Chapter 456: After a lifetime of wandering, he still returns as a rebel

Chu Guanmeng didn't understand why Lin Du wanted to dig around in his own home, but he chose to respect it.

"Why this tree?" Chu Guanmeng admitted that he was not as strong as Lin Du, but he was not completely insensitive. "That place is obviously the place with the least evil spirit."

Lin Du laughed, "Yes, this is the only place in the courtyard where you can't feel the three poisons. Doesn't that explain the problem?"

Just now, when Emperor Fusang came over to help her strengthen the power of the seal, Lin Du saw that the power was added to the treasure tree.

Chu Guanmeng thought for a moment, "If you open it now, won't it alarm others?"

Lin Du is not such a rash person.

"I didn't intend to drive so fast, but the Emperor of Fusang is here." Lin Du held the folding fan, "I am the kind of person who will go west when others tell me to go east."

Fusang's arrival made Lin Du understand the focus of the battle.

Just like the eye of a typhoon is mostly calm, the center of many formations that are mainly used for suppression is also the calmest place.

Chu Guanmeng was convinced after hearing this. Despite being taught by the Taoist Patriarch himself, and being instructed by the three priests and the former God of Winter, he still became a rebel after returning.

Of course, if Lin Du wasn't a traitor, it wouldn't be friends with her.

"So when you first saw Fusang, you deliberately put your fan behind you, asking me to quickly create a mirror flower and water moon for you? You? I thought you were afraid that the Emperor of Fusang would come to question you, so you wanted to escape at any time."

Chu Guanmeng lay lazily on the ground and stretched. The next moment, the mirror shattered.

The scene in the courtyard seemed to have not changed, but Fusang's scorching divine power had disappeared.

Chu Guanmeng chewed and swallowed the power added to the seal, burped, raised his hand and licked his paw, "It's so spicy."

A heavy iron brush engraved with intricate patterns appeared in Lin Du's hand. The white-haired immortal raised the brush and poured immortal power into it. Runes of various colors appeared in the air one by one, and then the power of different rules between heaven and earth was introduced into it.

Dozens of runes glowed with divine light, floating in front of Lin Du.

Chu Guanmeng just watched from the sidelines, not realizing how terrifying this scene looked to others.

A Taoist Lord raises his hand to mobilize the rules of heaven and earth, and runes form a formation. In a moment, the formation is immediately formed, which is not much different from that of a Yuan Lord.

The people in the Heavenly Palace only thought that Lin Du's magical power was to form a formation to clear the chaos, but they didn't know that when Lin Du raised his hands to form a formation, the power of the command rules was also released in an instant.

After the last rune was drawn, Lin Du put down his pen and raised his eyes to see the runes rapidly changing and flowing, surrounding the treasure tree. Immortal power was released from the folding fan, and the patterns formed a chain, then flew from the air into the ground at a high speed.

In an instant, Lin Du felt a horrible roar, the evil spirit struggled and bit upwards, the eternal hot breath dissipated, the divine light above the treasure tree dimmed instantly, and the red rope became extremely hot in an instant.

"So that's how it is." In the midst of the overwhelming heat and pressure, the Immortal in Cang Yi spoke calmly and indifferently, "Kai Yang is indeed right."

Chu Guanmeng struggled to climb onto Lin Du's shoulders. Under the roots of the suspended treasure tree, the mud was surging. It seemed that because of the rare contact with the fresh fairy air, the dark muddy abyss was constantly surging with bubbles. But upon closer inspection, they were not bubbles at all, but...

Human face.

It was like hundreds of thousands of people who accidentally fell into mud or asphalt, with terrified faces, just like a picture of hell, or even... more hideous and terrifying than the picture of hell, with an indescribable vicious evil spirit everywhere, and the three poisons emanating from it, making people's heads dizzy and heavy. It was clearly silent, but it seemed as if there were countless people screaming and complaining.

Chu Guanmeng felt a little nauseous, and his stomach churned. "I feel like I'm going to vomit."

It gagged twice, quickly jumped off Lin Du's shoulder, and actually vomited.

"No, that's too disgusting."

"What's so disgusting about that?" Lin Du still didn't move. "A human face has two eyes and a mouth. Whether it's flesh or bones, it's just three big black holes. What's there to be afraid of?"

