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"He still has the aura of Wenqu Pure Land. Could he be the Bao Zheng who took over the Pure Land after Fan Zhongyan?"

"I have heard of it, but I have never seen it with my own eyes. I never expected it to be such a person!"

Grandma Minghe was so shocked that she sat up straighter in the sedan chair.

Bao Zheng's appearance is 90% similar to that of the Ghost King Zhong Kui, except that he is not as ferocious and vicious as Zhong Kui when he transformed into a ghost. Also, Bao Zheng is too dark, while Zhong Kui is quite white.

Since ancient times, it is not surprising that people have similarities.

But Grandma Styx is one of the most powerful monsters in the world, with a strange origin. When she met Zhong Kui that year, she felt palpitations, so she fled to the West to hide. At that moment just now, the feeling in her heart was exactly the same as when she met Zhong Kui.

Even if this Bao Zheng is not the reincarnation of Zhong Kui using some secret method, he must be closely related.

"If ghosts in this world are not intercepted by magic in advance, they will decompose and disappear once they enter the underworld. However, Zhong Kui is the only exception."

"Legend has it that his soul was not refined by magic, but after his death, it was able to remain intact in the underworld and return to the human world repeatedly. His cultivation was honed during his travels between the Yin and Yang worlds."

"People can only attribute it to coincidence and the magic of fate, and praise Zhong Kui's amazing talent. After all, at that time, Zhong Kui's strength had reached its peak, and no one could hold him to account to ask the details. After his death, there was no one to ask."

"but now……"

Grandma Minghe's eyes were scorching, and she gently stroked her belly with one hand, her greed was aroused.

Although she is a demon, she has survived the two disasters of water and fire many years ago and is still alive today. The third disaster she has predicted is getting closer and closer.

Back then, she had acquired so many treasures with a view to researching ways to overcome disasters, but unfortunately, all of them were destroyed.

If Bao Zheng could be captured and studied in detail, perhaps some secrets of the former Ghost King could be discovered from this man whose cultivation level was not very high. Even if we could not successfully survive the third disaster, at least delaying it would be great.

The longer you live, the higher your status, the more enjoyment you have, and the more reluctant you will be when you are close to death.

"call……"

Grandma Minghe remained patient for the time being, preparing to continue exploring before making a decision.

Under the illumination of the magic mirror and the sword light, the atmosphere of the battle a few days ago was captured in more detail.

"The only person who could have mastered the art of gathering demons and refining treasures in the East Sea to such an extent should be Xia Suiliang, the top disciple of Bixia Palace. He was just one step away from the second disaster, but he was taken down."

Grandma Minghe observed the interior of the cliff and the atmosphere in the cave, frowned slightly, and looked a little troubled.

"Look carefully at this guy's aura. He must be the culprit who defeated the Kunlun monk. But this guy actually had a hard battle with the Kunlun monk. What a joke!!"

"He is probably only a hair's breadth away from surviving the fire!"

Under normal circumstances, if there is only a slight difference in realm, there will be a very obvious gap in strength.

However, Su Hanshan's current situation was extremely delicate in the eyes of Grandma Minghe.

I'm afraid that if someone gave him enough dangerous pressure, he would be able to break through that little strand of hair on the spot and actually step into this mysterious realm after the two disasters of water and fire.

By then, even if Grandma Styx is still confident of defeating him, she will not be very sure of keeping him.

As for capturing Bao Zheng alive in front of him, that would be even more difficult.

"retreat!"

Grandma Minghe suddenly gave the order, "Retreat twenty miles."

Master Yin Guang didn't understand what was going on, but he hurried to catch up, and followed the hundreds of floating ceremonial guards, retreating twenty miles into the underworld.

Afterwards, Grandma Styx put her hands together and chanted a spell silently. The sound was like a thin flute, or even more like blowing a tube cut from a reed.

The unclear spell gradually made people feel as if they were in an endless reed marsh, and a strong plant smell was generated.

Master Yin Guang thought about it and found that it seemed to be the smell of Artemisia selengensis.

