Chapter 1: The Underworld

Since the birth of the underworld thousands of years ago, there has been no sun, no daylight, only long, endless night.

There is a two-meter-tall phoenix tree that glows at night and is the main source of light in the underworld.

The leaves that shimmer silver on the branches sway in the wind, like pieces of white feathers that dance lightly.

Legend has it that there is a huge secret hidden in the phoenix tree, as long as this secret can be solved, you can ask His Royal Highness the Lord of the Underworld to promise him a condition.

Whether it's monstrous power or inexhaustible wealth, each of them is full of fatal attraction.

Countless people have devoted their hearts and souls to this secret, but thousands of years have passed, but no one has been able to solve this secret.

Later, they began to wonder if the secret existed at all, and that it was just a harmless joke played by the Lord of the Underworld when he was bored.

There was a rustling sound in the dark forest, and a black-clothed ghost flame clutched the wound on his abdomen that kept dripping blood, and sprang out of the waist-high weeds.

Because of the pain, beads of sweat the size of beans kept appearing on Ghost Yan's forehead, and the beads of sweat slipped into his eyes, he raised his hand to wipe it, but he didn't dare to stop for half a minute, the pursuers were behind him, and they would catch up with him if he took a little slower.

The underworld is divided into two realms, the upper realm is the place where the lonely and widowed wandering souls are reincarnated, and the lower realm is the place where the people of the underworld live and live.

The underworld was created by the master of the underworld, but he has always ignored mundane affairs, so all the affairs of the underworld are entrusted to the ghost king. In the entire underworld, except for the ghost king, no one has really seen the appearance of the underworld.

Since the Immortal Lord fell into a deep sleep, there has been no news of him for thousands of years, and people in the Underworld can't help but start to speculate and wonder if the Immortal Lord is no longer there.

The hierarchy of the underworld is strict, and the lord of the underworld is not there, and the ghost king Guiga has naturally become the supreme ruler of the entire underworld.

Although Ghost Yan is the second son of the Ghost King, his mother is just an ordinary commoner in the underworld.

Back then, his mother was accepted into the harem by the ghost king because of her beautiful appearance, and his father was a careless person, and after the freshness, he didn't step into his mother's palace for half a step.

The ghost queen Rong Jia was extremely jealous, and because she was afraid of the ghost king before, she swallowed her anger and let the mother concubine of the ghost Yan live in the ghost king's palace, and also occupied the position of the side concubine.

Not long after Ghost Yan was born, he lost the favor of the Ghost King, and his mother, who had no one to protect her, was ordered to be executed by the Ghost Queen because of her fornication with foreign ministers. Until he closed his eyes, his mother didn't wait for his father to come to see her.

When a person in the human world dies, he will turn into a ghost and be sent to the underworld to be reincarnated. And his mother was originally a person from the underworld, and after death, she could only return to the underworld and be wiped out.

Ordinary weapons can't do fatal damage to the ghost queen, and the ghost flame left the ghost king's palace alone after he reached adulthood at the age of three hundred.

The master who taught him martial arts in the palace gave him a piece of parchment, and he followed the parchment's instructions to find the Dementor Sword in the Lost Lands on the edge of the underworld.

coincided with the 10,000-year-old Yin Shou of the Ghost Queen, Ghost Yan returned to the Ghost King's Palace with the Soul Sword, and wanted to take advantage of the birthday banquet, when everyone in the palace relaxed their vigilance, they took advantage of the chaos to assassinate the Ghost Queen, but unfortunately his intention was broken by the Ghost Queen's son, resulting in the failure of the assassination.

Ghost Yan looked desperately at the bare stone tablet standing in front of him, and the scarlet word 'forbidden land' on the stone tablet made his heart fall to the bottom. He desperately escaped from the Ghost King's Palace, but he didn't expect to panic and be forced to a forbidden place by the pursuers.

It has been rumored in the underworld since ancient times that a fierce and brutal beast was suppressed in the forbidden land, and the beast was so large that it could swallow the sky and the sun. I have never seen anyone who dares to trespass into the forbidden land and come out of it alive.

Ghost Yan heard the footsteps of the pursuers behind him getting closer and closer, he gritted his teeth and rushed in. According to the character of the ghost queen, she will never let herself go. Rather than staying and waiting for death, it is better to go in and have a chance, and maybe there is a glimmer of life.

The pursuers saw Ghost Yan break into the forbidden land, and turned around and returned to the Ghost King's Palace without looking back. In their eyes, from the moment Ghost Yan stepped onto the forbidden land, he was already a dead man.

The forbidden land is in the deepest part of the Nether, there are no phoenix trees here, and there are scattered blue fireflies floating in the dark night sky. The surroundings were barren, the ground was full of bare stones, and the eerie, biting cold wind made the ghosts shiver,

Ghost Yan reached out and grabbed a dark insect with a dark blue tail glow, this kind of flying insect generally only lives in the upper realm of the underworld, why does it appear in a place like the forbidden land?

With the faint glow of fireflies, Oni Yan found a cave, and he walked into it curiously. There was light in the depths of the cave, and he walked in to see a hot rolling lava beneath the depths of the cave.

