Chapter 141 Going to the Netherworld

Chapter 141 Going to the Netherworld

Chapter 141 Go to the Netherworld

Li Wuxiang was silent for a moment and hesitated in his heart.

This happened often in his previous life, but in this life, he rarely hesitated for so long before doing something.

Mei Zhangjian waited patiently for him. After she had eaten two more desserts, Li Wuxiang asked, "If I don't go to You Jiuyuan, am I still a swordsman?"

"Yeah. But it's just like some sects' outer disciples. Whenever you are bullied or humiliated, your fellow disciples will not turn a blind eye. The difference is that Pan Muyun and the others should have told you that you can't do some of the sect's work."

"But the only visible benefit of doing these things is that you will have more materials for cultivation. You are now a golden elixir. With this level of cultivation, even the master of some small and independent sects can do it. If you need something, you can be careful and spend a few years or decades to collect, buy, and exchange, and you will get it slowly. Others don't want to waste time because their youth and lifespan are limited. Although Qingnangxian can't be said to live as long as the heaven and the earth, you have already had the Three Flowers Gathering at the Top of the Head, and with the addition of the Chaoyuan Five Qi, your body will gradually wither and decay in five or six hundred years. There is no need to worry about this."

"Besides, you did all these things in the Coffin Mountain and saved two fellow disciples. With such merits, the Chen Yao Sect will prepare all the Chen Yao you need during the period of protecting the pill. You just need to find the Jun Yao." Mei Zhangjian looked at him, "I said that you are the vitality seed of the Sword Sect, and you are also a member of my lineage. If you don't go to You Jiuyuan, you can still come to me if you have any problems."

Li Wuxiang thought for a while and said, "Senior Sister, since you said so, I will speak frankly. You Jiuyuan, is there any infighting or anything like that in our sect?"

Mei Zhangjian smiled. "Well, I guess that's what you're worried about. Yes. This kind of thing is inevitable wherever there are people, but it's a little different now than before."

"Over the years, people have been talking about the 'Six Mysterious Sects', but earlier, more than three hundred years ago, more than a thousand years ago, sometimes people would still talk about the 'Seven Mysterious Sects', and the Sword Sect was one of them."

"At that time, there were many disciples in the sect. The idea was that with more disciples, the sect would be more powerful and things would be easier to do. But there were two disadvantages. One was that with so many people, it was easy to be found. The other was that with so many people, there had to be clear classes, so some people fought for power and there was internal friction and infighting. You already know the outcome."

"So after Jiang Jie became the leader, we all became brothers and sisters. The cultivation method actually has some influence on a person's temperament. For example, the people of the True Form Sect may be a little purer and duller, or stupid. The True Immortal Body Dao Pian of the Sword Sect, on the other hand, will make people's temperament a little more open-minded."

"There are fewer disciples in the sect now, and when selecting people to be swordsmen, we first look at their character, and then their aptitude. Add to that some tests and trials, so the people in the sect now are much better than before. As for the internal fighting you mentioned, there is, and Jiang Jie and I are fighting internally."

"It's just that I will say this kind of thing out loud - Jiang Jie knows it, and the people in the sect know it too. When I say something nice, I will tell him that Senior Brother Jiang is mature and steady. When I say something bad, I will say that he is a coward."

Li Wuxiang was stunned when he heard this: "Then... Senior Sister, I was also thinking about this when I was in the Coffin City. Why did Master Jiang become such a coward?"

"Because he thinks that Taiyi Sect didn't act like a coward in the past, that's why it's in this situation today. If you ask him about this, Jiang Jie will tell you that the Sword Sect needs to recuperate and preserve its strength. If you ask him how to deal with the current expansion of the diocese and the urgent situation, he will tell you that this is the general trend and it will happen sooner or later."

