Chapter 294: That Old Thing Heavenly Dao Is Causing Trouble Again!
Emperor Fengdu!
As soon as Tan Zhu said this, it sent chills down their spines.
Shen Yuyin raised her eyes in surprise: “This matter was presided over by Emperor Fengdu. What is he doing in Youdu Mountain?”
Tan Zhu’s hand gradually grew cold: “I don’t know.”
She shook her head and said again: “I don’t know what he wants to do, but this matter must be related to him…”
Ming Zhaoshuang felt that her state was not quite right and immediately added: “Fourth Senior Sister, it’s alright, just say whatever you know, we are all on your side.”
Shen Yuyin even directly played her long flute, soothing Tan Zhu’s emotions.
Xingyun Liushui also chimed in: “Fellow Daoist Tan, just say whatever you know. It’s rare to have an insider.”
“Back then…”
Tan Zhu took a deep breath, trying her best to calm down: “You should know about how the Beast Taming Saint Feng He destroyed the Pure Yin Ground and purified the Three Lives Stone tens of thousands of years ago.”
“Although the entire cultivation world cheered when Feng He did this, in reality, the higher-ups did not approve, thinking that Feng He was meddling in other people’s affairs.”
After all, although Pure Yin Maidens required the lives of many Human Race women, the victims were not these high-ranking officials, but the beneficiaries were. If you think about it carefully, they only needed to slightly exploit the human female cultivators of the lower and middle strata, and they would have beautiful cauldrons that could improve their bloodlines and spirit roots to serve them. Wasn’t that a delightful matter?
Especially since they could also ensure the quality of their children and the inheritance of their cultivation bloodlines.
Therefore, who could truly know what these righteous individuals, who preached benevolence and morality, were thinking in their hearts, even though they outwardly expressed satisfaction?
“Especially Emperor Fengdu of the Ghost Realm. When Feng He destroyed the Pure Yin Ground, he had already slain a Fengdu Emperor of the Ghost Realm while in the Mahayana stage and crossing the tribulation. Later, during the Nether Demon War, Feng He personally slew another Fengdu Emperor and several tribulation crossers again. For the Ghost Realm, this was undoubtedly a deep wound.”
“Especially after signing so many unequal Heaven and Earth Rules.”
Ming Zhaoshuang asked doubtfully: “Then why is everyone saying the Devil and Underworld realms are flourishing, while the Human and Demon realms are declining?”
“It’s not that the Devil and Underworld realms are flourishing, it’s the Devil Realm that’s flourishing, and the Underworld Realm is just riding the coattails.”
Shen Yuyin recalled her usual studies and said to Ming Zhaoshuang: “In reality, the cultivation world does not have as many tribulation crossers in the Devil Realm and Underworld Realm as the Upper Cultivation World does. It’s just that they each produced one Immortal Crossing. Demon Lord Feng Budu has been diligently governing for nearly ten thousand years and has supported several tribulation crossers. Although their quality is not as good as those in the Upper Realm, their numbers are almost the same.”
Combined with Feng Budu, an Immortal Crossing, they are naturally more powerful than the Upper Realm.
“But the Underworld Realm is different. Their Immortal Crossing does not manage affairs much, and the losses suffered by the Underworld Realm were even more severe. The Underworld Realm has less than ten tribulation crossers. Half of the Ten Yama Kings are in the Late Mahayana Stage. You can imagine how hollow the Underworld Realm actually is.”
Shen Yuyin said: “The Upper Realm has around twenty tribulation crossers in total. If it weren’t for the Underworld Realm having an Immortal Crossing, how could they be superior to them?”
So that’s how it was.
No wonder some in the Six Realms looked down on the Demon Realm, and some looked down on the Ghost Realm, yet no one looked down on the Cultivation World and the Devil Realm.
Ming Zhaoshuang recalled the scene where Feng Budu alone went to war against half of the Demon Realm’s tribulation crossers, and she felt a prickle of fear.
“What about the Dragon Domain?”
Since the Dragon Domain was superior to the other five realms, it should not be underestimated.
