Chapter 541: Siege of Hades (1)
The earth's internal organs are the deepest places.
It is a huge underground space, with no sky above and no ground below. The light is dim and there is no sight of the sun, moon, stars or other heavenly lights. Only a few small earth veins meander through the extremely thick rock strata. The spiritual energy of the earth veins can penetrate the thick rock strata and emit a faint glow.
There are also some fluorescent mosses and mushrooms underground, attached to the rock walls, flashing faint light in the dark.
In this huge underground space, a ball of gray gas was quietly suspended.
There were layers of invisible restrictions around the gray gas, isolating the void and wrapping the gray gas tightly. Occasionally, there was a "chirp" sound, and a small lizard with thin webbed feet would spread its limbs and glide in the air, accidentally bumping into the invisible restrictions, and with a "puff" it exploded into a ball of blood mist, and was immediately swallowed up by the gray gas.
In the gray air, there is a vast void.
Metal palaces stacked one on top of another, suspended in the gray air, ancient in shape and magnificent, just like the legendary palaces in heaven. Huge metal pillars stood between the palaces, and gray pythons with horns were entangled on the metal pillars, their eyes flashing green light, like lanterns, illuminating all directions.
Some disciples of the underworld dressed in grey robes shuttled silently between the palaces like ghosts. Occasionally, when they met acquaintances, they just nodded to each other coldly and very few people spoke.
In front of this vast palace complex, there is a huge square. Eighty-one metal pillars surround the entire square. Huge pythons are coiled around the pillars, their eyes flickering with dim light, silent and motionless.
In the middle of the square is a dimly lit void teleportation array, which is the only traffic point for the Hades to the outside world. If the disciples of the Hades want to step into the ground world of Yuanlingtian, they must pass through this teleportation array. Similarly, if outsiders want to find the mountain gate of the Hades, they can only go back and forth through this teleportation array.
Next to the teleportation array, there was an exquisite small building. Several expressionless boys were sitting on the benches with their legs crossed. Their minds were not on the introductory booklet on the underworld in their hands, but were listening attentively to something.
On the third floor of the small building, in an exquisitely decorated bedroom, gray smoke curled up from a three-legged incense burner. In the air, an extremely cool fragrance of winter plum blossoms permeated the heart.
One man and two women, three monks from the underworld were fighting fiercely on a cloud bed amidst the smoke of incense. They were sweating profusely and panting. Occasionally, low shouts were heard, which attracted the eyes of the boys outside the door, whose ears were stretched three inches long, and their faces turned red with excitement.
These three are the disciples of the Underworld who are on duty in this teleportation formation.
But since the catastrophe 30,000 years ago, the Hades had been hidden deep underground, rarely interacting with the outside world, and no foreign enemy had ever stepped into the gate of the Hades. Even vassal forces like the Nine Yin Sect would not rashly teleport here unless summoned by a powerful Hades.
Thirty thousand years of peace and tranquility caused the disciples on duty in the Underworld to completely ignore the safety of the teleportation array.
What could be the matter?
What could happen?
Not to mention, the power of the Underworld is now extremely powerful. In the minds of many disciples of the Underworld, they are already the number one sect in the Yuanlingtian cultivation world!
Even if the enemy invades, wouldn't they be seeking their own death?
So, the teleportation array quietly lit up, and when the burly Lu Yi appeared in the teleportation array, no one noticed. The three disciples on duty were too busy fighting to pay attention, and the boys in charge of guarding the gate were also listening with great interest, and didn't notice that someone else had come in.
Even the giant pythons coiled on the eighty-one metal pillars fell into a deep sleep, and none of them noticed Lu Yi entering.
Lu Yi raised his eyebrows and quietly released Ah Hu and others. Next to the teleportation formation, he set up a murderous sword formation.
Still no one noticed the actions of Lu Yi and others, so Lu Yi's actions gradually became bigger. When he waved his hand, Taoist soldiers quietly emerged. They quickly set up a large formation near the teleportation array. There were even hundreds of dead shadows of the shadow building quietly hiding in the shadows, surrounding the entire small building.
Flying boats and warships flew out from the Little Vajra Sumeru Mountain, quietly soared into the air, and formed a battle formation.
Afterwards, Lu Yu was also teleported over. He looked around in shock and silently commanded the Blood River Sect's powerful men to set up a blood sea formation in the square. Wisps of blood mist quietly spread out in all directions and seeped into the bodies of the eighty-one pythons bit by bit.
Several boys sitting in front of the door felt their blood and energy gradually weakening. They yawned, and fell to the ground with a thud.
Inside the building, the battle was still fierce; the men's howling and the women's laughter and cursing could be heard faintly.
Lu Yi even heard the man panting heavily while asking with a low laugh: "Compared with my master..."
Lu Yu and Lu Yu looked at each other with extremely strange expressions. Lu Yu played with a delicate blood-red flying sword and said faintly: "This underworld, tsk... It seems that they are all moral gentlemen!"
Chi Qingqing and other high-ranking members of the Blood River Sect, as well as a group of masters from the Nine Yin Sect who had defected, were all teleported over.
