Zombie Life Begins in Hongxi Village

Uncle Nine stayed in Britain for three days, during which time Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva did not come to see Lin Yi.

On the third day, Uncle Nine returned with his troops.

The ghostly army marched through the underworld, shrinking all the way from the edge of Europe back to Hong Kong Island.

Uncle Nine landed in front of the Underworld Palace, followed by two carriages formed from Yin energy, piled high with gold flowers.

Each of those golden flowers was the size of a fist, formed entirely from the pure power of incense and prayers. The petals were layered, and the stamens shone with a warm light. They filled two large carriages.

The light emitted by the golden flowers illuminated the square in front of the Hades Palace, turning the dark red paving stones into a brilliant gold.

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva is indeed very skilled; he has elevated the status of incense offerings and prayers to such a high level.

Lin Yi stood in front of the palace gate, looking at the two carts of gold flowers, and raised an eyebrow.

"Did Ksitigarbha ask you to deliver any message?" He asked casually, but his fingers unconsciously tapped the armrest.

Uncle Nine nodded and said, "Ksitigarbha said he is grateful that His Majesty took the initiative to step forward. He is very relieved to have Hong Kong Island in your care."

"this one?"

Uncle Nine nodded.

Lin Yi was stunned for a moment, then let out a long breath. It seemed that this matter was completely over.

"Uncle Jiu, what did you gain from your trip to Britain?"

"After going abroad, I realized that it's still better here."

Uncle Nine shook his head and said with some emotion, "The Grim Reaper over there has too limited abilities and is too reliant on artifacts."

Once they lose their scythes, they can't even defeat evil spirits.

Moreover, the management of the underworld is somewhat chaotic, resembling the feudal system of ancient times.

Below Hades are many other lords of Hell, such as Grand Lords, each ruling their own territory.

Some lords are only responsible for their own territory. Outside their territory, even if evil spirits kill people in front of them, they will not care.

In their land, the wealthy can bribe the lord of hell to be reborn into a good family, while the poor can only be reborn into poor families or even as livestock.

Moreover, they enslave souls using so-called demonic contracts…

When talking about his trip to Britain, Uncle Nine went on and on, transforming into a war wolf and scathingly criticizing the underworld there.

Lin Yi listened with great interest, looking as if she had learned something new.

He truly hadn't expected the Western underworld to be so dark.

Hell is truly hell.

Compared to them, the corruption in Chacha's Underworld is nothing.

After a long while, Uncle Nine finally finished spitting out his words.

"Alright, Uncle Jiu, you've worked hard. Go and rest now. Take one of these two cartloads of stuff with you." Lin Yi smiled and waved his hand, letting Uncle Jiu leave.

As for the cartload of incense, prayers, and golden flowers, Lin Yi had the honor guards distribute them.

As Hades' personal guards, they were also officially registered, albeit as low-ranking officials.

In high spirits, Lin Yi teleported to Liu Qiu to find Dai Meng and celebrate properly.

Upon seeing Lin Yi, Dai Meng quickly grabbed his hand and said:

"Honey, I don't know what happened, but when I woke up this morning, I found that my eyes had changed color and my strength had increased a lot."

Lin Yi was stunned. Dai Meng's pupils had changed from green to silver, just like Wan Yan Bupo's.

"Don't worry, you've evolved." Lin Yi said with some emotion as he rubbed her hair.

Kuang Tianyou went through so much, from Zhenzhen's death to Nino's bloodshed, and finally realized his love for Ma Xiaoling, before he finally became the Red-Eyed Zombie.

But Dai Meng achieved the status of a pseudo-generation without enduring any hardship. Who can she complain to about that?!

"Queen, you really are born to be a zombie. Come on, it's a double celebration today, let's go and have a good festivities."

After Lin Yi finished speaking, he picked up Dai Meng, whose eyes were filled with tears, and carried her into the inner hall.

……

Although An Wen's death is over, the uproar it caused has not subsided so easily.

The news of Anwen Hades's demise had already spread throughout the entire underworld as if it had grown wings.

This is the first Hades to fall in thousands of years.

Not only that, An Wen, who was known as the strongest in Europe, was said to have been instantly killed by Lin Yimingwang.

There wasn't even a proper fight before Lin Yi took them into his grasp.

Of course, Wuzhishan is a name given to that move by some people based on Journey to the West, and it's actually quite fitting.

Everyone was shocked by Lin Yi's strength and ruthlessness.

He had only killed ordinary people before, and although many people were wary of him, there were also people like An Wen who didn't think much of it.

Of course, this situation mostly applies to Hades outside the Chinese system.

They don't understand Chinese culture, nor do they grasp the true value of being granted amnesty and obeying orders but not proclamations.

But now he's killing Hades, and in an instant at that. Some people are speculating that his strength may have surpassed that of Ksitigarbha.