But apart from the changes in sound and smell, he could not feel that Grandma Styx's spell had any other effect.

It seemed that as long as the spell was more than ten feet away, the effect of the spell would completely disappear, and even the surrounding underworld environment would not change at all, let alone affect the mountains in the world of the living.

But Master Yin Guang didn't know that at this time, the people in the valley of the Yang world all heard the sound of flowing water.

They looked up and saw the dim yellow river water flowing out from the clouds halfway up the mountain.

Although it looks very turbid, it gives people a feeling of illusion, clarity, stability and peace.

It rises from the clouds and mist, flows out for more than a hundred feet, and then disappears into the clouds and mist. It seems to have a beginning and an end.

But as long as people look to one end, they will notice that the water surface is constantly extending in their field of vision.

It is endless, with dark waves rolling, and its length cannot be measured.

Zhihua stared for a long time but couldn't see the end.

Princess Flower God was shocked and said, "Huangquan?!"

Huangquan was once used to refer to the underworld. When it was circulated among the people, it was not so particular and often confused Huangquan, Naihe River, Wangchuan, etc.

As long as people are alive, they will need to imagine the day when they will die, and the evolution of civilizations around the world is often closely related to water.

The belief that when a person enters the underworld, he will first encounter a river, or that after a person dies, his soul will struggle in the river, is a common phenomenon in countries around the world.

Later, after concepts such as reincarnation evolved, the Yellow Springs and the Styx were often given the responsibility of cleansing the past, erasing memories, and allowing the soul to be reborn in a new form.

For thousands of years, people have had such thoughts in their fantasies about death, which should be enough to really create such a Yellow Spring River in the underworld.

However, the flowing and changing landscapes of the underworld were formed by the active thoughts, and the active thoughts were formed by the existence of memory fragments.

The Yellow Springs and the Forgotten River are meant to wash away memories.

There is a fundamental contradiction between the two, which has resulted in the Huangquan Wangchuan being unable to truly appear.

On the contrary, only in some places where the yin and yang auras are mixed, the Yellow Springs River is likely to appear in a relatively stable state for a period of time.

Along with the Yellow Springs River come countless distracting thoughts that should and should not exist. The contradictions among them are enough to make one's mind go blank, as if losing memory.

If there were ordinary people near this valley, they would have forgotten their lives by now.

"The Flying Silver Armored Soldiers have been buried deep in this place for too long, and the aura of the underworld has indeed been infiltrating for a long time, entangled in the mountains and valleys, but I didn't expect that it would be such a coincidence that the underworld appeared in the world."

As Gongsun Ce spoke, he shook his fan, and five ghost thoughts flew out from the fan. In an instant, they toured a dozen surrounding hills and valleys, and then returned to the fan, without finding anything unusual.

He still felt uneasy and looked at Long Yunfeng again.

"What are you looking at me doing?"

Long Yunfeng asked back, and found that Zhan Zhao and Ouyang Chun beside him were both concentrating on sensing something. After coming back to his senses, he also sensed something and shook his head, "I don't feel any trace of outsiders practicing magic."

"This place has been contaminated by the aura of the underworld for a long time. It's just a foundation. It may also be because several masters died here not long ago, and their scattered thoughts implicated the underworld."

"When Su Hanshan was in seclusion, he accepted everything and absorbed everything. He also attracted some of the underworld's aura. All these coincidences together led to Huang Quan's appearance."

Bao Zheng stared at that section of the Yellow Spring River and said, "The Yellow Spring is too close to where Master Su is in seclusion. I'm afraid it will have some impact."

Inside the cave, Su Hanshan had already sensed the change in the atmosphere.

He seemed to have suddenly fallen into a space filled with distracting thoughts.

Only space was more in line with his current feelings, because if it was an environment like underwater, it would never be so empty. There were endless distracting thoughts coming at him, but whenever he wanted to defend, eliminate, capture or refine them, those distracting thoughts would disappear on their own.

It seems that all distracting thoughts lack a reasonable and self-consistent foundation for existence.

