Chapter 35: Journey to the Underworld

The Zhongyuan Ceremony is a grand event held every three years in the human world. It is also called the Sanyuan Festival together with Shangyuan and Xiayuan.

The Zhongyuan Ceremony is also the day when the gate to the underworld opens. Some creatures go to the underworld by chance. The heaven and the human world are one-way roads, but the underworld and the human world intersect every three years. During the Zhongyuan Ceremony, people

Fengdu, the underworld city in the underworld, keeps the gate to the underworld open for a month. During this month, relatives separated by the two realms can reunite during the Zhongyuan Ceremony.

The underworld city of Fengdu is located in the southern region, in the Desert of Death. Fengdu City is a sacred object, moving all the time, and its whereabouts are hidden on weekdays. Those who are not destined to find traces of Fengdu cannot find it.

During the Zhongyuan Ceremony, Fengdu City manifests and will stay fixedly at a certain place in the Desert of Death. During this period, those who are destined can enter Fengdu City and travel to and from the human world and the underworld through Fengdu.

There are different opinions on why Fengdu City has stayed in the Desert of Death. The most recognized theory among them is undoubtedly the qualification theory.

Although the Death Desert is not a restricted area for life, it is full of dangers and various creatures exist in it, attacking all creatures that enter the Death Desert.

The most famous achievement in the Desert of Death was undoubtedly a thousand years ago, when an eight-level monk went deep into the Desert of Death and died.

As a junior whom the Wen Palace attached great importance to at that time, the important figures in the Wen Palace personally ordered a thorough investigation.

I thought it was a vendetta, but after some investigation, I found that the man died on a dead turtle insect.

This literary monk accidentally stepped on a dead turtle insect in the Desert of Death, was infected by the poison inside, and died suddenly on the spot.

This soft-shell turtle was named Sky Corpse Snake by later generations. The most terrifying Sky Corpse Snake discovered so far is only in the Seventh Palace realm, but the poison it contains can even threaten the emperor.

Moreover, even if the highly poisonous sky corpse cricket dies, the toxins in its body will not dissipate and can remain for a long time.

This is just one of the dangerous spots in the Desert of Death. This desert is not a restricted area for life, but it is also definitely not a place where ordinary monks can set foot.

Fengdu City is located in the Desert of Death, which also forces many monks to stop due to the danger of the Desert of Death.

During this Zhongyuan ceremony, Fengdu City appeared in the Desert of Death, and people set off to the Desert of Death one after another.

Outside Fengdu City.

Yang Nan was wearing a black cloak and a mask that could hide the secrets of heaven, standing in the queue to enter the city.

His eyes fell on the two guards who were checking the people entering the city.

"Ghost cultivator." Yang Nan's eyes flickered slightly. The mainstream system in the underworld is ghost cultivator and divine cultivator.

The former is popular among the middle and lower classes, while Shinto is popular among the upper classes.

Yang Nan remembered that Emperor Fengdu and Yama of the Tenth Hall were all Shinto monks. During the Battle of the Heaven Slayer, these people fought with the Great Cangtian, and most of them died at the hands of the Heaven Slayer.

And now that the new Emperor Fengdu and Yama of the Tenth Hall have been born, the inheritance of these Shinto monks has been rapid.

"I don't know where my father will be in the underworld."

Yang Nan thought silently.

Through this period of investigation, Yang Nan basically confirmed that his father Yang Zhan did not die.

As the first echelon of Sky Slayers, Yang Zhan is a thorn in God's side. But similarly, Yang Zhan, who has completely mastered the law of time, is definitely the most difficult group of Sky Slayers to kill. Yang Nan has never believed in his father.

will perish.

After a long investigation, he finally found clues.

Yang Zhan is most likely hiding somewhere in the underworld to recuperate!

This news was told to him by his father's faded demonic body. This body polluted by the sky inherited his father's talents, derived his own intelligence, and became a different kind of Holy Spirit.

Unfortunately……

A dull sadness appeared in Yang Nan's eyes.

Even though the demonic body was not his father, that sense of familiarity still made him feel a sense of intimacy from a creature that lived thousands of years ago.

It was a familiar feeling from the same era.

Unfortunately, the demon body still fell.

Choosing to break through the holy realm in the human world, perhaps the demon body already has the idea of ​​​​death in its heart.

He was full of dissatisfaction with his father, but he was still protecting him until his death...

The demon body disguised himself as his father when he was about to die. Even if he died in the hands of the Emperor of Heaven, the Emperor would only think that it was Yang Zhan who died.

"Huh..." Yang Nan exhaled a thick breath.

Sad?

A little, but not much.

The main theme of Road to Heaven is sacrifice.

After experiencing the Tiantian Massacre, Yang Nan's heart has already become as tough as iron.

