From a carp to a dragon god

The Nine Netherworlds—the Mysterious Netherworlds.

The star Wenquxing hangs high in the blue sky, and its starlight is like the dark sun and the dark moon. The dark sun is dark red, the dark moon is grayish white, and the star Wenquxing is incandescent.

As the three rays of light continued to spread the power of origin, the laws of the Xuanming underworld became more and more perfect, and the demons, ghosts and dead souls lived and worked like living people in the world of the living.

Today's Xuanming underworld is divided into three parts. One of them is twenty groups of demons and ghosts. Each of these demons and ghosts occupies a Wenqu Temple, and they are both scattered and united with each other.

The second is the demons and ghosts in the Tai Sui Temple on Jiuyin Mountain. Most of these demons and ghosts come from the Blood Lake. They are transformed from premature ghosts, infant ghosts, and postpartum ghosts. They are isolated on the mountain by the Tianfeng Taoist Tree and the Yin Tao Tree.

The third is the City of the Dead on the north bank of the source of the River Styx, where there are three ghost and god treasures: the City of the Dead, the Broken Money Mountain, and the Naihe Bridge.

Yu Shuyang made a pact with Xuanhu Pengwei, which was to hand over the City of the Dead on the north bank of the Styx to him for control, so that he could help cultivate spiritual food from the underworld and refine the humane weapon of the military officers - the pumpkin carriage.

After he had reached an agreement with the two ghosts and gods in Taodu Mountain, he took out the Yinhun Banner in the Netherworld and cast a spell to bring him into the Xuanming Netherworld.

As Yu Shuyang's demon body entered the underworld, he could feel the power of thirty or forty laws, and it was as orderly as a small world.

Under the washing of the Flesh Death River, the city of the dead, which was once piled with white bones and skulls, has become as white as jade, without any trace of ghosts or evil spirits.

With the continuous management of the Black Fox Pengwei, the City of the Dead is no longer what it used to be. Twenty-four spaces have appeared one by one, directly expanding the city twenty-four times, as if the twenty-four cities were united.

The City of the Unjustly Dead exudes the rhythm of the great Dao, attracting the unjustly dead ghosts in the underworld, and making them fall into the Styx. They are washed by the black water of the Styx, the Yellow Spring of the Blue Sky, and the Naihe River of Flesh Death, and turn into demons and ghosts.

The newly born demons and ghosts are selected by the ghost generals in the city and taken back to cultivate spiritual food in the underworld or to reclaim the wasteland in the city of the dead.

As Yu Shuyang observed with his spiritual mind, he could clearly feel that the area of the Xuanming Underworld was constantly expanding, and it was no longer under his influence or control.

At this time, the black fox Pengwei was in charge of the City of the Dead. As he restored contact with the Qingqiu fox clan, not only did the six major fox clans send fox fairies to help, but the priest of the divine fox lineage - Fox Lord, also came to the City of the Dead.

With the continuous investment of resources from the Ghost Fox and Moon Fox, the Ghost Market has grown to a considerable scale. Once the Black Fox's Pengwei can communicate with the Yin and Yang worlds, they can officially sell all kinds of spiritual objects and magical tools.

The Fox Lord even moved the Fox Society here, and the resentful ghosts that had originally helped him suppress the incense poison in his body were also led into the Xuanming underworld.

Suddenly, among the twenty-four ghost markets, one was a brothel controlled by the fox god, and it was already doing the flesh trade of demons and ghosts.

The black fox with fluffy tail sat high on the city lord's throne and held a banquet for all the fox fairies. At the banquet, there were fox girls performing erotically and fox spirits playing music. It was a scene of the devil coming to the world.

During the banquet, a fox fairy from the Moon Fox lineage came forward with a cup of wine and said flatteringly, "Grandmother, now that you have such a great foundation, why don't you rebuild the Ghost Kingdom?

Nowadays, in order to escape the wrath of Heaven, the people of the Qingqiu Fox Nation either hang their coffins on cliffs or burn their bodies with spiritual fire after death. The fox souls no longer have a place to return to."

Upon hearing this, the fox fairies offered words of comfort, saying that they did not want to be harmed by the heavens after death and become the culprits who killed their descendants.

