Chapter 106: Hou Tu opened the underworld and built the netherworld!
[It is indeed karma... Hey, you are so miserable. 】
Xiao Lin shuddered and looked towards the sea of blood with pity...
[In the previous life, you created the Ashura clan and established the Ashura religion, and karma followed suit. I didn’t expect it to be the same this time... How tragic.]
[Speaking of which, why does the creation of the Asura clan have karma? Even if I followed Nuwa to create it, and followed the Three Pure Ones to establish a religion, I would not have much merit, but I would not have karma, right? ]
[Could it be that, because Asuras are a race of killers? So the Asuras' future karma of killing will also be attributed to you, the creator? Oh, this is indeed tragic! ]
But Hou Tu didn't think so much. After the light disappeared, Hou Tu's voice resounded through the sea of blood.
"Ancestor Minghe, Houtu wants to see you."
"Humph!"
The sea of blood was churning, and the old man of the Styx, whose body was blood red, with red beard and red hair, even his nose hair was red, emerged from the sea of blood with the two swords, Avici and Yuantu, in his hands.
"You're here to laugh at me... eh? Xiao Lin? You're here too?"
"See the ancestor!"
Xiao Lin quickly saluted... This guy is a decisive and murderous guy, I can't afford to offend him! I can't afford to offend him!
"Why are you hanging out with the Ancestral Witches? Aren't you afraid of being scolded by the Taoist Supreme?"
Minghe narrowed his eyes, said something to Xiao Lin, and then looked at Hou Tu: "Could it be that this ancestor witch kidnapped you? Do you want me to help you?"
"Really, really not."
Xiao Lin didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and waved his hands repeatedly: [Hey! After the incident of the three lectures in Zixiao Palace, I didn't expect that I would have so many big brothers. Now the prehistoric world is full of big brothers! Hehe, Master is wise! ]
"Don't panic, Grandpa. Today, my nephew has brought good news!"
"Good news?" The Styx Patriarch raised his eyebrows and looked at Hou Tu unkindly: "Just her? What good news can the Ancestral Witch have?"
"Uh... Look, Queen Mother Hou Tu, your ancestor witch's reputation... Tsk tsk, this is not my fault."
Xiao Lin shrugged and took a step back decisively, indicating that he knew nothing and asked them to talk.
[I have to say, the witch clan in this life is even worse off than in the previous life! There are enemies everywhere! ]
"Ancestor," Hou Tu took a deep breath and stepped forward: "I want to use the sea of blood to open a tunnel."
"Open a tunnel?"
Minghe was startled and subconsciously looked at Xiao Lin: "Boy, do you know about Hou Tu's tunnel construction?"
"You should know, right?"
Xiao Lin stroked his chin and replied: [Well, Master and the others couldn't have been unaware of the fact that they took me away from the East China Sea. Unless, they sold me... How could that be possible? I am Master and the others' most beloved child!]
Little did I know that although I wasn’t sold, it was almost the same... After all, I didn’t pay!
"The Three Pure Ones agreed?" Minghe was stunned. Could it be that the Ancestral Witch and the Three Pure Ones had reconciled?
"I opened the underground tunnel, and Hou Tu no longer needed witches."
Hou Tu uttered lightly... Minghe's eyes suddenly widened, as if he understood why the Three Pure Ones agreed!
If Hou Tu is no longer a witch, doesn't that mean that the witch clan can no longer form a large formation and summon Pangu's true body? Moreover, by opening up the underground tunnel, there will be another powerful person to deal with the Heavenly Dao... The Three Pure Ones are indeed the Three Pure Ones, and they have a deep plan! Moreover, they can persuade Hou Tu to leave the witch clan, worthy of being Pangu's direct descendant!
Minghe couldn't help but secretly admire him... and then thought about the good things Xiao Lin had just said.
"Good! The Ancestral Witch Hou Tu... The Queen Mother Hou Tu is indeed courageous! Since it is for the sake of completing the prehistoric world, why should I, the Styx, be reluctant to give it up!"