"What he said is actually true. After more than three hundred years, whether we recruit more disciples or remain like we are now, this kind of thing will only take a hundred or two hundred years. But I think the sect should be more ambitious, not more decadent." Mei Zhangjian sighed, "If it's just about survival, there is still a way out - just withdraw from the Central Continent."

"Beyond the Central Continent, across the Silent Sea, there is also a vast expanse of heaven and earth. It is the home of demons and monsters. The Sword Sect won't be afraid of them if it goes there. However, if the swordsman leaves the Central Continent and the thirty-six sects are destroyed, it won't take a thousand years, but hundreds of years for the name of Donghuang Taiyi to be known by anyone."

Li Wuxiang nodded: "I understand, Jiang Jiaozhu is a conservative, and you are a radical."

Mei Zhangjian couldn't help but laugh: "It's hard to say. If I was the leader, I might have thought about how to frighten the six sects? How to expand the sect? How to save Taiyi? But now I'm not the leader, these are things that Jiang Jie should think about."

"I've talked about the situation before. In the current situation, it seems that Jiang Jie really has no solution. But since he is the leader, it is his job to come up with a solution when there is no other solution. Otherwise, what else can he do? So I still have to say what I want to say."

"This is the internal strife in the Sword Sect right now. Many of my fellow disciples like me think this is not a good idea, but they can't think of a better solution. Since Jiang Jie is the leader, we have to obey his orders and do things like I did, which I think are useful and will not go against the overall situation. That's why I didn't kill anyone until today."

Mei Zhangjian thought for a moment and said, "The sect is different from other sects. If you really go to You Jiuyuan, you can say whatever you want. If one day my fellow disciples think that I am more suitable to be the leader, I will naturally force Jiang Jie to step down. But privately, the sect will not have those dirty things that happened elsewhere before."

"Then, the fact that I am the Green Bag Immortal—"

"It's good enough for us to know. Don't think too badly of the sect, but don't think too well of it either. Where there are people, there will naturally be right and wrong. If you are determined to join the sect, I will recommend you to be the Sword Master. If you become the Sword Master, you can help me if I want to be the leader in the future."

"But Sword Master Cui doesn't want me to be the leader, and thinks we should use the last resort as soon as possible - crossing the Silent Sea to go somewhere else. So maybe people from his lineage won't like you. Swordsmen are all upright people, and it's sometimes more painful for upright people to dislike you than to dislike a sinister villain."

Li Wuxiang nodded. Now he knew what he wanted to know the most. In fact, the most important thing was not what the atmosphere in the Sword Sect was like, but what was related to Jiang Jie.

Now he finally had an idea in his mind - why he was possessed by Taiyi True Spirit.

Perhaps this should be said the other way around - why Taiyi didn't choose to possess Jiang Jie's body, but instead chose a newcomer like himself.

Maybe Mei Zhangjian was right, Jiang Jie was too mature and prudent. Taiyi thought Jiang Jie was no longer suitable to lead Taiyi Sect, so he planned to support himself to become the new leader.

When he thought that the evil spirit was in his body, Li Wuxiang was thinking about how to get rid of it.

When he thought it was Taiyi, he felt relieved. When he had another one-sided quarrel with Taiyi in the coffin city, he felt even more relieved.

Because Taiyi really helped that time, and later when he fought with Wu Meng, who had invited the true spirit of the Five Mountains True Form Emperor, Taiyi seemed to take the initiative to help - he wanted to escape into the Xuanguan Mirror, and wanted to escape into the Ranshan Illusion. Both times, he suddenly felt a warning sign in his heart. This was undoubtedly Taiyi's work.

It seems that some things need to be argued and talked out.

He is not a weird person. He doesn't have those bullshit thoughts like "Why should I take on such a big responsibility" or "I don't want to be an emperor who holds all the power in the world. I just want to live a free and easy life".

So if I really want to compete with the strongest people in the world... no problem, it's very interesting and not boring!

So Li Wuxiang said, "Senior Sister Mei, I want to go to Youjiuyuan."

