Prehistoric: The first disciple of the sect

Chapter 80 [Tens of billions of dead souls, the coming of Hou Tu]

Zhang Yan was not aware of all this, he was completely immersed in it.

There are very few distractions when focusing on one thing. Just like Zhang Yan at this moment, his mana is constantly accumulating. His cultivation speed is a hundred times faster than that of seclusion. The mana he has accumulated in the past hundred years is more than the mana he has accumulated in seclusion for thousands of years. More.

The most important thing is the understanding of the way of heaven. In later generations, Taiyi saved the sufferings of Tianzun and was Taiyi Zhenren. Now Zhang Yan’s junior brother, he has a very profound understanding of Taoism. After becoming a god, he was sent to heaven by Yuanshi Tianzun to serve as one of the six emperors. , in charge of all ghosts in the world.

This Heart Sutra was almost the essence of Taiyi Zhenren's understanding of the way of heaven at that time. It can liberate evil ghosts in the world. Although it has not yet appeared in the prehistoric world, the mysteries contained in it are not without effect on the souls of the dead.

At the same time, it also made Zhang Yan's understanding of the way of heaven clearer.

A hundred years later, Zhang Yan's recitation of Taiyi's Heart Sutra of Saving the Suffering suddenly stopped.

An unpredictable aura erupted from his body, but it converged in an instant. After a hundred years of enlightenment, he had broken through to the peak level of Daluo Jinxian.

"Reincarnation of heavenly beings, heaven and earth begin again."

Zhang Yan could clearly feel the lack of heaven's way, but he could not evolve this reincarnation, because although this way was missing from heaven's way, it was not the way of heaven, but another earth's way.

Although the underground path is governed by the heavenly path, it is a different path.

Zhang Yan sighed slightly, but he was not frustrated, but continued to recite the Taiyi Sutra of Saving the Suffering, and walked aimlessly through the wilderness again.

In the ancient land, there are countless creatures, and millions of them die every day due to various reasons. Since the creatures have souls, the souls of the dead will wander around the ancient world without a fixed place.

They will be guided by the Netherworld Blood Sea and head towards the blood sea.

Where is the place where the souls of the ancient world are housed? It's just that the ancient world is vast, and only a small part of the souls can actually reach the Netherworld Blood Sea.

Because even dead souls do not always exist between heaven and earth. As the soul power dissipates, they will disappear between heaven and earth forever. At the same time, there are many races in the prehistoric world that feed on dead souls.

This almost makes the dead souls become the lowest existence in this world, living a precarious life day and night.

Taiyi's Sutra of Saving the Heart is used to relieve the sufferings of the dead souls and eliminate the karmic obstacles of the dead souls. It replenishes their soul power all the time. This is also the reason why the souls can follow Zhang Yan for a long time.

Unknowingly, a thousand years have passed.

There are tens of billions of dead souls gathered behind Zhang Yan. Their vastness has become a landscape in the wilderness, especially the hundreds of feet of black and yellow merit clouds, which makes people envious and jealous.

Zhang Yan's actions attracted the attention of countless people, including the Houtu Ancestral Witch of the Houtu tribe.

Hou Tu is the youngest of the twelve ancestral witches. Because she was born last, she absorbed the least turbid air from the earth and has a kinder temperament. Ever since she learned about Zhang Yan's actions of saving dead souls in the ancient land, she fell into deep thought.

This contemplation lasted a thousand years. She didn't know why, but she always felt that she had understood something, but there was always something lacking.

Seeing that the lichs were incompatible with each other and there were countless frictions, big and small, she suddenly had the intention of meeting Zhang Yan. Maybe Zhang Yan could give her some advice.

Hou Tu no longer hesitated, and after instructing the tribe, he set off directly towards the ancient land.

When Hou Tu was born, he understood the laws of earth. As long as he stood on the earth, he would have infinite power. He was a born earth spirit. His body would disappear if he moved his steps slightly.

Zhang Yan had transformed into a dead soul for a thousand years, and his merits had been completed. Even if he could not gain any merits if he transformed again, he did not stop.

