Slaying Gods: Ancestral Witch Agent, Starting with the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique

Chapter 155 The Ferryman of the River Styx

A gray butterfly fluttered ahead, leading the group out of the Six Heavenly Palaces of Luofeng and arriving in front of a huge palace that was suspended in mid-air.

The vermilion palace and the imposing, pitch-black gates stood like a colossal beast in the void, exuding boundless majesty.

This palace is even more magnificent than the Six Heavenly Palaces of Luofeng.

Ten black stone steps, carved with special patterns, float in the air, leading directly to the vermilion hall.

A jet-black river flows silently across the land, forming a circular loop like a moat, endlessly circulating, its waters emanating a ghostly, deathly aura.

There were originally five huge white stone bridges spanning different parts of the circular Black River, leading directly to the main hall. However, four of them have collapsed, leaving only the one facing the main hall.

The white ant queen, having recovered most of her injuries, crossed the white stone bridge, followed by countless paper ghost soldiers chasing after her.

The white queen ant expelled a strong formic acid, which corroded the last remaining white stone bridge, turning it into countless broken stones that fell into the Black River.

"Damn it, that damned thing destroyed the last stone bridge leading to the Imperial Palace!" Tao Yao and the others had just arrived when they saw this scene.

"Hey, it's no big deal, we can just fly there."

Gu Tianchen rose into the air on the wind, but Tao Yao used vines to wrap around his waist and pull him back from mid-air.

"Are you looking for trouble? This isn't an ordinary river," Tao Yao said irritably.

Baili Pangpang glanced at the pitch-black river water, lost in thought.

"Oh, I see, this is the legendary Blackwater River!"

"You big idiot! This was transferred from the River Styx and the River of Oblivion by the Great Emperor. It's filled with the resentment of the underworld. Before you even fly over there, you'll already be haunted by countless vengeful ghosts inside, doomed to eternal damnation, never to be reincarnated. You'll just have to stay in there for the rest of your life!" Tao Yao explained.

"Damn, thank goodness I didn't ride the Yao Guang and charge headfirst into that brute's trap," Baili Pangpang said with a lingering fear.

Cao Yuan, holding the knife, said, "It's alright. Haven't you heard people say they'll never be reincarnated? How can this not be considered a secure job? You've managed to get a position in the underworld, so it's not a bad deal."

Baili Pangpang rolled his eyes.

"Is there no other way to cross the river?" Lin Qiye asked, carrying Jialan on his back.

Tao Yao shook her head.

"Such a big river, isn't there a ferry?" Baili Pangpang mimicked Sun Wukong's gesture of setting up a sunshade, looking around at the river.

"I do know a soul ferryman named Zhao Li. Now that the underworld has been shattered, I wonder if he's still working here," Gu Tianchen said with a shrug.

"Wait, something is approaching us from the River Styx." Shen Qingzhu looked into the distance.

A man in black robes was rowing a small boat on the River Styx, and soon entered the range of Lin Qiye's spiritual power.

Although the opponent's aura was very weak, he was still a god!

"Everyone be careful, the opponent is a god!"

Swish!

After Lin Qiye's reminder, everyone pulled out their weapons.

"Do you... want to cross the river?"

The man in the black robe spoke in a muffled voice, as if he had phlegm stuck in his throat.

"What are the pricing standards?" Gu Tianchen asked.

One gold coin per person.

"Will this work?"

Gu Tianchen infused a wisp of Heavenly Divine Fire into the gold coin and threw it at the other party.

The man in black robes reached out and caught it, glancing at it.

"Okay, let's get on the boat."

Gu Tianchen was about to board the ship in a very casual manner, but everyone stopped him.

Tao Yao said, "Don't go. I've never seen any ferryman on the River of Oblivion. It's probably another conspiracy by the outer gods."

Lin Qiye frowned and said, "Although he is suspected of having damaged divine status, he is still a god after all. He can come and go freely on the River of Oblivion, so we must be wary of him."

Gu Tianchen leaned closer to Lin Qiye, a slight smile playing on his lips. "I am a clone of the Divine Fire."

Lin Qiye rolled his eyes. What a waste of emotion.

Gu Tianchen, the Divine Fire clone, casually boarded the other party's small boat, while his real body hid behind the crowd and remotely controlled it.

"Hey, I have to say, your little boat looks shaky, but it's actually quite stable," Gu Tianchen said with a smile.

The man in black robes said earnestly, "I am the ferryman of the River Styx; this is my profession..."

"What's your name, brother?" Gu Tianchen asked with a smile.

“Just call me Charon,” the man in black said as he rowed the boat.

"Charon?!"

Gu Tianchen was so excited that he almost fell off the small boat.

"Hold on tight and don't sway. This river is even more dangerous than the River Styx I crossed before. If you fall in, I won't be able to get you out," Charon said seriously.

