The morning sun, red as blood, shines on the earth.

Tu Hongqi's military palace yamen hall was still dark. The cold air was surrounded by beams and pillars in the noisy lobby, and Tu Hongqi, who was tied up by five flowers, bathed in this coldness, and his heart was cold.

He looked around, looking at the clansmen who had been obedient and flattering to him a few hours ago, and at this time he knelt down at the feet of the ghosts of the Nine Shadows Kingdom, bowing down to the king of Yama, and his heart was already half cold.

Hearing the soul of the Tu Shan clan again, he shouted urgently: "It's all Tu Hongqi, he wants to rebel, he wants us to ambush your army." ”。

After this shout, the other Tu Shan clan's souls also defended themselves, and they all pushed the responsibility to Tu Hongqi;

And what the king of Yama wants, this is the effect.

has been the king of Hades for thousands of years, and he used to have to judge thousands of human souls who had just entered the underworld every day, so he knew the character of human souls too well. A human soul like Tu Hongqi is used to seeing life and death on the battlefield, and he is not afraid if you kill him directly, but will become a martyr among the Tushan clan. In the future, the Tu Shan clan will inevitably find trouble in the Nine Shadows Kingdom, but the gains outweigh the losses.

The only way is to use Tu Hongqi as a lifesaver for the souls of other Tu Shan clans. As long as the souls of the other Tu Shan clans want to live, they must put the responsibility on Tu Hongqi.

In this way, Tu Hongqi will become the target of public criticism, and if he can't become a martyr, he won't be able to become the benchmark and spiritual leader of the Tu Shan clan's souls who will rebel against the Nine Shadows Country in the future.

Human nature is sometimes so fragile, and the human soul is human. Choosing between life and Tu Hongqi, most of the Tu Shan clan souls are spineless, they choose to live.

And those who could choose Tu Hongqi had already died in the battle last night.

The ghost generals and ghost officials of the Nine Shadows Kingdom, such as the King of Yama, took advantage of this.

"Shut up. King Yama raised his eyebrows and raised his hand to slam the table in front of him. With a muffled thud, the thick beard on his face stood on end.

The noisy Tushan clan hurriedly shut up, not daring to say more, bent over, and lowered their heads and pressed their foreheads tightly against the floor tiles in front of them.

"I can release you immediately, but the soul of the Tu Shan clan will never be an official, not an army, and can only be a merchant or a farmer. King Yama took out an order from his sleeve and slapped it on the table, and then said in a deep voice: "The Qingqiu Fox King has signed this order, and if you have official and military positions today, you must disarm and return to the field." ”。

As a result, the Tu Shan Clan's human souls would not starve to death, but also weakened their strength and reduced the risk of their future rebellion. King Yama, they have everything covered.

"Take it down, and let them go after handing over the military power and official seal!" King Yama, who paused, waved his hand to the guards beside him, and the ghost soldiers of the Nine Shadows Kingdom immediately set off, taking away all the souls of the Tu Shan clan who had heads and faces in the hall, except for Tu Hongqi.

"And you, Tu Hongqi, are not so lucky. After the souls of the Tu Shan clan left, King Yama looked at Tu Hongqi, who had lost his arrogance, and only a faint frustration and unwillingness was left on his face, and said slowly: "Plotting against and organizing an ambush, you must die if you are guilty of unforgivable crimes." ”。

Having said this, King Yama suddenly sank his face, raised his hands and patted them gently, and the ghost soldiers of the Nine Shadows Kingdom immediately escorted the two ghosts and entered in response.

The two ghosts brought by the ghost soldiers of the Nine Shadows Kingdom were a man and a woman, the man was already middle-aged, his hair was gray, and his jaw had three strands of chest-length whiskers; And the appearance of the woman and the human soul is the same, but the red face is as red as fire with various * color paints, stabbing out a variety of patterns, covering her original appearance, so that he can't see what she looks like, and feels that the patterns on her face are like twisted and twisted strange words.

Like Tu Hongqi, they are all female ghosts whose hair has been soaked in a special potion and tied up with flowers. And the female ghost's face has more bruises from being whipped.

"Tu Gongshan and the clown, you are also one of the masterminds, and the crime is unforgivable. King Yama's sharp gaze. swept over the grimaces of these two standing on Tu Hongqi's left and right: "You also have to die."

When these words came out, a look of disappointment suddenly appeared on Tu Hongqi's face.

The middle-aged soul named Tu Gongshan had already told him that the harlequin and the Xudu army were foreign aid, and the harlequin was also the last hope. When I was going to run away, I was also going to find a clown. As everyone knows, the harlequin has already been captured, and she can't be his last supporter at all.

Long before King Yama arrived in the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom, he quietly went to the Husband Island on the sea. He had already received news that the harlequin had made a move to enter Dongyingzhou on the island, and had a relationship with the soul of the Tu Shan clan.

If the harlequin is left alone, the forces of the Northern Yin Dynasty on the island of her husband will become a problem for the Nine Shadows Kingdom to enter the Dongying Continent. So King Yama raided the crab-shaped island of her husband on a night when he couldn't see his fingers. He joined forces with the Xuanjiao disciples who were planted on the island, and soon defeated the defenders on the island.

Later, after freeing the coolie slaves on the island who were imprisoned by the Northern Yin Dynasty, he captured the guard harlequin alive by the way, and then secretly imprisoned her in the army.

Today's Husband Island has been included in the territory of the Nine Shadows Kingdom.

"King Yama, you dare to betray Your Majesty!" the harlequin raised her eyes, gritted her teeth, and stared at King Yama word by word and asked, "Where is your loyalty?"

