Lu Chuan was certain that the passage this time was the same as the last one, with a long dark passage and glowing lamps. This time he carefully observed the surrounding passages. The outer walls of the passage neither looked like stone nor

There was no hard feeling. He came closer and felt it carefully, and an inexplicable sense of familiarity came to his heart.

The familiar feeling came from outside the corridor. Although he couldn't touch it, he could feel it.

Outside was the Taoist realm, and Lu Chuan was so familiar with the smell of the Taoist realm that he could smell it even through the corridor with his eyes closed.

The deeper he understood the Tao realm, the more Lu Chuan could discover its mystery. He seemed to be on a certain avenue, and this special avenue actually connected the world and the underworld, allowing his consciousness to sneak across the River Styx.

Which category does this avenue belong to? Does it originally exist, or did someone create it? Why can Xie Wan's talisman allow him to directly connect to this avenue, but others cannot?

Lu Chuan walked out of the corridor with doubts in his heart. What he saw in front of him was still the same Yongming Palace as last time, and the corridor behind him also disappeared in an instant.

The dark red sky above his head seemed to be different from the last time he came here. The moment he raised his head, the sky suddenly burst out with a strong attraction to suck him in. A Taoist rhyme flashed across his body subconsciously.

, stabilized his figure.

That’s not the sky, it’s the rioting River Styx!

Lu Chuan thought that if he removed Dao Yun's protection, he might be able to fly directly to where Lin Qingying and the others were, but he decided to go ahead with the plan and go to Yongming Hall to see the two previous crystal coffins.

Climbing up the eighty-one steps, Lu Chuan asked Ming Bai. He didn't know what the number of steps here meant, and Lu Chuan didn't have time to care about these steps at the moment. In his sight, in front of Yongming Palace Square

Surprisingly, there are still two crystal coffins.

When I walked closer, I saw that it was empty.

Lu Chuan was not disappointed. It was normal for the crystal coffin to contain nothing. Even the lid of Lin Qingying's crystal coffin remained the same as when Lu Chuan opened it last time. I don't know if no one came during this period.

Here, there are still people coming and not paying attention to the changes here.

He straightened the coffin lid gently, then stood up and prepared to leave. He planned to enter Yongming Hall first. On the one hand, he could confirm whether using Xie Wan's talisman could keep him in the underworld. On the other hand, he also doubted this place.

Is there anything special? After all, there are two crystal coffins placed in such a large square, one holds Lin Qingying, and the other seems to belong to Lu Changsheng.

The door of Yongming Hall was closed tightly. Lu Chuan pushed the door gently and opened it. Looking in from the door, the lamps used to illuminate the hall were also glowing with ghost fire. The top of the illuminated hall was engraved with a sun falling into a long river.

of relief.

Right in front of Lu Chuan was an incense table. It was as simple as an ordinary small table. There was a short candle on the table. The candle flame was a strange blue-green color. Except for the candle,

In addition, there was a thin booklet on the case. Lu Chuan heard from Ming Bai that every hall in the underworld enshrines Ming scriptures, and the use of Ming candles can stabilize the soul.

In the state of the spirit body, neither spiritual vision nor pupil skills can be used, so Lu Chuan could only walk into the main hall. Just when he reached the incense table, all the ghost lights in the main hall were instantly extinguished, leaving only a dark candle glowing faintly in the hall.

Light.

Fuck, what is going on, Ming Bai never said anything!

Lu Chuan scolded Ming Bai in his heart for being unreliable, and slowly backed away in a defensive posture. However, after a battle of wits and courage with the air, nothing unexpected happened. It seemed that it was just the wind that he brought in when he walked in.

, blew out those will-o'-the-wisps.

The unexpected change made Lu Chuan wary. He didn't want to cause trouble, so he planned to exit Yongming Palace first and go to Qingming Valley as agreed with Ming Bai.

Suddenly he heard a bell ringing from the far end of the sky, which made him instantly feel a splitting headache. Ming Bai also never told him what would happen if the Styx Bell was rung for the tenth time.

"well..."

A sigh resounded in his sea of ​​​​consciousness, causing the storm in his sea of ​​​​consciousness to calm down instantly. Lu Chuan raised his head in fear and looked at the candle on the incense table.

He had very good ears, and he definitely heard correctly. The thing that sighed just now was the thing in front of him.

...

"Stop it, Ah Qing, you can't succeed."

Ming Bai's father, Ming Dan, the current leader of the Ming clan, was currently bound to the ground by magic, looking painfully at the man in front of him who was holding the Styx Bell.

That was his eldest son, Ming Bai's brother, Ming Qing.

He had always known that his eldest son was the most outstanding genius of the Ming clan, but he did not expect that Ming Qing would actually take this step, crossing the limit of the Evolution Dao realm and reaching a new realm by himself.

"Dad, you are wrong again. It is impossible for me to fail." Ming Qing did not look at his father. He looked at the River Styx in the distance, as if waiting for something.

"The Hades Bell has rung ten times, why is that old fellow Fan Gu still unwilling to come out?"

He called the unspeakable name without any care, and stared at the violent Styx with a pair of cold eyes. The yellow Styx water was dotted with dark red, and there were countless souls wailing in pain.

Ming Dan closed his eyes in despair. The younger son was crazy, and he let him go. As a result, the eldest son became even more crazy. What he was doing now seemed to send the entire Hades tribe to the River Styx.

The members of the Ming clan around him fell to the ground, and their realm broke above the Yan Dao. At the same time, Ming Qing, who snatched the Styx Bell from Ming Dan, was almost invincible. After he hit the Styx for the tenth time just now,

After a few minutes, no one from the Hades tribe could stand except himself.

