A low table, two cups of tea, and two figures on the left and right.
The simple-looking Lingjiu Mountain, which looked a bit desolate, was now suspended in the center of the secret realm that Fang Hongjun had used as his escape route.
Hongjun lowered his head and sighed, picked up the tea and took a sip.
"You really think I can't find you if you hide in the Sea of Chaos?"
The spirit in the coffin spoke warmly, holding the teapot and filling it with water for Hongjun.
"You have to give it a try, otherwise you will definitely not give up, and it turns out that you are just causing trouble for yourself. In fact, you could have stayed out of the matter by breaking the jade dish of creation.
"Hongjun, Hongjun, I've survived millions of years, and it's just the last few years that are missing.
"A person who travels a hundred miles is half a mile, this is true."
Hongjun whispered: "Fellow Taoist, you win."
"What's going on here," the spirit in the coffin said with a smile, "Don't be too nervous, I always have good intentions towards you."
"I can't help but be impatient."
Hongjun laughed sadly:
"At this moment, my evil corpse was sealed off by Taishang Laojun, the six paths of reincarnation were established, and the way of heaven became stronger again.
"I originally occupied 30% of the land of Heavenly Dao, but now I only have less than 20% left.
"If we wait for the six sect leaders to return together, I'm afraid it will be difficult for me, the evil corpse, to occupy even 10% of the Heavenly Dao.
"When I discovered that Tiandao had taken a crucial step and began to sense living beings, I couldn't help but arrange the chess pieces to be embedded in Tiandao, and then I got out of control... This time, there was no way to attack."
The spirit in the coffin shook his head: "Then why do you think there is nothing we can do?"
"My evil corpse has merged with the way of heaven. This secret cannot be hidden from Taiqing and the others. If Sanqing wants to come to me to settle the matter, how should I deal with it?" Hongjun said with a frown.
The spirit in the coffin wondered: "Can't you just let the evil corpse withdraw from the way of heaven?"
Hongjun said silently: "It is difficult to retreat through the water."
"I think you are unwilling to give up such a good opportunity," the spirit in the coffin said, "you will eventually have to pay the price for your greed."
Hongjun said displeasedly: "Fellow Taoist, please don't say such sarcastic words. You may not be able to design a more comprehensive plan than me in a different place."
"Hahaha."
The spirit in the coffin smiled while stroking its palms, and raised its head towards Hongjun:
"I will convince you today. Recall for yourself, what did I say to you when your shadow appeared in front of me during the Battle of the Sea of Blood?"
Hongjun frowned slightly: "You said that you also arranged for Xuanyuan to die in battle...isn't it Kunpeng? Although Kunpeng was a chess piece made by you, he was later helped by the Chaos Bell..."
The spirit in the coffin smiled and shook his head, saying: "Fellow Taoist, please call the Chaos Bell and give it a try."
Hongjun raised his sword fingers and slid them gently, and a mysterious charm bloomed on his fingertips and disappeared into the dark.
Hongjun couldn't help but be stunned.
The spirit in the coffin imitated Hongjun's movements, raised his sword and drew a simple talisman.
Just as the soft jingling of a bell sounded from outside the secret realm, a shallow vortex appeared behind the spirit in the coffin, and a chaos bell the size of a bell flew out of the vortex.
The Chaos Clock swayed from side to side, and the clear tinkling sound was endless. Dao of fairy light spread from the Chaos Clock, transforming into a graceful woman, who looked like she was twenty-eight years old, with a plump figure and a complicated ancient skirt.
Chaos Bell Spirit.
With a slight smile on her lips, she folded her hands in front of her and bowed her head in salute to the spirit in the coffin.
"Meet the teacher."
"Well," the spirit in the coffin patted the futon on the side of the low table, "Xiao Hua, come sit here and apologize for deceiving fellow Taoist Hongjun."
Chaos Zhong Ling just smiled and shook his head, meditating from the left side of the low table.
Hongjun frowned tightly: "Fellow Taoist, have you been plotting against me since ancient times?"
