"Senior Bai Wu Ju, do you really not want to say anything more?"
"What the City of the Dead can give you, my Fengdu City may also give you."
"Eternal life, resurrection, even a heavenly elixir, and my position as city lord. As long as you join us, everything can be discussed."
Standing on the soft and distorted city, Jiang Li faced the most powerful captive he had ever held, and appealed to his emotions and reason.
From time to time, he would release the cold flames of ghost lanterns to intimidate and tempt people.
I hope to get some information about the City of the Dead from the other party.
It’s a pity that these practices have had little effect.
"Haha, so it turned out that Hualong Island finally got the secret of Fengdu City."
"You have even mastered the passage to the Asura Realm!"
"That old fellow Gu Heitianchou hid himself so well! There are also rumors that he was seriously injured. Is this also your conspiracy?"
Until now, Bai Wu Ju still believes that Jiang Li is the hidden power of Hualong Island. Little does he know that the entire Hualong Island is almost his.
Jiang Li did not deny it, but continued to promise benefits in an exaggerated manner.
The ghosts are about to disperse, what if he is willing to say something?
But in the end, Bai Wu Ju still shook his head and rejected Jiang Li's question.
He pointed to his throat, and on his illusory soul body, he could see a black padlock hanging on it.
Just one glance and you can tell that it's wrapped with a very vicious curse.
Not to mention ordinary means, even reincarnation cannot easily break it.
It seems that even if the other party wants to say something, he may not be able to say anything.
"Also, kid, don't underestimate others."
"As an earthly immortal, I know my situation very well. Do you still want to deceive a dead person?"
"In this place, my soul will dissipate in one more hour at most."
Bai Wu Jue finally exposed Jiang Li's lies. He was right. Jiang Li now didn't even have the ability to protect him.
After being captured by the City of the Dead, he was probably controlled by means similar to the stone tablet in Fengdu City.
Relying on the power of the Wrongful Death City, he continued to enjoy his life as a dead person. How could he not pay a price? After coming to this world, he lost the support of the Wrongful Death City.
Not only did his power dissipate, he turned back into a dead person. Even the soul of a dignified earthly immortal could no longer exist on its own.
Jiang Li even tried to use Meng Po soup to repair his soul, but it didn't have much effect.
The Nine Nether Wood Thorn that was now stuck in Bai Wu Jue's body had become an important pillar that sustained his soul.
If the thorns were removed, his soul would dissipate in an instant. But even so, it would not last more than an hour.
If he were transported back to the Kyushu Continent through the space rift, the Lord of the Polar Fortress might be able to be resurrected, but he would definitely be pulled back to the City of the Dead in an instant.
This made Jiang Li's thoughts of getting some free stuff go down the drain.
He had finally captured this earthly immortal, and he let the tiger go back to the mountains because he had nothing to do after having a full meal.
Several rounds of negotiations were fruitless. It was impossible to recruit such a strong man for their own use, nor was it possible to obtain useful information from him.
Jiang Li was naturally disappointed, but after working so hard for so long, he had to squeeze out some final value from him no matter what.
The Lord of the Polar Fortress held the soul that was about to dissipate, even though it was a bit of a waste, but he still threw it into the boiling pool of blood.
Bai Wu Jue, weighing about 300 pounds, made a big splash in the pool of blood.
As ripples spread out, the entire Asura territory began to shake violently.
The crazy blood in the blood pool seemed to surge upwards out of nothing and would soon overflow.
At this time, the blood pool, which was originally only about thirty feet in diameter, began to expand rapidly, and the quality of the crazy blood in the blood pool also increased.
The blood pool is the core of an Asura territory.
As the blood pool improved, the entire territory seemed to come to life and began to spontaneously become more magnificent and vast.
Soon, the blood pool reached a diameter of one hundred feet, and the ordinary little earthen slope above the territory turned into a rather majestic black fortress.
Even the deformed flesh and blood scattered throughout the territory seemed to be inspired. As the territory expanded, they continued to grow wildly, becoming even more weird and disgusting.
If this territory has a lord, then his strength will soar directly. Even, it is enough to easily break the boundary between the incarnation of the spirit and the earthly immortal.
This is a gift of emotion from the Asura world.
