Mobile City Travel Guide

Chapter 111 The Excruciatingly Tense Underworld Civil Engineering Project

Taking advantage of the chaos in Fengdu, the Xinghuo continued its journey.

Before long, a completely new and strange area appeared before it.

There are no buildings or streets here, only a barren land.

On the land, a bustling construction scene unfolded.

Everywhere there were piles of copper nails and iron blocks, as well as forged copper pillars that had not yet been installed.

Moreover, there were tens of thousands of ghostly figures resembling laborers working.

The tricksters and overseers stood on high places, wielding whips to strictly supervise them.

They were also a group of tall, muscular craftsmen, each one of them a towering figure, who were specifically responsible for installing the bronze pillars.

"Is this the Copper Pillar Hell? Why was it rebuilt in Fengdu?" Chen Zhu asked, puzzled.

Li Xin scratched his head awkwardly.

He understood what was going on.

Human civilization caused a huge upheaval in the last time it turned the eighteen levels of hell upside down. Horse-face also said that the underworld is spending a lot of time and effort rebuilding them, so the location and order of the new eighteen levels of hell have all changed, and some have even been rebuilt in Fengdu.

"Sigh, what a tragedy..." he sighed silently to himself.

Compared to migrant workers on earth, the spirits of the dead suffer even more.

Because they are tireless and do not need to eat, drink, or rest, they are forced to work day and night.

As the Spark continued its journey, it witnessed an even more breathtaking sight.

Those are the Steaming Hell and the Iceberg Hell, which are being rebuilt simultaneously, and both are on the same piece of land.

On the left were rows of enormous steamers, with glowing red-hot charcoal fires beneath them, radiating intense heat. On the right was a vast ice field under construction, with countless icebergs rising from the ground.

Looking out, the steam from the steamer and the cold air from the iceberg mingled, creating an extremely terrifying air wave.

Li Xin's lips twitched involuntarily.

These two hells, one extremely hot and the other extremely cold, were forcibly crammed into the same location by the ghost messengers in order to rush the construction. Aren't they afraid of being punished by the underworld?

But upon closer reflection, if even the Stone Mill Hell can be located on the banks of the River of Oblivion, then the Steamer Hell and the Ice Mountain Hell being squeezed together isn't so unusual.

As he continued forward, he saw more abstract scenes of reconstruction.

The oil cauldron hell and the volcano hell were rebuilt together, resulting in... instead of lava burning in the crater, boiling hot oil. This made things much easier for the underworld officials; they could simply kick the tormented spirits in one by one.

The hell of saws and the hell of scissors are placed directly on top of each other, which is undoubtedly making the suffering of the souls who go there to be tortured even worse.

So, the spirits, whether being tortured or working, couldn't hold back any longer and united to launch a rebellion.

Thousands upon thousands of restless spirits gathered and launched a massive counterattack. Waves of rebellion rose and fell, visible everywhere.

The leader of the ghosts shouted at the top of his lungs.

"If you won't give us a way out, then we'll all die together!"

However, in reality, he was already dead.

Taking advantage of the chaos and with Chen Zhu's directions, the Starfire finally arrived at a quiet street.

At the end of the street stood a house of moderate size.

Chen Zhu looked at it, and his eyes lit up immediately.

"This is it!"

However..

"Now that I am dead, the past is over, so let's not bring it up again," the late Emperor Qian of the Qian Dynasty said leisurely in the mansion.

Even though the Chen father and daughter knelt down and pleaded with him, he remained calm and showed no sign of relenting.

However, out of consideration for them, the late emperor took out paper and pen and wrote a letter to his former officials.

In his letter, he explained his thoughts and instructed his ministers to pay the father and daughter as agreed.

After handing the letter to the Chen family father and daughter, the late emperor waved his hand and turned to walk into the depths of the mansion.

Chen Zhu remained silent for a long time, then carefully put away the letter and bowed several times to the house.

"Alright, we can go back now," Li Xin said.

At this moment, he felt much more relaxed, after all, he was about to leave the underworld.

In fact, ever since I transmigrated, my nerves have been on edge.

Chen Zhu nodded, took out a compass from his sleeve, and began to deduce the location of the Six Paths of Reincarnation using the Chen family's ancestral method.

As he continued calculating, his face grew paler and paler, and his brows furrowed more and more tightly.

Li Xin was startled for a moment, then spoke.

"What's wrong? Is something the matter?"

Chen Zhu nodded. "I don't know why, but the Six Paths of Reincarnation are no longer in their original positions," he said bitterly.

Li Xinyan fell silent.

This is probably because when human civilization wreaked havoc in the underworld last time, even the six realms of reincarnation couldn't escape it. Therefore, the underworld had no choice but to rebuild it and move it to a new location.

"So can you find out where it is?" he pressed.

Chen Zhu stretched out his hand with a complicated expression and slowly pointed to a spot.

Li Xin looked in the direction he was pointing.

That was the deepest part of Fengdu.

There, a colossal building, so magnificent it takes your breath away, looms in the distance.

It resembles a colossal mountain, composed of countless buildings that stretch to the sky and connect to the earth.

The atmosphere emanating from inside the colossal building was chilling.

"This is... the underworld?" His voice changed unconsciously as he spoke.

Unexpectedly, the underworld actually implemented the new Six Paths of Reincarnation directly into the underworld.

Li Xin couldn't help but slap his forehead, his mind buzzing.

Well, now we have no choice but to go in.

"If that's the case, I should have just followed the Pantheon back then," he said with a wry smile.

In order to leave the underworld, it seems I will inevitably have to venture into the netherworld.

Judging from that distant outline, it will probably be several more days' journey to arrive.

Li Xin immediately issued orders, and the Xinghuo production workshop was put into full operation, continuously producing paper figures and peach wood swords in order to "massacre troops!"

On the other hand, the new order also forces people to continue hunting down evil spirits on a large scale, and to accumulate as much karmic retribution as possible for the coffin nails.

In an instant, the entire mobile city was filled with the imminent threat of a storm.

Chen Caiwei felt frightened and uneasy, while Chen Zhu held her hand to comfort her.

"Don't worry, we're just one step away. We'll definitely make it home."

Looking at the father and daughter, Li Xin suddenly remembered something she was curious about.

"By the way, what's the Heavenly Court like in your world? Are there gods like the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother?" he asked curiously.

After all, in the legends of the mortal world, the underworld is just a subordinate agency of the Heavenly Court, and Yama is just the underworld emperor appointed by the Jade Emperor. Above them are the Three Pure Ones, the Four Emperors, the Five Elders of the Five Directions, and various Heavenly Emperors.

To his surprise, the father and daughter were completely bewildered.

"What is Heaven? And who are the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother?"

A hint of surprise flashed in Li Xin's eyes.

It turns out that there is no Heavenly Court in this world; only the Underworld reigns supreme.

In a sense, Yama, the King of Hell, is the only one who reigns supreme in heaven and on earth.

"I see," he thought. "The systems of gods and immortals in different worlds are completely different."