The concept of "hell" is widely used in various myths, legends and religious beliefs, and is often believed to be a place where the soul suffers or rests after death.

As a result, hell looks different in different mythological and religious systems, and is also called differently.

For example, ancient China.

In the ancient pre-Qin era, "hell" was called "the hidden capital" by the ancients at that time.

When Gao Lu of the Eastern Han Dynasty wrote for "Huainanzi", he wrote: "Yin Qi gathers, so it is called the secluded capital".

Cai Shen of the Southern Song Dynasty also wrote when he annotated the "Book of Shang": "Vientiane is dark, so it is called the secluded capital".

"Huainanzi Tianwenxun" once said: In the past, the co-workers and Zhuan fought for the emperor, and the anger could not touch the mountain, the heavenly pillar was broken, and the earth was destroyed.

The sky tilts to the northwest, so the sun, moon and stars shift.

The land is not in the southeast, so the water and dust return.

The location of the gateway to the secluded capital is the place where the sun, moon and stars fell to the west after the breakage of the Buzhou Mountain.

Since even the sun and moon can be swallowed by thousands of stars, the ancients naturally believed that the secluded capital (hell) was a place of absolute darkness.

Everything inside it should be black.

The mountains are black, and the waters are black.

It's so black that everything looks like a painting painted in thick black ink on pitch-black rice paper.

It was so dark that even if people held torches high, they were still dark and dark up and down, left and right, and it was impossible to distinguish the outlines, appearances, and time and space distances between objects.

In such a pure and dark world, it is almost impossible to move an inch.

But in this world that is difficult to live in, there are also various black species such as black birds, snakes, leopards, tigers, foxes and so on.

However, although there are many species, the secluded capital is not safe.

Because there is also a behemoth with a bull's body and a tiger head, three eyes and nine tails, and sharp horns and claws entrenched in it.

The slaughter of this evil beast is not considered bloodthirsty, whether it is a human, a ghost or a beast, it is killed.

If you want to break through the darkness of this realm, only the "Dragon of the Candle" who can control the day and night is born, so there will be the phrase "If the day is not good, the candle dragon will shine" in "Tianwen".

As for the finer details, there are few of them.

After all, the "Hidden Capital" is just a myth and legend created by the ancient ancestors out of fear of death and the memory of the deceased, not a science fiction fantasy story that is interlocking in pursuit of logical rigor in later generations.

At the same time, in addition to the pre-Qin theory of "secluded capital", there is also a concept similar to "hell" in later Taoism.

Alternatively, it is more appropriate to refer to the concept of "underworld," which is more functionally focused on reincarnation and rest.

This Taoist original "underworld" is the so-called "Nine Bases and Thirty-six Lands".

In this "system of the underworld".

The vast earth is divided into nine layers, each layer is called a base, and each base is divided into four layers.

There are a total of 4936 floors, also known as 36 places.

These 36 lands are governed by 36 "earth emperors".

However, this set of theories only appeared in a small number of Taoist classics, and its influence on the common people in ancient times was limited.

What the ancient folk really accepted was the "underworld" that was first seen in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and was also originally created by Taoism - the house of Quanqu, and the northern capital of Luoyu.

Namely, the capital of the city.

It is recorded in the "Daozang" that the capital is located in the northernmost part of the northern end of heaven and earth, tens of thousands of miles away from Middle Earth.

It is shrouded in infinite black gas all year round, and the mountains are steep and endless, which is formed by the condensation and coiling of the world's turbid qi after thousands of years, and is the root of the dead qi of the red dust.

As for the so-called "ghost city" in modern society, it was called Fengdu County in ancient times, and it was only in the early Ming Dynasty that it got the name of "Yudu", which is completely different from the mythical "Yudu".

The two places are one south and one north, and they can't hit the eight poles.

But why is it misidentified?

One is that the pronunciation is similar, and the other is that in ancient times, there was a Taoist priest named "Yin Changsheng" who practiced there.

Only because of the Word

The scholar's surname was Yin, and he was inexplicably rumored to be the king of the Yin Luo Emperor's underworld.

Then his dojo will naturally become the capital of the underworld.

