temperament, giving people the feeling of a young wife.

"Little Taoist priest, you have actually cultivated to the seventh level. It's only been a few years since we last met." Yao Jihua sighed, then stared at Yu Shuyang for a closer look.

After the little Taoist priest transformed into a human, he looked even better than when he was wearing fish-skin clothes. His handsomeness was mixed with strength, and he had a beauty that combined both hardness and softness.

Yao Zizhong cultivated to the fourth level. He saw the power of the ferocious dragon bone at a glance and couldn't help but sigh: "Master Yu has cultivated a good bone structure. If you practiced martial arts, you would have reached the fifth level by now."

Now Yao Zizhong is practicing martial arts and spearmanship, and he has a deeper understanding of his bones. If the practice of immortality depends on chance, one cannot work in isolation, and needs to travel from time to time.

The martial arts is about basic aptitude. Some people who are gifted by nature are really amazing and can easily achieve what others have achieved after years of hard work.

Yu Shuyang didn't know what Yao Zizhong was thinking. He just wanted to ask about the arrangements made by the Emperor of Dongyi. To be honest, he had never thought of sending them both.

"You two, let's stop being polite and go to the Taoist Palace first."

Yu Shuyang released the cloud car and invited the uncle and nephew of the Yao family and Li Zhen to get on the car together and fly directly back to Jizhen Palace.

"Magical weapon, this car looks like the Nine Heavens Cloud Car?" Yao Zizhong was amazed again.

The cloud chariot pulled by dragon carp can travel around the nine heavens. In ancient times, it was the mount of ancient gods and was known as the flying chariot of the nine heavens.

Yu Shuyang smiled but said nothing. He had never told anyone about the dragon carp bloodline. Only Li Zhen and Li Taiping knew about it.

The group of four monsters arrived at the Jizhen Palace in a flash. The uncle and nephew of the Yao family could not stop praising it. The palace of the Dongyi people still followed the ancient method and was built with earthen walls.

There wasn't much decoration inside the Jizhen Palace. The long snake boy brought four soft couches over for the four monsters to sit on.

The long snake boy was a flesh and blood weapon refiner, but Yao Zizhong didn't realize it and just treated it as a normal monster.

On the contrary, Yao Jihua practiced the method of blessings and virtues, and could not see the blessing or disaster of the long snake boy. After looking at him repeatedly, she vaguely felt that something was wrong.

Yu Shuyang spoke first, "Everyone is here now. Li Zhen is my cousin and also a member of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance.

This one is Yao Jihua, the young lady of the Yao family, and the other one is my third uncle Yao Zizhong.

I'll just get straight to the point and ask, how did the Emperor arrange it?"

He made the identities of both parties clear, introduced Li Zhen and the uncle and nephew of the Yao family to each other, and pointed out the arrangements made by the Emperor of Dongyi so that Li Zhen would have an idea.

Yao Jihua and Yao Zizhong exchanged a glance, and finally Yao Jihua spoke first, saying, "The ancestor sent a message, but there aren't many arrangements.

You only told us to take one thing, and the rest is up to you. To be honest, I still don't understand it very well."

Yu Shuyang nodded, as if he had gained something, and asked, "Besides this, do you have any other arrangements?"

Yao Jihua and Yao Zizhong both shook their heads, and it was obvious that they really didn't know.

On the contrary, Li Zhen, who was standing beside him, suddenly sat up as if waking from a dream and said, "My master, Immortal Zuo, gave me a divine treasure before I set out.

He told me that there are death demons in the Black Water Nether City. Those death demons are in a state of neither life nor death, and ordinary magic cannot harm them. Only the treasure of the birth of the god of joy can kill them.

Li Zhen took out a pair of gold and silver scissors. These scissors were made from the scissors used by midwives to cut umbilical cords. They had a Taoist charm that transcended life, death, and exuded a sense of enlightenment.

Yu Shuyang was thinking for a moment. Youdu was located in the fifth level of the Nine Netherworlds. The level above it was Youfeng of Mount Tai. The Haolijun that Yu Shuyang had met before was the ghost god of Youfeng who guided the dead souls.

Jiuyou is a very strange place. It is flat when viewed from above. The nine layers of the underworld are on the same plane. But if you are in it, it is vertical, from the first layer of the underworld to the ninth layer of the underworld.

At the same time, there are passages between the Nine Netherworlds. For example, the ghost wormwood can lead to the fourth layer of Youfeng, and the Yintao Forest on the north side of Yinshan Mountain can also lead to the ninth layer of Youyu.

Yu Shuyang understood in his heart that it seemed that the Corpse Reincarnation Immortal and the Ascension Immortal had escaped to the fifth level of the Netherworld. Li Zhen had not understood his master's hint earlier.

"You two, is there anything else you haven't thought of?" Yu Shuyang looked at the uncle and nephew of the Yao family.

Yao Zizhong patted his head and said with a smile, "Look at my brain. Some time ago, my clan gave me a ball of sand and told me to use it to sharpen my spear.

I haven't practiced my spearmanship these days, is that it?"

Yao Zizhong took out a piece of yellow sand from his magic bag. It was a ball of river sand that was like clay, and it had a faint spiritual charm of the real water of the underworld.

"Black Water River Sand, that's right. It seems that we are going to the Netherworld. How do you three want to go to the Netherworld?" Yu Shuyang continued to ask.

At this moment, he had an intuition that the Emperor of Dongyi sent the City of Unjust Death to them, most likely to let them go to the Black Water City in their real bodies.

However, Yu Shuyang did not want this to happen. Once the physical body entered the Nine Netherworld, it would be very difficult to get out again. This was different from using the Soul-Guiding Banner to travel back and forth between Yin and Yang with the mind.

Li Zhen, Yao Jihua and Yao Zizhong were all speechless. It was obvious that none of them had any hint in this regard.

"In that case, let's each release a mind. I will cast a spell to send everyone's mind into the underworld, and then we will turn to the underworld." Yu Shuyang said according to his inner thoughts.

As soon as he finished speaking, a city of bones and skeletons appeared, and another fairy talisman flew out of it, dragging all four monsters into the city of the dead.

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