If he completely ignores these distracting thoughts, that won't work either. Those things will interfere with his judgment of the devil's nature when he is about to break through the barrier.

Su Hanshan's brows were tightly locked.

Long Yunfeng watched from outside for a while, and suddenly said loudly: "Hey! How about all of us just fight you directly?"

There was silence in the cave for a while, and then a voice was heard.

"It's still not necessary."

It's hard to say it too directly, but now he has swallowed Changle Qingyun, Yuyi Pimozhan and Xiangyang Zijin Hammer, and his strength has improved a little compared to the previous battle.

Even if everyone in the valley came together, they might not be able to put any pressure on him.

“It is better to stop at one thought than to advance at one thought.”

Bao Zheng spoke again, "Master Su, you must not advance rashly. It is better to interrupt your retreat and go to another place. This Yellow Spring cannot move with you, right?"

Su Hanshan replied: "Thank you! Let's wait a little longer. Since this Yellow Spring is just an accidental phenomenon, it shouldn't last too long. The worst that can happen is that I can just hold on for a few days."

Under the observation of the magic mirror and the sword light in the air, Su Hanshan has been constantly absorbing and exhaling the devilish nature of all things and connecting with the earth's energy. He has used this deep valley as the center and turned the entire Daba Mountain into a kind of home ground for him.

If I rashly change the place of my retreat, it will be hard to say when I will be able to continue the momentum of inspiration I have now.

Grandma Minghe had already expected that he would not leave, but she also felt a little regretful.

Even though his aura was disturbed by the Yellow Springs Wangchuan, it was only less sharp, but there was no sign of decline at all.

At this time, if Grandma Styx took action, it might still stimulate him to take that step.

"Good boy, but this Yellow Spring will indeed exist for quite some time, just wait and see!"

Grandma Styx already had a plan in mind. She muttered to herself, and her ten fingernails returned from the world of the living and inserted into the land of the underworld, which happened to be the area of ​​the underworld that corresponded to the remnants of the Daba Mountains, for surveillance.

Her ceremonial attendants, accompanied by the Yin Guang wizard, were like a huge dark cloud, floating silently in the underworld, heading south.

After they had gone quite far, Master Yin Guang could no longer hold back and asked.

"Why didn't Grandma take action? Is there something in the valley that is worth fearing?"

"Humph! The youngsters do have some skills. If I kill them all, I'm afraid there will be one or two that slip through the net. If I don't kill them all, how can I go to Kunlun for the banquet?"

Grandma Minghe said casually, "It's a pity that my treasure was destroyed that year. After thinking about it, I decided to go to the South Sea first and borrow the treasure from the Holy Mother Wu Ling. Then I can come back to seal the void and kill them in one fell swoop. Life and death are all in my hands."

"This is appropriate, and it is worthy of me taking action in Middle-earth again after so many years!"

Master Yin Guang also knew about her past deeds, and secretly said that it turned out that she had a knot in her heart, which made her overly cautious and seek perfection.

Well, since I have left some means to delay the surveillance, it won’t be too late to take action after borrowing the treasure back.

In the cave, Su Hanshan's eyelids moved, and the Five Thunder Calming Circle on his right hand spun counterclockwise several times.

"We are in the underworld, and we are 20 to 30 miles away. Do you think I can't notice it?"

He was operating the Five Thunder Calming Circle in his mind, thinking secretly, "This person must be at the Divine Mansion level. He was able to provoke Huang Quan to appear in the world without leaving any trace. He is so powerful, but he doesn't take action directly..."

"Alright, I don't know if this old monster has any other cards, so I might as well follow him to see what's going on, so I can know myself and the enemy."

Su Hanshan's body quietly changed. With the help of his Wanhua True Body, he transformed the Xuanyin Demon King's magic into a sword plague spell and planted it in his body.

Make the physical body treat the spell as the golden elixir, simulating the state of the golden elixir being constantly absorbed and discharged in the body.

His real golden elixir turned into a bright golden light, then was wrapped in layers of inert vital energy, becoming colorless. It flew out from the top of his head, passed through rocks and walls, and disappeared quietly.

