sighed in his heart, while flipping the Tiangang astrolabe in his hand and playing with it. Now my father-in-law's soul is recuperating inside, and I can't communicate with him, so I can only rely on myself. Since my father-in-law once said that there is a way for those who have spelled heaven to come and go between yin and yang, then I think that as long as I don't delay here for too long, I should still have a chance to return to the yang world, right?

I went all the way down the hill and walked aimlessly towards the front. The scene of the underworld has been basically accustomed to it along the way. The overall color and light are relatively cold, and there is an illusion of rushing on a very bright moonlit night. There was silence all around, and no living creatures could be heard. It stands to reason that this kind of lush vegetation should be indispensable to the sound of insects and birds and beasts!

But other than that, it doesn't seem to be much different from Yangshi, and the emotions mixed with tension and fear in my heart have also calmed down at this time. Just a little confused and don't know what to do next? It's completely unknown to you......

Gollum......

I suddenly heard a strange sound, which seemed very clear in this dead and silent world, startled and proud, and I immediately reacted that this was actually the sound of my stomach!

This is too fucking speechless, isn't it?! I've already reached the underworld, will the ghost still be hungry?

What made people even more speechless was that I also felt a burst of thirst, as if there was a fire burning in my throat, and it was about to smoke.

Well, it seems, I'm still human. Not only that, but it seems that I have entered the Netherworld directly in the form of a physical body, unlike the Hades that I had guessed before, and I must enter in the form of a soul.

I remembered that when I looked at the top of the hill where I had fallen, I noticed that there must have been a large river not far ahead, and I hope that the water of the river can be drunk.

With this in mind, he trotted all the way forward, hoping to reach the river as soon as possible to quench his thirst.

The grass was getting taller and thicker, almost level with the top of my head. I acted in the tall grass, and for safety, I lit two pieces of paper money and turned them into two fires that hung around me, in case the terrible ghosts of the underworld suddenly appeared to attack me.

After a short trot, I felt a little tired. After all, I've just been through a few battles, and I'm still very weak. But the sudden sound of a thick stream of water in my ears immediately refreshed me. The sound of this kind of water flow is not like an ordinary river, but the sound of the wind and the faint undulating waves when the river flows.

It looks like there's a play!

The sound of the river was tantamount to a kind of plum quenching thirst, and I ran a few steps forward, and the soil under my feet began to get wetter and wetter, and even when I stepped on it, it would be a little dented, and there would be a slight popping sound, which made the surroundings seem less silent and depressing.

At last, I stretched out my hand and lifted the tall grass in front of me, and found myself at the end of the grass, and saw a wide river in front of me, and I was standing on the edge of the river.

The water is crystal clear and you can see the slender aquatic plants swaying at the bottom of the shallow river nearby, but there are no fish or shrimp in them, which makes people feel a little weird. The surface of the river is as smooth as a mirror, and there are only a few waves when the breeze blows occasionally. This big river meanders and flows on the vast plain, but it has some of the spirit of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River in the sun, but the river water is clearer I don't know how many times.

Thirsty as I was, I was not so presumptuous as to be defenseless against the things in this strange netherworld. After some painstaking examination and testing, I was sure that this river water was no different from that of the Yang World, and that it could be taken directly.

At that moment, he no longer hesitated, lowered his head directly, almost buried his head in the clear river water, and gulped and drank. What I didn't expect was that the water of this great river in the underworld was so sweet and refreshing, and more comfortable than the best spring water I have ever drunk!

After drinking heavily, not only did I quench my thirst, but I even felt full with my stomach. The most amazing part is that I feel that the spiritual power in my body has actually improved extremely slowly! Although this improvement is extremely subtle, it cannot be ignored by me, who has a keen sense of all aspects.

You must know that in the yang world, I am afraid that it is necessary to drink some water boiled by specific medicinal herbs to have spiritual power to improve on its own! In other words, the water of this entire river is equivalent to a medicinal liquid boiled with medicinal materials that can help spiritual power, which is really unbelievable!

It may not be a precious potion, but the whole river that resembles a great river has this effect, which is simply ...... I can't find the words to describe it.

I stared blankly at the clear river flowing in front of me, and my mind was filled with thoughts. In this netherworld, it is not as sinister and terrifying as in folklore! Although it is indeed a bit eerie, it is dominated by an ethereal and mysterious atmosphere. And...... It seems that for the cultivation of Xuanmen spells, it has a lot of advantages over the yang world.