What she said sounded a little strange and seemed too heartless.

Chu Guanmeng turned his head and looked at the person standing in the center. Could it be that he was affected by the three poisons?

As he was speaking, a strange demon fetus climbed out. It had only struggled to climb out above the shoulder, but it was already bigger than the trunk of the white jade tree that was suppressing the formation.

Lin Du, however, still stood there motionless, as if frightened.

The fierce, dark evil demon roared, looked down at the tiny immortal in front of it, and then raised its claws, but was blocked by a scorching divine power when it was about to touch Lin Du.

The returning Emperor Fusang reappeared in the courtyard, but he did not blame anyone at first. Instead, his overwhelming divine power instantly burned with a temperature even more terrifying than the scorching sun at noon.

The evil demon wrapped in the divine light was burned and twisted in an instant, and the three poisons evaporated. In the flames, the evil demon seemed to be tortured in real purgatory, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

The treasure tree that was lifted up by the formation descended again, and Emperor Fusang raised his hands to form seals, sealing the source of the demonic energy in the entire upper realm again.

Lin Du stared at the seal handprint, then came to his senses, "Thank you, Emperor Fusang, for saving me. I was reckless and thought the light of this precious tree was too dazzling and disturbed my rest, so I wanted to transplant it. I didn't expect that there was such an evil thing suppressed underneath. I was careless for a moment and fell into this trap. I hope the emperor will forgive me."

She seemed to be in shock, her face was pale and her eyes were grey and panic-stricken.

Emperor Fusang waved his hand immediately, "It's okay, it's because no one told you that it's best not to move all the arrangements in this mansion. If you move it, the feng shui will change, and there will be mistakes in the suppression formation. You are still young and haven't been in the heaven for long. It's their fault."

Lin Du bowed his hands and thanked him again and again.

A divine force held her up, and Lin Du took advantage of the situation, but there was a crackling sound, and white smoke came out of his wide blue sleeves.

This time it was Fuso's turn to apologize, "I'm sorry, I didn't know your clothes couldn't withstand my divine power, it's my fault."

"Now that you have entered the Heavenly Palace and are the only Taoist master in Sanyuan Prefecture, you can ask Xuannv to make you a set of robes." Fusang said as he issued an order.

Lin Du thanked her again. Fusang, seeing how young she was, kindly reminded her, "The one suppressed here is a god who fell hundreds of thousands of years ago. Do you know the way of incense and fire?"

Lin Du nodded, "Of course I know."

"That's it." Fusang was born tall and majestic, and ordinary immortals were like chicks in front of him. He seemed to have noticed the difference, and when talking to Lin Du, he always bowed slightly and slowly explained the incense and gods.

"This fallen god is the first one to become a god through incense. Although it is said that vows lead to merits, vows and merits are actually two different things. This fallen god has great merits and a strong vow. Everyone believed in her earlier, and she was once among the four deities. Unfortunately..."

He paused, "The power of the wish backfired, and the people's greed destroyed her."

Fuso said with great regret, "If she didn't have the power of wish, her divine power would be insufficient. If she had the power of wish, she would have to bear the endless poison of greed, anger, and infatuation. We had not noticed it before, and when things broke out, we realized that she could no longer bear it. The disasters in the three thousand worlds and the resentment of the people made her become a fallen angel."

"She can only seal herself before returning to the abyss. Even the gods are like this, not to mention all the Taoists who follow her. Without her holy and strong heart, they would be harmed by the three poisons. They have also been in a high position for a long time and have harmed many immortals and small worlds."

"This matter was gradually discovered by others in the Heavenly Palace, and we cleaned up all the incense and the sacred road and dealt with it according to the Heavenly Rules."

"We all thought that the matter had been settled, but who knew that after the fall of the god, we discovered that her followers who had survived the natural disaster remained in the human world. They were not accepted by the underworld, but were bound by the clay statues in the shrine and the contracts formed by the fulfillment of their wishes in the past, and became strange demons in the human world."

"These evil demons feed on human blood and souls. After they are grown, they constantly attach themselves to the bodies of fallen angels from all directions and all pour into the upper realm. This is the birth of evil demons."