Soon , the army of the Blood Spirit Immortal Dynasty filed into the teleportation formation. They boarded the flying boats and warships and replenished the power of the military formation to its full capacity.
After being so busy for more than three hours, there was still no movement in the underworld!
"I feel a little guilty about this." Lu Yi laughed dryly and asked Lu Yu, "It feels like we didn't invade their mountain gate, but they lured the enemy deep into their mountain gate and then closed the gate to fight the dog!"
Lu Yu looked at the quiet gate of the Netherworld Mountain and murmured, "It shouldn't be this serious. How did such a sect survive for so many years? It's also because they hid deep in the earth, otherwise..."
In front of the square, a magnificent palace gate slowly opened, and a dignified young man in a gray robe strode out from the slightly opened door with his hands behind his back.
As the young man walked, he frowned and looked down at the gray-white jade ground with dragons and phoenixes carved on it. He strode towards the teleportation formation without even looking up, and just ran into the square that was already filled with countless monks.
"Boom!"
The young man actually bumped into the chest of Ah Hu, a burly man holding a demon-subduing pestle.
Ah Hu was wearing a heavy armor purchased from Jiancheng. On his chest was a relief of a ferocious one-horned flying tiger head. The sharp horn just hit the young man's forehead.
The young man cried out in pain, staggered back a few steps, raised his head suddenly, and without even looking at the person clearly, he started to curse: "How dare you, you lowly thing, how dare you..."
The young man suddenly widened his eyes and looked Ah Hu, who was tilting his head and staring at him.
"Who are you? From what family? Why are you here? Hey? It's not the day for paying tribute yet, what are you doing here?"
Ah Hu opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.
Yu Dianhu beside him turned around and looked at Lu Yi who was standing behind him.
Seeing the young man's silly look, Yu Dianhu didn't know what to do.
Lu Yi coughed lightly, finally breaking the strange atmosphere of tranquility and peace at the gate of the Hades. He summoned his magic power and spread his voice in all directions: "Robbery... I'd like to trouble the head of the Hades to come out and have a good talk!"
Lu Yi smiled and said, "We really don't want to use force, really!"
The rolling sound spread in all directions, the gray air rolled, and the palaces were shaken and buzzed. Around the square, on the eighty-one metal pillars, the pythons suddenly raised their heads, and their huge eyes spewed out dark green light, staring at Lu Yi.
In front of the square, there were dozens of palaces of different sizes. Their heavy doors opened with a rumble. Large groups of Hades disciples wearing grey robes and with greyish-white faces and ghostly auras came out one after another. They stood on the steps in front of the palace gates, looking down at the people lined up in the square.
The young man who bumped into Ah Hu's chest laughed out loud: "Stop it, robbery? Do you know where this is? This is the underworld... Robbery? Are you, are you, possessed by evil spirits?"
An old voice sounded from the depths of the palace complex far away: "Mingqi, retreat!"
The young man was stunned, his body swayed, and he turned into a wisp of cold wind and retreated quickly.
Lu Yi shouted softly, and the demon-subduing pestle in Ah Hu's hand suddenly released a large piece of red fire, and the pestle hit the wisp of dark wind. With a miserable howl, the dark wind shattered, and the young man's true body was revealed, with wisps of red flames wrapped around his body, burning his whole body with a hissing sound, and black smoke gushed out.
Ah Hu was practicing the secret technique inherited from the Great Brahma Pure World Sect. The power of the Red Lotus Karma Fire was extremely terrifying. The young man's cultivation was only at the Condensation Fruit stage, and his body did not seem to have been tempered much. He was so fragile that his entire body was burned into a wisp of black smoke in the blink of an eye.
"presumptuous!"
The old voice approached rapidly, a gray light flashed, and a tall, translucent old man suddenly appeared in front of the formation. The old man suddenly saw the densely packed monks on the huge square and the dozens of fully formed attack formations, and his face suddenly changed.
"You... everyone from the Nine Yin Sect, what do you want to do?"
The old man's gaze fell on the Nine Yin Sect leader and others. As vassals of the Underworld, whenever the Nine Yin Sect came to pay tribute, the top leaders of the sect would always come to the Underworld. Therefore, they were the only people the old man recognized.
The leader of the Nine Yin Cult coughed dryly and bowed to the old man: "Elder Hunyou, hey, this may not sound pleasant to the ears...but the fate of the Hades has come to an end. This master, today, is acting on behalf of the heavens and has come to subdue the Hades!"
A golden light flashed across the forehead of the Nine Yin Sect Leader. He pointed at Lu Yi and said with a smile, "Master is as compassionate as Buddha and does not want to commit more murders. If the Hades is willing to kneel down and beg for mercy, he can save his disciples from being killed. This is a great merit!"
The Supreme Elder of the Underworld, Hunyou, was stunned on the spot.
How could the leader of the Nine Yin Sect be so righteous and say such shameless words?
Suddenly, the entire underworld shook slightly, and more than a hundred long gray rainbows shot up into the sky from various palaces. One after another, solemn figures followed the rainbow and slowly flew out.
The top leaders of the Blood River Sect and the Nine Yin Sect all changed their expressions.
Among these more than one hundred long rainbows, within each and every one of them, there is a powerful being who is at the half-step heavenly realm!