The other Hades of the continents all considered him an untouchable figure.

Mephisto, in particular, was praised by Hades for his initial concession.

Lin Yi didn't care about this.

As the half-month period draws ever closer, the changes in the world become increasingly apparent.

The subtle, almost imperceptible constraint on heaven and earth is fading away, as if an invisible cage that has confined this world for thousands of years is collapsing inch by inch.

Spiritual energy surged from the depths of the earth, making the sky bluer and higher than before, and even the air had an indescribable sweetness.

The sun, moon, and stars are also changing. Some stars suddenly come to life, and tender shoots break through the soil on the surfaces of stars that have been dormant for countless millennia.

On stars with special significance, such as the Big Dipper, special stellar energy has emerged.

Those stellar energies are different from spiritual energy; they are more ancient and purer, like the first breath of the stars.

In the mortal world, strange phenomena began to frequently appear in various places.

In the Changbai Mountains of Northeast China, some people witnessed a giant snake undergoing a tribulation to become a dragon, swallowing hundreds of Kwantung Army soldiers in one gulp before fleeing into the sea.

Someone saw a tiger tens of meters long in the deep mountains of Qinling. It was completely black, with eyes like lamps. It roared in the forest, and all the birds and beasts within a hundred miles fell to the ground and did not move.

Some immortals who had lived for hundreds of years broke through to new realms.

Among the five great immortal sects of fox, weasel, white, willow, and gray, an old immortal suddenly gained enlightenment overnight and transformed into a complete human form.

In contrast, after hundreds or thousands of years of confinement by heaven and earth, the path of cultivation for humankind has been almost completely severed.

Even the classic texts of major sects do not contain complete cultivation methods for those above the Heavenly Rank; they only contain fragmented and incomplete passages.

Humans have very few even Earth-rank experts, let alone those who can break through to the Heaven-rank.

As a result, humans, who were originally blessed with natural advantages, were at a disadvantage in this gluttonous feast.

Those demons and monsters seized the opportunity to rise up, their millennia of cultivation suddenly unleashed, their strength skyrocketing, while humans were still groping their way to break through from the Innate Realm to the Celestial Realm.

The night sky over Hong Kong Island.

The Big Dipper shines several times brighter than it used to.

Lin Yi stood by the window, looking up at the stars, feeling the increasingly rich spiritual energy between heaven and earth, and a slight smile appeared on her lips.

Compared to Ksitigarbha's worries, he hoped for the coming of a change in the world.

Compared to the current world, which seems like a prison designed specifically for fate, a mythical world would be more in his interest.

Putting everything else aside, the supplies will definitely be much more plentiful.

What celestial venerable, demon saint, or Buddha? Once they have their blood sucked by him, their supernatural powers and magic will become his.

Fate has played a wonderful trick on him. No matter what schemes fate has in store, Lin Yi will only grow stronger.

The revival of spiritual energy also made Lin Yi realize why the Pangu Clan was no longer subject to the control of fate.

Because the true Pangu race did not need spiritual energy at all, nor even food. The true source of power for the Pangu race was an emotion called love.

The saying "love makes even water taste sweet" might just be an adjective for others, but for the Pangu tribe, it was a true description.

Other immortals and demon kings alike cannot escape the need for spiritual energy.

Once they are removed from the spiritual environment, they will gradually degenerate. Those with high cultivation levels may be able to prolong their lives through their divine souls, while those with weak cultivation levels will have to reincarnate again.

Unless one becomes a legendary Source God, transcending the limitations of this world.

The more the spiritual energy recovered, the more fortunate Lin Yi felt for having chosen to become the Pangu zombie.

Otherwise, even if he became Uncle Nine's apprentice and successfully survived until the spiritual energy recovered, he would still be at the mercy of fate and might be killed by fate one day.

Suddenly, Lin Yi had a thought: Lin Shi had returned.

He immediately returned to the Underworld, and as soon as he stepped into the Underworld Palace, he heard a burst of laughter and playful noise.

These are the five demon children who have already been born. They still look like dolls, but they are no longer pitch black.

Aside from the black aura emanating from his body, he was no different from a normal three- or four-year-old child.

Although their appearance is not as terrifying as before, their aura is dozens of times stronger than before, and they have now broken through to the Heavenly Realm.

Five children chased and played in the hall, their bodies shrouded in pitch-black demonic energy that condensed and lingered, weaving a small footprint beneath their feet.

Their puppet, the demon mother goddess Mulan, stood behind them, looking at them with a loving expression.

She was connected to them by their very essence, both human and demonic.

Despite her kind face, she has no independent thoughts and is merely a puppet.

Standing on the other side of Shen Mulan is Lin Shi, who has just returned from his summer retreat and successfully broken through to the level of incorruptible bones.