"All the immortals from the Heavenly Palace came out and wiped out the evil demons. We only then learned that something happened to the souls of the fallen angels and they were also invaded by the three poisons and could not enter the underworld. The fallen angels wanted to take those souls with them to eliminate the three poisons, so they created this sealed place."

Fusang's tone was filled with grief and regret, completely different from his apprentice Kaiyang's. "This is also a thing of the past. The current small immortal officials have been replaced in waves, so naturally they don't know about the catastrophe that happened tens of thousands of years ago."

After listening to this, Lin Du suddenly asked, "What you are talking about happened tens of thousands of years ago. Kaiyang Star Lord is only ten thousand years old. Why do you talk about it as if you experienced it yourself?"

"That's another matter." Fusang's eyes flashed with sadness. "Perhaps it's because the seal is loose. Less than ten thousand years ago, Kaiyang, who was about your age, experienced an incident where the seal loosened and evil spirits overflowed."

"The Heavenly Palace was caught off guard and suffered some casualties, but they were able to suppress the situation later. Only the Star Lords of our Fighting Department knew more about this matter. After all, the 33 Heavens are very vast."

Lin Du seemed to be thinking about something when he heard that. That's right. The Thirty-Three Heavens are extremely vast, and the various parts of the Heavenly Palace are very far apart. Not to mention the remote territories of the various Lords of the Prefectures. Even the extremely fast Wei Zhi would probably take several days to fly there.

The Hanyue Secret Realm was once just a small world scattered in a remote place in the Thirty-Three Heavens.

Lin Du thanked him again, looking extremely well behaved, "Thank you for your guidance, Emperor."

The politics and religion in the Heavenly Palace are separated. The people of Saint Disciple Heaven are not well-informed about the affairs of the Heavenly Palace, and the Fighting Department is not under the command of the Emperor of Heaven. Even the Three Yuans and Nine Prefectures where she is located is a highly free department that only obeys orders but not announcements.

If Emperor Fusang hadn't told her about this today, she wouldn't have been able to find any record of it even if she looked through books everywhere.

The Heavenly Palace is not like the Dongming Realm, and the library of the Heavenly Palace and Daozu, let alone the library of the Supreme Sect, has everything. The books are all treasures that have been selected by you.

Lin Du still misses the library that has everything.

As Lin Du thought about it, he once again declined the Emperor Fusang's invitation to move, "I like watching the sea."

This was a very childish reason, and Emperor Fusang did not force it, but repeatedly warned, "Don't move rashly in the future, it won't do you any good."

Lin Du nodded repeatedly, and after the others left, she turned around with a smile on her face. The heavy iron folding fan flipped neatly in her hand and was grabbed by a strong, thin and slender hand.

Chu Guanmeng was completely stunned by Lin Du's change of expression and was too lazy to ask.

It is not the first time that Lin Du is a good boy in front of people but a traitor behind their backs.

"Did you hear that?" Lin Du asked.

Chu Guanmeng was confused, "Ah?"

Lin Du closed his eyes. "A strong voice full of hatred and greed."

Chu Guanmeng jumped up and hit Lin Du's knee. Lin Du must have been possessed by a demon. "Please drive away the demon, please."

It landed on the ground and turned around, "I'll go find Xia Tianwu for you."

Lin Du leaned over, picked up the fur ball, turned around and walked back into the mansion.

"Don't you think that's weird?"

"What's strange?"

Chu Guanmeng was puzzled. "I wonder why such a broad-minded, magnanimous, compassionate and child-loving emperor could raise such a stubborn person like Kaiyang?"

Lin Du shook his head, holding the woolen ball in one hand, with his wide sleeves hanging down, shining brightly.

"Of course it's strange. Why can't a great god control his power to the point where it won't burn people?"

Lin Du stepped into the house, his eyes heavy, "I will never use my power of extreme cold and snow against you casually."

She waved her sleeves calmly, "No hurry, we have nothing to do in the next two days, why don't we go downstairs and have some fun?"

Chu Guanmeng lowered his head and realized that Lin Du's sleeves were not damaged at all. It seemed that they were just covered with a layer of ice and snow power that belonged to Lin Du alone.

It rubbed its head and felt that its original brain was too small and it would be better to make it bigger.

But when you get bigger, you have to walk on your own.