"All the things of the past have become empty. There is no Ghost Mother Goddess anymore. Now there is only the God of the Underworld Road in the City of the Dead. There is no connection with the Ghost Mother Country anymore!"

Black Fox Pengwei had a calm expression on his face. After all, he was the fox god from ancient times and had long since developed the ability to remain calm.

As he took out six spaces in the City of the Dead and distributed them equally to the six fox tribes, he had long expected this day to come.

As the saying goes: "Where there are people, there will be disputes."

The Moon Fox and the Ghost Fox have been openly and secretly instigating the Black Fox Pengwei to rebuild the Ghost Kingdom. In this way, the Shinto fox cultivators can resume their practice.

The black fox Pengwei was forced to become the center of the dispute. He had no choice but to be patient and watch the six major fox tribes fighting each other.

Fox demons are suspicious and cunning by nature. Black Fox Pengwei is used to seeing the tricks of internal fighting. He is powerless to change and can only let the situation develop.

Among the group of foxes present, except for the black fox Pengwei, the one with the highest status is Fox Gong. He was born into a nine-tailed fox family and is the temple keeper of the nine-tailed fox. At the same time, he is also the leader of the Shinto monks.

The fox man held a peach blossom in his hand, and he did nothing but drink and smell the peach blossoms. The incense poison had already eroded his body to the bone marrow, and could only be removed bit by bit by external force.

In the past, he let the resentful ghosts eat him, which not only removed the poison from the incense but also dispelled the hatred of the resentful ghosts.

Now all the resentful ghosts have been led into the City of the Dead by him, and transformed into fox-charming ghosts in the City of Brothels. Without the resentful ghosts to remove the incense poison, the Fox Man can only rely on his magic power to scrape the bones to remove the poison, which is equivalent to cutting flesh from his own body.

The fox man didn't say a word from beginning to end. No matter how the other fox fairies made a fuss, the black fox with fluffy tail remained unmoved and only responded with a few words.

With the establishment of the twenty-four districts in the City of the Dead, Xuanhu Pengwei has already taken preliminary control of the City of the Dead. He soon sensed Yu Shuyang's arrival.

He calmly separated a strand of his divine consciousness, mixed with the magic rhythm of the City of the Dead, and transformed it into a green-haired fox. This was the divine consciousness clone he had recently collected from the spiritual rhythm of the Dead City and refined into the Dead Green Fox.

The black fox jumped out from beside the town tomb beast, bowed to Yu Shuyang, and said with a smile: "Little Taoist priest, who do you think I look like?"

The black fox with fluffy tail was in a playful mood and tried to tease Yu Shuyang, acting as if he wanted to silence him. Since ancient times, fox spirits have cultivated a secret method to win people's favor and silence them, which is to ask others what they look like.

As the master of the Xuanming Underworld, Yu Shuyang's mind is always checking the past in the underworld, and he already knows the origin of the green fox in front of him.

He secretly gathered the great principles of the underworld and said, "I think you look like the blue-eyed fox god who guides sinners."

As Yu Shuyang finished speaking, a divine aura descended, mixed with the authority to extradite sinners, and there was also a divine contract hidden in it.

This divine contract was signed by Yu Shuyang and the two ghost gods of Taodu, and was specifically used to extradite the sinners in the underworld.

According to Shen Tu, he wanted to communicate between the Xuanming Underworld and the Netherworld through the Yin Peach Tree. When he planted the Yin Peach Spirit Tree in Jiuyou Mountain, he wanted to create a Yinshan passage.

Yu Shuyang was concerned about the Ruomu sacred tree on Jiuyin Mountain and could no longer place the sinners in Jiuyin Mountain. After much thought, he felt that only the City of the Dead was the most suitable place.

"Oh! Oh! Little Taoist priest, you have done us a great harm!"

The green fox has received the two origins of the magic rhyme of the unjustly dead and the guilty ghosts, and has already received the divine function of guiding the unjustly dead ghosts and the guilty ghosts, and vaguely feels the favor of the origin of the underworld.

