Longevity begins with slaying demons and eliminating demons

Chapter 718: The Eighth Realm: Nine Nether Prison

At the moment when the Heavenly Palace was crumbling, Gu Xu also felt the opportunity to break through the eighth realm.

One of the important purposes of his clone coming to the Lingxiao Realm is to practice the principle of "subversion" and gradually deepen his understanding of it until he completely controls this power.

After all, as the monarch of the Great Wilderness, he could not rebel against himself, so he could only come to the Lingxiao Realm and rebel against Taishang Haotian.

Although the falling of the floating island only lasted for a moment, Tai Shang Haotian stabilized it with his true energy.

But many people on the ground witnessed this scene.

Coupled with the strange phenomena caused by Chen Suhui's promotion, many people in the Lingxiao Realm have realized that another "immortal body" has appeared out of nowhere.

This undoubtedly caused people to question Taishang Haotian's recent hype about his "immortal body".

Gu Xu took this opportunity, taking advantage of the shaking of the sacred image of Taishang Haotian, stepped into the Yama Palace, and began to build his own "Nine Nether Prison".

Under the Yama Palace, there originally existed five hells—

The "Central Prison of the Darkness" that is located in the center and commands all directions corresponds to the authority of "wisdom";
"Western Dark Night Vajra Hell" corresponds to the authority of "light and shadow";
"Eastern Netherworld Wind and Thunder Hell" corresponds to the authority of "Qian Kun";
"The dark and dark hell of the south" corresponds to the authority of "heaven's will";
"The cold hell of Yufengming in the north" corresponds to the authority of "rule".

Before Gu Xu's cultivation reached the eighth level, these five hells had always been in a dark, invisible, and buried state. But today, as Gu Xu's aura continued to rise, these five hells were lit up one by one by an invisible force, becoming something he could touch and control.

As soon as he entered the eighth realm, Gu Xu directly mastered the five powers, surpassing many eighth realm True Lords.

If this kind of thing happened to someone else, I'm afraid no one would dare to believe it.

But for Gu Xu, who inherited Ziwei Emperor's understanding of the Tao, all this seemed natural.

As he gradually and completely controlled the five hells, the seal on Tai Shang Hao Tian's "kingly" authority was also rapidly loosening.

However, Gu Xu's breakthrough did not end there.

After completely controlling the five hells, he still felt an unfinished power surge deep in his consciousness.

He understood that the remaining four hells had not yet appeared in the world, and what he had to do was to construct these hells out of nothingness one by one with the help of his own profound understanding of the great Dao of heaven and earth, in addition to the "legacy" left to him by Emperor Ziwei.

Guided by his spiritual consciousness, the depths of the earth seemed to be churning like a dragon, a violent invisible force surged with it, and raging flames gushed out from the ground like a torrent.

The flames spread rapidly, and the hot tongues of fire danced wantonly, as if they were going to devour the endless dark abyss and burn everything to ashes.

The outline of the "Northwest Netherworld Train Hell" began to emerge.

A huge copper cauldron slowly rose from the sea of ​​fire, forty yojanas long and wide. The cauldron was filled with blazing flames, burning as dazzlingly as the sun.

Twelve huge wheels rotated around the bottom of the bronze cauldron, and ninety-four fire wheels circled in the sky. Flames rose into the sky, echoing with the fire wheels, forming an endless sea of ​​fire.

According to myths and legends, once the sinners in hell step onto the cauldron, flames will immediately devour their bodies, burning their limbs and joints, charring their flesh, until they turn to ashes.

At this time, the jailer Rakshasa will chant the resurrection mantra, which will instantly restore the sinner to his original state and let him face a new round of painful torture again.

But in Gu Xu's hell, it was not the sinners who were being burned, but his consciousness and true energy.

Every round of burning flames is a tempering and honing of his strength.

The moment the "Northwest Netherworld Train Hell" was fully formed, the new authority he comprehended from "The True Art of Red Flame" and "Seven Styles of Burning the Sky" awakened.

