Chapter 197: Heavenly Palace Appears in Nether Land
Zhang Sui hesitated for a moment and finally decided to go to the city to have a look.
As Zhang Sui gradually approached the city, Zhang Sui could see some details on the city wall clearly. Those black city walls were covered with various scars.
Judging from the appearance of the scars, some should have been caused by weapons, but there were also many that looked like the claws of giant beasts.
Although it is covered with scars, the city wall is still standing, and it seems that the impact is not big.
Zhang Sui came to the city gate. There was no moat in the city. The city gate was open. The two gates, which were about ten feet thick and made of unknown metal, had long been lying in the urn inside the city gate.
It looked like it was knocked out by someone and landed in the urn city.
Zhang Sui casually knocked on the incomplete cyan gate remaining at the city gate, holding it cold and making a dull sound.
Zhang Sui used his sword energy and scratched it, but no scars were left on it. This made Zhang Sui feel incredible.
Zhang Sui didn't believe in evil, so he increased the power of the sword light. Slowly, until he increased the power of the sword light to its maximum level, he managed to draw a shallow scar on the incomplete door.
Looking at the two fallen gates in the urn city, Zhang Sui swallowed. There was a huge claw mark on them, which must have been the damage caused by the claws of some alien race.
The deep fist marks on the two gates also indicate that the experience of the gates is inseparable from the fist marks.
The power of the sword light currently in Zhang Sui's hand was such that even the Earthly Immortal Realm would not dare to take it lightly, but it only left such a small trace on this door.
So what kind of cultivation will these guys who broke down this door have? Just thinking about it makes Zhang Sui feel a little nervous.
So is this city going to be entered, doomed or not?
Zhang Sui stood at the city gate, hesitating in his heart.
In the end, he decided to go in and find out. After all, there was no breath inside now. Looking at these scars, they should have been left for a long time.
These guys who broke the city gate and invaded the city back then may not be here long ago.
Zhang Sui fearfully entered the city gate, bypassed the two huge gates in the urn city, and entered the city.
But what made Zhang Sui feel strange was that he originally thought that since the city gate had been breached, the buildings inside would also be greatly damaged, but this was not the case.
After passing through Wengcheng and entering the city, it seemed as if the city had never been affected by war, with no buildings or buildings damaged at all.
It's like the enemy only broke through the city gate and entered the urn city, but suddenly there was no follow-up.
The layout of the city is similar to that of the outside city, except that the materials used to build the houses are different, and the styles are also slightly different.
The houses in the entire city are made of the same black stone used to build city walls, which makes the entire city look extremely deep and depressing.
As expected, no one was seen in the city for a long time. The dust on the ground was almost a foot thick. There seemed to be no wind or rain in this world. Zhang Sui stepped on the ground, and the dust was like a soft layer of snow, leaving a deep hole.
footprint.
As Zhang Sui walked in this quiet city, he couldn't help but feel a sense of loneliness and namelessness between heaven and earth.
Zhang Sui walked from a stroll at the beginning to finally unfolding his body and moving quickly through the city, passing through streets and entering empty houses.
The size of this city far exceeded Zhang Sui's imagination, and its scope should be about ten times that of Kunzhou City.
Finally, Zhang Sui came to a palace at the end of the main road in the city. Zhang Sui stood at the gate of the palace and looked up at the plaque on the door.
I saw the plaque saying: Zhou Jue Yin Tian Palace!
"Zhou Jue Yin Tian Palace?" Zhang Sui murmured.
These words seemed slightly familiar to him, as if he had seen them somewhere, but he couldn't remember them for a while.
Zhang Sui shook his head and entered the main hall directly.
The entire hall is like a government office in the mortal world, except that the scale is much larger.
As soon as he stepped into the hall, Zhang Sui felt his eyes light up. The entire hall was surprisingly bright. This was so different from the dark and gloomy environment in this world, it was like two different worlds.
In the bright hall, there was only a table and a chair at the top, and the rest of the place was empty.
Zhang Sui walked in the main hall, and the sound of his footsteps echoed in the main hall. This made the originally silent main hall suddenly feel more alive.
Zhang Sui walked in the main hall and looked at the scene inside.
At the top of the main hall, there is a plaque with four characters: The mirror hangs high.