Minghe patted his chest and made way for her generously: "Empress Hou Tu, please!"
Hou Tu stepped forward and came to the front of the sea of blood. She looked at the wailing and surging wronged souls in the bloody and pungent sea. She seemed to have realized something, but also seemed to have no realization at all...
"Friend Xiao Lin,"
Thinking of what Zhu Jiuyin had said to her, Hou Tu turned to look at Xiao Lin: "How do we open up the tunnel?"
"Hey?!"
Xiao Lin looked at Hou Tu in astonishment: [No, you don’t know how to dig a tunnel, and you ask me? ]
[I saw you came directly to the Blood Sea, and I thought you knew what to do? After all this time, you still don’t understand anything? Then why did you come to the Blood Sea? ]
As if seeing the doubt in Xiao Lin's eyes, Hou Tu smiled awkwardly and said, "I just feel that the tunnel should be opened here... Maybe it's the guidance of the Father God?"
Xiao Lin and Minghe both slapped their foreheads... It turns out that you don't know anything except the address!
"My friend, what do you think the tunnel should look like? What should it do?"
Hou Tu asked again in embarrassment. Minghe's face was almost broken... Opening a tunnel is such a noble thing, you ask a golden fairyland iron-eating beast? The ancestor witches are really brainless!
[Should I tell it or not… Let me tell you, the Styx Patriarch is here too. What if the news gets out and Hongjun spots me? ]
[But if I don’t tell you, it won’t be a big deal if the tunnel doesn’t come out for a long time! Third Uncle’s Dao is still in the tunnel. Master and Second Uncle have both attained Dao. If Third Uncle delays for too long, I’m afraid he will have mental problems because of his competitive spirit.]
[On one side is danger, on the other side is my uncle who is very kind to me...how should I choose.]
Minghe didn't hear Xiao Lin speak for a long time, and couldn't help but said: "Empress Hou Tu, Xiao Lin is just a junior, only in the Golden Immortal Realm, you..."
"Ancestor,"
Before Minghe finished speaking, Xiao Lin beside him had already bowed to him respectfully: "I wonder if you could not tell anyone about what happened today?"
"Ok?"
Minghe was shocked. You really know? Just as he was about to say something, a divine consciousness came into his mind.
"Fellow Daoist Minghe, please agree to what we are going to do today... My disciple has great fortune and amazing talent, and may be able to help Hou Tu... If what we are going to do today is accomplished, I, the Three Pure Ones, will definitely repay you in the future."
The Three Pure Ones were actually following beside them!
Minghe was startled, and after thinking for a moment, he returned to his consciousness: "I need Xiao Lin's help to prove my truth!"
There was an obvious pause: "Yes!"
"God is above us. I, Minghe, will never tell anyone about what happened today in any way! God will bear witness to this!"
Minghe was overjoyed when he got the promise from the Three Pure Ones. Without saying anything, he took the initiative to swear an oath without Xiao Lin and Hou Tu asking him to do so! He was not stupid! Even if he didn't swear, he wouldn't tell anyone! If others knew about it, would they come to snatch Xiao Lin? Then how far back would Minghe be in the queue? His reputation was not good!
[Hey? Isn't the Styx Patriarch a sinister, cunning, and extremely cruel person by nature? Why is he so easy to talk to? ]
[As expected, seeing is believing, rumors may not be true! ]
"Thank you, ancestor!"
Xiao Lin bowed again to express his gratitude, and then looked towards Hou Tu.
"Empress Hou Tu, what do you think is lacking in Honghuang?"
“Not enough?” Hou Tu recalled for a moment and said tentatively, “Nothing is not enough… it’s just that there are too many wronged souls, which only creates evil spirits.”
"anything else?"
Xiao Lin guided again: "Why do wronged souls have evil spirits? If it is just birth, aging, sickness and death, or the law of the jungle, why are there so many evil spirits?"
"It is extremely difficult for living beings to give birth to souls... Is it possible to give them another chance to live? For example, reincarnation?"
