The Legend of the Great Desolation: I Am the Fortress

"Hmm? The Three Realms, the Great Xia World..."

"Blackstone..."

A whisper echoed through the vast hall.

suddenly.

Lei Zhan, who was immersed in the method of creation, opened his eyes, seemingly lost in thought.

"The entire Three Realms have undergone tremendous changes because of me, but those predetermined things... are still happening in an orderly manner."

Lei Zhan looked up at the void, his gaze seemingly able to penetrate the Qinghua Cave and see the Three Realms far away, and the barefoot, dark-skinned boy sitting cross-legged on the mountaintop in the Great Xia World.

“Black Stone, Wood Transmission… Ji Ning.” Lei Zhan’s face revealed a strange smile. “Nine hundred million years have passed. It seems that little guy is about to be born.”

Wow.

As soon as he finished speaking, Lei Zhan stood up directly from the stone platform.

"Senior," Lei called out.

"Hmm?" The white-haired old man not far away also opened his eyes, surprised, "You've already created a second technique? So fast?"

"The second method should be coming soon." Lei Zhan shook his head and smiled. "However, the reason I woke up from cultivation this time was not because of the method, but because something happened in my hometown that required me to go out."

"Something happened in your hometown?" The white-haired old man nodded gently.

"Go. You have passed the test left by the master, so you may choose to stay or leave as you see fit. As for the stone platform in the second hall, you can come and cultivate there at any time as long as you are alive."

"Okay." Lei Zhan nodded in agreement, and then left the Qinghua Cave and headed towards the Three Realms.

……

The Three Realms consist of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity.

The human realm, however, contains three thousand great worlds and countless small worlds.

Under the operation of the Heavenly Dao of the Three Realms, many small worlds exist like pure lands, isolated from the world, yet possessing complete systems.

The beings living in the small world do not even have to go through the six realms of reincarnation in the underworld.

Now, a rather peculiar soul has appeared in the underworld from the small world.

call.

A figure appeared out of thin air above the underworld, with a huge gate beneath its feet.

Although he appeared here, neither the long, winding dragons made of ghosts below nor the ghosts and gods of the underworld could detect him.

The figure was dressed in a black robe, tall and handsome, a striking young man. It was none other than Lei Zhan, returning to the Three Realms from the Azure Flower Cave.

As soon as he appeared, he calmly surveyed the vast world.

"The Three Realms are quite deserted now that those familiar powerful beings are gone." Lei Zhan glanced around, but his mental power silently swept across the entire Three Realms.

"The three emperors of the human race, the leaders of Buddhism and Taoism... even Xue Xie Yuan Guang and others have broken through to become ancestral gods and ancestral immortals."

Lei Zhan said, but he shook his head and smiled.

The world has changed dramatically over time, and the entire Three Realms have undergone tremendous transformations.

Since Lei Zhan established the Guiyi Dao Palace, the Three Realms have already undergone a qualitative leap. He has brought back a large number of magical techniques and secret arts to the Three Realms on numerous occasions.

Even the techniques collected by a dominant sect like the Azure Sky Sect, which occupies an entire territory, were all brought back to the Three Realms.

Therefore, in the Three Realms today, there are countless gods and first-class celestial immortals, and even more true gods and immortals.

In the past, the ox-headed and horse-faced ghost soldiers in the underworld were at most at the primordial spirit or the Void Returning level, but now they are all celestial gods and immortals.

As for the Ten Underworld Generals, the Ten Kings of Hell, the Emperor of Fengdu, and Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva of Buddhism, most of them also became ancestral gods and immortals.

However, nowadays, all the powerful beings of that time have left the Three Realms and gone to the endless chaos to train. Those who remain in the Three Realms are few and far between.

Of course, Lei Zhan's return from seclusion this time was not for these old friends.

"coming."

Lei Zhan stood high in the sky, surrounded by gray clouds, quietly watching the long queue below.

These are all ghosts who are about to enter the cycle of reincarnation.

"hurry up!"

"You're all dead, you've all become ghosts, hurry up."

"You're a prince? With millions of subjects and thirty thousand iron cavalry? A prince in the mortal world is nothing in the underworld!"

Snapped!
Snapped!
The tall, burly ghost soldiers, their faces contorted in rage, roared and lashed out with their whips.

The whip crackled with electricity as it lashed at the ghosts.

The ghost who was shouting that he was a prince was whipped dozens of times until he became thin and almost disappeared before the whipping stopped.

“It really is… a cycle of fate.” Lei Zhan looked at the scene before him, a glint in his eyes.

These ghosts, of course, were not sent from various great worlds.

It should be known that there are billions of small worlds in the Three Realms. Some of these small worlds are even completely isolated from the Three Thousand Great Worlds, and are undisturbed paradises.

"The concept of fate is truly mysterious." Lei Zhan looked at the scene before him with deep emotion.

"I have already changed the Three Realms. A powerful being born in the Three Realms is almost comparable to a Great Mo Domain."

"Even the ghost soldiers of the underworld are all celestial gods and immortals, yet Ji Ning's arrival in the underworld still forms a cycle."

Lei Zhan's gaze drifted, the scene before him strangely familiar, yet it deepened his understanding of the unseen forces of cause and effect. His thoughts wandered, and below, countless figures in white robes formed long lines, slowly advancing.