This is a road accompanied by sacrifice and protection. Today he sacrificed, she sacrificed tomorrow, and I sacrificed the day after tomorrow.

On the road to burial, only sacrifice can accompany you.

All Yang Nan can do is to make his sacrifice more meaningful and leave more fire for the world.

While thinking about it, he was already in line.

He took out the spiritual gold and handed it to the guard. The guard glanced at Yang Nan, who was shrouded in black robes, and waved his hand to signal him to come in.

There were anywhere from a thousand to eight hundred visitors dressed like Yang Nan, so the guards would naturally not ask them to lift their cloaks one by one.

Stepping into Fengdu City, a strong Yin Qi hits your face.

The wheel of life and death in the body automatically rotates, and the surrounding yin energy enters the body and is partially converted into yang energy, maintaining a balance between yin and yang.

There are various stalls on both sides of the street, and the merchants are shrouded in black mist. The human beings entering the city are scattered in front of various shops to buy things.

The specialty products of the underworld can only be purchased once every three years, which is the time for the major chambers of commerce in the human world to get active.

The purpose of Yang Nan's trip is also this. Butian Pavilion is now getting bigger and bigger, and its expenses are getting bigger and bigger. It is difficult for him and other sky-slayers to support it for a long time with their financial resources. They must have their own business.

The Sky Slayers are all good at fighting, but when it comes to doing business... none of them are good at it.

For the time being, he has not found a suitable business for Butian Pavilion. The Zhongyuan Ceremony happened to be here. Yang Nan made a plan and went to the underworld to purchase goods first to make do with it.

Because these things in the underworld are rare in number, each of them is a rare commodity. Each one can be sold for a lot of spiritual gold, which is enough for Butian Pavilion to deal with it for a while.

However, Yang Nan doesn't plan to start a small business here. There are too few. Even if he buys all the shops here, there will only be so much. It is better to go directly to the underworld to find cooperation with the Chamber of Commerce.

There are also chambers of commerce in the underworld, and they are not primitive people, so their level of development is not much different from the human world.

Moreover, because of the limitations of the human world, many places in the underworld are stronger than the human world.

Yang Nan found a merchant ghost and asked about the way to the underworld.

"The City Lord's Mansion in the center of the city, the gate to the underworld is there, eight poles and ten spiritual golds, seven palaces and one hundred spiritual golds, the Sixth Division doesn't know."

"Okay, thank you." Yang Nansai gave the merchant ghost a piece of spiritual gold and rushed towards the center of Fengdu City.

From a distance, before reaching the center of the city, I saw the dark blue portal connecting heaven and earth with no end in sight.

Rushing to the gate of the underworld, Yang Nan only glanced at it for a few times and then withdrew his gaze as the profound and mysterious meaning was hidden inside.

It contains terrible laws. Yang Nan does not dare to continue to explore. If he continues, he may be backlashed.

I found a seat and continued queuing.

Too many people.

The Desert of Death cannot be crossed by anyone but the King, but this does not mean that others cannot enter, but it is very dangerous.

The vast majority of people here have eight-level cultivation, but there are very few in the seventh-level.

The human world is suppressed by heaven and earth. There are not few monks in the Seventh Palace, but they are definitely not too many. The door to the underworld is wide open, and not everyone is interested.

Yang Nan has seen less than a hundred monks from the Seventh Palace so far, and they are all monks who have entered the Seventh Palace for the first time.

His perfection of divine transformation is actually the most... so far...

"Huh?" Yang Nan was stunned, and an extremely powerful energy and blood appeared in his consciousness, burning the yin energy around him like the scorching sun.

These underworld creatures quickly avoided this person when they saw him, for fear of being burned to ashes by this terrible energy and blood.

"Brother Chen." Yang Nan thought for a moment and chose to greet Chen Jian.

Yang Nan used his spiritual consciousness to transmit the message, but Chen Jian still locked onto Yang Nan instantly.

Chen Jian's spirit and body have not yet become one, so he cannot transmit sounds and can only look at Yang Nan.

"Brother Chen, is he also going to the underworld?" Yang Nan asked.

Chen Jian nodded and stood at the back of the team.

"Come with us?"

Chen Jian nodded again.

The two ended their conversation and entered the gate of the underworld one after another.

Because Chen Jian's body of energy and blood was too strong, standing next to the two guards, these two high-level seventh-level ghost cultivators felt that their skin was about to melt next to Chen Jian's terrifying energy and blood.

Looking at this man in fear, the guard took the spirit gold and sent Chen Jian in like a plague god.

After crossing the gate of the underworld, the dead silence, the gray earth comes into view, and a blood moon hangs in the sky, strange and ghostly.
To be continued...