The Netherworld Pavilion during this period was very powerful and was even ranked above the Jade Phoenix Palace. If the Qinglian Sect had not produced a peerless evildoer, the Qinglian Sword Immortal, who relied solely on the Qingfeng Sword in his hand and practiced the incomplete imperial-level technique, the Qinglian Sword Song, to dominate an era, the Netherworld Pavilion might have been the same as the current Jade Phoenix Palace. Unfortunately, it was during this period that a traitorous disciple appeared in the Netherworld Pavilion, who obtained an imperial-level technique called "The Netherworld Yellow Spring Demon Refining Technique" from the Jiuquan Secret Realm. This technique could devour the essence of other cultivators to improve his own cultivation. At the beginning, this disciple was very restrained and only went out to hunt monsters in the wild and devour the monsters' essence. However, as his cultivation became higher and higher, his greed could no longer be suppressed, and he began to secretly hunt and kill independent cultivators, devouring their essence. When his strength was finally raised to the imperial level, perhaps due to the influence of the technique or perhaps for his own reasons, his greed could no longer be suppressed, and he single-handedly destroyed an A small sect, with tens of thousands of cultivators in this sect, whether they were disciples who had just entered the realm of scattered immortals or elders who had reached the peak of the king level, all had their original power devoured by him, which also enabled the cultivation of this Netherworld Pavilion disciple to be raised to the middle level of the emperor level; however, the destruction of a small sect still attracted the attention of a sect of the Baimai Immortal Sect to which this sect belonged. After some investigation, they cast their suspicion on this Netherworld Pavilion disciple. In the end, the fact that this disciple relied on devouring the cultivators' original power to improve his cultivation was exposed, and the Netherworld Pavilion began to clean up its door. However, the emperor-level technique "Netherworld Yellow Spring Demon Refining Technique" was too powerful. This emperor-level middle-level Netherworld Pavilion disciple had condensed his own domain power into a 100-mile-long Yellow Springs Other Shore Road. Once it was deployed, even an emperor-level peak powerhouse, once stepping into this Yellow Springs Road, would not be able to resist the erosion of the Netherworld Death Qi on the Yellow Springs Road, and would eventually gradually lose his self-will and become a dead spirit on the Yellow Springs Road...
In order to clean up the mess, the Netherworld Pavilion lost three emperor-level masters in a row. From then on, this matter was no longer just the matter of the Netherworld Pavilion. The top ten sects of the Baimai Xianzong began to send out their own emperor-level masters to join the encirclement and suppression of this Netherworld Pavilion disciple...
This siege lasted for ten years, and the loss of double-digit emperor-level masters caused a sensation in the entire upper realm. Not only the cultivators, but even the smaller sects began to be afraid. The entire sect moved to the vicinity of the nearest Baimai Xianzong. In the end, this disciple of the Netherworld Pavilion, who had reached the peak of the emperor level in just ten years, was eventually killed under the siege of hundreds of emperor-level peak masters. However, the disaster he caused made many cultivators of the older generation tremble when they recalled it now...
During this turmoil, the Netherworld Pavilion lost more than ten emperor-level masters, and the ranking of the Netherworld Pavilion dropped a lot. From then on, the two secret realms of Jiuquan and Jiuyou were sealed up, and only disciples who became the Son of God were qualified to choose one of them and enter to explore. Over the past thousands of years, many Sons of the Netherworld Pavilion have never come out after entering these two secret realms, but the Sons of God who can come out alive will have greatly increased their strength and become the next candidate for the head of the Netherworld Pavilion. Ten years ago, Ouyang Ling, as the eldest senior brother, originally thought that it was a foregone conclusion that he would become the Son of God. However, in the Son of God Competition, he was framed by his fellow junior brother Gongsun Jue and lost the qualification for the Son of God Competition. As a result, he not only lost the right to compete for the Son of God, but even the title of the eldest senior brother of the sect was taken away by Gongsun Jue.
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The alarm bell of the Netherworld Pavilion rang for a long time, and soon the Pavilion Master of the Netherworld Pavilion and a dozen supreme elders with emperor-level cultivation appeared in the hall at the entrance of the sect's secret realm. Looking at the stone statue at the entrance of the Nine Netherworld Secret Realm, which continuously emitted divine light from within, a solemn look appeared on everyone's face.
"Pavilion Master..." A supreme elder with the peak strength of the Emperor level nodded slightly to the Pavilion Master of the Netherworld Pavilion and said, "This should be Ouyang Ling breaking through the barrier, right?"
“Hmph, who else could it be except that traitor? The Nine Nether Secret Realm was sealed ten years ago, and no disciple has ever entered it. Even the Holy Son Gongsun Jue entered the Nine Springs Secret Realm…” said Xiao Jiuyin, the leader of the Netherworld Pavilion, with a gloomy face.
"It's been ten years. I didn't expect that he could stay in the Nine Nether Secret Realm for ten years. I really didn't expect it..." a supreme elder sighed.
"The Nine Nether Secret Realm is filled with the Netherworld's death energy. Without a treasure that can resist the Netherworld's death energy, who can stay in the secret realm for ten years? Not even an emperor-level powerhouse can do it, let alone Ouyang Ling who has just entered the king level!" Another supreme elder said subconsciously.
When this sentence was spoken, everyone was stunned; when they knew that something was wrong at the entrance of the Nine Nether Secret Realm and someone had broken through from the inside, they subconsciously thought of Ouyang Ling who had secretly entered the secret realm ten years ago. However, the unintentional words of this great elder reminded everyone that no matter how talented Ouyang Ling was, without a magic treasure that could resist the death energy of the underworld, it was impossible for him to stay in there for ten years;
Everyone looked at the Nine Nether Secret Realm stone statue in confusion. The next moment, a white jade-like skeleton arm suddenly stretched out from the chest of the secret realm stone statue.
Crack, crack~ cracks spread from the chest of the stone statue to the surrounding areas. After a moment, a loud roar was heard, and the entire stone statue was blown into pieces. A figure walked out from the entrance of the Jiuyou Secret Realm, stepping on the rubble on the ground.
"Master, I'm back!" A hoarse voice sounded, and the whole hall seemed to be blown by a biting cold wind. The coldness even caused a thin layer of black frost to condense on the walls and stone pillars in the hall.
"Ouyang Ling!" The head of the Netherworld Pavilion, Xiao Jiuyin, had his eyelids twitching slightly. He stared at the figure in front of him that looked like a mummy, and spoke word by word.
At this moment, Ouyang Ling could no longer be seen as a human being. All the flesh and blood on his body had disappeared, leaving only a thin layer of skin tightly attached to his bones. Only his left hand, starting from the elbow, was left with only white bones. It actually looked like it was emitting a warm jade-like luster, as if the entire left hand was carved entirely from the top-grade mutton-fat jade.
Two balls of dark green flames burned in Ouyang Ling's eyes. At this moment, he had completely turned into an undead creature, exuding a strong aura of death from the underworld, but his consciousness seemed to still belong to Ouyang Ling and had not dissipated! "Are you a human or a ghost now? Why did you come back? Wouldn't it be better to stay in the deadly place of the Nine Nether Secret Realm?" Xiao Jiuyin stared at the disciple in front of him and said viciously.
"Master, I miss you all the time in the Netherworld, and also my dearest Junior Brother Gongsun. I wonder where he is now?" Ouyang Ling turned his dry head left and right, looking around, and a creepy smile appeared on his dry face;
...(End of this chapter)