Chapter 512: The Ferryman on the Yellow Springs
Although it is going upstream, the turbid river water seems to have no resistance and is illusory and misty. Moreover, the power they carry to cleanse the soul and dissolve the memory of the true spirit is blocked by the aura of merit and virtue. The black and yellow light blooms, all of which are blocked out. , so Shi Xuan effortlessly used the powerful suction force from the Jiuyou world to maximize his two-realm crossing technique. In just an instant, he followed the turbid river and entered the first level of the Jiuyou.
The great world of Nine Netherworld has no mulch, no Gang Qi, but is surrounded by a layer of faint and dark gas. It contains the dark Qi of Nine Netherworld, the dense Yin Qi, the rich death Qi, the ferocious and brutal Qi, the filthy evil Qi, etc., passing through it. Over time, if it weren't for the Xuanhuang Merit Tower to protect him, Shi Xuan would have suffered a lot. If he were an ordinary Yuanshen real person, if he was brushed by this layer of dark energy, he would immediately be blinded by the filthy Yuanshen and the fallen true spirit. The mind is integrated into the Qi of Jiuyou.
Just after entering the first level of Jiuyou, the turbid river changed suddenly. The river water turned into substance, but it had no buoyancy. Instead, it took Shi Xuan and sank downwards. The majestic power of the avenue was contained in it, which could bind the soul and wash away the evil spirits. It shakes the soul, dissolves memories, forgets and relieves worries, and makes people sink forever.
It was a blood-yellow turbid color, and there were lonely souls and wild ghosts sinking in it on all sides. All of them had bloated stomachs and red eyes. They were struggling hard in the river, trying hard to swim to the surface of the river, but it was difficult to do so because of the upward river water. There are also dense water ghosts inside, so extreme pain, hatred, and resentment can only be spread around the body.
This is the river of the underworld, the water of the River of Forgetfulness, where no goose feather can float, and all real people will fall. Even the powerful immortals will not be able to escape if they do not open up their own small world. Fortunately, all things in the Great Dao have their own restraints. If you have the treasure of the Five Virtues in your body, depending on its grade, you can withstand the invasion of the Forgotten River water for different periods of time, or even be completely unaffected.
The five virtues are holy virtue, merit, yin virtue, merit, and morality. Shi Xuan only dared to take this risky step because he had the Xuanhuang Merit Pagoda. However, the grade of his own Xuanhuang Merit Pagoda is still low, and I am afraid it can only support three. Five moments.
Shi Xuan understood that life and death depended on it at this moment. The Xuanhuang Gongde Tower shone brightly, and the hanging Xuanhuang Qi strips were like five-clawed celestial dragons, isolating the water of Huangquan Wangchuan from the outside, but the blood-yellow river water kept lapping on it, even if it was surrounded by evil spirits. The inviolable merit and virtue gradually began to rust and expanded rapidly.
Seizing the opportunity, Shi Xuan flicked his fingers together, and the sword energy of Liangyi's dust moved horizontally and vertically, turning the front into a prehistoric universe. A vast world opened up in the void, and its collapse formed a black hole. The void storm entangled in time and space raged everywhere. The moon and stars are born and broken...
The vicious water ghosts in front of him who were trapped in the universe turned into powder in an instant. The water ghosts below stretched out countless skinny and pale hands to grab at Shi Xuan. Their fingernails were white and extremely sharp, and they actually clawed at the black and yellow merit energy. There were streaks of white marks, and the sharp and harsh sound made people almost go crazy.
The first moment passed.
Seeing that there was a section of road ahead, Shi Xuan ignored the attacks from the water ghosts behind him and around him. He did not hesitate to use his innate wind and thunder escape, and the purple and green lightning flashed in the breeze, and he moved forward quickly.
However, after being invaded by the underworld's water, Liangyi's mote sword energy killed a bunch of water ghosts and was unable to hold on and melted into the river. Fortunately, Shi Xuan survived the third heavenly catastrophe without absorbing spiritual energy or money. Liangyi Fenchen's sword energy popped out and opened a bloody path, fighting and walking upwards to escape.
The second, third, and fourth moment passed.
All the black and yellow merit energy had turned into a blood-yellow, rusty color and was slowly disintegrating, while Shi Xuan saw the swaying water surface a few feet away.
But at this moment, a tall water ghost floating on the water sensed the aura of a stranger and turned to look at Shi Xuan. Its scarlet blood-like eyes exuded substantial malice.
Then, it stretched out its hand, and its arms rapidly extended. Its fingers were as white as jade, and its nails were as red as the water of the underworld.
During the transformation of his five fingers, he actually pinched out a sigil worth one yuan, forming a clear Taoist character "photo". He fixed Shi Xuan in place from a distance and sucked it into his palm.
"It's actually the great immortal who fell in the water of Huangquan Wangchuan!" Seeing that this water ghost has a little more agility and aura of greatness than other hateful wandering souls, Shi Xuan immediately understood its identity and felt a great feeling. The great danger is that even if he has died and his lifelong cultivation has dissipated, after being melted by the water of the underworld and transformed into a water ghost, the remaining strength is probably close to that of a heavenly being and cannot be matched by himself.
Moreover, Shi Xuan saw that the Xuanhuang Merit Tower above his head would be completely shattered in at most two seconds, and his mind was spinning: "Sacrificing the last Xuanhuang Merit Tower, trying to deal with it, looking for an opportunity to escape? No, his attack will be invaded by the water of the underworld. With the combination, I am afraid that it will not last for two or three moments, and the longer it is delayed, the more dangerous it will be. I wonder if there are other fallen immortals nearby! I can only cut through the mess quickly and take some risks!"
