Chapter 196 7 Master
Chapter 196 Seventh Master
Several people were also stunned. Mu Tieshan turned to look at Tang Qilang: "Tang Qi, did you see that sign?!"
Tang Qilang's face was solemn, and he nodded: "I saw it. It looks very much like the Life and Death Order of the Netherworld Sect. Senior Brother Mou, things have gotten out of hand. Someone from the Netherworld Sect has come to the human world?! And he has even sneaked into the Sword Sect! I said this shouldn't be the Sword Sect's style of doing things, so why did he still suppress it with the East Emperor Seal?"
Mu Tieshan exhaled slowly: "Let's see!"
Li Wuxiang was no less surprised than these people.
These people are all top figures in their respective sects, so they know a lot. But he has the treasures in the Tianxin Fantasy Realm, and Guiyin Zhenjun has some connection with the Netherworld Earth Mother, so he has learned a little about the Netherworld Sect these days.
The leader of the Netherworld Cult is the Netherworld Earth Mother. All the disciples in the sect are not living people, but are chosen by the Netherworld Earth Mother from the dead souls of the Netherworld.
The dead souls in the netherworld are all earth souls, and they are not spiritual enough, so they are still a little not very smart after being chosen as disciples. This is not to say that there is a problem with intelligence, but it is similar to those things in his previous life who only know how to do things according to established patterns and procedures. It is said that they recognize cards but not people.
The badge is what Tang Qillang called the Order of Life and Death, and it is proof of one's identity as a disciple of the Netherworld Sect.
When he was in Ranshan, he beat Xu Daosheng severely and nearly killed him. Xu Daosheng set up a formation to trick the Netherworld messenger who came to collect souls, and he escaped. That person was a low-level disciple of the Netherworld Sect, who held the order of life and death and specialized in traveling between the two worlds to collect souls.
The Netherworld is similar to the Sacred Mountain. When the Netherworld messenger is taking souls, he is considered to be in the world of the living and also in the Netherworld, so the living cannot see him.
The next level up is the Yin-Yang Judge, who also controls the order of life and death. Some practitioners with great skills may also use means to deal with the Netherworld Messenger, but if they are not protected by the Great Emperor's true spirit magic like Xu Daosheng, they will often be exposed. At this time, the Yin-Yang Judge comes to deal with this difficult to deal with troublemaker.
The next level up is called the Three Hundred Impermanence. Impermanence will not come to the human world, but only stay in the netherworld, and deal with the affairs of the netherworld. There are very few records of them.
Below the Netherworld Earth Mother and above the Three Hundred Impermanences are the "Ten Kings of Hell". The information in the Tianxin Fantasy Realm does not say whether the "Ten Kings of Hell" are ten positions that can change, or ten people. Because the disciples of the Netherworld Sect are different from the other seven sects in that they will not die, but only live - sometimes they will be reborn in the world of the living to do things.
However, after Donghuang Taiyi was suppressed, the Netherworld Sect seemed to have made some kind of agreement with the remaining six mysterious sects. Therefore, the disciples of the Netherworld Sect, the Netherworld Messenger, the Yin-Yang Judge, the Three Hundred Impermanence, and the Ten Kings of Hell would not be reborn into the world of the living.
What about Choi Do-sung?
At this moment, the stone pillar trembled violently again, as if it was finally suppressed by the magic weapon that Cui Daocheng had sacrificed at the cost of his own body.
The deathly aura that had been calm deep inside suddenly surged up. Cui Daocheng, the tortoise shell, and the stone pillars almost all became a hazy shadow. Even in the illusion of Ranshan, Li Wuxiang could feel that something seemed to have broken free and opened up.
Three inky black figures suddenly rushed out from the bottom of the air. Their faces could not be seen clearly, because only the outlines were visible, and the edges of the outlines were also blurred, which made them look like three groups of mist... These should be the "messengers from the underworld"!
They divided into three directions and surrounded the stone pillar and Cui Daocheng, slowly rotating, as if they were observing. Cui Daocheng's Yin Shen did not say anything, just let the flying sword hang in front of his chest. He looked like a dead soul at this time, but the golden light on the flying sword was like a small flame on his chest, becoming the only bright color in the dead ashes.
The three Netherworld messengers circled again, finally stopped, and shouted in unison, "Greetings to the Seventh Master!"
"Seventh Master"? What is his status in the Netherworld Cult?
Li Wuxiang immediately went to see Mou Tieshan and the others, but saw that they were also frowning and looking at each other.
Cui Daocheng spoke at this time, his voice was vague and ethereal, and it seemed that because he was between two worlds, he was a little trembling when he heard it: "The death door here is wide open... You three, close the death door."