The humans of the "Lamb Realm" are what the Fang world desires. Sacrificing the soul and body of a powerful earthly immortal is worthy of such a reward.
Jiang Li was not surprised by this. If the land of Kyushu Continent was directly eroded and occupied like the previous Dora Blood Fighting Arena, the feedback and rewards that Lord Ashura could get would be even greater.
Jiang Li can cultivate a powerful Asura Lord by working together with himself and without spending too much effort.
But the current situation on the Kyushu Continent does not make it convenient to open the space rift again with great fanfare, and Jiang Li’s lord plan has not yet come to the best time.
Behind him, the hard-working Yaksha clone had already run out of the territory with his loyal soldiers.
The newly expanded territory broke through the mounds of earth they used for camouflage.
In order to prevent the monsters from the Asura world from coming to seize their territory, they had to build a bigger mound of earth and bury the place.
Looking at the blood pool that had calmed down again, just as Jiang Li turned around and was about to leave, a white wooden sign floated up from the blood pool.
He squinted his eyes and recognized what he saw.
"Is this... the Death Card?"
The so-called death card is the kind that is inserted into the collar of the condemned prisoner when he is beheaded at Caishikou, and it records the crimes he committed during his lifetime.
Nowadays, that brand probably has several uses.
One is to intimidate the living, so that ordinary people will be obedient and not commit crimes. Otherwise, they will be beheaded like a beheaded person.
Secondly, it is used to warn the dead souls that ordinary mortals will lose many memories after death, and in nine out of ten cases they will even forget the cause of their death.
In order to prevent the dead souls from feeling resentful and seeking revenge on the executioners, they would write their crimes on a sign, saying that they deserved to die.
But according to the knowledge Jiang Li has, in ancient times, this death card was actually written for the people below to read.
The general meaning is that the book of life and death in the underworld clearly states that these people's life spans have not yet ended, and they should die at a certain time.
But the people in the Yang world want to chop off the heads of these people. Wouldn't that disrupt the arrangements below? After the last emperor, the human dynasty and the underworld were actually departments under the jurisdiction of the Heavenly Court.
So naturally, a document needs to be sent to the people below to explain the reasons.
This death card is an official transfer document issued to the following officials.
After receiving the death card, the underworld will come to take the soul away and throw it into the City of the Dead, where it will wait until the life span is over before continuing to set foot on the road to the underworld.
So, this is Bai Wu Jue’s death card.
Jiang Li raised his hand and grabbed the death card, which had big red words written on it.
The lifespan of an ordinary earthly immortal is three thousand years. This guy died before he lived half of that life, and his soul was scattered. It was really unlucky.
However, since this sign is a transfer document to the City of the Dead, can I rely on it to sneak into the City of the Dead?
. . . .
A bloody place, a city of unjust death.
While Jiang Li was studying the death card, the Temple of the Gods was not idle either.
After the attack a few days ago, there was no way the Temple of the Gods would easily accept such a great humiliation.
At the first moment, the three great divine pillars took the lead and gathered many top powerhouses in the Temple of God and came here.
The lineup was so luxurious that Jiang Li had never seen anything like it before, and the lowest among them was a terrestrial immortal.
Even those guys from Wantumen had a way to come here before. The Sishen Temple, which is full of talented people and powerful people, would naturally not be easily blocked by a piece of fog.
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Also with the help of the souls of the dead, they quickly found the location of the City of the Dead in the bloody land.
Through the open city gates, they could see people who had been dead for ten, a hundred, or even a thousand years ago, living an orderly life in this city.
Among them were even the monks from the sect who were killed in the attack not long ago.
This made the strong men of the Temple of the Gods even more angry. They wanted to go in and catch the Blood King and make him relive the taste of failure.
But when they wanted to enter the City of the Dead, they found that the city was like a phantom, which could not be touched or reached.
This city was inherited from the ancient underworld and was established by a powerful person with boundless means. The rules set by him cannot be forcibly broken.
Only those who died unjustly or whose life span was not yet over can enter.
Even if the living people's souls leave their bodies or perform secret soul techniques, they are not recognized by the City of the Dead.
Even the mysterious and powerful ones from the three divine pillars could not touch it at all with all their means.
