The dim and lightless world of the underworld suddenly shimmered with azure brilliance. Accompanied by the melodious chirping of the phoenix, the sacred bird soars in the underworld, looking for the souls left here.

Suddenly, the bird's beak pecked forward, grabbing a remnant soul from the hazy black air. It was the soul of a monk in the human world, and now it has dissipated most of it under the corrosion of the power of the underworld.

The bird's beak shook slightly, shaking away the ghostly aura above, and Ji Feichen transmitted with the power of the primordial god: "Are you still conscious?"

After the remnant soul was transmitted by Ji Feichen, his confused expression gradually became a little more agile, looking at the big bird in front of him.

"Phoenix?" Although the remnant soul had never seen a phoenix before his death, after seeing this divine bird, he instinctively thought of the legendary phoenix.

It's okay, a little conscious. Ji Feichen asked again: "What's your name?" ”

The remnant soul was stunned for a moment, and just as he was about to recall his memory, his brain went blank and he couldn't remember anything.

"Have you been corrupted by the ghost qi to this point?" Ji Feichen then asked a few more questions. This monk has forgotten his name and even his origin, but he still remembers that he is an immortal cultivator, and he still retains some skills.

"You made a covenant with me to serve me for a hundred years, and I will help you regain your memory. ”

Knowing that the other party still retained some of the skills of refining alchemy, Ji Feichen immediately signed a contract with him to put it in the storage space on the phoenix bird's foot ring.

The phoenix's real body has no long things, and it is difficult for the phoenix's real body to carry leopard bags, Qiankun bags and other things. Therefore, he excavated cold iron from the depths of the snow-capped mountains of the Lightless Realm to create a dark gold anklet and wear it on his body.

I have to say that there are indeed many treasures left in the unmined "primeval area" of the Lightless Realm. Although the lack of light leads to the scarcity of plants, it is rich in mineral deposits. According to Ji Feichen's observations, the mine jade deposits in the Lightless Realm accounted for at least a quarter of the entire Qianguang Continent, and they had three-thousandths of the mineral reserves in the entire Human Realm. In other words, without the disturbance of outsiders, the Longyuan Chamber of Commerce would not have to worry about the material problems of jade metals for thousands of years in the future.

"Go back and develop this lightless realm into our own place of Longyuan. ”

Mysterious, secluded darkness is the best shelter. Long Yuan's rudder in Qianguang Continent, Ji Feichen planned to settle in the Lightless Realm.

After collecting the living souls, the phoenix continued to rummage through the underworld for other souls.

However, in the vast underworld, it is difficult to find the soul of a monk, and it is even more difficult to find a living soul with a preserved memory.

It took Ji Feichen a day to collect thirty living souls.

"I'm taking a picture of my chest, and I'm going to find three hundred for Shaolan. Ji Feichen was helpless. In order to save the face of his boss, speed up and explore the underworld.

Then, the phoenix continued to fly in the underworld, silently recording the situation of the ghosts in the underworld while searching for the living souls. The light in the underworld is not revealed, the dark sun and the moon do not come out, all the ghosts are muddy, and under the IQ, except for the innate brute force and natal supernatural powers, there is nothing to fear.

Suddenly, Ji Feichen heard a wail. Its wings slid gently across the sky, and the phoenix bird soared outward from the underworld with grace, seeing a few wandering undead in the cracks at the edge of the underworld.

These undead were weeping in the dark, and there was still some yang energy on their bodies that had not dissipated and pulled them, so that they could not truly fall into the underworld.

"Living?" Feng Tong looked at it and saw the roots of several people. The bodies of these undead are not really dead, but they are currently dying because they have been frozen in the freezing environment.

"Since it's a living person, then send it back!" Ji Feichen's kindness moved, and he immediately sensed the future destiny after saving people.

The long river of time divides countless futures, all of which point to a certain target without exception - Xuanming Tianfeng, the Lord of Death.

In the legend of Qianguangzhou, death and cold have always been inseparable. Death from cold is far greater than plague and war. And the Lightless Realm, in the understanding of mortals, is a giant bird hidden in the darkness. It shook its wings to bring wind and snow, and its body obscured the light of the sky and covered the earth with darkness. The annual expansion of the Lightless Realm is the activity of the big bird going south.

Ji Feichen looked at the undead thoughtfully: "It seems that my faith needs to rely on them." ”

So the phoenix appeared in front of the undead, and the noble bird gently flicked its tail feather and returned to the world with the undead.

At first, frightened by the appearance of the phoenix, the undead did not dare to speak, and grabbed the phoenix feather to watch the situation around them.

There was a vague darkness below, but Ji Feichen secretly blessed them with divine power, allowing them to see the scene of the underworld. Rakshasas, Yakshasas, evil spirits, revenants, and other ghosts wandered in the underworld, and the faces of the people were like earth, and they instinctively told them that it was the world of death.

One of the undead had the audacity to ask, "Where is the Divine Bird taking us?"

"You are not dead and should not enter the world of the dead. The phoenix heavenly sound, which does not distinguish between male and female, rings in the ears of the undead. The words without warmth and emotion, on the contrary, were like a clear spring, soothing the panic in everyone's hearts.

"You're here to save us?"

"No, it's a send-off. I am the Lord of Death, the embodiment of ice and snow, the end of all things. But at this moment, you should not return to my arms. ”

Death, ice and snow?