The three Netherworld messengers immediately spoke up: "Yes, sir!"
The three black shadows swirled again and plunged into the dead air below. After about ten breaths, they floated up again and said in unison: "Reporting to the Seventh Master, the Death Gate is closed!"
Cui Daocheng did not say anything, but waited for a while before saying, "Bring the Book of Life and Death."
The three Netherworld messengers said nothing, just floating in front of him. Cui Daocheng then said, "Bring the Yin-Yang Book."
They remained silent.
The people over there looked at each other again. Tang Qilang frowned and whispered, "Cui Daocheng looks like..."
"He doesn't look like a member of the Netherworld Cult." Liu Huaiyuan pushed Mou Tieshan, "Where did he get the Netherworld Cult's Life and Death Order?"
Tang Qilang continued, "How can we get this thing from somewhere? The Order of Life and Death is neither made of wood nor iron, but simply condensed death energy. There is no way this thing can exist in the world of the living!"
What they said made sense, that sign might not belong to Cui Daocheng. Because from Cui Daocheng's expression when he said these words, he was quite afraid of the three Netherworld Messengers, but the other party seemed to really only recognize the sign and not the person, so they called him "Seventh Master".
Li Wuxiang frowned slightly, went over the scene he had just seen in his mind, and came to a guess.
In order to deal with the Six Sects of Xuan Sect, Cui Daocheng used the East Emperor Seal to release the dead souls of the Sword Sect. But perhaps because Jiang Jie died suddenly, many secrets were not passed on to the new leader in time, so when he used the East Emperor Seal, something went wrong, and he opened the "Death Gate" that he said might connect to the underworld, causing death energy to flow into the world of the living.
He discovered that something was wrong and wanted to suppress the East Emperor Seal again, but found that he couldn't, so he had to sacrifice his own body.
In this way, he became a ghost immortal, and the realm he was in during his death was the realm he would be in in this life. However, he was unwilling to accept this, so he took the risk of using a life and death order that he got from somewhere, disguised himself as "Seventh Master", and summoned the messengers of the underworld to deal with the dead energy.
Then, now, what he wanted to do was to remove himself from the Netherworld, that is, to survive the "Earth Tribulation" mentioned in the Minor Tribulation Sword Sutra.
"The Book of Life and Death" and "The Book of Yin and Yang" are both legendary directories in the underworld that control life and death in the human world. But now it seems that the Underworld Cult obviously does not call it that, so the three underworld messengers had no reaction at all!
Cui Daocheng was silent for a while, and then spoke for the third time: "Find out the name of... Cui Daocheng, the leader of the Donghuang Taiyi Sect, Cui Daocheng."
The three Netherworld messengers still didn't speak, but they moved. One of them shook his body and seemed to take out something. But neither Li Wuxiang nor the six people around him could see it. Cui Daocheng looked carefully at the void in front of him, and it seemed that he saw it, so he spoke again: "Cancel this name." The Netherworld messenger shook slightly, as if he did it. Then he said in a sharp voice: "Please use the seal, Master Qi!"
Cui Daocheng was slightly stunned, then he put his fingers together and pointed at the tortoise shell on the stone pillar.
The tortoise shell contained the East Emperor Seal, which was originally suppressed. Cui Daocheng should have wanted to lift the seal again. However, he sacrificed his own body to suppress the East Emperor Seal before, so it would be even more difficult to lift it again.
The blood on the turtle shell burst into a bright red light under the stimulation of his vitality, but the seal was still firmly attached to the stone pillar, motionless.
At this time, the Netherworld messenger said again: "Seventh Master, please use the seal!"
Li Wuxiang didn't know what they had just taken out because he couldn't see it. But after the Netherworld Messenger urged him, Cui Daocheng looked at the void in front of him again, and hurriedly pushed the tortoise shell twice, as if he was getting anxious.
The seal still did not move, and the Netherworld Messenger said a third time: "Seventh Master, please use the seal!"
It’s just that before it was only one of them speaking, but now all three of them are speaking together.
Cui Daocheng tried again with all his strength, but the tortoise shell containing the Donghuang Seal remained motionless.
Then the fourth urging voice came - "Seventh Master, please use the seal!"
But this time it wasn't the three who urged him - the death energy below suddenly surged, and dense crowds of Netherworld messengers emerged from it, surrounding the stone pillar, Cui Daocheng, and the Eastern Emperor Seal. Together with the three before, their heads suddenly stretched and raised, all pointing at Cui Daocheng's Yin Spirit. Li Wuxiang felt that if they really had a face with vivid expressions, then those faces must be full of suspicion, vigilance, and resentment!
