Chapter 142 Nether Cult Leader

Chapter 142 Nether Cult Leader

Chapter 142 Nether Cult Leader
No one responded.

Li Wuxiang had no choice but to jump out of the tomb again -

Before jumping into the tomb, there was a hillside covered with weeds around it. But now that I have landed, the hillside is still there, but all the graves on the hillside are gone.

However, the area around the slope was no longer an endless wilderness, but a thick fog. When Li Wuxiang withdrew his sight from the fog and looked down at himself, the slope disappeared - he was surrounded by such a gray fog that he couldn't tell whether the sky was cloudy or sunny, or even whether he was standing on the ground or suspended in the air.

Until he heard Mei Zhangjian's voice again: "Li Wuxiang, come here."

The sound was like a string that suddenly caught and pulled down his fluttering kite. Only then did he feel grounded and saw the Mei Zhang Sword in the fog.

She was standing two or three steps away from him, and there was another person beside him. It was a man, wearing a blue cloth Taoist robe and a Taoist bun. He had a square face, distinct eyebrows and eyes, and only a wisp of beard on his chin. He was tall, with his hands behind his back, looking at him, frowning slightly, and looked very imposing.

Mei Zhangjian laughed: "Are you shocked? This is Youjiuyuan. It's all like this the first time I come here, but it will be fine next time - it's almost the same as in Lingshan, you need a thought to stand firm."

Then he turned to look at the man beside him: "Brother Jiang, did you come here specially to pick him up?"

The person whom she could call "senior brother" should be the Taiyi Sect leader Jiang Jie.

Li Wuxiang raised his hand, wanting to greet him, but heard Jiang Jie say: "It is true that I am here specially, but I am not just here to pick him up, I am here to pick you up."

He glanced at Li Wuxiang, then turned to look at Mei Zhangjian: "I want to see if he can enter You Jiuyuan."

Mei Zhangjian frowned: "I brought him here, do you still want me to watch? Is it because my words are useless?"

Jiang Jie snorted, "Mei Qiulu, you brought your junior brother with you to stir up trouble in Coffin City. Can I not watch? Tell me about your disciples, what happened to Lou He? Zeng Jianqiu seemed like a swordsman, but his cultivation was actually destroyed by your junior brother? Your junior brother——"

He glanced at Li Wuxiang again: "——Our eleventh Golden Core Swordsman, is he a human?"

Mei Zhangjian's eyebrows and eyes have always been gentle, and he often can't help but smile. But this time he slowly opened his eyes and looked at Jiang Jie: "Are you cursing me or are you really asking?"

Jiang Jie looked at her for a moment, then looked away: "Why would I curse at you?"

Mei Zhangjian took a step to the side and stood in front of him, still staring at him: "Oh, is Master Cui a human?"

Jiang Jie cleared his throat and said, "I didn't say that he couldn't enter You Jiu Yuan. I just wanted to ask him a few questions first. Besides, I haven't asked you about your matter yet. Did you kill two city lords of the True Form Sect again?"

"I was paying off a debt to Helian. If you don't step forward as a member of your lineage, will your death be in vain?"

Jiang Jie sighed: "Okay, go back, I won't talk to you. I'll ask him a few words first."

Mei Zhangjian looked at him for a while before nodding. He then looked at Li Wuxiang and said, "This is Sect Leader Jiang. You should have a good chat with Sect Leader Jiang. Sect Leader Jiang is mature and prudent. Don't say anything weird to upset him."

Jiang Jie only had time to say the word "you" before Mei Zhangjian suddenly raised his hand, as if opening something, and disappeared into the thick fog.

Only then did Li Wuxiang raise his hand and bow, saying sincerely: "Disciple Li Wuxiang, I pay my respects to the leader of Donghuang Taiyi Sect."

Jiang Jie stood in the mist with his hands behind his back, looking at Li Wuxiang. After a while, he said, "You don't have to be so respectful. How long have you been outside with Mei Qiulu?"