The faces of the undead turned pale, and after they looked at each other, one of them asked in a trembling voice, "Styx...... Bird of Darkness?"

The Dark Bird, a demon bird imagined by mortals in the Lightless Realm, controls the power of wind and snow and death. Feeling the brilliance of the phoenix does not have the legendary warmth, but is a kind of ice flame that does not carry any temperature. A completely different power from today's Phoenix clan.

"That's what mortals call me. Call it that if you want. Ji Feichen's tone was calm, recalling the posture of the Heavenly Mother, pretending to be a sacred statue beyond the world, and maintaining a calm tone from beginning to end: "I am the wind and snow, the cold, death, and the end." In the face of death, regardless of human beings, fairies and demons, everyone should accept the fate of death equally. "It's a big guy in the underworld, Ji Feichen has his own understanding of death. Except for those who jump out of the five elements of yin and yang. No one can avoid death.

"Nonsense. Because of you, we can only keep moving south every year, and I don't know how many people will die!" His parents and relatives have already passed away under the erosion of the Lightless Realm again and again. Seeing this culprit, it was directly a big scolding.

When Ji Feichen heard those swearing, his tail feathers shook, and the frightened man hurriedly grabbed Ji Feichen's tail feathers, not daring to say any more.

I almost forgot, this is on Ji Feichen!

The companions hurriedly held him down and did not let him continue. Otherwise, if they offend Ji Feichen, they won't be able to leave.

The undead were worried in their hearts, for fear that Ji Feichen would be angry. At this time, there was a chuckle from the front: "Mortals always like to blame their sins on others. I am a symbol of nature, the embodiment of death. It is an objective law of nature, and if you follow the way, why should you do it to you? Besides, what good will it do me to kill you?"

The undead were stunned, yes, is killing people useful for Phoenix?

In the distance, a giant hundreds of feet tall appeared, trying to stop the phoenix from leading people away. The phoenix struck the giant with a single burst of silver light.

Of course, all this is illusion, and it is Ji Feichen who deliberately left his invincible impression in front of everyone in order to show his prestige.

In the illusion, all kinds of vicious ghosts appeared, all of which were forced back by the phoenix one by one, and gradually approached the "entrance to the world" above with a line of undead.

"Ice and snow are objectively natural phenomena. However, the living beings regarded the ice and snow as death, and did not dare to resist at all. If you find a way to build a city and refine fire to create light, even if it is a lightless realm, you can still find a way to survive. If you can give up suspicion and killing against each other and concentrate on growing food and improving your own standard of living. It also reduces the chance of dying. ”

The undead gradually fell into deep thought.

Yes, many times the death of the clansmen is not simply due to the natural environment, but due to the lack of food, and they have to fight with each other to fight for rations

"You fight with your people for your own interests, you only care about the life and death of the present dynasty, and live in a mess every day, but you ignore the great cause of thousands of generations. Therefore, you can only be slaves of nature, and blame all your inactions on nature's revenge. ”

"But...... But even so, every time the Lightless Realm goes south, someone will completely disappear in the darkness...... "Someone said weakly: "They, they shouldn't be ......"

Legend has it that it was the Immortal Bird that ate them.

"I'm not going to eat people. The phoenix does not eat unless it is practiced, and it does not drink unless it is a liquor spring, and the blood sacrifice that you mortals imagine is too dirty for me. "In other words, I hate your flesh and don't care for blood. There was a hint of disdain in Phoenix's tone, deeply piercing the self-esteem of the dead spirits.

"But when I follow nature, and when I run through the snow and darkness every year, there are often evil spirits following me. Fishing in troubled waters, so as to sneak attack mortals, they must have done it, right?" Ji Feichen's face did not change, and directly pushed the debts of the past dynasties onto the heads of the ghosts of the underworld. Anyway, they will be exterminated by the underworld in the near future, so let them be of more use.

But Ji Feichen was not wrong.

Over the years, many of the people who have died in the Lightless Realm have been done by monks. Demon Dao cultivation tools need to kill people to carry out, and even some immortal sects are secretly rubbing and refining elixirs with mortal sacrifices. In the end, he pushed everything to the lightless realm, brushed himself clean, and felt at ease in being worshiped as an immortal master by mortals and enjoying the offerings of mortals.

"It's here. "Through the long dark fog, the light of the sun appeared before my eyes. The phoenix let out a long roar, and the undead were in a trance and fell back into their own bodies.

Coming back to life when you meet the phoenix naturally brings a new myth to the legendary phoenix.

Moreover, after seeing Ji Feichen's appearance, those undead reconstructed the image of the dark bird according to Ji Feichen's appearance, and took the mortals' belief in the Lightless Realm as their own.

Faith is not simply good or evil, but the perception of a certain concept by living beings. Ji Feichen led the faith and put the accumulation of faith for thousands of years under his name, which was enough for the phoenix's true body to step into the level of earth immortals and even heavenly immortals.

"With the true body of the phoenix of my human realm, it is a very long road to be promoted to Tianfeng. But if you have this part of the faith bonus, it's much faster. ”

Ji Feichen laid the groundwork and continued to plunge into the underworld to find the monk's soul.

But this time, he suddenly felt a call of power. It has the same origin as some of the power in Ji Feichen's body, guiding him to the depths of the underworld.

"It's a bit familiar...... Could it be her?" Without thinking, Ji Feichen immediately rushed towards the dense fog deep in the underworld.