Time flies, and nearly twenty days have passed in the blink of an eye.
Pan Xuan stopped going out on patrol a long time ago and handed over the task to others. She was paddling peacefully in the temporary station. When she wanted to work, she went to work. If she didn't want to, she went to see Mrs. Xue and walked around chatting with her.
, or go to the Soul Alliance to see the other party's situation.
Everything was in order, the only thing that worried her was that Gu Zheng had not returned yet.
It's not that there is no good news. As the construction becomes more and more proficient, the formation here is expected to be completed ten days ahead of schedule.
On this day, Pan Xuan had just returned from the Soul Alliance with Madam Xue, when a famous clan stopped him outside.
"Miss Pan Xuan, the elders have something important to do, please come over."
"Just go back by yourself." Mrs. Xue said to Pan Xuan with a smile on her face. Then she lowered her head and said to her child, "Say goodbye to my sister!"
"Wow me"
The child shouted incoherently, and moved his little hands towards Pan Xuan, almost hitting Mrs. Xue in the face.
"Okay, I'll come and play with you next time." Pan Xuan also smiled as she watched Mrs. Xue take him away, then turned around and said.
"I know, go now!"
In a temporary tent in the middle, five elders and Mr. Feng were already having a heated discussion. As soon as Pan Xuan entered, she saw that everyone's faces were very ugly.
"What's going on? Did something unexpected happen?"
Pan Xuan asked as she sat down, thinking that nothing unusual had happened these days.
"You came just in time. An accident really happened, and it was very serious." Elder Jin said with a solemn expression.
Pan Xuan's face gradually became serious after hearing the other party's news.
"It's that serious. Is there any way to treat it? Have you found the source?" Pan Xuan asked after hearing this.
In just a few hours, everyone from the people guarding the Soul River to the busy tribesmen inside suffered from varying degrees of weakness, as if they were poisoned.
"No treatment has been found. It seems to be just for us. There is nothing wrong with the people in the Soul Alliance. Through our analysis, it should be the black mist under the Soul River. The few people next to it are the most serious. The feeling of weakness has made them at least lose their ability.
Thirty percent of the strength." Mr. Feng interjected from the side.
"The black fog has no impact, doesn't it? Hurry up and block that side!" Pan Xuan was a little excited. She didn't expect that everything was fine when she went out, but it would develop like this in just a short time.
"It cannot be blocked. When a problem occurred, there were traces of water monsters in the Soul River below. We noticed it during observation, and that Soul River is likely to pass near our center. It is really blocked.
If the other party sneaks in and destroys it, we will be in dire straits, as there are no second copies of some materials." Shui Ling said quickly from the side.
"Can we just watch us like this? What if the other party attacks us?" Pan Xuan blurted out the worry in her heart.
"This is also what we are thinking about, but if the other party comes over, they can only accept the challenge." Huo Yao clenched his fists and said.
"This is also our carelessness, thinking that the other party will leave wisely after learning of our existence. You must know that even if there are only two thousand of us, the other party will not be able to easily take advantage of us." Mu Xuan continued.
"To deal with demonic spirits, each of our clansmen can block five with one. After setting up the Wanxuan Blood Formation, even if the opponent comes with 20,000 people, they cannot be our opponent. However, we have also suffered a lot of losses. Now the opponent is here
The dirty tricks were used behind the scenes, causing the strength of each of us to decline, and everything is difficult to say." Tu Lizai said with emotion.
"There are still too few of us. How about starting a small formation first and letting a group of tribesmen come over first?" Pan Xuan thought for a moment and said.
The main purpose of the core formation is to let the ancestors come over, which requires a lot of power, but it does not need to be completely assembled. It can also open a temporary passage, just like Mr. Feng did before, continue to tear open the passage and let the tribesmen come over.
"This is where we have a dispute." Mr. Feng explained at the side.
"If we allow our people to come over, it will greatly strengthen our strength. However, due to the lack of strength, it will not be able to be activated again for at least a hundred years, and our ancestors will not be able to come over, so we are struggling."