As soon as I thought about it, many things came to my mind. Maybe there are really a lot of historical Dao masters who may be existing in this netherworld for a long time in some form that I can't imagine for the time being!

Looking at the clear water in front of me, I hooked down again, picked up the water and washed my face. But at this moment, I suddenly heard a rustling sound in the grass not far behind me, as if something was hiding in it.

What is it?!

I turned around in horror, and immediately saw the tall grass not far away shaking violently, as if something fierce was coming towards me. Suddenly, I felt that my scalp was numb, and my muscles were tense, and I began to be on guard! I was in a relaxed mood just now, but now I was hanging again, and I didn't have time to think about it, so I subconsciously pushed forward with my right hand, and the two blue-edged orange dao fires that had been floating around me went towards the swaying grass at the same time.

I hurriedly swung out two balls of Dao Fire attacked, and the grass along the way was scorched by the scorching breath of Dao Fire, and they all wilted, falling to the sides. A shadow appeared in the grass, and two fireballs blasted upward.

Seeing that it was about to hit the ground, the shadow actually waved something and slashed towards the two Dao fires in front of him, and the two Dao fires were directly shattered at once, and they exploded and disappeared with a bang. The tall grass with a radius of about two meters around it was instantly scorched and dried up, losing its moisture.

It was then that I finally saw the shadow that suddenly appeared in the grass by the river. This is actually ...... It was a little boy of eight or nine years old!!

I saw that he was wearing a simple clothes, his hair was simply tied up with a hemp rope, and he was holding a strange wooden stick in his hand, the surface was very smooth and moist, and it seemed that it should have been processed by some technology. It was this wooden stick that directly shattered my two Dao Fire attacks just now. And around his waist, there are several containers like gourds, and the craftsmanship is quite exquisite.

What made me feel a little surprised was that this wooden stick, which was more than a foot long, was actually exuding a strange spiritual power fluctuation, and it was actually ...... The breath of ancient spiritual power!!

The kid clenched his stick-like low-level self-defense weapon in his right hand and looked at me with a look of fear and vigilance, like a young wolf.

Seeing him like this, I was a little relieved.

You must know that if the Yin Soul Ghost Thing is not so powerful that it is against the sky, it will not dare to directly contact Dao Huo. Just now, this little boy directly used the wooden stick in his hand to block the fire I formed by burning with two paper coins, which means that he must not be a ghost. Or from another point of view, it is impossible for ghosts and ghosts to use magic weapons, and it seems to be slightly different from the current Taoist magic weapons......

But no matter what, as long as it's not the ghost of the Yin Si that I've been fearing and worrying about right now. I didn't plan to fight this little boy right away, I had too many questions in my heart, and I needed someone to talk to to answer them. I wanted to try it, so I scattered the spells I had prepared, trying to put a smile on my face: "Hello little friend, you ...... Where do you come from? Over here...... And where? ”

In fact, I saw him dressed in ancient attire. There was also the aura of ancient spiritual power emanating from the wooden stick magic weapon in my hand, and I already had a vague guess in my heart that I couldn't even believe.

But my gentle smile and unleashed kindness did not seem to be recognized by the child, and instead of answering my words, he looked at me with a more wary look, as if he was ready to attack me with the stick in his hand.

It's sun! Am I just looking so bad for me? Can you be so wary of me?

There was a little upset in his heart, but he continued to smile kindly: "Little friend, I'm not a bad person. Look......"

"You're not human! You don't smell like anyone on you! ”

This time, before I could finish my sentence, the little boy with a wary expression suddenly interrupted me.

I...... I'm not human?! Am I a ghost? Although this is indeed in the Netherworld, ghosts should be the dominant existence. But I'm obviously a big living person, okay? Just as he wanted to say a few retorts, the kid himself seemed to realize that something was wrong, and his brows furrowed: "But...... You don't have the same breath as the ghosts and demons. What exactly are you? The village chief's grandfather said that the spiritual tribulation was about to begin, are you a demon? ”

Where is this? How did I become a demon! The words from the mouth of this unlucky bear kid made me feel very uncomfortable, but I got a lot of shocking information from what he said.

Obviously, this boy should be the same as I guessed, he is alive! And he is a living person who has been living in the underworld!! It's hard to accept, but it's a fact that is right in front of my eyes, and I have to accept it. Just listen to what he says...... It seems that he is not the only living person living in the underworld. There is also the head of the village, indicating that the number of living people in Hades is at least one of the people of the village.

