Chapter 61 The sky is round and the place is round
Zhou Mengyao asked: "What preparations?"
Li Yuanjing replied: "I copied a Cangyun Castle in the underworld."
Qi Xuansu and Zhou Mengyao were both a little shocked.
Qi Xuansu couldn't help but ask: "Can you enter the underworld? Did you build it by yourself?"
Li Yuanjing said: "After mastering the power of Yin Qi, of course I can enter the underworld. But I did not build it alone. I can share the Yin Qi with others, and these people can also enter the underworld."
This can explain the yin energy on those officers and soldiers. It really came from Li Yuanjing.
In fact, as long as one has enough cultivation, one can forcefully enter the underworld. After all, this is not the real underworld, but the fragments of the underworld in the body of the demon outside the realm, just like the difference between Yunmengze and Xiaochi.
Qi Xuansu became more and more curious and asked: "What does the underworld look like?"
Li Yuanjing hesitated for a long time and said slowly: "Aside from the ubiquitous Yin energy, the biggest feature of the underworld is the distortion of time. I once sent a team of craftsmen to the underworld, and they were..."
Li Yuanjing paused and added: "At the beginning of the third millennium, I asked people to formulate a new calendar and era name. They set out in the third year of Cangyun, but by the time they arrived, it was already Cangyun
In sixty years and less than a hundred miles, they walked a whole sixty years."
"This happened many times. Another time, in the ninety-first year of Cangyun, a group of strangers suddenly came to Cangyun Castle in the underworld, wearing clothes from Cangyun Castle and claiming to be from the Governor's Mansion.
They were ordered to come here to participate in the construction of Cangyun Castle in the underworld, but no one has seen them, let alone received an order from the Governor's Mansion. According to what they said, they came from Cangyun in the 198th year, which is a hundred years ago.
Later, the Governor's Office conducted a thorough investigation on these people, and could not find their origins at all, as if they appeared out of thin air."
Hearing this, Qi Xuansu's heart moved.
Going back from the future to the past, the underworld has the power to distort time.
Emperor Willow takes root in the cracks of the underworld and draws the yin energy to grow.
So the Heavenly Master used "Guicang Deng" and Xiao Yin as intermediaries to leverage the power of Emperor Liu, allowing Qi Xuansu to reverse time and return to the Lingshan Cave in the past.
In the past, Qi Xuansu had never been able to figure out why it had to be Di Liu's power instead of other powers, such as "Thirty-Three Heavens". Earth masters could use "Emperor Shitian", but there was no reason that Tianshi couldn't use "Thirty-Three Heavens".
Divine power.
It makes sense now, only the power of the underworld can bend time.
This also shows that the higher-ups of the Taoist sect are not ignorant of the underworld. At least they know that the underworld can distort time, and the Celestial Master has even used it.
Qi Xuansu is still too young, and his time to become a high-level member of the Taoist sect is too short, and there are too many secrets that he does not know.
However, Zhou Mengyao was also thoughtful, as if he had thought of something.
Qi Xuansu was afraid that Zhou Mengyao would also understand the relationship, so he quickly said: "Is there any more?"
Li Yuanjing said: "Also, monsters often appear in the underworld. Later we found that these monsters seemed to be transformed from humans. I have personally killed many monsters. They even had military badges on their bodies. Those officers and soldiers who disappeared for no reason, it was not until one day in the forty years of Cangyun that a soldier suddenly went crazy and turned into a monster in front of everyone. We did not really confirm that Yin Qi can turn people into monsters. The key to this It seems that..."
Qi Xuansu added: "The human heart. The so-called power of the human heart is actually the power of incense and wish. This is the introduction. Under normal circumstances, ordinary people can generate the power of incense and wish, but they cannot use it because the power of incense and wish needs to be further refined. , so that it can become a divine power. The Yin Qi should have played a catalytic role, causing the incense and wish power to change. To put it simply, if there is a ghost in the heart, the person will really become a ghost. "
Li Yuanjing was a little surprised: "How do you know?"
Qi Xuansu said: "When I participated in the Fenglinzhou war, I encountered a similar thing. Furong Mountain in Fenglinzhou is a natural gap in the underworld, and Yin Qi is constantly overflowing from it. Coupled with the help of a powerful god, Yin Qi enveloped half of Fenglin Continent. Yin Qi has aggregation effect. When the amount of Yin Qi is sufficient, a special environment is formed, just like water gathering into a sea, which can even resist Yang Qi. At that time, nearly half of the Fenglinzhou has become a ghost land, especially in the Ise area, where living people turn into monsters."
Zhou Mengyao's attention was diverted: "So, Yin Qi is really mysterious. If it can be used for one's own use..."
In fact, Qi Xuansu also thought of this.
That is the Kingdom of Huangquan left by Yi Zang Ran Zun. This extremely special divine kingdom has a special connection with the underworld and is also under the control of Taoism.
However, Li Yuanjing's next words quickly interrupted Qi Xuansu's thoughts: "Actually, these are nothing, the losses are not big. What really gives us a headache is the Yin soldiers pressing the situation."
Qi Xuansu was surprised and said: "Is there really an underworld?"
Li Yuanjing said: "That's not true. These so-called 'yin soldiers' are not soldiers visible to the naked eye, and they don't even have human shapes. They are some black shadows that are all-pervasive and come and go without a trace. We don't know how to describe them, so we call them Call it the 'Yin Soldier'."