In order to avenge the Wrongful Death City, they couldn't really all commit suicide and then charge in, right? And after committing suicide, who knew if they would join the enemy camp.
A group of great masters who were at least above the level of Earth Immortals just surrounded the City of the Dead, staring at each other, unable to do anything.
. . . .
When Jiang Li returned to Fengdu City, it was already the evening of seven days later.
During this time, he stayed in Fengyang City for a while. Some forces that were friendly with Chongshan League came to him one after another, and they all expressed their regret for the matter of the Polar Fortress.
Because in the eyes of outsiders, Jiang Li was indeed very unlucky this time.
The Polar Fortress estate that had just been purchased was hit by a fight between two earth immortals, who destroyed the area. According to an insider, even the earth veins were interrupted.
Two hundred thousand spirit stones going down the drain is a small matter, but the treasure inheritance in the Polar Bunker is gone, which is really heartbreaking.
It was naturally impossible for Jiang Li to say that he had already obtained all the things.
After thanking them for their kindness, I used the information from the Temple of the Gods to investigate some things.
As a lower-ranking god with outstanding achievements, there is no problem at all for him to inquire about some information about the mortal kingdom.
Jiang Li soon obtained a map of the distribution of the Eastern Region's immortal cultivation world and mortal kingdoms.
There are also a large number of records that record the history of these countries.
Jiang Li picked out the three hundred countries with the longest history and the largest population.
Then he sent the Manjianghong Inn and the Wanshi Hermitage to work together.
Through certain means, he influenced the officials and kings of these countries to execute a large number of death row prisoners in a short period of time.
The execution process must be carried out according to the strictest procedures.
Sentencing, sentencing, parading through the streets, public display, beheading.
Jiang Li also asked them to deal with a large number of mortals according to different traditions using different death penalty methods such as lingchi, beating to death, hanging, quartering, beheading, etc.
Finally, they were sorted into categories and their souls and the death cards were properly stored away.
Three hundred countries, one thousand death row prisoners in each country. Seven days later, Jiang Li had 300,000 newly dead souls in his hands.
He didn't know whether the death card in the ordinary mortal world was still effective.
I can only cast a wide net and see if I can get lucky.
Jiang Li released a thousand ghosts in the wilderness of Fengyang City.
But they had just died and were not even ghosts yet. They could only wander around in a daze, unable to hold on to their own death cards.
And as long as a strong wind blows, these fragile souls will be extinguished in large numbers.
It seems that such experiments in Kyushu Continent are meaningless.
Do you want to go to the bloody place and try it yourself?
Jiang Li thought about it, waved his hand to summon the Ghost Gate, and stepped into it.
The bloody land is too dangerous. He is now able to break in, but there may be a better choice.
It’s as if everyone in the world believes that Fengdu City is a fantasy land in the underworld of the Ghost King’s wasteland.
But in fact, the illusion of the underworld is the illusion of the underworld, it just happens to overlap with the Ghost King's Wasteland.
That bloody place is most likely just a node connecting to a piece of underworld fragment.
The City of the Dead, which is originally part of the underworld, is unlikely to appear in the world of the living.
Is it possible for Jiang Li to find the existence of the City of the Dead directly from the illusion of the underworld?
At least it's worth a try.
After passing through the Ghost Gate and returning to Fengdu Ghost City, Jiang Li first left the area where the red spider lily and forget-me-not grew, otherwise these ghosts would definitely be attracted to Fengdu City first.
Release another thousand dead souls.
In the underworld, their condition was much better than in the outside world. Although they were still confused, they would not be destroyed at any time, and they also had the strength to hold up the thin death card.
Most of the ghosts still have no clue and are wandering around aimlessly.
But Jiang Li soon discovered that several of the ghosts seemed to be attracted by some force. They were almost dragged forward by the death cards in their hands.
Jiang Li's eyes lit up, and he opened the coffin and released the other 300,000 ghosts.
Most of the dead souls are still wandering around without minds.
Among them, a thousand dead souls began to drift towards a certain direction of the underworld illusion.
Jiang Li checked the markings on their bodies and discovered that these one thousand ghosts had one thing in common: they all belonged to the same mortal kingdom.
(End of this chapter)