Mei Zhangjian had given a warning beforehand - swordsmen are all very open and honest. Li Wuxiang also knew that being disliked by an open and honest person might be more painful than being disliked by a mean person.

But I didn't expect it to come to this - it seemed that before I even stepped into You Jiuyuan's door, the leader was going to give me a show of power in person.

If it was an ordinary sect, he might have thought of walking away. But since it was the Sword Sect, and he knew the temperament of these people, he felt that he could endure it.

So he smiled and said, "Senior Sister Mei saved me outside the coffin city, and we stayed together for about six or seven days."

Jiang Jie nodded: "Six or seven days, okay, then she should have told you everything and said she was very dissatisfied with me, right?"

No... your top and second top masters are at odds, so why are you coming to ask a newcomer like me? Although he had prepared himself mentally, this question still made Li Wuxiang feel a little outrageous - when he was in the mortal world, Mei Zhangjian had told him a lot of things about the sect, like pouring beans out of a bamboo tube. At that time, he thought that Mei Zhangjian was very unique and was his nominal master, so it was not strange.

But Jiang Jie is the leader of a religion, and why did he come to ask me these questions?
This was the first time he encountered an organization with this kind of style, and he really had no idea how to get along with Jiang Jie. Should he show his true nature as a swordsman?

But he himself is not a "genuine" person. You can pretend for a while, but not forever.

So he still said politely: "Yes. But after listening to what the leader and senior sister said just now, I think the relationship is very good."

Jiang Jie frowned. "A good relationship is a good relationship, but right and wrong is another matter. Don't bring bad habits from other places here. Let me ask you, what do you think of what she said?"

Li Wuxiang felt unhappy. But before expressing his unhappiness, he still resisted the urge to ask one more question: "Brother Jiang, if other disciples come to Youjiuyuan, will you also stop them here to question them?"

Jiang Jie looked at him and said, "Sometimes I will. In case someone doesn't know me well. Do you think I'm making things difficult for you? According to other people's opinions, I guess so. You have achieved Dan formation. If it were someone else, you would be a sword master or a sword master in the sect. But you are from Mei Qiulu's lineage. If your ideas are similar to hers, then forget it. I can only allow you to be an ordinary disciple in the sect. If you feel you can't stand it and have resentment in your heart, go back now."

Li Wuxiang has always had a very good impression of the swordsman, until now.

So he looked around, wondering if he really wanted to go back and become an outer disciple as Mei Zhangjian said. So far, Jiang Jie's behavior has gradually exceeded the limit of his tolerance. He seems to be quite mean and not very tolerant. If he gets along with such a person for a long time, it will be very uncomfortable in the future.

Then, just as this resentment arose in his heart, another thought suddenly came to his mind: he wanted to see what was in the fog around him.

As soon as this idea appeared in my mind, it immediately took root and grew like a rapidly growing seed.

Then Li Wuxiang suddenly felt that the fog around him became extremely light, so light that he could slightly see something in the fog.

It turns out that what was around was not fog... but people.

Many people, with dull and pale faces and tattered clothes, were wandering in the gray mist in layers. It was impossible to tell how many there were at a glance.

These people were all looking in the direction of You Jiuyuan, as if they wanted to break in. However, because there was an invisible barrier around them, they could only stay where they were and keep walking, then change direction after walking for a while, and then be filled in by the people around and behind them.

At this time, he could also see the land under the feet of these people. In fact, it didn't look like land, but something extremely smooth and silky, extending deeper into the fog. His eyes and mind couldn't help but grasp those things, and then extended to the distance, where there was -

"Come back! Don't look!" A sudden shout brought his consciousness back. Li Wuxiang was suddenly in a trance, and everything in front of him turned into a thick fog again.

Jiang Jie raised his hand, and a bright light from his fingertips illuminated Li Wuxiang's chest and face. Seeing that he had come to his senses, he took another step forward to block him: "What you see is the Netherworld, those are all dead souls! Don't look, keep your mind focused! Be careful not to fall into it! Let me ask you a few questions, are you so resentful? Then you are really not suitable to stay in the Netherworld!"