Slowly, the temperature in the cave became higher and higher, sweat mixed with blood soaked through the clothes, and the air around them seemed to be ignited at any moment.

With the dazzling firelight, the air in the cave became thinner and thinner, and Oni Yan's breathing began to become rapid, and under the reflection of the firelight, his face was as pale as paper.

When he realized that something was wrong and wanted to escape, the man collapsed and collapsed in the cave.

The mud on the ground was like life, frantically absorbing the black blood left behind in the ghost flame's abdomen. Blood was transported from the ground to the magma, and a dazzling pentagram rose above the magma, followed by a black mist floating out of the center of the array.

As if inspired, the insects outside the cave flew in in groups, circling and dancing around the mist, and their cheerful and joyful mood was visible to the naked eye.

As the mist lifted, a tall, tall figure emerged from within, and the roaring, tumbling magma quickly cooled and turned into gray stone.

When the man opened his eyes, his golden eyes were as bright as stars, and in his deep eyes, it seemed that everything in heaven and earth was in full view. But soon, the dazzling, holy gold color disappeared and became a normal black.

A tremor from the depths of his soul swept through every living creature in the underworld, and the ghost king woke up from his dream in the middle of the night, he pushed away the warm fragrant nephrite in his arms, and didn't even bother to put on his shoes, and hurriedly ran into the study.

He opened the secret door behind the bookcase, saw the glass cup working normally behind the door, and his heart was about to rush out of his body, and slowly calmed down.

The ghost king wiped the cold sweat from his forehead because of nervousness and fear, and the familiar and powerful aura had completely disappeared, was it just his illusion just now?

Shen Qingye sneered at the formation made of blood as a medium under his feet, and the formation was sealed with the blood of the Heavenly Emperor and the Ghost King, if it weren't for this reckless little ghost who happened to have a little blood relationship with the Ghost King, he didn't know how long he would have to sleep.

Stygian Night didn't expect that the ghost king, who had always bowed his head and lowered his eyebrows in front of him, would dare to collude with the Heavenly Emperor to plot against him, and it seemed that the one in the sky had always been worried about him.

At the beginning of the chaos of heaven and earth, desolate beasts were rampant, and an endless wood was born in the realm of innocence in the extremely cold land, and the endless wood absorbed the essence of the sun and moon day and night, and generated a pair of twins, one was the dark night, and the other was the heavenly emperor Fengli.

After the two of them exterminated the desolate beasts, Feng Xi created the Heavenly Realm with the raw wood that was half cut into the earth under the endless wood and became the Emperor of Heaven. Wen Qingye, on the other hand, used the remaining upper half of the dead wood to create the underworld, which was used to absorb the lonely souls and wild ghosts of the human world.

As the Endless Deathwood constantly absorbs the dead energy from the Lonely Soul Wild Ghost, the power of the Stygian Night grows stronger day by day. Feng Li was worried that the growing strength of the Stygian Night would threaten his position as the Emperor of Heaven, so he instigated and provoked the Ghost King, and when the Stygian Night was sleeping to refine the dead qi in his body, he and the power of the two used the blood of the two to suppress the Stygian Night Seal in the forbidden land of the underworld.

Although the blood of the ghost flame loosened the eye of the formation, it could not completely break the seal, and although the soul of the dark night could freely shuttle through the eye of the formation with the power of the formation, the body was still pressed under the seal and could not get out.

The sudden awakening of the dark night, the nearest ghost flame could not withstand the impact of the huge force, and lost his life in an instant.

The soul of the ghost flame floating out of the body floated out of the cave as if it was being pulled, and when the dark night saw this, he collected his remnant soul into the jade plate, and the jade plate in his hand was carved from the cold jade of ten thousand years, which could nourish the soul.

The ghost flame woke him up, and he was killed by the formation, he was also his own life-saving benefactor, and the dark night decided to wait for his body to lift the seal, and the soul was repaired in the jade plate, so he rescued him.

Stygian looked at the corpse of the ghost flame on the ground, and now this body belonged to him temporarily. Ghost Yan looks impatient, like his mother, with red lips and white teeth, full of youth.

It's just that Stygian Night doesn't like Ghost Yan's appearance, and after his soul enters his body, he begins to transform it according to his own preferences.

The thin figure is visible to the naked eye and is rapidly elongated and strong, and the face has been replaced with the original appearance of the dark night, and the childishness belonging to the teenager on the body has completely disappeared, replaced by an unfathomable restraint and calmness.

The fiery red sunset reflects on the sparkling water, and the small fish in the river emerge from the water, purring and spitting bubbles briskly.

Circles of orange light glow cast around the bubbles. The banks of the embankment are planted with weeping willows, and the turquoise willows rustle in the evening breeze.

The old farmer, who had worked hard in the field for a day, made a detour to the river before returning home, took out the bamboo basket that was placed in the river at noon, and looked at the fish, shrimp and yellow eels that were fresh and jumping in the bamboo basket, thinking that he could add food to his grandson when he went home in the evening, and his face was happy.