"Hmm," the spirit in the coffin said leisurely, "Don't worry, I'll call another Taoist friend over."
The chaotic bell spirit named Xiao Hua gently shook the bell, and a figure slowly formed from across the low table. It was wearing a cloak and was short in stature. It lowered its head and saluted the spirit in the coffin, and then sat opposite Xiao Hua.
He took off his cloak and put an earthen xun aside.
Fuxi’s good corpse!
Hongjun smiled bitterly: "I knew you were related to the Transcendent, so the Fuxi corpse I saw at the beginning was also a fake?"
Fuxi Shanshi slowly shook his head: "Pindao and fellow Taoist Fuxi have severed ties due to different pursuits. Pindao's Taoist name now covers the clouds."
"The relationship between the three corpses and the main body?"
"I did it," the spirit in the coffin said with a smile, taking two teacups and adding tea to Taoist Zhanyun and Xiaohua.
The spirit in the coffin said leisurely:
"Hongjun, you really didn't drink the toast this time but drank as a penalty.
"Originally, you only need to complete the tasks I set for you, give the Hongmeng Purple Qi to the six leaders at the right time, and let the six leaders become the saints of heaven and give up the saints and fruits of the great avenue. This is enough.
"Your value has been perfectly demonstrated. You are qualified to leave with me. I will never let you down.
"Why do you insist on going through all this trouble?"
Hongjun lowered his head to think, then smiled miserably, his expression a little more regretful, and then turned into relief.
"I was not defeated unjustly."
Hongjun said slowly:
"I thought I accidentally connected with the Chaos Clock in ancient times, but in fact it was you who asked the Chaos Clock to trap me.
"But what I didn't expect was that those chaotic beasts were actually your subordinates."
"Part of it," the spirit in the coffin said, "I can't really hide in the wild world without leaving any backup options."
Hongjun said: "You said before that you also arranged for Xuanyuan to die in battle, but you actually planned the whole plan, including the confrontation between Li Ping'an and me in the illusion of heaven?"
"There are many kinds of calculations. It is enough to grasp the key points and control the momentum."
The spiritual path in the coffin:
“The specific steps can be easily adjusted, and you should leave some room for improvisation when making plans.
"It's just like you, if you plan carefully and even make every step precise to the right time, what can you do?
"Do you know what your biggest mistake was?"
Hongjun sighed: "I would like to hear the details."
"You have been ignoring one question, and that is why I am hiding in the Great Desolate Lord's Heaven and Earth."
The spirit in the coffin smiled and said:
"This move is called creating momentum in the void.
"My identity as a transcendent person, and my ability to still suppress the leader even after being suppressed by the rules of the prehistoric world, are all my assets.
"Let you subconsciously feel that I must stay in the Lord's heaven and earth.
"Actually... when the heaven and the earth are destroyed, I can extract the original objects of the heaven and the earth as long as I am near the heaven and the earth. There is no need to stay in the main heaven and the earth. This is the bargaining chip I made for myself out of thin air.
"The bargaining chip without cost has now brought many benefits."
Hongjun stared at the spirit in the coffin: "This calculation is indeed exquisite, but there is one thing I don't quite understand."
The spirit in the coffin said leisurely: "Just ask. After today, we can talk about anything."
Hongjun struggled to explain: "You used leaving the world as a bargaining chip, and all you got in exchange was Li Ping'an's kneeling. Does this mean anything?"
"How come you still can't understand."
The spirit in the coffin raised his hand and rubbed his eyebrows:
"But I can't blame you. You still don't stand high enough. You are just limited to the space between heaven and earth.
"The cycle of birth and death of heaven and earth begins again and again, and all living beings are just passers-by. Those who can escape from the cycle of birth and death of heaven and earth are transcendent. This kind of living beings are more valuable than heaven and earth itself.
"I have worked so hard to change my apprentice's favor and change my apprentice's basic concept of me. Isn't this enough?"
Hongjun was startled for a moment.