The black-yellow merit tower above Shi Xuan's head suddenly rose, turning rapidly, turning into countless blood-yellow merit energy, rolling and exploding, like a blood-yellow dragon scattering in all directions. The handprints extended by the water ghost transformed by the Heavenly Immortal True Lord were After a short pause, the water from the underworld retreated a little, and Shi Xuan's body suddenly became hollow.
A sacred, solemn, vast and profound golden bridge emerged above Shi Xuan's head. The bridge was transcendent and free, surrounded by golden lotuses beside the bridge. Under the bridge was a peaceful chaos, without the evolution of earth, fire, feng shui.
The backflowing water of the Yellow Spring, the ghost hands that continued to grab, the ghosts of the Heavenly Monarch, and the resentful water ghosts all stopped for a moment. Shi Xuan seized the opportunity, flapped his wind and thunder wings, escaped through the river water for several feet, brushed past many water ghosts, broke through the water surface, and finally rushed out of the Yellow Spring!
Tai Chi diagram, the treasure of Yin and Yang morality!
A blood-yellow river came from the sky. Before entering the Nine Netherworld, Shi Xuan vaguely saw that it originated from the depths of the ninth layer of the Nine Netherworld, running through the entire Nine Netherworld, and disappeared at the end of the first layer of the Nine Netherworld. When flowing through the nine layers, it split into countless tributaries and penetrated into the void. It was unknown where it flowed. Shi Xuan guessed that it should be the underworld, hell, Hades, and hell in other worlds.
Above the river, the sky was dark and heavy. Outside the river, there was nothingness all around, and there was a black space-time storm. Even the three-decline and four-decline great powers could not escape the fall if they stepped into it.
However, Shi Xuan was in no mood and had no time to appreciate the scenery at the entrance to the first level of Jiuyou, because after flying out of the Yellow Springs, Shi Xuan felt that the laws of heaven and earth above the Yellow Springs were upside down and chaotic, and it was difficult to use immortal arts to break through the space and move, or to escape quickly, or even to stabilize his body.
Just after rushing out, he immediately fell back to the water. Many ghosts floating on the water, including the Heavenly Lord Water Ghost, had long arms and sharp nails, like a dense forest.
Shi Xuan was about to sacrifice the last Xuanhuang Merit Tower and use it together with the Tai Chi diagram to fix the falling body and soul, but at this time, a black boat swayed from a distance, and a boatman wearing a bamboo hat, a straw raincoat, and a black short robe stood on it. He leisurely shook the long and strange oars and said, "If you want to cross the Yellow Springs, you need to take my boat. Are you willing?" The voice was gloomy and old.
In the blink of an eye, before Shi Xuan landed, the black boat sailed under him. Shi Xuan couldn't tell the depth of the old boatman's cultivation, but seeing the Yellow Springs surging and the dark void, it was beyond his ability to reach the land on the first layer of the Nine Netherworld. In addition, according to some rumors he had heard, the ferryman of the Yellow Springs was not good, but he was not a villain who took advantage of the situation. It was just that the boat fare he asked for was often strange. If he couldn't pay, he had to row the boat for a hundred years to pay for the boat fare.
Compared to his life, these were all trivial matters. Moreover, Shi Xuan was about to use the last Xuanhuang Merit Tower and the Tai Chi diagram to stabilize his body just to wait for the ferryman to come over, so Shi Xuan didn't hesitate and landed gently on the other end of the boat.
It can be seen that, at times, extensive knowledge can definitely save lives. If Shi Xuan had not heard the stories of Grandma Yu, had not read the records of some True Lords who accidentally broke into the Nine Netherworld, had not read the records of some Half-Step Golden Immortals, had not known the restraint of the Five Virtues Treasure on the Yellow Spring, and had not known that there would be a ferryman, he would have died of exhaustion and become one of the billions of water ghosts in the river.
"Knowledge is power..." Shi Xuan had this idea for some reason, and then he bowed and said, "Please take me to Zuo Sheng Ghost City." Zuo Sheng Emperor is the master of the first layer of the Nine Netherworld, and has survived four times of decline. His ghost city is located next to a section of the Yellow Spring.
The old boatman raised his head, revealing an ordinary old face under his bamboo hat, with white hair and no beard. He nodded slightly and smiled grimly: "You are the only one among the real people who can break free from the Yellow Springs in all these years. The young are really formidable! Haha, your life magic weapon should be the Yin-Yang morality treasure?"
Shi Xuan didn't expect that there were real people who broke in before, but there was no record of them. I'm afraid they have become water ghosts in the Yellow Springs. In this way, some cultivators below the Yuanshen level may have fallen into the Nine Netherworld, but they can never get out again: "Thank you, old man. I just happen to have two treasures of the Five Virtues on me, otherwise I can't escape the disaster." As for the question about the Tai Chi diagram, Shi Xuan was vague. Although there were many Yin-Yang morality treasures, there was no need to explain them in detail.
"Okay." The old boatman shook the oars, and the bow changed direction and sailed to the first level of the Nine Netherworld. Although this black boat was ordinary, it could be considered a rare treasure just by being able to float above the Yellow Springs.
As the boat passed, the water ghosts kept reaching up to grab at it, their nails scratching and making squeaks, but they could not hurt it at all, or even hinder it at all. However, this scene was extremely creepy, and the timid ones would probably be so scared that their legs would tremble and they dared not look directly at it.
Shi Xuan sat at the bow of the boat, looking at the old boatman rowing at the stern, and asked: "Old man, I wonder if the Zuo Sheng ghost can hate living people?"