Seeing that Hou Tu was still confused, Xiao Lin finally couldn't help but uttered the word "reincarnation"!
As soon as these two words came out, Hou Tu suddenly fell into enlightenment...
"Reincarnation! Reincarnation! Reincarnation! Yes, there must be a place for reincarnation between heaven and earth!"
Hou Tu, feeling successful, flew into the sky, and the sound of her prayers resounded throughout the heaven and earth!
"The Great Dao is above. I have observed that the souls of all living beings in the prehistoric world have nowhere to rest after death, and they wander freely between heaven and earth. Now Hou Tu is willing to transform herself into reincarnation and open a place for the souls of all living beings to reincarnate!"
Having said this, Hou Tu paused and looked at Xiao Lin again.
Seeing that the cycle of reincarnation was about to begin, Xiao Lin did not care about being exposed and decisively transmitted the message: "Six Paths! Good and evil!"
Hou Tu fell into enlightenment again, which lasted for a full cup of tea before she continued: "After death, all living beings enter reincarnation!
There are six paths in samsara:
The three highest virtues are the Way of Heaven, the Way of Asuras, and the Way of Man: Those who have more merits than faults can enter the Way of Heaven, those who are good at conquering, killing and abusing can enter the Way of Asuras, and those who have neither merits nor faults can enter the Way of Man...
The three lower realms are the realm of animals, the realm of evil spirits, and the realm of hell: those whose faults outweigh their merits go to the realm of animals, those who are seriously evil go to the realm of evil spirits, and those who are extremely evil go to the realm of hell.
"Six Paths of Reincarnation, appear! The Underworld, emerge!"
As Hou Tu's last word fell, her body collapsed and melted at a speed visible to the naked eye... Deep in her sea of blood, a secret space was opening up! Connecting to the prehistoric world...
When the last bit of Hou Tu's flesh collapsed, two-thirds of the sea of blood suddenly disappeared, and a huge hole opened up in the depths of the sea of blood. The inside was deep, like a small world!
Looking further inward, one can see that in the center of the world, there is a huge turntable with six holes spinning. It is the six realms of reincarnation… Infinite suction is generated from the holes in the world. The wronged souls wandering around in the ancient times cannot help but rush towards the holes in the underworld, and in the blink of an eye, one third of the entire world is filled!
"Wait, something is wrong. Why don't these wronged souls enter reincarnation?"
Minghe, who was closest to the cave entrance, changed his expression and cried out in surprise.
Xiao Lin was startled, and quickly looked towards the underworld… As Minghe said, countless souls were still pouring into the underworld, but not a single one entered reincarnation?! And because of the influx of souls, the underworld was filled with evil spirits, and it was even tottering? It seemed like it was about to collapse?
[How come the underworld is collapsing just after it was opened? And where is Lady Pingxin? Hou Tu has opened up the underworld, why hasn't Lady Pingxin come out to stabilize the underworld and start reincarnation? ]
[If we continue to fill it with ghosts, I'm afraid the underworld will collapse! Once the underworld is destroyed, how can the three paths be complete? I'm afraid the prehistoric world will also collapse, right? ! ]
No one knows the importance of the Three Daos to the prehistoric world better than Xiao Lin!
If there were no tunnels, either the ancient world would be blown up by wronged souls, or no new life would be born... The world would eventually perish!
"Xiao Lin,"
At this critical moment, the voice of Tai Shang came from behind Xiao Lin!
Looking back, I saw that my master and two uncles were all there!
"The underworld has no master, and the good and evil of living beings cannot be judged, and they cannot enter reincarnation!"
Tai Shang's words awakened Xiao Lin! At the same time, Xiao Lin turned his gaze to Tong Tian who seemed to be thinking about something!
"Uncle Third Master!"
"The underworld should be in order!"
“Where is the order?”
Tongtian was confused. He could sense that his duty was in the underworld... But how to establish order? Was he as simple as his second brother and set up rules?