Li Wuxiang was stunned for a moment, then slowly let out a sigh of relief.

Jiang Jie looked very disliked himself and really didn't want to ask him to enter the Nether Nine Abyss. But just now, he seemed to have fallen into a very dangerous situation in his opinion, but he pulled himself back without hesitation.

So Li Wuxiang thought about it in his heart and sighed: "Thank you, Senior Brother Jiang. Senior Brother, I just..."

"Don't ask too much. It won't be good for you to know. Didn't your senior sister tell you? You Jiuyuan is between the Netherworld and the Holy Mountain. What should you do in the Holy Mountain? Don't think about what you shouldn't think about, and don't look at what you shouldn't look at. The same applies here!"

"Okay, I see."

Jiang Jie frowned and looked at him: "Then answer the question I asked you just now!" Li Wuxiang thought for a moment and said: "Senior Sister Mei told me a lot of things. Given her and the swordsmen's personalities, I don't think there would be any exaggeration or falsehood. Based on what she knows, what she said should be true. I think her idea is correct."

Jiang Jie looked at him for a while and nodded: "Well, okay. Then you just--"

"But I was wondering if there was anything she didn't know. When we were in the coffin mountain, Senior Brother Lou also said a lot to me, and his views were similar to Senior Sister Mei's. At that time, I told Senior Brother Lou that maybe there were some things he didn't know."

Li Wuxiang paused and looked at Jiang Jie: "Brother Jiang, it has been eight hundred years since you attained the Tao—"

Jiang Jie was stunned for a moment: "What?"

It seems that there is no such poem in this world. So Li Wuxiang said softly: "I just remembered a poem. I have been enlightened for eight hundred years, but I have never used my flying sword to take people's heads. The Jade Emperor has not sent the talisman, and I am selling black gold to roam the world."

Jiang Jie was stunned and silent for a while.

After a moment, he frowned again and asked, "Did you write this poem?"

"Yes."

"This poem is not bad." He looked at Li Wuxiang carefully again, "But like I said before, after coming to Youjiuyuan, don't bring some habits from other places into it - are you flattering me?"

Then he said, "You are not a human. I think you are a Qing Nang fairy?"

"Ah."

"Qing Nang Immortal, if one lives long enough, many people's bad habits will gradually disappear. Then it's not a bad idea for you to come to You Jiu Yuan." Jiang Jie thought for a while, "But you'd better not think about being the Sword Master or the Sword Master. This is not a personal grudge. What you do outside may be liked by Mei Qiulu, but not necessarily by me. But it doesn't matter whether I like it or not, what you do is still a credit to Taiyi Sect."

"You can try to be a Sword Master. But I don't have the final say on this. It depends on your character. Mei Qiulu asked Lou He to be the Sword Master before, but now he is staying in the Coffin City. You are from her lineage, so I think it will be difficult for you."

Li Wuxiang smiled and said, "Senior Sister Mei outside asked me first if I wanted to come to Youjiuyuan. At that time, I also asked her if there were any power struggles in the sect. She said there weren't any, so I came. So, Senior Brother Jiang, I don't care whether you are the Sword Master or not."

"But if I can't do it because other people think badly of me, then I think after thinking about it, I feel that I must do it."

Jiang Jie didn't say anything.

Li Wuxiang said, "Can I enter the Nether Nine Abyss now?"

Jiang Jie remained silent for a moment, then suddenly asked, "Don't you want to know what you might have seen just now?"

Li Wuxiang was stunned for a moment, and then an idea popped up in his mind -

Jiang Jiaozhu's attitude towards him seemed to have suddenly changed for the better. I don't know if it was because of the few lines of poetry he recited. But if so...how pitiful is Jiang Jie?

What he said just now was sincere. Mei Zhangjian's dissatisfaction with Jiang Jie all stemmed from the things she knew. But she also said that there were some things that only a leader could know.

Since he could be the leader of Taiyi Sect, he would not be a coward. Mei Zhangjian would think so, so she only expressed her dissatisfaction verbally instead of confronting him.