He has now grown into a young man with delicate features and a coffin pendant around his neck. He looks harmless and no different from any other young man.

Unlike Ji Quji, who had a pair of blood-red eyes and was clearly an anomaly.

The first seven levels of the Nine Netherworld Coffin were too easy to reach. Whether it was devouring zombies, three thousand living souls, or a blood sacrifice of ten thousand people, it was a piece of cake for Ji Quji.

If it weren't for the requirement to be buried in the yin land for seven days, Lin Shi could have advanced to the Undying Bone stage much earlier.

The realms above the Undying Bone are somewhat difficult. The eighth level requires devouring an Undying Bone, and currently, the only known Undying Bone are Ji Quji and Lin Shi.

However, with the world undergoing drastic changes, Lin Yi was convinced that the Undying Bone wouldn't appear at that time.

"It's good that you're back. I'll be personally overseeing the underworld for the next couple of days, and I'll be overseeing Kowloon Pond in the mortal realm."

"Make sure Michelle and the others are safe," Lin Yi said to Lin Shi. "Also, take these five little ones with you."

"Don't worry, Master." Lin Shi nodded and led the Five Demons away from the Underworld Palace.

He went all out in his act, and even when there were no outsiders around, Lin Shi still called him master.

After Lin Shi left, Lin Yi condensed the incense and vows within the Underworld King's Seal into golden flowers and placed them in the Underworld King's Palace treasury.

He instructed Shoubo to distribute salaries, and generously paid out half a year's worth of divine stipends to all the ghosts and gods.

He is now rolling in money, and in just a few days, the amount of incense offerings and prayers he has received has more than doubled compared to before.

Even after receiving six months' worth of divine blessings, there was still a surplus.

The reason for this was that the ghosts and gods of the underworld had been frequently manifesting their divine power during this period.

Incense offerings and vows are simply the pure power of faith generated by people in the mortal world who believe in the existence of the underworld and the cycle of life and death. The more fervent the belief and the more people who believe, the more incense offerings and vows are generated.

This is also why, since ancient times, deities have liked to manifest their divine power in front of people.

The ghosts and gods who received the divine blessing absorbed all of them, except for keeping one or two as spares.

The more divine blood they possess, the stronger they become.

Generally speaking, compared to other powerful beings of the same level, the underworld ghosts and gods are the weakest in direct combat, but it would be different if they became true gods.

They were all outstanding figures of their time, so how could they be willing to be at the bottom?

Another day passed.

Lin Yi was sitting in the Underworld Palace reviewing documents when suddenly the entire Underworld began to tremble.

The tremor came from deep underground, dull and long, as if something extremely huge was turning over.

The lights in the hall went out all at once, and the documents on the table were shaken and fell to the ground.

Lin Yi suddenly stood up. "Are we starting?!"

At this moment, deep within the underworld, a crack appeared in the sealed gate leading to the first underworld.

The gap was extremely narrow, yet the aura it emitted caused the very foundation of the underworld to tremble.

An extremely ancient and immense energy seeped out from the crevice, like an ancient behemoth that had slumbered for countless eons finally turning over.

Immediately afterwards, the entire Earth, and even the entire solar system, began to shake.

The tremor was not a physical vibration, but a tremor of spacetime itself.

The next second, every continent, every ocean, and every mountain on Earth was enveloped by an invisible force.

The air froze, the wind stopped, and the waves stood still in mid-air.

At the same time, all living beings in the world were frozen in place.

This is no ordinary immobilization spell. It's a kind of confinement on the level of time and space, as if one has been stripped out of this space-time.

Every living being is sealed within its own state of being at that moment, like an insect in amber, or a mural painted on a wall.

Only a very small number of beings were not immobilized.

Time had no effect on Lin Yi. A spatial force surged from his palm-sized Buddha Kingdom, vibrating in unison and breaking the spatial confinement around him.

He glanced at Shou Bo, who had been separated from this space-time, shook his head, and teleported out of the underworld to the mortal world.

"This... what a grand gesture!" Lin Yi looked at the frozen world and felt the binding force that enveloped the entire solar system, his heart churning with shock.

This is not just the work of fate; fate could never have done this.

"It's the Three Books of Heaven, Earth, and Man!" This thought suddenly popped into Lin Yi's mind.

He flashed to Mount Tai and looked down at the crack in the No. 1 Underworld below Mount Tai...

The first thing that catches the eye is a vast, boundless continent shrouded in chaos.

Lin Yi vaguely saw a huge floating island suspended in the center of the continent. There were four huge heavenly gates around the continent, and behind the heavenly gates were a continuous palace complex with glazed tiles and white jade steps. Golden dragons coiled around the pillars amidst the swirling clouds and mist.

This is so damn like the heavens in mythology!