Shen Yuyin looked up in thought: “No one knows the exact situation in the Dragon Domain. After all, apart from Feng He and Feng Budu, no one from the Body Integration stage up to the tribulation crossing stage has ever emerged.”
“Therefore, my father’s evaluation of the Dragon Domain is: above the five realms, second only to two people.”
This was also the reason why she had always been unwilling to resist the Dragon Domain. No one from the Dragon Domain had ever come out. She was merely a music cultivator; no matter how well she cultivated the Way of Music, she could not possibly interact with the Dragon Domain like Feng He and Feng Budu.
After asking about the Dragon Domain, Ming Zhaoshuang continued to look at Tan Zhu: “Fourth Senior Sister, please continue. The Underworld Realm suffered great damage and signed many unequal treaties, and then what?”
“Naturally, they wanted to find ways to strengthen their forces. Among these, Pure Yin Maidens, although considered a Demonic and Heretical Path, were a relatively simple and easily achieved method. However, since the Pure Yin Ground had been destroyed, no one could create such things through the Pure Yin Ground anymore.”
Tan Zhu sighed: “Therefore, the Underworld Realm has been in a state of weakness for thousands of years.”
Three thousand years after the Nether Demon War, the Devil Realm produced Feng Budu, an Immortal Crossing, but the Underworld Realm had been stagnant.
Not even one tribulation crosser had ascended.
How could they not be anxious? The previous Fengdu Emperor was so anxious his hair was falling out.
“I don’t know how the previous Fengdu Emperor knew that formations could recreate the Pure Yin Ground. However, ten thousand years ago, there were again vengeful souls of human women under the Three Lives Stone. Diting, who was guarding the Three Lives Stone at the time, found out and patrolled all the way, eventually narrowing down the news to Youdu Mountain. But unfortunately, Senior Diting encountered danger in Youdu Mountain.”
Tan Zhu took a deep breath and looked at Shen Yuyin:
“At that time, three of the Five Sages remained: Medicine Saint Yixu, Music Saint Yiqi Huang, and Artificing Saint Ou Ziye. Two of them were in the Three Great Regions, far away. So these three discussed the matter and decided to assign the task to Artificing Saint Ou Ziye, who then led the Artifact Sect people to Youdu Mountain.”
These matters were all told to her by Medicine Saint Yixu, so she remembered them very clearly.
“As expected, the Pure Yin Ground was discovered again in Youdu Mountain, and it was formed by the collusion of the Human Race and the Ghost Race. Ou Ziye naturally would not allow such a thing to happen, so he chose to directly engage the people there in battle and rescue the Pure Yin Maidens. However, just as they were fighting, something happened to Ou Ziye.”
“He was forging the Soul Guiding Lamp at the time, and was only one stroke away from completion when the Nirvana Heavenly Thunder, which signified the completion of a divine tool, descended.”
Hearing this, Ming Zhaoshuang couldn’t help but curse: “So it was that dog Heavenly Dao messing around again.”
She had wondered why Ou Ziye, a dignified Artificing Saint who had forged divine tools before, would not be able to withstand the heavenly thunder at the stage of forging the Soul Guiding Lamp and be completely annihilated.
It turned out that because he was fighting with others, that dog Heavenly Dao violated the Heaven and Earth Rules, launching a sneak attack and adding heavenly thunder, forcibly executing Artificing Saint Ou Ziye so that he could not forge the Soul Guiding Lamp again.
Tan Zhu sighed: “Therefore, in the end, the Artificing Saint had to grit his teeth and complete the Soul Guiding Lamp under the Nirvana Heavenly Thunder, and used the power of the Nirvana Heavenly Thunder to once again destroy the Pure Yin Ground.”
“It’s just a pity that he perished as a result.”
One could only say that none of the Five Sages at the time were simple.
Talisman Saint Wei Shuo, before his death, was able to leave behind a Talisman Saint’s Secret Realm for them tens of thousands of years later; Artificing Saint Ou Ziye, when facing lightning tribulations and persecution from others, was still able to calmly forge the Soul Guiding Lamp, and even prolong his life by three hundred years.