From far and near, there was a burst of silver bell-like, crisp and melodious laughter. Seventy or eight girls of about fifteen or sixteen years old, carrying bamboo baskets, walked out of the depths of the forest with smiles like flowers.

The bamboo baskets are filled with green and red wild fruits and mushrooms, as well as beautiful garlands made of wild flowers and grasses.

Several of them are from the same village, and whenever they have time, they will go to the mountains to dig wild vegetables and pick mushrooms.

Zhuo Youning hid behind the tree, looking at the girl in the middle, with two long braids, willow eyebrows and goose egg face, and a dark green gauze skirt. The girl's gestures and smiles touched his heart.

While laughing, Lin Qiuyi accidentally found Zhuo Youning, who was hiding behind the willow tree, cautiously, and looking at them from time to time.

"Don't go over to Qiuyi, that coffin is a broom star, if you get close to him, you will pass on bad luck to you."

On Lin Qiuyi's right hand, a girl in a pink gauze skirt stretched out her hand and grabbed her, she frowned and looked at Zhuo Youning, who was standing in the distance in gray clothes, raised her hand to cover her mouth with a handkerchief, and whispered to Lin Qiuyi.

"It's okay, Youning and I have known each other since childhood, he is kind-hearted, if I also avoid him like others, he will be very sad."

Zhuo Youning looked at Lin Qiuyi, who was slowly walking towards him, and the whole person was so panicked that he was at a loss, and his eyes didn't know where to look.

"Youning, how are you doing lately?"

Lin Qiuyi's eyes looking at Zhuo Youning were very gentle, without the disgust and dislike of others.

"Well, that's good."

After Lin Qiuyi approached, Zhuo Youning subconsciously took half a step back, he was an unknown person, and he couldn't bring bad luck to Qiuyi.

Lin Qiuyi's mind was clear, she saw Zhuo Youning's frowning and retreating, and she knew it in her heart, but she just sighed that he was too sensitive and inferior.

"There is still a piece of dry food left from the forest today, if you don't dislike it, take it and eat it."

Lin Qiuyi took out a piece of dough carefully wrapped in a white handkerchief from the bamboo basket and handed it to Zhuo Youning.

"No dislike, no dislike, thank you."

Zhuo Youning waved his hand again and again, happily thanked and took the dough in her hand, and then carefully put the dough into his arms, he looked at Lin Qiuyi's back as he left, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help laughing.

Zhuo Youning happily hummed a minor tune and rushed to the city gate, and suddenly, he touched the top of his head with his hand, slimy, took it down, the bird was ....., and his delicate facial features were suddenly twisted together, this is the first time this month that the sky has fallen 'gold', and he himself is almost unable to remember.

Zhuo Youning returned to the river depressedly, watering and cleaning up the bird feces on his head, but for a while, the disgusting smell could not be dissipated for the time being.

Zhuo Youning has been an unlucky ghost since he was a child, and people who know him like to call him a coffin. In fact, he was not born in a coffin, but when his aunt gave birth to him, because of heavy bleeding, he died halfway through his birth.

He was pulled out of the dead man's belly, so everyone liked to call him a coffin.

Later, when he was six years old, Daddy also died of tuberculosis.

After Daddy's death, the two aunts ran to the village chief's house every day to cry, and in the end, the village chief couldn't bear the trick of the two shrews crying, making trouble and hanging themselves, so he put the fields and family property in his father's name under the name of his two aunts under the condition that Zhuo Youning was ignorant and ignorant.

Drinking water will choke and walking will bump, which is probably a portrayal of Zhuo Youning's daily life.

The only fortunate thing is that not long after Tian Chuan was assigned to his two aunts, when the two were doing farm work in the field, they fell on the ground, one broke his arm, the other broke his leg, and he recuperated at home for more than half a month.

After the two went back, they thought about it and tossed it for a night, feeling that it was too evil to be injured at the same time. It must be because these things were previously hung with the name of the little rabbit cub, so they were contaminated with bad luck.

The two aunts were afraid that they would die like Zhuo Youning's father and mother, and as soon as they combined their hearts, they didn't leave any of them and returned all the family property to Zhuo Youning.

However, since then, Zhuo Youning's reputation as a 'broom star' has become even more famous, and the village names are afraid of his reputation as a broom star, so they set fire to drive him out of the village, leaving him with no home.

The young Zhuo Youning did not have any cash on him, and he kept a few land deeds that no one dared to collect. After being driven out, no one ran away, and the cold winter Layue slept on the street wrapped in a dirty, shabby cotton jacket that could not see the color, and almost froze to death.

Thanks to the old cripple of Yizhuang, who pulled him out of the snowdrift when he passed by, the old cripple also had a grandson who was about the same age as Zhuo Youning, but he couldn't survive the great famine five years ago.

The old cripple saw that he was too pitiful for a child to live on the streets, so he picked him up, and since then, Zhuo Youning has lived in Yizhuang.

finally had a place to shelter from the wind and rain, but the good times didn't last long, and the old cripple's body was not very good.

Within two years, the old cripple also left, leaving Zhuo Youning alone to guard Yizhuang.

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