"But if we don't activate it, now that our strength has dropped so much, I'm afraid that the other party has a premeditated plan and can attack at any time and directly demolish our place."
"Can we make two preparations? If the opponent dares to come over, we will kill a group of people who are using the previous formation to draw strength and tear open the hole again." Pan Xuan said immediately.
"It's a really good idea, but if Wen Tianhou also comes here, the other party will be able to interrupt it with just a subsequent interference. The risk is too high." Mr. Feng asked in return. They had discussed these matters.
"Isn't there a good way?" Pan Xuan thought quickly in her mind.
"Of course, we can remove the curses or toxins from our clan and form the Myriad Mysterious Blood Formation. With the help of the Soul Alliance, we can easily repel them. After all, we have a lot of people, even if the strength of the Soul Alliance drops suddenly.
, the number of people is also at a loss, it is still enough to deal with their puppet demon souls." Boss Jin said immediately.
"Elder, the clan members patrolling outside have something urgent to report when they come back."
At this moment, an announcement came from outside.
"What's going on!"
After the clan leader came in, Elder Jin asked immediately.
"The Demon Soul side has assembled an army and is coming from the Soul River Bridge." The clan leader panted and replied. He was rushing back as hard as he could.
"How many people are there?" Pan Xuan asked.
"I don't know exactly how many there are, but the darkness is overwhelming. I estimate that there are at least 50,000 people. However, the other party is not crossing the bridge very fast. If we go by the time, they will be able to reach us in at least fifteen days." This tribesman.
He also said it immediately, obviously he had already calculated it before.
"I understand, you go outside to pick up your people. Once you come back, don't come back yet. Go to the Soul Alliance." Elder Jin asked the other party to retreat, and then said to everyone.
"Obviously this is the other party's conspiracy. Although the situation in our bodies has not yet appeared, it is because our cultivation level is relatively high, and it is not ruled out that we will be poisoned. After all, we are all here, but most of the people below have mild symptoms and are still there.
It’s getting worse.”
"At least, it seems that the opponent can only weaken our third-level strength. This is the only good news." Mu Xuan said coldly from the side.
"What a not-so-funny joke. The other party is serious this time. It is probably the strongest power of the other party. Maybe Wen Tianhou will follow. No matter when the ancestor comes over in the end, if the other party escapes into the Xiaoqian world,
I'm afraid the ancestor won't be able to go over and hunt down the opponent." Shui Ling said from the side.
Everyone nodded silently in their hearts. This is the reason why the opponent is so confident. Judging from the scale of the demon souls last time, there is still hope, but this time there are too many. I am afraid that calling for reinforcements may not necessarily be able to withstand the opponent.
"Can ancestor come over before the other party comes?" Mr. Feng suddenly said.
"No, it will take at least forty days. Even if you are exhausted, it will not be completed in fifteen days." Elder Jin slowly shook his head and said.
Everyone was silent for a while. Everyone had a headache and was thinking about how to get through this difficulty.
As for escaping, they had not even thought about it.
But let’s not talk about the huge number of enemies. Wen Tianhou alone gave them a headache, let alone their numerous elders and clan leaders. Each of them is not strong, but their number is dozens of times greater than here.
, especially the strength of most of the Soul Alliance is slowly declining, even if they are added together, they cannot be the opponent of the other party.
"Elders, Elder Gu has come back and is now with the Soul Alliance. Do you want to invite him back?" When everyone was having a headache, someone came in from outside to report and asked, this is the person arranged by Pan Xuan.
"Go and invite him quickly."
Pan Xuan said immediately. After seeing the other party leave, he turned to look at the others, with a hint of excitement on his face, which made Mr. Feng next to him couldn't help but say.
"It's useless for the other party to come alone. How can the other party be able to solve them all?"
"You don't know. I believe that the other party has a solution, which is at least better than us being helpless." Pan Xuan had blind trust in Gu Zheng and said very confidently.