"Look, there's nothing wrong at all. The Ming Zhong didn't come out even after nine rings. Even when I called His name, He didn't come out. Is He afraid that I would expose His trick and kill Him?" Ming Qing held a hand in his hand.

Holding a ghostly sledgehammer, he is always ready to strike with all his strength.

He simply raised his head and roared at the River Styx, and the cry of "Vangu" spread out from his position to the entire underworld.

His call did not receive any response. If that unspeakably powerful existence is really in the underworld, why would he just sit back and ignore all this?

A trace of confusion also flashed across Ming Dan's face. In his long life, such a situation should never exist. Ming Qing should have been instantly disintegrated by the Great Dao when he offended Master Fangu like this. But at this moment,

Now...

"Dad, have you seen what we, the Hades, have done for tens of thousands of years? We have led the spirit of Styx to stay in the underworld and served a false master." Ming Qing still stared at Styx closely.

His heart was obviously not as confident and relaxed as his words showed. "We were deceived by that old thing."

Ming Dan responded silently, how could Lord Fan Gu and the rules set by him be false? The Ming clan has been doing this for generations, and there are not none of them like Ming friend Ming Bai who have violated the rules and raised questions.

, but what awaits those rebellious people will always be destruction and death.

Mingyou is Mingdan's clan brother. He secretly awakened the spirit in the world and used that spirit to pollute Mingbai's thoughts. Mingdan couldn't bear it and drowned him in the River Styx.

But Ming Bai is Ming Dan's most beloved son, and Ming Dan really can't do it, but he is afraid that Fan Gu will know, so he can only pretend not to know, and take advantage of Lin Qingying's passing by the gate of the underworld to send him to the living world.

.

Since Ming Bai has always wanted a different life, let him spend the last month of his life to experience a new life in this world.

When Ming Qing saw that Ming Dan didn't reply, he knew something in his heart. His father had been on the wrong road all his life. To admit his mistakes was to deny all the past. It was normal for him not to face it.

He is different from his father. He has never believed in the rules of the Ming clan, but he is also different from Ming Bai. He does not try to get into trouble. When he is not strong enough and has no right to speak, he suppresses his thoughts and becomes a person who is in line with everyone.

expectant person.

If nothing unexpected happened, he should have waited until his father returned to the Styx and he took the position of leader of the Styx, then he would slowly test and come up with more evidence to prove the rules set by Fan Gu and him.

How ridiculous.

But one tragedy after another disrupted his plan. Uncle Mingyou died suddenly. His stupid brother went to the present world and has not come back yet. He must be dead too. Mingqing can indeed survive.

qualifications and strength, but who will be the next martyr?

"Dad, you don't know how much I regret it. If I had done it earlier, maybe Xiaobai wouldn't have to die. He just didn't want to live so boringly. What did he do wrong?"

Ming Qing's hand holding the heavy hammer had veins popping out, which were particularly obvious on his fair skin like Ming Bai's. He raised the ghostly sledgehammer and hit the Styx Bell heavily.

"Duang~"

The eleventh bell reverberated throughout the underworld. Most of the people lying on the ground fainted, and Ming Qing himself was hit by the force of the shock and vomited a mouthful of blood.

A rare smile appeared on his face, and he saw that there was finally a crack on the Styx Bell in front of him.

What indescribable existence turns out to be nothing more than this.

The Styx River at the far end has begun to drip liquid. The Styx River is like the sky to the underworld. This is the first time Ming Qing has seen the Styx River seem to be about to collapse.

If it collapses, it will collapse. It just so happens that he also wants to see it in this world. What is there that is so good? Ming Bai would rather risk his life to take a look.

He raised the sledgehammer again, preparing to hit the cracks in the Styx Bell.

"Brother! Stop!" A urgent voice came from the Styx River in the distance, and a familiar-looking figure dropped from the sky but seemed to have gained a lot of weight.

"Xiaobai?!"

...

"Who are you?" Lu Chuan looked at the burning candle with vigilance. The candle flame was swaying and seemed to be extinguished.

Although this voice had just helped him, he was quite indifferent to such hidden things, and would always think of the tree of no return he encountered in the Demon Plain.

If someone could be upright, who would hide like this?

"My name is Fangu." An old voice appeared in Lu Chuan's sea of ​​consciousness.

Rebellious? Unlike a good person, I haven’t heard of him and just slipped away.

"Thank you for your help, senior. I have something important to do, so I'll take my leave first." Lu Chuan said as he slowly backed away, trying to leave this weird Yongming Palace.

"Since you are thanking me, why are you leaving in such a hurry? After all this time, have all living beings in this world expressed their gratitude like this?"

The palace door behind Lu Chuan closed quietly at some point. The other party's unfathomable methods made him feel alarmed, and he decisively decided to be conciliatory instead of forcing himself.

"I'm rude. I have important matters and I'm overly anxious. Please forgive me, senior. I wonder if there is anything I can do for you, senior?"

"I once saw you take away a sleeping soul in front of this palace." The old voice seemed deep and mysterious.

Lu Chuan was shocked. The last time he came to take Lin Qingying away, he didn't feel that anyone was watching him. But even just now, he didn't feel that he was being watched. It seemed that there was indeed something about this Mingzhu.

"I feel so lonely in this palace every day. I don't know how long I have to wait for someone from the underworld to come, so I thought, if you can take away the spirit from the underworld, can you take me to the real world to see it?
To be continued...