Yu Shuyang feigned ignorance and asked, "You green fox, how shameless! You were the one who asked me to silence you. Now that I've given you divine authority, you're blaming me. How can this be justified?"

The green fox widened its green eyes, staring at Yu Shuyang with great resentment, and said with gritted teeth, "Little Taoist priest, don't try to trick me like this. Tell me, what on earth are you planning?"

Xuanhu Pengwei had already sensed the newfound authority of the Shinto. Under the underworld, the divisions of extraditing the dead and the guilty were divided. This was not a bad thing for him, but rather a very good thing. Yu Shuyang smiled and said, "Xuanhu, don't be angry. I came here to discuss this with you!"

The two ghost gods in Taodu Mountain are Shentu, who guards the Ghost Gate from the Taiyue clan, and Yulei, who guards the underworld. These two gods ask for our help.

There are more and more sinful ghosts piling up in the underworld, especially the last emperors of the Humane Dynasty. They bear the people's resentment caused by the change of dynasties and gather the ghost generals and ministers from their lifetime in the underworld.

Over time, the underworld could no longer bear it, especially the ghosts and gods of Yulei. He could only maintain it with difficulty, so he wanted to move these sinful ghosts who had become powerful out of the underworld.

Now, looking at the entire Nine Netherworld, only the Xuanming Underworld is the most suitable, and in the underworld, only the City of the Dead is the cheapest.

I can only feel at ease if you, Xuanhu, personally suppress it. What do you think of this matter?"

Yu Shuyang didn't beat around the bush and explained the matter clearly and concisely. He was originally thinking about how to persuade Xuanhu Pengwei.

After all, the sinful ghosts who can migrate out of the underworld are all powerful and can cause Yu Lei, the god of ghost law in the underworld, a headache. You can imagine how difficult it is.

Now, Xuanhu has taken on the divine duty of extraditing the evil ghosts by splitting his spirit to "ask for a closure". This is equivalent to fulfilling the divine contract on behalf of Yu Shuyang without his knowledge.

The Black Fox's Pengwei passed on the message through his split spirit, and then realized the two new divine duties, and had already grasped the initiative of the Nine Netherworld's origin.

If the tunnel is to be revived and developed, the nine underworld ghosts and gods must be restored one by one. During this period, there will be various variables and opportunities.

Just like the ghost kingdom of Youdu, it has turned into ruins due to the suppression of ghost gods such as Tubo and Xuanhu. Trying to restore the ghost kingdom of Youdu is no less than creating another underworld.

Now, there is a Xuanming underworld in the underworld, and all aspects show a trend of replacing the Youdu Ghost Kingdom, which is bound to bring about various opportunities, such as the influx of sinful ghosts.

"Little Taoist priest, you have a good hand at calculating, and you are making me work for you in vain.

I heard that in order to punish the farmhands, the landlords would plow grass on the wall and imitate the crowing of roosters in the middle of the night. Compared to you, they are all inferior.

You're making me work for free and then paying you. Isn't that too cruel?" Xuan Hu said, trying to bargain.

His relationship with Yu Shuyang is very delicate. They are neither master and servant nor friends. They have just signed a divine contract regarding the City of the Dead and the spiritual food of the underworld.

The black fox Pengwei was inspired by the sea market and the water market, so he wanted to set up a ghost market in the City of the Dead. When Yu Shuyang allowed the Qingqiu fox tribe to borrow the underworld road to transport food, he brought the six major fox tribes into the group.

This was Black Fox Pengwei's selfish motive, so he always felt a little awkward, just like a guest staying at home and having a banquet at the host's house, which felt like a reversal of priorities.

Now that the matter of "extraditing evil spirits" has happened, Xuanhu wants to use this as an excuse to get the ghost market matter over with, so that both parties will not be embarrassed.

Yu Shuyang looked at Qinghu with a smile and said, "What does Xuanhu want? You know my secret. I don't have much to offer you."

Yu Shuyang saw that Xuanhu was pretending, and knew that he wanted to take the opportunity to extort benefits, just like when he deliberately shirked responsibility in front of the Ertao God, the purpose was the same.