Its name is "Blazing Flame".

Gu Xu clearly felt that he had become stronger than ever before, as if he had stepped onto a new level and saw a wider and more vast world.

However, the movement underground did not stop.

In another direction, several copper pillars started from the surface and continued to extend downward, as if they were going to penetrate the earth and reach the dark abyss deep inside. The copper pillars were towering and majestic, with fierce fire burning under them. Above the fire was an iron bed, on which a sharp blade wheel was rotating, and between the blade wheels there were ferocious iron-mouthed insects crawling.

One after another, the conjured human figures struggled to climb up from the bottom of the copper pillar, but eventually fell down due to exhaustion. The iron net instantly caught their necks, and the iron-mouthed worms began to gnaw their bodies mercilessly until they dissipated in the flames and entered a new round of reincarnation.

This is the "Southeast Hell of Bronze Pillars".

Gu Xu stared at the illusory human figures, but what emerged in his mind were the figures of those practitioners in the Great Wilderness - they held the hope of escaping the sea of ​​suffering and ascending to the fairyland, but in the end they discovered that their lifelong efforts were nothing but an illusory scam.

He thought of Kong Xuan Sanren who transformed into a ghost, and the song "Be careful with the laws of nature, and don't seek to ascend to heaven" from "Qing Ping Le".

Unknowingly, Gu Xu obtained his seventh authority - "cause and effect".

He clearly felt that everything in heaven and earth was closely connected, and that a single move could affect the entire body. All entanglements of cause and effect were under his control.

The breakthrough continues.

What appeared next was the "Southwest Youguan Slaughter Hell".

The earth shook violently again, and a tearing force rose from the depths. The sharp sound of sharp blades colliding came from the darkness, as if it was going to decompose and tear everything into pieces.

The legendary "Slaughter Hell" will use a fierce and cold blade to cut and split the bodies of sinners, and then let them be reborn in endless pain.

But Gu Xu's "Slaughter Hell" does not cut sinners, but the laws of the Tao.

Those eternal rules and order were repeatedly cut off and broken in this hell, and then quietly reorganized and reborn.

Break the old order and create new rules.

It is Gu Xu’s eighth power—“subversion”.

Gu Xu's mind finally returned to reality.

Although he seemed to have experienced a long time in the conscious world, in reality, all this was just a short moment.

The power in his body suddenly became vast and powerful, increasing rapidly in a short period of time. The paper clone could no longer bear it and cracks appeared faintly.

As soon as he entered the eighth realm, he directly possessed the power of the eight great authorities. This is unimaginable for anyone else.

Gu Xu possesses a body that is innately compatible with the Great Dao and was transformed by Ziwei Emperor himself, and he also inherited the legacy of Kongxuan Sanren and Chiyangzi.

In the past few years, he not only changed the pattern of the Great Wilderness World with his own hands, but also caused the "Heavenly Palace" floating island to be crumbling in the sky of the Lingxiao Realm.

Practicing what you preach and seeking truth through practice are always the best ways for a True Lord to improve his Taoism.

Except for Taishang Haotian and Ziwei Emperor thousands of years ago.

Looking at the two worlds, who else can have such a huge impact on the pattern of heaven and earth in such a short period of time as Gu Xu?
Of course, there is more than one reason why Gu Xu was able to quickly improve his strength in such a short period of time.

He looked calmly at Taishang Haotian not far ahead.

As he gently raised his hand, invisible ripples appeared in the air, the golden light gradually faded away, and the constraints of the "King's" authority were completely lifted in an instant.

"Thank you, Gongsun Hao," he was heard to say, "You may have forgotten one important thing, the connection between cause and effect is mutual.

"When you combine our images into one and create the god 'Shangtian', the power of incense that belongs to you will also belong to me."

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Note: The nine hells come from Volume 34 of the Shangqing Lingbao Dafa.

(End of this chapter)