The spirit in the coffin continued: "Pangu's opening of the sky was only the means for the birth of heaven and earth, not the only means."
Hongjun frowned and stared at the spirit in the coffin.
Hongjun whispered: "I have another question."
"ask."
"If I hadn't broken the jade plate of creation back then..."
"It was you who insisted on showing your loyalty to me and took the initiative to break the jade plate of creation," the spirit in the coffin sighed. "If you think about it carefully, when did I take the initiative to put pressure on you? I really wanted to train you to achieve perfection.
God, it's just that you are too suspicious."
Hongjun closed his eyes and sighed, and said nothing for a long time.
"Okay," the spirit in the coffin said leisurely, "I will use you next. Since you have become the villain in the world, let's continue to do it and hand over your soul."
Hongjun silently covered his chest, and a jewel flew out from his chest.
The spirit in the coffin pointed a finger, and the orb instantly turned into light purple, and wisps of dark aura appeared within it.
Hongjun said bitterly: "Sure enough, you and I don't have to have any grudges from now on. I can only encourage you."
The spirit in the coffin said leisurely: "You didn't do this yourself? Who is to blame? Don't you try to resist? This makes me feel very inexperienced."
"You have left the wild world, who will be your opponent?"
Hongjun took back the orb and said slowly:
"Now you should be able to answer me with confidence, why did Huangdi Xuanyuan have to die?"
"It's not that he has to die, he's fine."
The spirit in the coffin said calmly:
“But the human race’s trump card must be consumed.
"This time, Xuanyuan Huangdi had no time to gather too much power of fire, otherwise you would know how terrifying this thing is.
"The fire runs through the years and is the immortal fighting spirit of the human race. It is also the most likely means to threaten me. Those heavenly saints are almost like half-saints when they are far away from the prehistoric world. Only Taiqing is too close to the great saints.
Have to guard against it.
"Do you understand now?"
Hongjun:……
"Okay, I still have to decorate the new secret teaching environment.
"My apprentice has been greatly stimulated this time. I guess he will come to me to learn skills soon."
The spirit in the coffin stretched and stood up.
He said: "Zheyun, send a smarter man to deal with him."
Zheyun Taoist Fuxi Shanshi nodded in agreement: "Okay."
"Xiao Hua, don't show up, continue to guard the tomb," the spirit in the coffin said, "Before my apprentice is promoted to Half-Saint, I must maintain the image of a good teacher."
"Oh," Xiaohua nodded and turned into a chaos clock and disappeared.
Hongjun wondered: "Why do you insist on letting your disciple be promoted to Half-Saint?"
"Take him to transcendence."
"But he will find out about your scheme one day," Hongjun asked. "With his temperament, how can he be content with you?"
"You'll know then."
The spirit in the coffin smiled and said:
"I have reminded you before that you have lost part of your memory. It is the part of your memory that you asked me to delete when you and I were exploring the Sea of Chaos.
"I can't tell you now, because you will be sent by me to continue being a villain soon.
"If I restore this memory of yours and you accidentally get killed by Taiqing, and Taiqing knows about it, then you will be in big trouble.
"We don't have to speed up the destruction of the world, we just need to wait for it to come to an end. We can't do anything to destroy the world, otherwise it will be counterattacked by the avenue of cause and effect.
"But we must ensure that this world called the Great Desolate goes to death and extracts the original matter of heaven and earth."
Hongjun's enthusiasm waned: "What to do specifically is what fellow Taoist tells you."
"Go and wait outside the Zixiao Palace. When the Six Saints return to heaven and earth, you can take back the Zixiao Palace and escape immediately."
The spirit in the coffin smiled and said:
"As for what you need to do, you only need to search in the futon in the secret room where you usually retreat, and you will find a jade talisman with a complete set of plans on it.
"I put it in your Zixiao Palace as soon as it was built.
"The Great Tribulation of the Gods is the key to the perfection of the way of heaven.
"Heaven will promote the movement of the catastrophe, and Li Dazhi, the master of the catastrophe, is the key here, but it is not Li Dazhi who can really determine the outcome of the catastrophe. He is just an introduction."