At this moment, Zhou Mengyao suddenly asked: "Why is it called Cangyun Castle? Does this name have any special meaning? It will not change its name even in the underworld."
Li Yuanjing, who had always been very cooperative, fell silent.
Zhou Mengyao continued: "The people here will still get old, sick, and die, so they have to resist. Before you got the power of Yin Qi, you were able to live for thousands of years. What's the mystery in this?"
Li Yuanjing was silent for a long time and then uttered four words: "Clouds are in the sky."
Qi Xuansu immediately understood: "Cangyun Castle is Cangtian Castle, is it the 'Cangtian'?"
Zhou Mengyao sneered and said nothing, just staring at Li Yuanjing.
Li Yuanjing let out a long sigh: "Your Majesty has been watching the world. The sun and moon are your eyes. I am the person chosen by your Majesty to patrol the sky on your behalf."
Qi Xuansu looked at Zhou Mengyao: "'Cangtian' disappeared after being defeated by 'Huangtian'. Later, 'Huangtian' was sealed. It was said that it was in the body of a certain emperor, but the whereabouts of 'Cangtian' was not mentioned. Could it be"
Cangtian' was sealed in Yunmengze? Just in time for us to meet?"
Zhou Mengyao hesitated and said: "It is not impossible for the demons from outside the realm to spread across the heavens. Moreover, from the coexistence of the Three Kingdoms to today's Daxuan, there have been too many changes of dynasties, and many records have been lost and have not been passed down. We
It is reasonable for future generations not to know these secret things."
Qi Xuansu smiled bitterly: "This is really a prophecy. The sky is dead, Huang Tian should stand, and if you are born in Jiazi, the world will be prosperous."
Zhou Mengyao waved his hand: "Let's not talk about this for now. The key is to leave this ghost place first."
She looked at Li Yuanjing again: "Captain Li, what is your purpose in building this Cangyun Castle in the underworld? Do you want to go to the underworld to be the governor?"
Li Yuanjing smiled bitterly and said: "I just want to have a place to stand, otherwise I will fall into the bottomless abyss and never be reincarnated."
Qi Xuansu frowned.
Just listening to Li Yuanjing's words, it seems that there is no place to stand in the underworld. Is the underworld a vast ocean?
Seemingly seeing Qi Xuansu's doubts, Li Yuanjing explained: "Because the underworld and the human world are opposite. In the human world, the sky is above and the earth is below, but in the underworld, the earth is above and the sky is below."
Qi Xuansu was shocked.
Through Li Yuanjing's description, we can roughly imagine the appearance of the underworld. There is the earth in the middle, and the earth is divided into two sides, one facing up and the other facing down. The sky is round and round, like a semicircle, but the sky is above. The same is below.
The sky is round and the sky is like a semicircle, but the sky is below.
When the upper and lower semicircles are put together, isn't this a sphere?
Is this the true face of "Heaven"?
Rather, it corresponds to the "round sky" in "Tian Yuan Di Diang", and also corresponds to the legendary meteorite.
Zhou Mengyao took another deep look at Li Yuanjing: "Seeing is better than hearing. Maybe we should take a look in person."
Qi Xuansu was a little surprised and made eye contact with Zhou Mengyao.
Qi Xuansu was worried that Li Yuanjing said this deliberately to lure them to the underworld, so as to achieve a desperate comeback, or even trap them in the underworld.
Zhou Mengyao naturally took this into consideration, and she directly explained: "Tianyuan, how did we get here?"
Qi Xuansu was stunned and really couldn't answer. At that time, he had shrunk his soul into the "Heart of the Immortality Stone" and was unable to perceive specific changes in the outside world. It was as if he came here as soon as he closed and opened his eyes.
Zhou Mengyao answered on his behalf: "We came from the sky on Su Yuanzai's building boat. The building boat lost power midway and disintegrated and crashed in mid-air, so we fell from the sky. But we can't return to the sky now.
Well, even if I have the strength of a heavenly being, I can’t fly that high unless I’m an immortal.”
Qi Xuansu somewhat understood what Zhou Mengyao meant: "Since you can't go to heaven, how about going to the earth?"
Zhou Mengyao showed a teachable expression and nodded: "That's right. Since the entrance is above the Nine Heavens, the exit is naturally below the Nine Netherworld. Governor Li's words just confirmed my guess that the underworld and the earth are opposite.
Yes, the underworld is above and the sky is below, and the sky is below your feet. Isn’t that the bottomless abyss?”
This also explains Li Yuanjing’s motivation to build the Cangyun Castle in the underworld. People cannot fly forever. If they don’t want to fall into the abyss, they must build a foothold above the abyss. This Cangyun Castle in the underworld is connected to the Cangyun Castle in the Yang world.
Through the support of Yangjian Cangyun Castle, it will not fall downwards, and it becomes a city in the sky above the abyss.
As a result, Qi Xuansu and Zhou Mengyao had to go to the underworld.
Qi Xuansu asked: "How to get to the underworld?"
Li Yuanjing replied: "You two must have seen that the city wall of Cangyun Castle extends to the surrounding ridges."
Qi Xuansu had carefully studied the terrain of Cangyun Castle and knew this, so he nodded.
Li Yuanjing continued: "These city walls are actually the road leading to the underworld. Although it doesn't look long, it's different when you actually walk up it. Walking on these walls, you can't see the end at a glance, distorting space and time.