But the real lord of the capital is actually Emperor Yan, who was defeated and lost to the Yellow Emperor in the Battle of Banquan.

That's right, the Yellow Emperor became an immortal, and the Yan Emperor could only become a ghost.

It's a little miserable.

These are the "underworld" of the East, or some form of "hell."

The hell in Western religious mythology has one thing in common, that is, it likes to use vicious monsters to guard the gateway to the underworld.

For example, in Egyptian mythology, the Chaos Serpent Apepe, who guarded the path of the Pharaoh's Sun Ship; and Mordgood, the boneless who guards Heim's glacier in Norse mythology, and Gam, the blood-stained demon dog; and Cerberus, the three-headed dog of hell who lives on the banks of the River Styx and guards the gates of the underworld in Olympian mythology...... Wait a minute.

As for the painful hell in front of Mu Cang, it is not the same as the "hell" in the myths and legends of "Earth".

In his telepathic vision, the vision of this hell was nothing more than a vast and intricate pale labyrinth.

Among them, the labyrinthine corridors with deep and winding walls with a height of 100 meters and kilometers are blood-dripping all the time, and the wind is howling every minute and every second, so that the air is filled with a choking smell of blood.

As soon as the countless wisps of wind and countless drops of blood fell to the floor of the corridor, they were swallowed by the large expanse of stone bricks full of traces of time and dark paintings, and they were instantly digested with a subtle grunt.

Looking deeper into the winding and dark corridor, it seemed that there were strange sneers and cold eyes faintly coming from every corner, which made people feel cold.

But Mu Cangyi was not afraid, chuckled slightly, and stepped on the floor tiles under his feet as if they were living creatures.

If you get rid of the heavy, oppressive abyssal atmosphere in the corridor, he walks with such a leisurely demeanor that it almost makes people feel like walking in an ordinary park.

Tread - step - step - step -

The footsteps were dull, and they didn't travel far before they were drowned out by the surging weeping, screaming, wailing, and screaming of the millions around them.

These screams and cries intertwined and echoed in the darkness, and a symphony of extreme sadness and grandeur was played faintly.

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Cut the memory and become an evil being who fully believes in the Leviathan.

It feels like it's a bit like the ghosts in "Demon Slayer" that were transformed by Onimai Tsuji Mumiru with his own blood.

Of course, the ghost ancestor who died at the sight of the light was not miserable, and his compulsion was far from being comparable to the Leviathan, the main god of hell.

Coincidentally, in the process of transforming into a monk, the Leviathan will also drain human blood and inject its own blood.

After that, the monk will have the ability to manipulate space, space, matter, and energy, infinite power, immortality and immortality that is impervious to all human weapons, and the ability to summon all the terrible weapons and horrific instruments of hell.

At the same time, the Friars of Hell also possess pathological mental properties similar to those of the original Devil Elis.

This is that they feel extreme pleasure and pleasure when they are in pain, and they can also feel all the pain they have inflicted on others.

That's why the monks are keen to torture humans and get more pleasure.

And the monks who appear in the "Ghost Chasing" series of movies are far from the whole of the painful hell.

Not all of them are humanoid.

Just like the many Lemarshan maze boxes that Leviathan sprinkled into the world, not all of them look like a Rubik's Cube.

These different types of maze will also summon different types of monks.

For example, the Carousel-shaped Lemarchamp Mystery can summon an insect-like monk; The Crystal Ball Maze can summon Monks in the form of ice; There is also a crate in the form of a music box, which can even summon a cyborg monk.

And the monk summoned by the magic square maze in Mu Cang's hand was naturally Spencer the nail head.

"I wonder if it can produce such a powerful force of pain, Spencer......

Mu Cang slowly turned his head and chuckled and looked at the nail head who was walking half a step behind on the left side with a respectful face, "How many spells are there in the whole hell?"

The latter replied in a deep voice, "Master, the number of curses in Hell is incalculable, probably more than the total population of one side."

"One side of the world?" Mu Cang raised his eyebrows, "Are there still many human beings?"

"Yes." Spencer nodded, "There may be ten million people in the world."