The spirit in the coffin said:
"Okay, let's continue to recover. I'm going back to decorate my new home.
"I want to find a way to give the God-killing Spear to my apprentice. My apprentice is a great emperor, and it would be a shame if he doesn't even have an innate treasure.
"You are really weak. I clearly left the God-killing Spear for you to use even though I won the bet. You couldn't even hurt Taiqing's body, and you were beaten to such a degree by him in the Sea of Chaos.
"If you could injure Taiqing this time, things would be much easier in the future. Alas."
In the sound of words, the spirit in the coffin has disappeared.
Hongjun lowered his head and said nothing, looking at the palm of his hand, his eyes gradually becoming cloudy, and he suddenly threw the low table in front of him away.
…
Sea of blood.
When Li Ping'an drove over in the clouds, he could already see stars gathering toward the sea of blood.
When he saw the Six Paths of Reincarnation Disk with his own eyes, he couldn't help but sigh a few times.
It's really spectacular.
A piece of land appeared in the middle of the sea of blood. This is the function of the Great Way of Hoututu.
At this moment, the land is still quite desolate, with only a group of war witches guarding it. In the middle of the land, a fairy island ten miles square is floating quietly. The fairy island is a bracket that fixes the thousand-foot-diameter disk.
There are several simple stone halls in front and behind the round disk. Qin Da and other great witches sit in the stone halls and are responsible for identifying whether the souls flying from everywhere are good or bad. The good ones are put into the upper three realms of the six reincarnations, and the bad ones are put into the lower three realms.
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This is what the underworld looked like when it was first built.
Li Ping'an glanced at a few things in his sleeves.
There was a decree here that was not sealed, which was to make Hou Tu one of the four emperors, and to make the ten palaces of Yama to be in charge of the underworld. He had discussed it with his father for a long time.
There is also a cloth bag, which contains the judge's pen and the book of life and death, which is also the book of people.
Human books are an indispensable treasure in the underworld.
But Li Ping'an didn't expect that this treasure was taken directly from his father's pocket.
Not only the book of life and death, but also the list of gods.
Li Ping'an thought about it and placed the list of gods in front of the throne in Lingxiao Palace without taking it with him.
The cause and effect of that thing is too big, so it is really difficult to carry.
Looking at this simple underworld at this moment, Li Ping'an also had a headache.
The ninth level of heaven has not yet been completely built, and there is a huge gap in the merits of incense on the underworld.
The current territory of the underworld is too small. It must at least spread over tens of thousands of miles and cover one third of the blood sea, right?
Underground City, Eighteen Levels of Hell, Naihe Bridge, Wangxiang Terrace, Wangchuan River, City of Wasted Death...
Which one doesn’t require a lot of merit to be condensed?
When the stalls of the underworld are rolled out, the ten palaces of Yama, the judge of impermanence, the bull-headed and horse-faced, and the large and small ghosts are all part of the heavenly system, and they will all be paid "wages" of merit.
Fortunately, Nanzhou’s incense merits can be extracted bit by bit through that god king!
Otherwise, Li Ping'an would not be able to retreat in peace to improve his own strength, and would have to run around for merit and find ways to get more incense.
He came today just to set a direction and let the underworld system operate in a standardized manner.
Regarding the follow-up construction, Hou Tu and Qin Da naturally took care of it themselves.
Li Ping'an disappeared and went directly to the area near the reincarnation disk.
A soft beam of light shot out from the center of the reincarnation disk, including Li Ping'an, prompting several great witches in the stone palace to investigate.
"What flew by with a swish?"
"I don't know! Oh, don't look at it, Zu is so powerful now! I can't finish the review! I can't finish the review here! Why don't these souls tell the truth!"
"Let Heaven send more people! I can't write their handwriting!"
"How about we act a bit more sinister and scare these spirits?"
"good idea."
All the great witches suddenly became fierce and fierce, and all the halls were very lively.
But there is a different world in the reincarnation disk.