Mei Zhangjian smiled and looked very happy: "Okay. I will take you to Youjiuyuan right now. The first step is to find a place with people."

The two spent three days to find a village, but they didn't know its name. Because they didn't go into the village, they stopped a person and asked him where the cemetery near the village was.

Then we found a small hill near the village and saw the pile of graves on it.

Many of the graves were no longer recognizable as mounds, but gradually became barren hills covered with lush vegetation. Mei Zhangjian chose a slightly more imposing one with a tombstone, and then dug two deep pits three feet and three feet away to the northeast of the grave.

It is not a long strip for coffins, but looks like a place for burying people vertically.

The excavated soil was scattered everywhere, leaving only a small piece. Then Mei Zhangjian said, "Wait a little, wait until midnight, when the yin energy is the heaviest."

Li Wuxiang thought for a moment and said, "Senior Sister, Lou He said that You Jiuyuan is in the Netherworld Scroll..."

"That's right. It's in the Netherworld Scroll, not in the World of the Living, so we have to use the past that we dug out."

"The Netherworld Scroll - is the fact that the Netherworld Scroll is hidden somewhere considered a secret?"

"Yes. Have you ever guessed before? Where it might be?"

"I have guessed. For example, I once thought that maybe Master Jiang was in some big city, pretending to be a master or a bookseller, and sold the Netherworld Scroll to a random person. And now the Netherworld Scroll is on that family's bookshelf, and no one would have thought that the swordsman was hiding there."

"Later, I heard from Lou He that the Netherworld Scroll was actually very large, and you had taken him to see it with his own eyes. I thought that perhaps we had built a manor in some remote place, and the owner of the manor only knew that he was working for a big shot, but he didn't know who it was. So he set up a secret room in his house, and the Netherworld Scroll was hidden in it - he didn't know that the person who came in and out of the manor was the swordsman."

"Your ideas are all good. Oh, if I become a leader one day, maybe I will do what you said."

"That?"

"I don't know either. Every new leader will hide the Netherworld Scroll in a different place. There are also some things in the sect that only the leader can know." She looked up at the sky, then at the excavated tomb on the ground. "That's enough. Let's go."

She walked to the tomb, so Li Wuxiang jumped into the tomb and was about to pull some weeds to cover himself when he heard Mei Zhangjian say, "You...what are you doing?"

"Isn't he not in the world of the living?"

"That's not the case." Mei Zhangjian pulled him out with a smile, "How could you really bury yourself? It's so unlucky. This is fine-"

She took out two pieces of talisman paper from her sleeve, and with a flick of her fingers, she tore them into two rough little figures. She handed one to Li Wuxiang and said, "Drop a drop of blood."

Then he dripped blood on the little man's head, threw it into the tomb, sprinkled a handful of soil on it, and then sat cross-legged beside the tomb.

"You have to wait a moment. Take a breath, don't breathe...oh, you can't breathe either."

Li Wuxiang also sat down like her. Looking at her smile just now, he felt that maybe she was teasing him on purpose, which made him laugh in his heart: "Actually, I can breathe, but it's useless."

There was no wind tonight, the tips of the weeds around me were only swaying slightly, and there were many insects chirping in the fields. But after about a quarter of an hour, the chirping of insects suddenly stopped, and then a cool breeze blew around the two tombs.

Li Wuxiang immediately thought of Xu Daosheng - he was almost killed by his own sneak attack on Ran Mountain, and he asked Feng Ji to bury him in a pit, and then there was a gust of cold wind. Later, he said that he had used the method of reincarnation to trick the underworld messenger who came to collect souls, and only then did he escape with his life.

At that time, Li Wuxiang's cultivation level was at the foundation-building stage of the True Immortal Body Dao Chapter, and he only saw the wind.

But now, he had an additional feeling - the wind was cold and not as light as a real breeze, but had a sticky feeling, like an invisible and intangible snake.