At the end of each line, a figure in white would appear out of thin air. Some of these figures would shake their heads and sigh, some would wail and cry, some would shout and curse, and some would look on in astonishment and confusion.

Whoosh!

Suddenly, at the end of one of the long lines of ghosts, a somewhat bewildered ghost appeared out of thin air.

As soon as the boy-like ghost appeared, he couldn't help but curiously observe the unfamiliar environment, and there was even some visible doubt on his face.

"Hurry up!" The tall, burly bull-headed demon soldier, whose entire body glowed with blue light, roared as he stared at the ghost.

The ghost withdrew its gaze and continued forward with the procession.

“Little guy.” Lei Zhan looked at the white ghost with great fortune, a hint of a smile in his eyes.

……

"I must be dead!"

"So, is this... the legendary underworld?"

The boy-like ghost looked at the terrifying and ferocious ghost soldiers around him, but his eyes were filled with doubt and curiosity.

Everything around him was unfamiliar, and he even heard the prince's shouts, which made him even more suspicious.

"Millions of subjects? Thirty thousand iron cavalry? Earth is a modern society now, where would you find thirty thousand iron cavalry?"

"Hurry up!" The tall, burly bull-headed demon soldier with a blue glow roared at the boy.

The young man dared not be careless and continued forward with the group. The ghost who had claimed to be a prince had almost been whipped to death by the bull-headed ghost soldiers.

Time passed, and the boy had been walking among countless ghosts for a long time. He dared not speak, for speaking would result in being whipped by the ox-headed and horse-faced demons.

This numb walking has been going on for a very long time; thankfully, the ghost doesn't know hunger.

One day, after walking numbly for a long time.

"Ji Ning!" A voice as loud as thunder reverberated throughout the heavens and earth, creating an echo.

Countless ghosts looked up at the horizon, and the young ghost also looked up.

In the distance, on the horizon, a huge black cloud rolled and churned, and standing on the cloud was a giant bull-headed demon god radiating black light.

This enormous bull-headed demon was about ten thousand feet tall, like a towering mountain, riding on dark clouds, and flew from the horizon in an instant.

"Ji Ning, the Lord summons you." The giant bull-headed demon god looked down from above the dark clouds in the sky.

Two beams of golden light shot out from his eyes, streaking across the sky and directly enveloping the stunned boy below.

"Lord?" The young man asked, bewildered.

Wow.

The enormous bull-headed demon's eyes emitted a beam of golden light that enveloped the boy.

Instantly, the ghost vanished from the group.

At the same time, Lei Zhan, who had been standing in the clouds watching all this, also disappeared into thin air.

……

In the underworld city of Fengdu.

This is a quiet study with a bookshelf inside. In the center of the study is a desk, where Lei Zhan is sitting, casually flipping through the books in front of him.

Beside Lei Zhan, a middle-aged man in a green robe stood respectfully.

"Master," the middle-aged man in the green robe asked cautiously, "I wonder if there are any errors or omissions in this Book of Life and Death?"

"If there is a flaw in the cycle of Heaven, the Dao Lord only needs to give an order. How could we dare to trouble the Dao Lord to come in person?"

The cycle of reincarnation is part of the operation of the Heavenly Dao in the Three Realms, and it concerns countless living beings.

Although the middle-aged man in the green robe was the top judge of the underworld, holding a high position and wielding great power, he was quite obedient in front of Lei Zhan.

"The Heavenly Dao of the Three Realms operates in an orderly manner, and the Six Paths of Reincarnation are without the slightest error." Lei Zhan shook his head with a smile.

"My trip to the Underworld is simply because I haven't traveled around the Three Realms for a long time, and I felt a pang of emotion, so I came to this Netherworld. I also stopped by to visit you, Lord Cui. Please make yourself at home."

"So casual?" Lord Cui muttered to himself, "Who doesn't know that our Lord is an unparalleled power in the Three Realms? Even outside the endless chaos, he is a renowned figure. Who would dare to be casual?"

Of course, Lord Cui only dared to mutter these thoughts to himself. But he was also quite puzzled.

The table displays the life of a creature, a creature chosen from that idyllic little world by the author's heart.

Although this being was somewhat special, to these powerful beings in the Three Realms, its life was actually as ordinary as could be.

If we're talking about something special, the only thing worth noting is that I was born in a small world called 'Earth'.

"This little guy is quite interesting." He flipped through the thin book for a long time before finally putting it down.

"Hmm? This little guy... This little guy comes from a small world where cultivation is impossible, and he has never embarked on the path of cultivation." Lord Cui explained, "I see that he has accumulated merit in that world without mortals, and besides, he's practically from my hometown..."

"This little fellow is truly blessed to have won the favor of the First Judge," Lei Zhan said with a smile.

“Lord of the Dao, this little fellow…” Lord Cui hesitated. “I originally intended to bestow upon this little fellow the Nuwa Diagram and sentence him to be reincarnated as a celestial being.”

"Reincarnation in the Heavenly Realm..." Lei Zhan glanced at Lord Cui and began to speak:

"This little guy and I seem to have some kind of connection."

...(End of chapter)