Those were the four lines of poetry that he had just recited, and they made Jiang Jie suddenly wonder, could he really understand him?
No, among the hundred or so people in the Sword Sect, is there not one person who can say something nice? Then this leader is really being uninteresting.

He said, "This... Senior Brother Jiang, didn't you say that it's best if I don't know?"

"You'll know it sooner or later anyway. I might as well let you take a look, so that you won't get curious and make things more difficult later."

Without waiting for Li Wuxiang to speak, he stretched out his hand and pointed at his chest: "Look, look up. But remember, without me or Mei Qiulu to protect you, you are not allowed to look up again."

Li Wuxiang raised his head.

The moment the thought of what was above him came to his mind, the thick gray fog dissipated again, and then he saw an extremely huge face in the deep void!
That face should be very high and very far away. If there is a sky here, it should be as high as the clouds in the sky!
But even at such a distance, the face blocked almost the entire space above.

That was not a human face... but an oval one, pale white, without ears, nose, mouth, eyebrows or hair. Instead, it was filled with huge, elongated blood-red eyes that looked like criss-crossed wounds, overlooking the area below.

Li Wuxiang only took a glance at those eyes and felt his heart dead. He no longer had any hope for life, as if he had become a dead object!
However, at this moment, his chest felt warm, and his mind regained some consciousness. He was able to move his eyes with difficulty, and then let the gray fog gradually dissipate, and he saw something else -

There was no torso. Below the neck of the face was a broken body, like countless thin and deformed arms, or like many organs left after the torso was broken. They stretched in all directions, some of which extended to where he was standing at the moment, turning into thinner strands - the ghosts outside that he had just seen should be standing on these things.

This thing...it looked like it was curled up, like an extremely huge, incomplete baby, hugging where he was.

Li Wuxiang tried to take a closer look and found that its pale and gray body seemed to have large patches of dense holes, as if it was rotten. In the holes, maggot-like things were wriggling and moving... But they were not insects, but countless dead souls!

And... there were many dark red, scar-like things on its body, and there seemed to be many maggot-like things wriggling and rolling inside, just like -

"The Netherworld is between the Netherworld and the Holy Mountain."

Li Wuxiang heard Jiang Jie's voice faintly.

"What you are seeing now are the souls of the dead in the netherworld. Those dark red ones are part of the sacred mountain—the part of the sacred mountain that you can understand with your current level of cultivation."

"Besides these, what else did you see?"

A few words almost blurted out. But Li Wuxiang, who was a little confused at this time, suddenly realized that Jiang Jie only mentioned "dead souls" and "part of Lingshan", but did not mention the most shocking and terrifying thing, the huge thing.

That thing...shouldn't I see it now?
Mei Zhangjian and Jiang Jiaozhu both knew that he was the Qing Nang Immortal, and this was no longer a secret. But he also had another secret - Donghuang Taiyi.

Is it because of Taiyi that I can see it?

So he suppressed the thoughts in his mind and spoke with difficulty: "And... I feel like there is something else... I can't see it clearly..."

"Then let's talk about it later."

Li Wuxiang's consciousness was suddenly pulled back, and the gray fog quickly submerged everything in his field of vision. The dead silence and despair were slowly, bit by bit, squeezed out of his heart.

He stood there in a daze, and finally when he felt a little life coming back to him, he asked, "Brother Jiang, what else? What else can you see?"

Jiang Jie withdrew his hand and looked up: "The Netherworld Earth Mother. She is also the Netherworld Cult Master of the Netherworld Dao."

"Or you could say, Taiyi's remains."

Li Wuxiang opened his mouth and said, "You... Senior Brother Jiang, are you saying that the Netherworld Mother is Donghuang Taiyi!?"

Jiang Jie actually smiled at him, but the smile was fleeting: "No. Didn't you say that there might be some things that only I know? Then wait. If you can become the leader in the future, you will know what is going on. Don't tell this to anyone else."

(End of this chapter)