There are tens of billions of dead souls behind him. Once Zhang Yan stops dispersing the power of transformation, the soul power of the dead souls will begin to disappear. In more than a month at most, these tens of billions of dead souls will completely disappear from the world.

Zhang Yan doesn't like to do things that end with snakes and tigers tailing. He will continue to evolve, wait for the six paths of reincarnation to be established, and send them into reincarnation in one fell swoop, which can be considered as completing his mission. But at this moment, a figure rushed towards him from the distance. It was still hundreds of miles away, but it appeared in front of Zhang Yan in the next moment.

Looking at the person coming, Zhang Yan was slightly startled, paused to recite the Heart Sutra, and bowed slightly.

"Zhang Yan, a disciple of Xuanmen, has met Hou Tu Zusha."

The person who came was none other than Hou Tu. Why was Zhang Yan initially stunned? It was because Hou Tu was the person he had been waiting for. According to his calculations.

Hou Tu has recently spoken about reincarnation with his own actions, and he has been waiting for reincarnation to be established so that he can send these dead souls into the six realms.

But I didn't expect to meet Hou Tu here. You must know that the reason why my physical body was able to break through so quickly was because of the opponent's ancestral witch essence and blood.

Therefore, Zhang Yan is still very grateful to Hou Tu Zuwu. If he had not known that the Six Paths of Reincarnation must be hers, he would have stopped it long ago.

"Fellow Daoist Zhang Yan, we meet again."

Hou Tu smiled slightly and nodded to Zhang Yan.

Then he looked at the tens of billions of dead souls in trance. After Zhang Yan paused and read the Heart Sutra, the peaceful faces of those dead souls began to struggle a little, seeming to be in pain, anger, or sadness.

Zhang Yan looked at Hou Tu who was in a daze and said, "I wonder why Hou Tu's ancestral witch came here?"

Hou Tu, who was lost in thought, did not answer Zhang Yan's words, but asked: "This move by fellow Taoist Zhang Yan cannot help these dead souls to be completely liberated. Continuous suppression will only accumulate more and more."

Zhang Yan was calm and thought in his heart: "It seems that Hou Tu doesn't know her mission at this time, so let me give her some advice."

After thinking about it, Zhang Yan said with a bitter expression: "The Houtu Ancestral Witch is right. I intend to lead them to the Netherworld Blood Sea, but the journey to the Netherworld Blood Sea is far away and it will take some time."

"Sea of ​​Netherworld Blood."

Hou Tu knew that it was transformed by the filthy blood of Pangu, a place where the blood of all living beings gathered in the ancient world, and it was also the place where the souls of living beings returned after death.

"However, the ancestor of the Blood Sea and Styx River imitated Empress Nuwa in creating humans and established the Shura clan for thousands of years."

"The Shura tribe was transformed from the water of the sea of ​​blood and the souls of the dead. They are vicious by nature and feed on the souls of the dead every day."

"Even if these dead souls get there, most of them won't survive."

In fact, this is the reason why Zhang Yan has not taken the dead soul to the Netherworld Blood Sea for a thousand years.

Ancestor Styx is a well-deserved quasi-sage late-stage being. Zhang Yan bringing tens of billions of dead souls to the Netherworld Blood Sea is undoubtedly a sheep entering the tiger's mouth and destined to die.

When Hou Tu heard this, his expression showed a look of intolerance, and his eyes never moved among the tens of billions of dead souls, "Then what should we do?"

"When a living being turns into a soul after death, it is also a kind of living thing in the wild. It would be great if there is a place to stay."

"But after a thousand years of enlightenment, I have discovered that there is something missing in the ancient way of heaven. There is still another way that has not yet been formed. This way is reincarnation."

"Reincarnation!"

Hou Tu's face froze, and her brain fell into an ethereal state. Zhang Yan's words were like a bolt from the blue, completely awakening her, and she fell into an epiphany. Endless mystery enveloped her whole body, like a god.

(End of this chapter)