Gu Tianchen was completely stunned. Although he slept most of the time during class, he listened to the myths and legends about Nyx more carefully than Lin Qiye, who was quite old.

If he remembered correctly, this Charon was the Greek ferryman of the River Styx, one of Nyx's many children!

Isn't this just running into a relative?!

"Are you Charon, the Greek god of the Styx? And your mother is Nyx, the goddess of night?" Gu Tianchen confirmed the other party's identity.

“Yes…” Charon nodded.

“Great, I know your mother, and your half-brother is dead no matter where he goes,” Gu Tianchen said seriously.

"Mother...is she really in Great Xia?!"

Charon stopped rowing and looked at Gu Tianchen in shock.

"Oh, so you already knew?"

“A year ago, Hades came to Great Xia and told me that my mother had appeared here. I took advantage of the fact that he was fighting with a bald old man who was radiating golden light and secretly slipped away to Great Xia to find my mother’s whereabouts.”

"When I passed through the mist, my divine essence was damaged. I stumbled into the Great Xia Underworld and recovered from my injuries by relying on the dense death aura of this River Styx. After I recovered, I will go out to find my mother."

"Do you really know where my mother is?" Charon asked earnestly.

“Of course, go back. The guy who was carrying his wife on his back just now is your brother. He knows where Nyx is,” Gu Tianchen said.

"it is good."

Charon rowed back.

"Huh? Why are you back again? Did you not agree on the price? Did this kid raise the price halfway through?" Baili Pangpang asked in confusion.

“I don’t think so. Judging from the boatman’s urgency, he’s either looking for his biological father or his biological mother. I’m more inclined to believe the latter,” Cao Yuan analyzed.

"What a joke! All the pretty young ladies here are so young, who could possibly give birth to such a big baby..."

Halfway through his sentence, Baili Pangpang suddenly realized that although the three pretty young ladies in the group all looked like teenagers, their actual ages were all incredibly exaggerated...

A sleeping beauty who just woke up from the Han Dynasty, a peach demon who has cultivated for countless years on Peach Blossom Mountain, and a cat goddess from ancient Egypt...

It's really hard to say given their ages...

Hearing this, Tao Yao frowned. "Don't talk nonsense. I'm not married yet. The Heavenly Court doesn't allow dating, and our Underworld is also very strict about this."

Garan shook his head and crossed his arms in front of his chest.

All eyes were fixed on Bastet, the Egyptian cat goddess, with expressions of utter amusement.

Chapter 156 The Composition of the Main Character Team

Best shook his head and said, "It's not mine either. My son is a lion."

Baili Pangpang looked regretful. "What?! You have a child?!"

Cao Yuan's eyes lit up, as if a switch had been flipped. "You're divorced?"

Gu Tianchen twisted Cao Yuan and Baili Pangpang's heads back, saying, "Don't pry into the goddess's affairs."

Charon steered the small boat back to shore, and Gu Tianchen retrieved the divine fire clone back into his body.

"Come on, call me big brother."

Gu Tianchen pointed at Lin Qiye and looked at Charon.

Lin Qiye, carrying Jialan on his back, looked completely bewildered. "What's going on?"

“This is Charon, the Greek ferryman of the River Styx, son of Nyx,” Gu Tianchen introduced, pointing to him.

"Wow, aren't they obviously relatives?" Baili Pangpang's eyes darted back and forth between Lin Qiye and Charon.

"Speaking of which, it's not appropriate for you to have Charon call Qiye 'Big Brother' as soon as you meet him. According to seniority, who is older, Charon or Danadus?" Cao Yuan asked in a low voice.

"Come on, given the chaotic state of Greek mythology, it would be difficult to even find out who its mother was. You could spend ages trying to figure out the lineage in Olympus."

"Anyway, the Greek gods aren't short of one or two generations. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Calling Qiye 'Big Brother' is no problem," Gu Tianchen said seriously.

Charon looked at Lin Qiye, "Do you know where Mother is?"

Lin Qiye nodded. "Yes, I know the whereabouts of Nyx, the Goddess of the Night."

"Where is she?" Charon asked hurriedly.

Lin Qiye was momentarily speechless. He couldn't very well say that Nyx was in his mind, could he?

If this guy, missing his mother so much, were to crack open his head, that would be a real mess.

"Don't worry, the Goddess of Night is in a very safe place, but for some reason, she can't appear right now."

"But she chose me as her agent, you'll see."

Lin Qiye stretched out his hand, and a wisp of night spread out, containing the primal aura of darkness.

Charon's eyes lit up. "That's right, it's Mother's aura of the essence of night!"

"Don't worry, when the Goddess of the Night appears, I will definitely tell you her whereabouts," Lin Qiye said.