After creating the Xuanyin Demon King Crushing Method, the energy distribution on the surface of his golden elixir is now even more subtle.

The Xuanyin Demon Hunting Method has already had a vague method of dispersing the power and planting it between the vital energy of heaven and earth to form a Feng Shui pattern with the main body of the golden elixir, thus surveying a wide area for traces.

Grandma Minghe's team was flying in the underworld, and Su Hanshan's golden elixir was moving in the world of the living, and they did not lose them.

However, after the team of Grandma Styx entered the area corresponding to the South China Sea, they noticed something unusual not long after. They suddenly brought everyone into the world of the living and appeared on the sea.

Master Yin Guang looked around and saw that the sea was endless and there were no land or islands in sight. He didn't know why he was staying here.

But Grandma Styx got up and walked out of the sedan chair, stepped on the water and looked at the deep sea.

"The three thousand Antarctic Secret Demons are exactly the magic treasures that the Black Spirit Mother has kept in her chest. They are also what I want to borrow this time. How come a few of them are left here?"

Grandma Styx was puzzled. She looked through the water and explored the seabed. She realized that the underwater place was the ancestral land of several sea monster forces.

She seemed to be lost in thought, then returned to the sedan chair and continued on her way, not bothering to enter the underworld again, and simply sped across the sea.

A moment later, Su Hanshan's golden elixir arrived here, looming, pausing for a moment, and then followed.

When he saw the team of the Styx Grandma from afar, sneaking into the sea near Zengmu Shoal, and sensed another undisguised majestic aura in the Holy Mother Palace, he did not get any closer.

"I heard that after the Holy Mother Wu Ling was defeated by Pu Qunsheng, Pu Qunsheng washed his sword in the Yellow River, using her ninety-nine and eighty-one drops of dragon blood. Both parties swore an oath by the Yellow River and concluded a curse agreement."

“If the Holy Mother Wu Ling dares to set foot on land again, the Yellow River veins in the living world and the Yellow River destiny in the underworld will emit power, using the curse from that year as a guide to directly collide with her foundation.”

"Well, either we ask the Virgin Mary to come ashore and do it herself, or we come to borrow treasures from the Virgin Mary."

Su Hanshan pondered for a while, and withdrew his golden elixir temporarily. He then planted a large number of spells that emitted hidden vibrations and sensed each other in the vital energy of heaven and earth along the way.

Although these spells have no offensive power and probably cannot last for a few days, if there are signs of the Styx Grandma returning in the near future, these things will be more than enough to warn me.

After completing these things, Su Hanshan's golden elixir dived into the sea and went down along the place where the Styx Grandma had stopped before.

Before he actually reached the bottom of the sea, he sensed that the aura of the underworld in the deep sea was much thicker than on land.

In the four seas, there is no sunlight all year round, and the environment at the bottom of the sea is particularly prone to the accumulation of negative energy and communication with the underworld.

Creatures in the sea are nourished by the thoughts of the underworld, and of course have a greater chance of transforming into monsters, so there are much more monsters in the sea than on land.

However, the ocean itself is much larger than the land and is rich in resources. The sirens each occupy a piece of territory, but they all feel that the land is too vast and too sparsely populated.

They don't like the environment on land and seldom have extensive dealings with countries on land. They don't think the systems on land are superior, nor are they willing to learn from them, so all organizations are relatively loose.

However, when Su Hanshan dived into the deep sea, he noticed that several huge formations had been built in this underwater world.

Inside each large formation's base, there are many sea monsters who work diligently to maintain the formation's operation. They rotate regularly, watching the outside world with full energy, vigilance and hatred.

Su Hanshan felt the emotions they exuded, and could not sense any looseness at all. Instead, each of them seemed like a taut steel wire.

The sirens in one of the large formations were none other than the mermaids of the South China Sea. Both men and women, especially the beautiful ones, all had human bodies and fish tails, wore light armor, and held steel forks and long swords.

This caused Su Hanshan to take a few more glances.

"Strange, why would she stay here specifically? It can't be to see more mermaids, right?"

(End of this chapter)