Secondly, as a living person who came from the yang world to this underworld, I was told by this little boy that I was "not human." This shows that the living people who still exist in this underworld should be different from the people in the yang world. At least, for them, the difference is keenly felt in us.

At last...... He actually mentioned the Spirit Tribulation!!

It struck me a little incredible. In recent years, I've heard the word "spiritual calamity" come up a lot. But most of them are known only by some powerful seniors or high-level people in certain forces. Unexpectedly, in this netherworld, an eight or nine-year-old child knew about it. And what shocked me the most was that the spiritual tribulation was not only in the yang world, but also in the underworld!

All of a sudden, I felt that my whole person was not good, my head was dizzy, and I couldn't turn around at all.

I tried to squeeze out a smile: "Little friend, you also feel it, I don't have the breath of ghosts and demons in me." I'm just like you, I'm human. It's just from far, far away, a place you've probably never heard of. How to put it, you can understand it as another world......"

"! Perhaps, you are a spy sent by someone who has defected from other layers to the side of the demons. ”

Other...... Layer?

I was fooled by the boy's strange words. But I didn't expect this kid to be so violent, and he would pull out a stick against him if he didn't agree with him. Unexpectedly, when I was a little dazed, the magic weapon wooden stick in my hand smashed hard at me, and a bright light shaped like a big bird flew out from it, with an extremely fast speed, and there was a sharp chirp in the process of attacking me.

Luckily, although I withdrew the Dao technique, the speed at which this kid cast the spell was not too fast. When that big bird formed by the condensation of ancient spiritual power crashed head-on towards me, I was ready to defend myself.

The few remaining pieces of paper money flew out, and suddenly a golden translucent shield formed in front of me, blocking it. In this Yin Cao Underworld, the masculine energy is very strongly suppressed, so it is impossible to use the martial arts qi and blood, so it can only use the ordinary divine armor shield of the underworld money.

The spiritual power bird slammed into my divine armor shield, and suddenly there was a clicking sound, and dense cracks like spider webs appeared on the entire translucent golden arc shield, spreading out in all directions. But fortunately, this kid is too young after all, and it is indeed relatively low-level compared to the wooden stick magic weapon, so even if I am so weak now, I can still resist this kid's sudden attack!

"Haha, little one, you still want to do a surprise attack? Didn't I tell you, I'm a big living person like you, but from a different place. I just want to have a good talk with you, you don't have to be nervous......"

I laughed, tried to look kind, and took a step forward. I didn't expect this little boy to look at me at this moment, and it actually became very strange. It was no longer the nervous and vigilant look that I had just had, but I had become a little respectful, excited, and relieved.

How can a child's eyes be so complicated?

It struck me as a little quirky and confusing. I was just about to speak, but this little guy suddenly came to me. This sudden movement almost startled me, and I almost subconsciously cast a spell to attack and resist.

It's just that I finally controlled it, because I didn't feel a trace of malice in this child. He looked at me with an excited look, his lips trembling a little with excitement, and he asked me, "You...... Did you just cast a spell with money? You, you can cast spells with money!! That's great! ”

Belch...... What the? Money, casting spells?

Hearing this child's clueless words, I was stunned at first, and then immediately reacted, and my heart was immediately shocked.

Money! Cast spells with money! Could it be that this little boy is using the paper money I just used to perform Taoist skills? He speaks of paper money as money, that is...... Do they use this kind of money as if it were real money?

I suddenly had a very strange feeling, originally we said that paper money is for the dead, and the paper money made by the designer of the underworld can be used to perform Taoism in addition to burning it to people in the underworld, which is the foundation of our life in the supernatural circle.

For a designer like me, the role of the banknote is more of a tool to carry the Tao, just like the various talismans of the talisman designer. Now a guy who is obviously a living person actually told me that this is the real money they can use, which really makes me feel a little surprised.

But it's in the underworld after all! Paper money is used in the underworld, maybe it's normal. It's just that I didn't expect that it was actually used by living people......

Although I didn't know why, I still took out a piece of paper money from my body again and handed it to the little boy: "Then, the money you said...... Is this the thing? That's how you buy and sell things with this kind of money? ”

At this moment, the little boy's attitude became very friendly, he took the paper money I handed him from my hand, pinched it in his hand, carefully looked at it again and again, and then handed it back to me: "Well, that's right, this is the money we use." The grandfather of the village chief said that a terrible catastrophe was about to begin, and it could destroy the whole world. However, if you meet someone who can use the money to directly perform Taoism, maybe there is still hope. So seeing that you just used money to cast the kind of spell that can defend against my attacks, I know that you are the important person that the village chief said. ”

Oh my god! What are these things?