There are two words on the pillars on both sides, one side is: reward good, and the other side is: punish evil.
It seems like this is a place where prisoners are tried, but I don't know who they are.
Zhang Sui slowly approached the huge table and saw several objects placed on the table.
There is a dark green lottery tube with several tokens inserted in it. These tokens are of different colors, including white, black, red and green, and are divided into four types. These tokens exude a faint light.
A piece of dark red gavel wood, this gavel exuded a faint coercion. With Zhang Sui's cultivation, he was slightly moved by this pressure. Three words were engraved on the gavel wood: Yin Yang Zhen!
There is another object, which is a square wooden box. Zhang Sui really knows this thing, but he has seen it when he watched those TV series in the original world. The box should contain the official seal of one party.
Zhang Sui came to the table and looked at the objects on the table.
Zhang Sui felt that the lotus tube and the lotus in it were very strange, and they seemed to have a faint suppressive effect on his cultivation.
As for the yin and yang shock, Zhang Sui could feel the pressure in it.
The last box with the official seal didn't make him feel anything.
Zhang Sui reached out curiously to pick up a sign and take a look. What he didn't expect was that the sign seemed to be half rooted, and it didn't move at all when Zhang Su grabbed it.
Zhang Sui didn't believe in evil, so he held the lotus and tried to pull it out, but the result was that he couldn't shake it at all.
Zhang Sui let go of his hand in shock, turned to look at the gavel on the side, stretched out his hand to pick it up, but as expected, just like the sign, he couldn't move it at all.
Zhang Sui couldn't help but swallow his saliva. This reminded him of the amazing destruction techniques at the city gate. Does it mean that you have to be that kind of cultivation to pick up these things?
Zhang Sui cast his eyes on the wooden box where the official seals were stored, and carefully stretched out his hand. The wooden box was not locked. Zhang Sui flicked it, and the lid of the box was easily opened, revealing a jade seal inside.
The moment the jade seal was revealed, thousands of rays of light suddenly shone, and the entire hall was illuminated in a vast expanse of white. This light spread through the hall and spread around.
The originally gloomy and dark city seemed to be reborn in this light, with various colors slowly appearing.
The dark house gradually takes on the colors of red bricks and green tiles.
Various carved beams and painted buildings, and the colorful appearance gradually replaced the previous unchanging gray and black.
Zhang Sui looked at the changes in the outside world with some surprise, but this light seemed to be limited to this city, and it converged as soon as it reached the surrounding city walls.
The world outside the city wall is still the same dark and gray scene without any changes.
Zhang Sui tried to reach out and hold the jade seal to pick it up. This time, there was no obstacle at all and he easily lifted the jade seal.
Zhang Sui turned over the jade seal and saw a few words engraved on it: The Yin Seal of Zhou Jue!
What's the meaning?
Zhang Sui always felt that these words looked familiar, and he should have seen related words somewhere.
He had this feeling when he entered the main hall before. Looking at these words on the jade seal, he felt that he must have seen them before.
Zhang Sui kept recalling it in his mind, and finally, Zhang Sui suddenly remembered it, thanks to his status as a former librarian.
At that time, there was a lot of free time, and there were many books of various types in the library. And these few words appeared in a classic about the Taoist pantheon.
It is recorded in Taoist classics that Emperor Fengdu, the boss in charge of the cycle of life and death, established the Luofeng Six Heavens in Luofeng Mountain and set up six heavenly ghosts and gods to control the misfortune of life and death in the world.
The six palaces set up are Zhou Jueyin Palace, Taisha Liangshi Zong Palace, Mingchen Naiwu Wucheng Palace, Tianzhao Sin Qi Palace, Zongling Qifei Heavenly Palace, and Gansi Lianwan Sui Heavenly Palace.
Zhou Jue Yin Tian Palace is one of the six heavenly palaces of the Taoist ghost palace. According to legend, everyone who dies must pass through this palace. After passing through Zhou Jue Yin Tian Palace, the decision will be made after a ruling based on what he did during his lifetime.
Which palace to enter?
Isn't it just that the Taoist ghost palace Liutian Palace only exists in the original world? How come it also appears in this world?
And looking at this appearance, it must have encountered an irresistible force, and now it has become an empty palace. Not to mention a human figure, there is not even a ghost figure!