The cold wind lingered around the two unsealed tombs for a while, blowing up a lot of dust and broken grass stems. It seemed to be a little confused about the tombs, not sure whether to leave or stay.

At this time, Mei Zhangjian glanced at Li Wuxiang, and suddenly raised her hand and grabbed in mid-air. Li Wuxiang immediately followed her example and also grabbed in mid-air.

Then he felt a coolness between the fingers of his hand, as if he had caught a breeze that was constantly flowing along the palm of his hand and around the base of his fingers.

Mei Zhangjian patted the Baihui acupoint on the top of her head, and Li Wuxiang continued to imitate her.

After another three breaths, the things that were rolled up on the ground were suddenly carried away by the cold wind and fell into the two tombs.

At this time, Mei Zhangjian spoke again: "The practice of the Netherworld Sect is different from that of the Six Sects and Taiyi Sect. It was different during the Ye Dynasty. This is because the Netherworld Earth Mother worshipped by the Netherworld Sect is considered an innate god. Before Taiyi preached, people had to go to the Netherworld in the cycle of life and death. It was only after Taiyi became a true immortal that he knew that the Netherworld Earth Mother still existed."

"But at that time, the Netherworld Earth Mother had not yet developed spiritual wisdom. It was Emperor Taiyi who taught her some cultivation methods. Only then did she become the seventh disciple under the Emperor, and then she gradually developed spiritual wisdom and slowly became a Golden Immortal."

"Disciples of the Netherworld are not living people, but souls in the Netherworld. When Taiyi was still alive, when people died, the souls that stayed in the world were human souls, the souls that went to the Netherworld were earth souls, and the souls that went to Taiyi's wonderful realm were heaven souls—"

"Taiyi Wonderland?" Li Wuxiang was stunned. "People from the Six Sects of Mysterious Sect go to Wonderland after they ascend... Does Taiyi also have Wonderland? I have never heard of it before."

"You should have been there many times - it is Lingshan. The former Taiyi Wonderland was not like the Lingshan today. It was only after Taiyi was suppressed that it became the Lingshan today. Therefore, most of the resentful ghosts in Lingshan are the former heavenly souls."

"You also know that people have three souls and seven spirits. After a person dies, the heavenly soul goes to the wonderland, the earthly soul goes to the netherworld, and the human soul remains in the world. After a person dies, his or her temperament often changes drastically because the three souls are separated. Nowadays, many heavenly souls are trapped in the sacred mountain and become resentful ghosts, so naturally there are fewer people in this world."

"The Heavenly Soul has the memory of a person's reincarnations in past lives and is the source of supernatural powers. The Human Soul is the memory of a person's present life, and the Earthly Soul is the karma of a person in this life. Therefore, among the three souls, the Earthly Soul is the most stupid. Therefore, when practitioners go to the Holy Mountain now, they all separate their Earthly Souls so that if they are harmed, they will not suffer too much damage."

"Most of the disciples of the Netherworld are souls from the Netherworld. They have intelligence, but they are very ignorant and dull compared to ordinary cultivators. For example, the two Netherworld messengers who just came were deceived by this tomb and the blood essence. Just now, you should think of our capture as capturing a little bit of their true spirit. Now that we have injected it into the Baihui acupoint, this true spirit will help us lead the way."

“…lead the way?”

"Youjiuyuan is between Lingshan and the underworld, come on." Mei Zhangjian jumped into the tomb and instantly sank into the darkness.

Li Wuxiang didn't have time to be surprised. He was stunned for a moment, then immediately jumped in.

When I looked into the tomb just now, because it was dark and the tomb was dug very deep, it seemed as if it had become bottomless and I had no idea where it led to.

As soon as he jumped in, he felt his feet touching something, as if they had touched the ground... No, that was the ground under the tomb!
"... Senior Sister Mei?" Li Wuxiang was confused for a moment, then reached out and touched the wall of the pit, "Senior Sister Mei...are you still there?"

(End of this chapter)