Chu Guanmeng was caught in a dilemma and did not notice the rare gloom and coldness on Lin Du's face.

It is not possible for Lin Du to go to the underworld, but he has reasons and evidence. He is going there on official business. Specifically, he wants to call for help to see if anyone is willing to go through the illusion of floating life, and to check the account book from 100,000 years ago.

The question is, she can trust people from the Heavenly Palace, but not from the Underworld.

After hearing what his superiors said, the poor judge was so frightened that he pulled out some of his already limited hair.

This person is really reckless in making up this mess that happened hundreds of thousands of years ago.

He squatted at the door and sighed. The officials under his command saw him and couldn't help asking, "Why are you so sad, Judge?"

"Why else!" The judges stood up one after another, wishing they could grab a bowl of Meng Po soup right now so they would know nothing when asked. "It's all because of that inexplicable Lingwei Daojun from the Heavenly Palace! He is less than two thousand years old, and he parachuted into the cold government office of Sanyuan Jiufu. He wants to reheat something cold, and he actually wants to target our underworld!"

"Wow!" The Yin officials widened their eyes upon hearing this. "What about the Dao Lord who is only 2,000 years old? I thought the Dao Lord would be 10,000 years old."

"You are young and reckless. You probably want to do something big after entering the Heavenly Palace, but you don't dare to attack the Heavenly Palace. Hey, do you think we are easy to bully?"

"I think he's just a fool!" The judge gritted his teeth, "What can a Taoist master who is less than two thousand years old do?"

Before the judge finished speaking, a familiar female voice came in, "I really don't have much ability. I just look through the Book of Life and Death again. But this time, I probably won't have to shorten my life."

The underworld officials all shut their mouths, stood straighter than when they had just died, with their backs stiff, and hid behind the judge one after another.

The judge was so frightened that his face turned paler than when he had been dead for three days. He was still thinking about why the voice sounded familiar, and he called out subconsciously, "Lingwei Daojun?"

A pale green figure appeared not far away, accompanied by the Ghost Emperor Shen Tu, and was crossing a threshold and walking towards the Judge's Mansion.

In the gloomy ghost world, that figure did not seem abrupt. He blended into the environment better than the Ghost Emperor and the underworld officials who were dressed in hot red and white. However, the calm and chilly fairy aura surrounding him and the brilliance on his clothes still made him look a little different.

The judge did not even dare to raise his head, and quickly bowed.

"Your Excellency the Judge, there is no need to be polite. We are all acquaintances."

The female voice rang out again. The judge's mind went through eight hundred twists and turns, but he still couldn't figure out how he could have any connection with the Taoist master in the Heavenly Palace. He stood up and took a look, and was almost scared to death.

"Lin Du???"

"Hey." Lin Du greeted with a smile, and walked into the house as he knew the way. He turned around and smiled at Shen Tu, "See, I said you don't need to lead the way. I have a good memory."

Shen Tu was helpless, "You'll easily scare them if you do this."

The judge covered his heart and said, "This is too scary. Lin Du, I didn't ask you to keep in mind your friends even when you are rich. Why do you sell out your acquaintances first when you are rich?"

Lin Du watched him climb up the pole and sat down loudly, "Isn't this just an excuse? Otherwise, how can I get down?"

The judge suddenly realized, "That's right."

She sat down and held out her hand, "Book of Life and Death."

The judge twitched his face and said, "Didn't you say you were looking for an excuse to come down and play?"

Lin Du stared at him, "What? You don't want to give it to me? Or do you want to shorten my life first?"

"How can that be possible? Just kidding. I can't shorten your lifespan even if I want to." The judge chuckled and trotted over to hand over the account book. "However, I heard that the new Zhenye Zhenjun is from the Dongming Realm, and seems to be your master. Why don't you just go see your master? Why do you have to come down to see him? I was so scared that my hair fell out."

Lin Du took the Book of Life and Death and said, "Although there are two copies of the Book of Life and Death, one in the Heavenly Palace and one in the Underworld, their functions are still different. You are doing practical things and you really come into contact with them."

She lowered her head and scanned the Book of Life and Death with her mind. "You are the best. People who have died once are honest."

Of course, what Fuso said also needs to be verified.

Language, whether spoken or written, is subject to falsification.