"Establish a religion! The Netherworld Religion! Manage the underworld!"
Xiao Lin was convinced. Are you going to send your Jiejiao to the underworld? Or do you just want to go against the will of heaven? Do you just want to make things difficult for the original Second Uncle?
Xiao Lin's words were like a flash of lightning, completely dispelling the fog of Tongtian! Tongtian's figure flew into the sky, and the Taoist robe on his body slowly rose into the air, gradually turning into a robe of ten thousand ghosts! A little bit of Yuanshen overflowed, and the merits of the Great Dao appeared, illuminating the entire underworld!
"I am Tongtian, born from Pangu's original spirit. Now I feel that the wronged souls are in disorder, so I wish to establish the Netherworld Sect to manage the underworld. I will call myself the Great Emperor of Fengdu, use the Pangu Banner to suppress the destiny, and the Qinglian Qingping Sword as the treasure to prove the truth! The Netherworld Sect is established!"
As the voice fell, the virtues of the Great Dao suddenly blossomed, covering Tongtian's entire body... and at the moment when Tongtian established the religion, an incomparably thick line of virtue came from the sky and fell into the underworld, instantly stabilizing the space of the underworld. Not only that, countless buildings that Xiao Lin was familiar with also appeared in the underworld!
Huangquan Road, Bianhua, Wrongful Death City, Wangxiangtai, Yama Palace, Ghost Gate... As the buildings of the underworld that Xiao Lin was familiar with appeared one by one, the space of the underworld slowly expanded. The disordered souls that poured in also lined up when the buildings of the underworld appeared, walked into the underworld, and entered the reincarnation...
"Is this, the great merit?"
Tai Shang and Yuan Shi exclaimed in disbelief… When they proved the Dao, what was left behind were only the merits of humanity and heaven, but when the underworld was established, what was left behind were actually the merits of the Great Dao?
Little did they know that the appearance of the underworld and reincarnation was the first time, even in the chaos and primordial times! Countless worlds filled with wronged souls and on the verge of collapse were able to continue because of the birth of the underworld... This is also why the appearance of heaven and humanity did not attract the merits of the Tao, but the underworld attracted the attention of the Tao!
As the buildings of the underworld were completed, a golden light bloomed in the center of the Six Paths of Reincarnation Disk... A moment later, a supreme and noble woman, who looked seven points like Hou Tu, and was graceful and elegant, walked out of the Reincarnation Disk!
Then the woman stretched out her right hand, and a book, a pen, and a pot flew out from the depths of the underworld and hovered in front of the woman.
"The Book of Life and Death distinguishes good and evil, the Judge's Pen cuts off reincarnation, Meng Po's Soup destroys cause and effect... Ping Xin comes out, and reincarnation is established!"
A powerful pressure, comparable to that of Hongjun when he was a saint, instantly swept across the entire prehistoric world... All the creatures in the prehistoric world immediately felt that they were imprisoned! It was as if they could no longer be as free as before!
Xiao Lin prostrated himself on the ground and bowed respectfully: "Praise the boundless merits, the most virtuous, the most compassionate and merciful goddess Pingxin!"
"Praise the boundless merits, the supreme benevolence, the great compassion and the peaceful goddess!"
At the scene, the Three Pure Ones and the Minghe bowed and saluted to pay tribute to Hou Tu’s mercy!
"Praise to the Supreme Being, the Most Benevolent, the Greatly Compassionate and Merciful Goddess Pingxin!"
All the creatures in the ancient world pay their respects without exception!
"Praise the boundless merits, the supreme benevolence, the great compassion and the peaceful goddess!"
Within the chaos, in the Zixiao Palace, Hongjun and Tiandao also bowed down!
Pingxin stood in the underworld, looking around the vast world... His lips moved slightly, and a vast voice spread throughout the vast world!
"The underworld is independent of the prehistoric world. It only judges the good and evil of living beings and determines reincarnation. It will never be involved in the prehistoric world... From today on, I will no longer be a witch!"
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