"Ten million people?" Mu Cang said strangely, "These worlds inhabit ...... Are they all human?"

"This ......"

Spencer was stunned for a moment and said, "Master, there are no humans in the world...... Are there other intelligent beings?"

"What about aliens?" Mu Cang asked.

"What is an alien?"

Spencer shook his head and said, "There is nothing else in this world but heaven, hell, and earth."

"I see." Mu Cang nodded, "It seems that behind this painful hell...... There's a lot of secrets hidden."

After opening the labyrinth and summoning the nail head, he captured this twisted infernal life from the spiritual plane with just one glance.

But this is the first time I have talked to each other in detail.

I didn't expect to get such powerful information just after a detailed discussion.

"Is it a link between 10 million parallel time and space earths, or 10 million earth-like secret realms...... Or the Uncharted Community?"

While thinking, Mu Cang, who was leisurely walking in the labyrinth corridor, felt the torrent of pain floating around him, and his eyes suddenly burst into light.

Buzz –

His psychic vision suddenly "expanded" to the extreme, and in an instant, he "crossed" millions of walls, secret rooms, suspension bridges, shed bridges, covered bridges, halls, hallways, gatehouses, courtyards, tunnels, ramps, spiral stairs, corridors, and ...... Arrived at the edge of this vast labyrinthine world.

Whoa, whoa, whoa—

Fluctuations in time and space.

After the perception shuttled to the outer void, it suddenly turned around, and "looked" towards the hell of pain from afar.

At this moment, Mu Cang determined its shape and size.

Standing outside the boundary, the void looks to the ground

The Hell resembles an octahedron made up of myriad ancient walls and buildings oddly stacked and linked.

Each side of this octahedron is about 200 million kilometers long.

That's more than one astronomical unit, enough to completely enclose the entire solar-terrestrial system.

At the same time, near the vast void on the outer side of the entire Painful Hell, there was a "smaller" gray-white eight-sided pointed cone suspended.

It's small, but that's only relative.

The upper and lower ends of the "small" spiky cone were extremely long, stretching for millions of kilometers.

In fact, this pointed cone is the Leviathan himself, the main god of the Painful Hell.

Suspended above the labyrinth, it is always bursting out of thousands of huge black pillars of light to the outside world, exuding a chaotic message of pain and desire that is as majestic as the sea.

Mu Cang remembered that the human beings who were illuminated by these pitch-black lights in the original book would recall their most painful memories and awaken their greatest desires.

But if the desire and pain are not very great, and some of them are not up or down, then they can only become a mantra and become the bottom.

Only the revenant souls who are both exuberant and fierce to the extreme are qualified to become monks and become Leviathan's minions.

For example, the only female member of the Hell F4 group led by Nail Head, she had a strong desire to speak when she was a human, so she was cut by Leviathan after becoming a monk.

Because what comes out of the mouth is not true, only the voice that comes directly from the body is.

There was also the fat man in sunglasses, whose greatest desire in life was gluttony, so after becoming a monk, Leviathan cut open his abdomen and sewed his eyes on.

This means that from now on he doesn't need to be picky about food, and he doesn't need to think about eating too much or too little.

From these shrouds that covered the entire Painful Hell, and thus diluted to almost shattered fragments, Mu Cang quickly deduced the level of Leviathan's strength.

Pseudo-god-level, the same level as Anzel.

"That's going to be hard."

Mu Cangmo pondered with his smooth chin, "There is nothing wrong with using this Hatred Demon Body to deal with the Bright Sun level, but it is not enough to deal with the pseudo-god level."

In fact, his doppelganger, which was based on the Morikzhi Heavenly Method, did not take more than two days from the time he arrived at the Illusion Domain to forge his body to the time he successfully practiced the Dharma.

Being able to reach the Flare Realm with the Morning Star rank is already much more than usual, and it is really too difficult to fight against a false god, especially a false god with a home field advantage, and the odds of victory are extremely low.

At this time, Mu Cang's "gaze" saw through the layers of labyrinths, and looked at the Dao black light emitted by the Leviathan deity suspended above the Painful Hell, and suddenly thought of an idea.