What you see is not necessarily the truth. The world is full of falsehood and embellishment, but peace and stability are what everyone wishes for.

Even Lin Du himself prefers light when he walks in darkness.

While chatting with Shen Tu and the judge, she quickly reviewed the previous Book of Life and Death.

Shen Tu noticed that Lin Du was multitasking, and he raised his hand to smooth his hair, causing the pearls and stones in his hair to jingle. "Why do you want to check the Book of Life and Death from 100,000 years ago?"

"Curious." After Lin Du's consciousness expanded to the sea realm, it was strong enough to quickly input information and still be able to chat at the same time.

Shen Tu held his head up and thought of something, "The Ghost Emperor here has only been in power for tens of thousands of years. A hundred thousand years is really long."

Lin Du responded and indeed found a large number of blanks from 100,000 years ago, which matched what Fusang and Kaiyang said. The souls of those believers who died in disasters did not reach the underworld, so there were a lot of blanks.

She closed the Book of Life and Death, looked up calmly, looked at Shen Tu's lack of interest, and asked, "Under what circumstances can a soul avoid entering the underworld, except... well, a formation cultivator as powerful as me."

Shen Tu: ...You know that you are quite capable.

She thought about it seriously, "For example, the evil cultivator refined his soul, and his soul flew away. Or something else, his soul was so lacking that it could not be lacking anymore, and was eaten by evil demons or something like that."

Lin Du spoke up, "If, I mean if, is there a possibility that after a person dies, his soul is bound to the shrine by faith, and you in the underworld cannot snatch it away?"

Shen Tu frowned, "Your idea is very unique. I have never come across it before."

"No," the underworld official under the judge spoke up, "Lin Du, no, when Lingwei Daojun was still a child, didn't he once magically send a ghost into the underworld and send down the soul of a Jingzhong formation?"

"It was a good thing that Dao-kun sent some negative energy to the formation. Otherwise, we would have almost lost the chance to snatch it."

Lin Du held his head up and said, "Oh, yes, that's it."

If the Seal of All Peoples is maintained in both directions through willpower, it is equivalent to the Loyal Array protecting the array soul of the temple, and that spell was originally a trap set by the Fallen Angel fragments, which means it came from the Fallen Angel...

Lin Du sat up straight at once, and the Yin official was so frightened that he almost knelt down.

This is not because you are angry about bringing up old issues.

Lin Du turned to look at Shen Tu, "So if I hadn't intervened, those souls would never have been retrieved?"

Shen Tu nodded, "Yes, and one is fine. If there are a lot of them, you won't be able to take them back no matter what you do."

Lin Du understood that what Fusang said might be true.

And what she saw in that original shrine provided the explanation.

The Seal of All Peoples bound the souls of countless believers and brewed the three poisons, but because the ancient ruins had the natural suppression of the original energy, they were able to retain a little bit of the human appearance.

It's not the three poisons that breed into a demon fetus, it's the human soul that becomes the fetus, which makes the three poisons even more powerful.

It's just that because it's been too long and they've been sealed for too long, these evil demons have finally forgotten that they were once humans, monsters, and believers. They have become monsters condensed from resentment, eating the flesh and souls of their former peers, and finally are no longer human.

The more powerful the demon is, the more humanoid it is, the more beautiful and luxurious it is. Isn't this... also their instinctive desire engraved in their ancient memories?

Lin Du took a deep breath and heard the sound of pearls and jade colliding in his ears.

"Now that you're here, why not go somewhere with me?" Shen Tu stretched out his hand to her.

Lin Du stood up, but hesitated, which was rare. "Is she okay?"

Shen Tu nodded, "Very good, and very powerful, but he is not a god after all."

Lin Du shook his head and laughed, "It's best if he's not a god."

"Okay, don't be like those people in Tiangong who always like to tell riddles. Are you going to leave or not?" Shen Tu put his hands on his hips and looked at her, bright and passionate, like a ball of fire in the underworld.

Lin Du followed helplessly, "Ah, when we are floating in the Heavenly Palace, how can we not be careful? The sky is bright, and we, the superiors, have to control our shadows when we walk, believe it or not."

Shen Tu crossed his arms and said, "We ghost cultivators have no trace, we don't know."