I feel like I'm going crazy! The amount of information this kid said was too much. I could understand every word he said, and I understood every sentence he put together, but I had never heard of all the shocking secrets that were revealed in it.

Listening to what he meant, there is a village chief in this underworld, does he think that a terrible disaster will also happen in the underworld? And we...... The designer of the dark banknote was actually able to save them? It's, it's incredible.

Alas, anyway. If I could, I would like to go to that village to see what the situation is, and if I can talk to the village chief about what is going on in this underworld and what are the huge shocking secrets in it, maybe I can also solve many questions in my heart.

I asked the little boy, "Since you say that I am an important person to you, can you take me to your village?" ”

He seemed to be a little hesitant, but he looked at the dark money in my hand, gritted his teeth, and said firmly: "Okay! I'll take you back to our village. But you're going to have to cast that magic spell again. ”

I laughed lightly: "Do you want to use the Dark Money Technique?" That's no problem, I'll use this spell to take you back to the village. ”

The little boy looked at the clear river flowing behind me: "I'm going to fill the water in the boundary river with these things first, and I'm going to take it back to the village." As he spoke, he reached out and patted the gourds hanging from his waist. Sure enough, as I had guessed before, these tied gourds were indeed used to hold water.

I nodded and said, "You go and put it on, and when you're done, we'll go back to the village together." ”

So I stood by and watched the little boy fill the water with the big gourd on his waist, I wanted to help him get one, but I didn't expect this kid to be quite stubborn, euphemistically refused my help, insisted on taking it himself.

I shrugged my shoulders and said, "Well, I didn't expect you to be young but ambitious. ”

As I spoke, I took some paper money out of my bosom, and with a quick incantation in my mouth, pasted it on the little boy's and my own laps.

The little boy stared at the paper money attached to his lap with curious eyes: "It's so fun, you can cast spells with money, what are we going to do?" ”

"Let's run faster!"

That's right, I'm using the "magic technique" of the designer of the dark banknote. Originally, if there was a Shenxing banknote prepared in advance, it would have been taken out and attached to the leg. But there was no longer one, so I had to cast this spell that increased my running speed once.

When the spell was finished, I reached out and tried to take the little boy by the hand. At first, he subconsciously resisted and shrank away, but after a moment of hesitation, he still took my hand, showing both nervousness and anticipation.

"Let's go!"

I squeezed his hand and pulled him forward with a strong stride. This time, it was like a lightning speed, and the speed was extremely fast. It's more than three or four times faster than ordinary people running with all their might! The tall grass around us was hit by us, and it all fell to the sides. I saw a look of surprise on his face, apparently the first time I'd seen this kind of money.

In a short time, we rushed out of the tall grass along the river, and the scenery of the vast plains and meadows around us was unobstructed, and the cold silver sunlight shone on our bodies quite comfortably......

"Alright, it's time for you to lead the way, let's run back to the village!"

So the little boy adjusted his direction and led me to run in one direction of the vast prairie. That direction happens to be the direction of the small hill I just fell down with the snake, which is the end of this grassland, and beyond that, there are a large number of small hills that are undulating, and the terrain is relatively complicated.

In addition to the fact that I was really thirsty and wanted to go to the river to drink, this is also the reason why I didn't choose this direction just now. But it seems that the little village from which the little boy came must have been in the hilly terrain of the underworld.

Along the way, although the running speed is fast, this is actually the power of the spell of the underworld, and we didn't spend too much effort ourselves. While running, I chatted with the little boy and learned that his name was Li Su, and his parents and grandparents were still alive. The village where he lived was home to about 200 families, which was a large human settlement. Because in this world, ghosts and demons often haunt the world, and the number of living people is actually not much......

However, this Li Su is young after all, and he can't tell too much real secret information, and it's not good for me to ask a lot of things so directly now, so I don't know much important information.

After about an hour, I had seen a building popping up on a hill that wasn't very tall in front of me. Obviously, this is the village where Li Su lives......

I felt my heart pounding, and I went from being calm to feeling a little nervous and expectant. This is a village of the underworld! But I'm afraid that the people living inside are all flesh and blood living people, not ghosts and ghosts. Such a contrast and strange situation, I believe that anyone will feel some emotional ups and downs when they are about to face it.