"I hope so. Anyway, I don't have anything else to do right now. I'm just waiting for him here to see what he has that deserves your trust." Mr. Feng said with some jealousy.
The other party helped Shura a lot, but he didn't know that the ancestor treated him so differently and actually raised him to such a high position that he was almost below one person and above ten thousand people. Even if he sees him now
When you see the other party, you have to respectfully call him Elder Gu. Naturally, you are not willing to do so. You have to know that the other party was down there before, and he didn't even bother to look at it.
"We'll see."
Pan Xuan chuckled lightly, thinking that if Gu Zheng came, there would definitely be a way, and even the sadness in his heart dissipated a lot.
As for the remaining five elders, they don't know much about Gu Zheng, but thinking of their ancestors' attention, they also have some unreasonable expectations for Gu Zheng. Maybe they can get some useful ideas from the other party.
Just when the Shura people were looking for Gu Zheng, he was with City Lord Liu and the others, listening to what was happening here.
"Thank you for your hard work, let's send those people back now." After quickly listening to their words, Gu Zheng said directly.
Even if those soul alliance members return to the underworld, they will not be the same as before. After there is order, those who should be reincarnated will be reincarnated, and those who should be sent to hell will suffer.
"They are right here." Ruochen volunteered and led Gu Zheng to a forbidden area not far away.
"If the city lord, we don't know about our city lord's betrayal at all, let us out. We can also go to He Wen Tianhou to fight for his life."
"It's unfair, they are all members of the Soul Alliance, and they are trying to save our lives."
Ruochen led Gu Zheng, the former members of the Soul Alliance who had been sealed and imprisoned inside, and shouted towards Ruochen.
"Why does the other party look like he's dying? What did you say before?" Gu Zheng looked a little strange at their reactions.
"They think they are related to those city lords, or we want to kill a chicken to show the monkeys, so of course we don't want to die." Ruochen didn't answer those people's begging for mercy at all. Instead, he controlled the restrictions so that the voices inside could not be transmitted.
He came out and continued talking to Gu Zheng.
"Those who rebelled and regained their memories, we also placed restrictions on each other, promising that as long as Wen Tianhou was eradicated, we would let them go completely, and even told them that they did not need to be afraid of death, as their souls would all be saved by life and death.
If you record it in the book, you will naturally have a chance to be reborn later, but it will only be weak for a long time, so those people have no fear at all towards Wen Tianhou. If they have other thoughts, they can be driven away at any time."
"Can they believe it?" Gu Zheng said in surprise.
"I am very convinced that anyone who comes into contact with that piece of paper will have some basic information about the underworld engraved into their minds. Coupled with the drastic changes some time ago, I am convinced that only those demon souls are forcibly controlled by City Lord Liu and us, at least
During the battle, you can control them to block the first wave of attacks." Ruochen explained.
"It's a pity that no matter who they are and what their cultivation level was during their lifetime, all the lonely ghosts in the past will walk on the Naihe Bridge and drink a bowl of Mengpo soup, and only then can they get the chance to be reincarnated." Gu Zheng said regretfully.
"Is that where everyone's destination is?" Ruochen is just a demon soul, and the information has not been engraved in their heads, so they don't understand it. They all learned the information from the mouths of City Lord Niu and others.
"That's true. As long as you have the strength, you can jump out. But in the past, no matter what your cultivation level was, as long as you died, you had to leave. No one could resist. If we hadn't forcefully baptized each other, they would eventually go in.
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Gu Zheng did not name names in detail. He did not know what was going on in the underworld now. He only knew that the underworld was already fully operational. It was estimated that it would not be official until the establishment of heaven. Before that, there were still many loopholes, but there was no reason.
, he is not going to go anymore.
If you want to interfere with the operation below, you have to endure extraordinary cause and effect. Currently, there is no reason worth doing for him. His birth, old age, illness and death are part of the operation of heaven. No one can escape except the saint, so
It was only with the help of his master that he achieved the status of a saint and completely transcended heaven and earth.