Originally, Zhang Sui thought that Tongyou would allow him to see ghosts or come to a place where ghosts exist, but the result surprised Zhang Sui.
This place, at first glance, is not a place for normal people to stay. Maybe it is really the so-called underworld, but what is going on with this empty underworld?
Hell is empty, is the devil in the world?
Zhang Sui shook his head, a little puzzled. What kind of powerful enemy could actually break one of the legendary Six Heavenly Palaces, leaving the people inside confused.
And even if there are no ghost officials and ghosts in charge, people should die every moment in the mortal world. Where do the souls of these people go?
These questions left Zhang Sui confused for a while.
Zhang Sui touched the jade seal in his hand. This jade seal should be a symbol of the identity of the ruler of Zhou Jueyin Tiangong. How could the former ruler put such an important thing here without taking it away? There are simply too many mysteries.
Zhang Sui played with the jade seal in his hand for a while and found that it didn't seem to have any other effect besides changing the appearance of the city outside.
Zhang Sui couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. Why did this thing look inferior to the gavel and the tokens next to it? It shouldn't be.
Zhang Sui channeled some spiritual power into the jade seal, but the jade seal had no reaction at all.
He scratched his head and tried to introduce some merit power.
When the power of merit had just been introduced into the jade seal, an unimaginable suction force burst out from the jade seal.
Zhang Sui burst out with a cry: "I'll cross it!" The power of merit flowed from his body into the jade seal like a bursting river.
Zhang Sui tried desperately to stop it, but the suction force was really unimaginable, and it seemed that his consciousness had no obstruction at all, allowing a large amount of merit power to pour into the jade seal.
In just a few breaths, the massive merit gained from saving the human race this time has been exhausted.
This can't help but make Zhang Sui feel like crying. He worked hard and worked hard to return to the pre-liberation period!
After the jade seal in his hand absorbed the power of massive merit, it emitted a purple-gold color. The jade seal, which was originally four inches square, shrank to one inch square, and its entire body also turned purple.
Just when Zhang Sui was about to take a closer look, the jade seal turned into a stream of light that penetrated the roof of the hall, flew thousands of feet into the sky, made a loud sound, and illuminated all directions with a purple halo.
A majestic voice boomed in all directions: "Zhou Jue Yin Tian Palace, the palace master returns to his throne!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the whole city seemed to come alive. Countless mysterious yin energies gathered, and countless translucent figures emerged in the city. Those figures seemed a little confused, as if they were awakening from a big dream.
In the main hall where Zhang Sui was, figures slowly appeared one after another. These figures gradually solidified, their faces became clearer, and their aura gradually became stronger.
Zhang Sui stood in front of the table and looked at the eight figures slowly appearing in the hall.
These eight figures are all different in height, short, fat, and thin. The only thing they have in common is the clothes they wear, which are very similar to the flying fish clothes. They are domineering and gorgeous.
After a full moment, the figures in the hall stopped changing. These eight people, or rather these eight ghosts, all looked confused.
Even so, Zhang Sui was a little frightened by the aura of the pinnacle of human immortality.
The expressions of these people changed from blank to confused, and they began to look at the people around them.
A man who looked to be the oldest and had a full beard said in disbelief: "Am I dreaming? Why are we brothers still here? Haven't our souls been broken long ago and disappeared from the world?
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Several other people wearing Feiyu suits around him also looked surprised, as if they couldn't believe they were still alive.
One of them looked at the bearded man and said, "Boss, I watched with my own eyes as your head was torn off and then burned clean by the underworld fire."
Another said to him: "Third brother, don't talk about our leader. Didn't you yourself get trampled to death by someone else?"
After some exchanges, basically these people should have died a long time ago, but unexpectedly they were resurrected at this time.
Several half-human, half-soul guys were discussing their respective experiences of death, as if they didn't even see Zhang Sui at the table.
This made Zhang Sui feel very strange. Ordinarily, he was right in front of these people. Even if they came back from the dead, they were very excited and needed to communicate, but a stranger stood aside and these people turned a blind eye. This was a bit strange.
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Seeing that they were still discussing, Zhang Sui couldn't help coughing twice, but the group of people still didn't respond. Only then did Zhang Sui feel sure that these people really couldn't see him.