The village in front of you is hidden among the lush trees of the hills, and it can be seen from some of the cottages exposed that the houses of the whole village have the appearance of a kind of classical Chinese pavilions, not like an ordinary village, which looks very exquisite, indicating that the people who built this netherworld village must have high taste.

Maybe it was because he felt my nervousness, but the kid Li Su next to me actually comforted me and said, "Brother Jiang Ming, don't be nervous." The people in our village are very good, and you are still the kind of powerful person who can use money to cast spells as the village chief's grandfather said, everyone will definitely like you. ”

Listening to Li Su's words, I felt a little funny in my heart. This little guy may have been influenced by the village chief in his mouth, and regarded my money technique as something extremely unbelievable. But in fact, I have to say that the spiritual power that our Xuanmen Taoism is practicing now is actually at a lower level than the ancient spiritual power......

That is to say, in essence, Li Su's Dao skills are more advanced than my Immortal Money Technique, but he is too young and his spiritual power is too weak, so naturally he is far inferior to me.

Li Su took me to the front of the village, and the speed slowed down. I saw that the entrance to the village was almost five meters wide, and there was a wooden gate made of trees to block it, except for a small gate on each side for the villagers to enter and exit every day.

On both sides of the village gate, there are two watchtowers made of wood, and a villager stands on each of them, as in ancient times, as if he was watching for danger outside the village. They were all wearing that kind of ancient armor and an iron crown on their heads, they really looked like that kind of sentinel, but the slender Daomen magic sword they held in their hands added some ethereal temperament.

A number of wooden walls stretched along the watchtowers to the sides, and then connected to the low hill, and the entrance to the village was heavily guarded.

This...... It's almost like a village where clans were so common in ancient times. It's just that the difference from ordinary villages is that on each piece of wood at the five-meter-wide wooden village gate, there are actually pieces of talisman paper drawn with cinnabar! Not only that, but under those two watchtowers, there is also a black iron tripod each, exuding the fluctuation of ancient spiritual power, which is obviously also a magic weapon!

After a brief moment of amazement, I quickly understood why the village had been built the way it was, to warn against the attacks of demons with physical bodies. Because since there are living people with actual flesh and blood living in this netherworld, it is normal for demons with objective bodies to live.

And those cinnabar runes pasted on the wood of the gate, and the two black iron tripods under the watchtower, should be using Taoist methods to resist those ghosts and ghosts that have no actual form!

It seems that the living conditions of human beings in this underworld seem to be much more difficult than those in the yang world! Not only has it not developed modern advanced science and technology, but it also needs to be on guard against the attacks of demons and monsters at all times. Could it be ...... Don't those ghosts of the underworld care about them? Don't help these living people fight off demons and monsters?

At this time, since I have accepted the existence of the underworld in my heart, it may be a magical world that is the same as the yang world, and there should be rules for the world. With a village composed of living people in the underworld, and with demons and eccentricities, then there should be a real yin, and there should also be black and white impermanence in the underworld, and there should be ghosts such as black and white impermanence bulls and horses in the underworld, right?

With this question, Li Su and I walked completely to the gate of this village, and the two sentry-like villagers on the watchtower immediately raised their voices to stop us.

"What people! Stop now! If you are an outsider, please show us the invitation letter from our village, and if you don't have one, you will not be allowed to enter the village. ”

Their voices were very cold, showing a sense of business.

Then Li Su hurriedly raised his head and said to the villagers above the two watchtowers: "Brother Shu, Brother Yan, I am Li Su." ”

The two sentries had a laughing and crying expression on their faces: "Nonsense! I naturally know that you are Li Su, you kid suddenly slipped out of the village today and disappeared. Let your parents go crazy, and run to the village chief to cry, worried that you will be captured by demons and monsters. You must know that the spiritual tribulation is about to begin......"

"Oops, two big brothers, don't reprimand me first. I sneaked out of the village to help the village chief's grandfather fetch some water from the boundary river for him. Moreover, I also found the village chief's grandfather always said that he was a powerful person who could cast spells with the help of money! That's the Jiang Ming brother next to me. ”

As he spoke, Li Su pulled my sleeve and took two steps forward, as if he wanted the two sentry villagers on the watchtower to see me more clearly.

I keenly saw that the two villagers on the watchtower exchanged glances in the air from a distance of more than five meters, with surprise and wariness in them, and they didn't seem to believe it. And there was some dangerous light flashing, as if I wanted to attack me if something was wrong.

I know this kind of thing, it's definitely not enough to just say it with my mouth, and I have to see the truth under my hands. (To be continued.) )