Primordial Era: I, Huanglong, have refined all the heavens, and will not join the Chan Sect.

Chapter 64 The Ghost Mother's Past, The Nine Netherworld Soul-Suppressing Umbrella

The Palace of the Underworld.

Huang Long slowly opened his eyes, his bright eyes filled with complex emotions.

It took him over a hundred years to fully process the memories in his mind and gain a clearer understanding of the Nine Netherworld Ghost Mother.

The mountain beneath his feet is called Youdu Mountain.

That Nine Netherworld Ghost Mother is the ruler of Youdu, the master of all yin spirits and ghosts, and a contemporary of Hongjun Daoist.

The Nine Netherworld Ghost Mother is an innate being born from the Great Dao of Yin, rising from the Great Calamity of Ferocious Beasts.

He has killed many ferocious beast kings who were at the peak of the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, and subdued a large number of innate spirit ghosts at the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.

During the Dragon-Phoenix Calamity, she was bathed in boundless death energy and made a breakthrough in the laws of death.

His cultivation level improved to the half-step Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm, making him a powerful expert with formidable influence and strength in the prehistoric world.

Unfortunately, just as she was preparing to create the Netherworld, she was tricked by Hongjun and drawn into the conflict between the demonic and spiritual paths.

This resulted in heavy casualties among his subordinates, with all the spirit ghosts of the Great Luo Golden Immortals being killed, and even the Nine Nether Ghost Mother herself suffering severe injuries.

Before the final battle, the Nine Netherworld Ghost Mother used the power of the Three Lives Stone to glimpse a corner of the future from the river of time.

They witnessed how Houtu, under Hongjun's scheme, was forced to undergo reincarnation.

They saw that the underground passage appeared tens of thousands of years late, and that it was suppressed by the Heavenly Dao, becoming its appendage and always weaker than it!

In her grief and anger, the Nine Netherworld Ghost Mother realized that she had been tricked. Hongjun would not allow the Earthly Path to appear in the world too early. He wanted the Heavenly Path to dominate the prehistoric world and become its ruler.

At the same time, the Nine Netherworld Ghost Mother understood that she had no chance of turning the tide, and even the hope of resurrection would not be left to her by Hongjun.

Moreover, even if she were to glimpse a corner of the future by peering into the river of time, she would still suffer severe injuries, let alone her current heavily wounded state.

However, the future is not static; it is constantly changing, with countless possibilities. The glimpse of the future she saw was merely the most likely one.

In order to change this possibility as much as possible, the Nine Netherworld Ghost Mother paid a huge price, completely disrupting that period of time.

Even the Nine Netherworld Hundred Ghosts Map, the Three Lives Stone, and the Life and Death Millstone were almost completely destroyed as a result.

Finally, before leaving, the Nine Netherworld Ghost Mother left these three personal magical treasures, as well as her insights into the Great Dao of Death and the Great Dao of Yin, in the Netherworld Palace.

Furthermore, he set up a heaven-deceiving array to seal off the entire Youdu Mountain, obscuring the perception of the Heavenly Dao, before calmly leaving to face his destined fate.

She did all this not only to save the tunnel from its most likely fate, but also to give herself a better chance of being resurrected.

If the Earthly Path is always suppressed by the Heavenly Path in the future, then she will never have the possibility of being resurrected.

In addition, Huanglong also learned from this memory why he was able to enter this place and obtain this opportunity. There are four main reasons.

Firstly, within Huanglong's auspicious clouds, the seeds of the Great Dao of Taiyin and the Great Dao of the Dead have condensed, meeting the basic requirements for entry.

Secondly, if the seed in Huanglong's sleeve could be born, it would become a genuine treasure.

The key to whether that seed can be born lies within this Netherworld Palace; it can be said that it has a special connection with this Netherworld Palace.

Thirdly, Huanglong obtained the Netherworld Umbrella from the Mermaid Queen, which is a missing part of the Nine Netherworld Hundred Ghosts Map.

Fourth, Huanglong has always intended to become a Daoist saint, and has some affinity with the Daoist path.

If any one of these four reasons were missing, Huanglong would not have been able to come to the Netherworld Palace and obtain the inheritance of the Nine Netherworld Ghost Mother.

In this inheritance, besides the past of the Nine Netherworld Ghost Mother, Huanglong also learned the method to repair the Netherworld Lightless Umbrella and the Nine Netherworld Hundred Ghosts Map.