Xuan Hu chuckled and said, "Little Taoist, you should have noticed the changes in the City of the Dead. Now, the twenty-four spaces have been restored to their original state after repairs.

Since you promised the two ghost gods of the Peach Tree to bring the last emperor of the human race here, I am not like the ghost god Yulei and do not have the laws of the underworld. How can I subdue them?

If you want me to help you, you have to promise me one thing, which is to allow the Qingqiu Fox Clan to come here to help.

Since you want to use the underworld road to transport grain out of Qingqiu, why not build a market in the City of the Dead? Now there are 24 prototypes of ghost cities, and the last emperor of the human race has joined.

I think it won't take long before the ghost market can be opened up. This will be good for you to accommodate the evil ghosts, and it will also be good for your cousin Li Zhen.

If he hadn't become the God of Wealth in the Yin Treasury, the source of that broken money mountain would be growing stronger day by day, and sooner or later it would have to circulate. With the cooperation of the Ghost Market, he would definitely benefit from it."

After all, the Black Fox Pengwei is an old god with many years of experience. He has a good grasp of people's hearts. Once he persuades them patiently, he can persuade prostitutes to become good women and strong women to have affairs with men.

After hearing this, Yu Shuyang thought about it and didn't think there was any problem, so he agreed.

"Xuanhu, I wonder how the Nether Grain cultivation is going? And that pumpkin carriage, how many years has it been in the process of being sacrificed?"

Yu Shuyang came to the City of the Dead, so of course he couldn't just leave like that. He had to see what he wanted. Extraditing the guilty ghosts and opening up the ghost market were secondary to him.

The key is the food from the underworld and the weapons of humanity. This is the key for him to weaken humanity and interfere with the layout of the Emperor of Dongyi.

"Little Taoist priest, don't worry about what I'm doing. I've already accumulated enough food for two ghost towns, and I've also refined hundreds of incense and magical instruments.

That pumpkin carriage of yours is such a rip-off. It consumes so much incense and energy. From the moment the pumpkin seeds are planted, they need to be watered with incense.

"When the pumpkin grows, I'll have to use the method you taught me to confine it and cultivate the golden fire, so that I can refine the so-called carriage." Xuan Hu complained again.

At the beginning, Yu Shuyang signed a divine contract with him, asking him to help cultivate ghost food and refine the pumpkin carriage. As long as there are ghosts to cultivate, there will be a steady supply of ghost food.

On the contrary, the refining of the pumpkin carriage requires a lot of incense and vows, and just the three hoops of forbidden, tight and golden are very difficult to refine, not to mention kneading gold fire to refine it into a carriage.

The black fox Pengwei also took great pains to collect the inheritance of the six sacred places of Qingqiu Fox and found a secret technique of the "mud pot" treasure. Only then did he use the Yin soil alchemy fire to refine the pumpkin carriage into shape.

Yu Shuyang followed the green fox incarnation of Xuanhu to the City of the Dead, where he saw mountains of grain from the underworld, as well as the underworld fields crisscrossed with acres of land where demons and ghosts were constantly farming.

The harvest of ghost food in the underworld only takes one month in the world of the living. If there were not a group of demons and ghosts that need to be fed, the ghost food accumulated by this time would be more than three ghost towns.

After looking at the food for the dead, Yu Shuyang went to see the "pumpkin carriages". There were only a dozen "carriages" the size of a palm, and the carriages looked like carriages, while the rest looked like yellow clay pots.

He looked at the positions of the pots and found that the shape of the pots became more and more standard as he went further back. It was possible that the subsequent "Pumpkin Carriage" would have to be renamed "Golden Pumpkin Pot".

Yu Shuyang picked up a pot and could only feel the spiritual charm of Yin gold and Yin earth. He could not feel the golden fire cultivated by the power of incense and vows at all.

He opened the lid of the pot and saw a pool of golden water. He could feel the scorching fire through his spiritual sense. This was the result of refining golden fire into water without losing the nature of spiritual fire.

"This golden pumpkin pot is pretty good. It can actually turn fire into water. I think it will be very useful. I'll refine it into the shape of a pot in the future." Yu Shuyang exclaimed with satisfaction.

(End of this chapter)