"Let's send them away first. Maybe it's a good thing for them." Gu Zheng looked at the nearly a thousand people in front of him and knew that there would be more people behind him, so he didn't waste time.
"Um!"
Gu Zheng opened his mouth, and the paper that was baptizing everyone outside suddenly came into his hands. Looking at the people in front of him who kept opening their mouths to try to say something, with some pleading and fear, he just raised his arm, and the paper in his hand suddenly glowed with a yellow light.
, it wraps all the people in front of it, and no one can see clearly what is happening in the light.
Soon after the light dissipated, the person inside had disappeared, and the layer of yellow light on the entire paper became more supple. After Gu Zheng placed it in the previous position again, the speed of baptizing the other party doubled.
"If there is nothing else, I will go to Shura to discuss it first. The other party doesn't know the news I brought yet." After Gu Zheng finished, he was ready to go there.
"Okay, then let's start making preparations. But I'm afraid we're just watching a show for this battle. That's fine. It's really worry-free." Ruochen nodded and said.
"Yes, as long as it takes less than three months, we can win the final victory, but we can't be careless, just in case the other party comes to destroy it." Gu Zheng continued.
"Is it possible that the other party can still come over? You must know that after leaving the range, their strength will also decrease. It is impossible." Ruochen is not worried that the other party will come over.
"Elder Gu, our elders have invited you." At this time, the Shura man who came to see Gu Zheng came to Gu Zheng and said.
"Oh? What happened?"
I just came back, and I couldn't wait to invite myself. Obviously something happened, so I hurriedly came to find myself.
"I'm not sure. Miss Pan Xuan and Mr. Feng are both together." This tribesman obviously didn't know what happened over there. He had been guarding Gu Zheng here.
"I'm going over there first, and we'll talk later." Gu Zheng said goodbye to Ruochen.
The imprisoned group of soul alliance members fell under a ball of yellow light. Everyone felt that their bodies were no longer under control, and they floated towards the center of the paper.
The last thought was to submerge into a whirlpool. When they regained consciousness, they found that everyone was lining up and walking in a familiar place. If they looked carefully, the surrounding scene was the outskirts of the underworld.
Under the illumination of yellow light, they actually came directly to the place. What frightened them even more was that although they could control their eyes, they could not control anything else. They were moved by a mysterious force just like ordinary people.
Walking forward with slow steps.
Among them, Qitian was among the group, and some were so frightened that they looked around with their peripheral vision.
I don’t know exactly where I am, I don’t know where I’m going, I’ve even lost the concept of time, I just keep walking like this repeatedly, and there are people who are equally confused joining me on the road, and I feel like walking zombies next to them.
Walking normally, the only difference is that the other party has completely lost consciousness. Unlike them, they still have their own thoughts. This makes him even more frightened. Even if he is mentally prepared, he never thought that he would dare to be like this.
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After an unknown amount of time, he finally found himself in a strange place. A huge black plaque was suspended in the air in front of him, with two sinister characters written on it.
"Ghost Gate"
At the same time, the sound of water flow appeared in his ears. At this time, the speed of the entire team also slowed down. They could only move forward little by little. He could do nothing but wait so anxiously. He also knew that the others were now
The state was the same as his, it could only be like this, as if trapped in a doll that could not move.
I don't know how long it took, but he finally came to the front. He could see a yellow river rushing below, and there was only a green bridge above. Some people were swaying on it, and there was a man about three people tall on the side.
The ten stone tablets let him know that the bridge in front of him was the Naihe Bridge, and an old woman with an old face was shouting with a smile.
"Drink this bowl of Mengpo soup, walk across the Naihe Bridge, wash away the mundane smell from your body, and welcome your new world."
After saying that, a bowl of white soup with turbid mud was handed to him. Even if he didn't want to drink it, he couldn't control his arms. He picked it up and drank it directly, with a lot of soup still spilling on his body.
Finally, the empty bowl was returned to the other party.
But he only felt that his consciousness was beginning to become blurry, so he stepped onto the bridge and walked forward unsteadily.