"It's not a betrayal, it's just a good bird. Is there loyalty to assisting a tyrant?" The king of Yama, who snorted angrily, was too lazy to talk nonsense with them after saying this, and waved his hand again, signaling the guards to drag the three ghosts down and behead them immediately.

The harlequin is a ghost who has been brainwashed by the Emperor Xudu, this kind of ghost has no great righteousness to talk about, she will only be loyal to the Emperor Xudu with all her heart. The best thing to do is to kill her, and it's a hundred.

The guards stepped forward again, and escorted the three ghosts to retreat.

With a long breath, King Yama relaxed, leaned back on the back of the chair, and closed his eyes slightly.

"Dashuai, are we going to rectify the dispute and go south immediately?" and Shuyan also stood beside him at this time, and asked softly after seeing that there were no outsiders around.

"Don't worry, after our country has obtained the right to rule the land of the seventy-two peaks on the earth, we will go south. King Yama, who was still squinting his eyes, had a little more depth in his eyes. He waved his hand slowly and said, "We have to have a foothold in the Qingqiu Fox Country. ”......

Shuoyue Island, on the top of Xiaoyu Mountain City, there are ghosts with backpacks or carts in the backyard of the military mansion of Yingzhao, going in and out. These sturdy human souls and demon spirits carried empty baskets or pushed empty carts into the backyard, and pulled a lot of earth and stones out of the backyard and transported them down the mountain to fill the swamp near Xiaoyu Mountain City.

For more than ten days, this was the case. It seems that behind the military palace of Yingzhao, something is being dug up.

In the middle of the backyard, which was guarded by heavily armed guards and Xuanjiao, they had dug a deep pit one zhang wide and leading straight into the belly of the mountain. Ying Zhao stood in the courtyard with a few guards, staring at the busy ghosts with round eyes, and said nothing.

According to the fungus man Shenji, according to the secret order from Xiao Shizhu and the ghost mother, the place that was excavated at this time had the entrance to the Yellow Spring.

When Taishan Mansion fell into a dream, this coordinate was imprinted in the minds of the ghost mother and Xiao Shizhu, which should not be wrong.

But Yingzhao arranged for the ghosts to dig here secretly for more than ten days, but they only dug up soil and rocks, and they didn't see any entrance at all.

After dealing with official business, he rushed over to supervise the work, but it couldn't help much, so Yingzhao could only watch and be anxious.

"General, why don't you go back and rest first. The ghost official standing next to Ying Zhao, seeing that Ying Zhao had been standing under the cloudy sun for several hours, and a layer of dense fine sweat was oozing from his forehead, he couldn't bear to let Ying Zhao continue to stare here, so he persuaded: "Just keep an eye on us and the Xuanjiao disciples here." ”。

"The general is digging and digging. When the ghost officer finished speaking, the crane arm on the edge of the pit spun, and pulled up a gray-faced human soul from it, and shouted in his mouth: "I have dug up a strange stone slab, hard as iron and weighing a thousand catties, and it seems that you are going to dig something." ”。

Ben also had a serious face, and he was overjoyed, took three steps and made two steps, and quickly walked to the mouth of the deep pit, and looked down.

The deep pit was dug too deep, it was already a hundred feet, and it was so dark and dark that Ying Zhao couldn't see anything clearly.

"Let me go down, I'll see for myself. Ying Zhao said, turned around and walked to the sling pocket on the boom.

The pulley on the boom rotated, and the Ying Zhao slowly fell towards the bottom of the pit.

On the torches embedded in the pit wall, the firelight flickered slightly, illuminating every inch of the pit.

Ying Zhao slowly descended, the ropes on the crane arm were almost finished, and he walked for a long time before he came to the bottom of the pit.

At the bottom of the pit, the craftsmen have dug out a space about ten zhang straight and three zhang high. After Ying Zhao landed on the ground, he immediately stepped down from the sling bag, and when he walked to the depths of this hole, he saw a rectangular stone slab about one zhang long and no more than three feet wide embedded in the ground.

The stone slab is carved with countless vivid patterns, forming a leafless dead tree with nine branches. And beneath the dead trees, there are turbulent waves rolling and roaring. It's like a dead tree growing out of these waves.

And among the dead wood and waves, there are still a lot of rotting corpses floating and crawling, all of which are hideous and terrifying, and their faces and eyes are full of life.

On the branches of the tree, there are many ancient god rune seals of the ancient period, and from the perspective of strokes and patterns, it is a powerful sealing rune seal.

In the middle of the slate, there is a thin slit that divides the slab in two. In this way, it seems that the slate can be opened and closed.

When Yingzhao saw this slate, he was overjoyed. He pondered for a moment, bent his horse's hoofed limbs, and sat down on the edge of the slate, his eyes fixed on it, and he looked at it again.

Finally, he gathered his breath and reached out to caress the somewhat cold stone slab. The craftsmen who had stopped all around them all looked at Yingzhao's outstretched hand. His gaze followed his hand, slowly, slowly towards the stone slab.

The moment his hand touched this slate, Ying Zhao could immediately clearly perceive that under the heavy slate, there was a thick ghost aura gathering and not dispersing.

After concentrating and perceiving it again, Ying Zhao could sense that the ghost qi under the stone slab was circulating, forming a deep and huge whirlpool, which was rotating rapidly under the stone slab.

In the past ten years, in addition to Xiao Shizhu, Yingzhao has also perceived such a strong and rich ghost aura for the first time. In addition, when his hand was pressed on the stone slab, the talisman seals on it immediately lit up.

The golden light burst out, flickering non-stop, and the sealing talisman stubbornly suppressed the surging ghost qi that sealed the stone slab.