"Please use the seal, Master Qi!"
"Please use the seal, Master Qi!"
"Please use the seal, Master Qi!"
These messengers from the underworld screamed in unison, their voices were extremely piercing, and they came faster and faster, making several people feel dazed and with splitting headaches. The death energy around them also surged up, gradually devouring the blood energy around Cui Daocheng. There was almost only a little sword light on his chest left underground.
Cui Daocheng snorted suddenly!
He looked no different from his own body, with flesh and blood. But after this sound, a golden light suddenly shone from his body, and he was instantly immersed in the tortoise shell. His own figure became extremely transparent, as if it was just a ripple or outline in the void.
Mu Tieshan exclaimed: "...He also sacrificed his own Yin God's cultivation!!"
The blood-covered turtle shell received a ray of golden light that was full of Cui Daocheng's Nascent Soul cultivation, and finally lifted up slightly, almost unnoticeably!
Several people heard a loud bang in their consciousness. The voices of those Netherworld messengers came to an abrupt end, and the surging death energy subsided. Except for the three before, the rest instantly sank into the black fog and disappeared.
Cui Daocheng's shadow stopped beside the Donghuang Seal and on the stone pillar. The flying sword that was originally hanging in front of his chest fell to the ground with a ding, and had completely turned into a piece of ordinary iron.
Li Wuxiang knew that his power was now completely wasted - the difference between him and ordinary ghosts was that he was not dead yet, the three souls of heaven, earth and man were still in one body, and it seemed that he had been removed from the underworld and survived the catastrophe.
However, it is difficult to practice as a ghost cultivator. Given his current condition, he doesn’t know if he will have a chance to return to the Nascent Soul stage.
When Li Wuxiang first met Cui Daocheng, he didn't have a good impression of him. But after listening to what Zeng Jianqiu said, it seemed that after Jiang Jie's death, Cui Daocheng did not take the opportunity to vent his anger, but told the people in the sect that the person might not have been killed by him. At that time, he felt that Cui Daocheng might not be a likable person, but at least he still kept the bottom line of being a swordsman.
When he saw the deathly aura under the Nether Nine Abyss before, he thought Cui Daocheng had gone crazy. But when he came here and saw it with his own eyes, he realized that he must have made a mistake - he wanted to release the dead soul of the Sword Sect, but accidentally released the deathly aura along with it.
So he sacrificed his own body to suppress the East Emperor Seal, and then in order to continue practicing as a ghost immortal, he sacrificed all his cultivation - Li Wuxiang knew that he had always wanted to lead the Sword Sect across the Silent Sea to the East Continent, and Lou He also said that he might want to emulate the former Donghuang Taiyi and become the master of the demon sect in the East Continent, so he never expected that he would be willing to make such a big sacrifice.
From this perspective, Cui Daocheng is indeed a swordsman.
At this time, the three messengers from the underworld had not left yet. They were floating in front of Cui Daocheng's ghost, staring at the life and death order that he had taken into his body.
Then, one of the Netherworld Messengers suddenly spoke up: "Seventh Master, do you want to cancel the names of those six as well?"
Cui Daocheng originally looked depressed, and he must have known that his future was difficult. When he heard this, he suddenly raised his head and asked, "Which six!?"
The three Netherworld messengers turned around at once and looked towards Li Wuxiang, and Cui Daocheng also turned his head with them.
The "death door" had been closed before, and the deathly aura in the cave was gradually dissipating. Unknowingly, the surroundings had changed from pitch black to gray, and the figures of the six people were finally revealed.
"Seventh Master, do you want to cancel the names of these six as well?"
Mu Tieshan's expression changed drastically: "Not good... Let's go!"
The Nether Messengers are the lowest-level disciples of the Netherworld Sect, and are no more different from the ordinary disciples of the Thirty-Six Sects. These six are all the best in the sect, so dealing with three Nether Messengers should be no problem at all in the world of the living.
However, this place is filled with deathly aura, just like the real underworld. In this situation, the messenger from the underworld may not be an ordinary "disciple of the sect", but an evil spirit that can take away souls.
Moreover, they had taken the Death Pill, which could conceal the vitality and temporarily block the internal meridians, greatly reducing their power. Even if they took the Living Pill, once the fight started, the meridians would be activated and absorbed the Death Qi, and the living people would not be able to hold on for long!
When Cui Daocheng's ghost saw them, he was stunned for a moment, then took two steps back and immediately shouted, "Don't cancel them, take them down... Take their souls! Take them all to the underworld!"
The three Netherworld messengers spoke in unison: "Understood—Master Qi, please use your seal!"
(End of this chapter)