Then, Huang Long took out the Netherworld Lightless Umbrella and placed it together with the Nine Netherworld Hundred Ghosts Diagram. Following the method passed down in the inheritance, he began to repair these two innate spiritual treasures.

During the conflict between the demonic and righteous paths, that magical treasure could not withstand the combined attack of Rahu and Hongjun.

To prevent this magical treasure from being completely destroyed, the Nine Netherworld Ghost Mother had no choice but to split it in two, turning it into the Netherworld Lightless Umbrella and the Nine Netherworld Hundred Ghosts Diagram.

It was during that battle that the Netherworld Umbrella was lost in the primordial wilderness. After several twists and turns, it fell into the hands of Huanglong and eventually returned to the Netherworld Palace.

Since these two magical treasures originated from the same source and had a complete method for restoration, Huanglong only spent a little over two hundred years to restore them and turn them into a brand new magical treasure.

This magical artifact is also shaped like an umbrella, like a combination of the Netherworld Umbrella and the Nine Netherworld Hundred Ghosts Diagram.

The umbrella ribs are similar to those of the Netherworld Umbrella, but they look more mysterious, made of unknown, crystalline white bones, and exuding a rich innate yin energy.

The umbrella surface is similar to the Nine Netherworld Hundred Ghosts Picture, but the Yin spirit patterns and innate Daoist scripts on it are more diverse and complex.

On the pitch-black umbrella surface, pure innate death energy flowed automatically.

This brand-new innate spiritual treasure is called the Nine Nether Soul-Suppressing Umbrella. It is a top-grade innate spiritual treasure with forty-eight divine restrictions, and it is only a step away from being an innate supreme treasure!

The Nine Nether Soul-Suppressing Umbrella is even more powerful in shielding the heavenly secrets, and it is also a spiritual treasure that combines offense and defense, capable of automatically protecting Huanglong from all attacks.

If one refines all the divine restrictions and opens the Nine Nether Soul-Suppressing Umbrella, one can be in a state where all laws cannot invade and all evils retreat.

In terms of defensive capabilities, it is in no way inferior to the Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang Exquisite Pagoda.

Furthermore, the Nine Nether Soul-Suppressing Umbrella contains an independent small world, capable of evolving into the Netherworld, setting up the Nine Nether Heaven-Slaying Array, suppressing enemies within the Nine Nether Soul-Suppressing Umbrella, and obliterating their primordial spirit.

After obliterating the primordial spirit, it can be transformed into a Yin spirit within the Nine Nether Soul-Suppressing Umbrella, under the command of the Yellow Dragon.

The stronger the being being transformed, the more powerful the resulting Yin spirit will be, and it will possess some of the abilities it had in life.

The Yin spirit patterns on the Nine Nether Soul-Suppressing Umbrella are Yin spirits transformed from the Nine Nether Ghost Mother in ancient times.

As long as the marks these spirits left on the Nine Nether Soul-Suppressing Umbrella are not erased, these spirits will not die.

Furthermore, all the Yin spirits within the Nine Nether Soul-Suppressing Umbrella can continuously increase their strength by absorbing Yin energy and death energy.

It can be said that the Nine Nether Soul-Suppressing Umbrella is a super-enhanced version of the Yellow Sand Prison-Suppressing Flag.

Unfortunately, the Nine Nether Soul-Suppressing Umbrella's ribs and canopy were covered with cracks, suffering severe damage.

Even if Huanglong refines all the divine restrictions of the Nine Nether Soul-Suppressing Umbrella, he can only unleash a portion of its power, and he will not be able to summon the Yin spirits that the Nine Nether Ghost Mother once transformed.

However, Huanglong was not discouraged. Having obtained such a primordial spiritual treasure with forty-eight divine restrictions, what was there to be disappointed about?

Even if this magical treasure is severely damaged now, it is not impossible to repair it, so why be disappointed?

Subsequently, Huanglong absorbed the Nine Nether Soul-Suppressing Umbrella into his primordial spirit for nurturing and then went into seclusion to cultivate again.

Huanglong was almost unable to suppress the insights left behind by the Nine Netherworld Ghost Mother.

He had a vague feeling that if he could absorb these insights, his Dao of Death and Dao of Yin would be greatly enhanced!

(End of this chapter)