Chapter 268: Visitors from the Underworld
"We can do an experiment. The four of you will work together to slow down the flow of the stagnant water. Let me try my idea and see if it works."
Four people immediately stood in four directions and used magic to fight against the water flow. Under the powerful pressure, the stagnant water was forced to stagnate and there seemed to be a tendency to return.
Zhong Linger flew to the middle of the black hole in the sky, suddenly took out a divine thunder talisman and threw it down while the water was flowing back.
The purple thunder condensed into a purple dragon as thick as a bucket and drilled into the sea. The sea water rolled along the way, and the evil spirits retreated. It went straight into the evil spirit cave. Then a violent explosion sounded, and the sea water surged instantly, blowing Zhong Ling'er away.
But everyone also saw that when the purple divine thunder entered the evil spirit cave, it shook the black dead water and caused it to roll in the opposite direction, briefly forming a waterless vacuum zone in the middle of the cave.
Suddenly, a huge black shadow fell. Zhong Ling'er took out her super-large pot No. 2 and pressed it against the entire cave entrance. Then she shouted, "Help me hold it down!"
Then the four of them worked together again, using the pot to cover the hole of the evil spirit and hold it down tightly, so that the dead water that was madly rolled in by the vacuum could not flow out.
"Ling'er, why are you messing around again? Is this how the Divine Thunder Talisman is used?"
Master Wu Chen was frightened by Zhong Ling'er's suicidal behavior. This was the bad thing about this kid. She would make a big move at any time and it was impossible to stop her.
Zhong Linger waited until the noise in the pot gradually subsided, then she smiled at her master and said, "Master, the results of the experiment just now are good. Facts have proved that we can make the dead water flow backwards, but just that moment is not enough."
Taking out a stack of more than a dozen divine thunder talismans from her bosom, Zhong Ling'er smiled evilly, "Master, we can consider serial explosions. The first talisman will explode a space, and then the second talisman will explode. This will explode a space leading to the underworld, followed by the third talisman, the fourth talisman..."
"If we blow them up one by one, this retrograde passage will be open for a while. Then we can throw all the spirit beast bags containing evil spirits down, which will be equivalent to sending the evil spirits back to the underworld."
"You can see the big pot under our feet. I made it with materials from the fairy world that have fairy spirits. It is strong enough. When we turn the pot upside down, we can use the pressure of the sea water and our strength to stop the dead water from rebounding. As long as we blow it up a few more times, it won't be a problem to send the evil spirit away."
"But the dead water is already in the South China Sea, and many aquatic creatures will still become evil spirits. How can this be solved?"
Ba Ji, who had been silent the whole time, spoke for the first time. Zhong Ling'er smiled and said, "How difficult is that? Just catch him and send him to the underworld!"
Ba Ji's face turned black, "Aren't you guys being too irresponsible?"
"The underworld has been treating us like a sewer that dumps stagnant water for so many years. We are just giving them a little back. What's wrong with that? If we are to blame, it was the underworld that started it first."
Ba Ji looked at the stack of divine thunder talismans and couldn't help but sigh. She moved, and a flamboyant and domineering beauty in black appeared in front of the four people.
"Since you have guessed it, let's be clear. I will not allow you to use the divine thunder to blow up the underworld. And I tell you, if you continue to blow it up, it is very likely that the underworld and the bottom of the South China Sea will be blown through, making things even more difficult."
"You must be Ling Ji, the river god in charge of the Wangchuan River. When I saw the copper-scaled snake, I thought it shouldn't be here alone. It was guarding the crack on the seabed and must be waiting for someone. When I saw Sister Ba and heard the word Ji in your name, I remembered who you are."
When the Dragon King and his companions saw Ling Ji, they hurriedly bowed. Ling Ji pinched Zhong Ling'er's little face and then explained the whole matter to them.
Back then, the devil pierced the bottom of the South China Sea, and the devil's energy entered the Forgotten River. Since then, the evil spirits have been nourished by the devil's energy and began to wreak havoc in the underworld. The underworld could not eliminate them, so it drove these evil spirits into the Evil Soul Cave and threw them into this God-forsaken land.
Although the Dingkun Pearl appeared later and blocked the entrance of the cave, evil spirits were still able to get through the gaps, and the underworld has been peaceful in recent years.
However, the souls of the living beings in this world need to be reincarnated after death. The underworld is unwilling to bring back evil souls, so it is only willing to accept the souls of the living who have just died. Therefore, only the residual souls that have been contaminated by the souls of the living will be brought into the underworld.
But later they discovered that the living souls also brought back a lot of evil souls, and the underworld could only continue to throw them into the cave, thus creating a vicious cycle.
As for the dead water flowing into the South China Sea, it is divided into two types. One is discharged from the Evil Soul Cave. These are dead waters contaminated with evil spirits and are not wanted by the underworld. The other is normal dead water. That water is used to cleanse souls and is still needed by the underworld. Not long ago, they discovered cracks in the sea, and this kind of dead water was flowing out.
Ling Ji wanted to find a way to plug the crack on the seabed, so she brought the copper-scaled snake here to check the situation. Afterwards, she left the copper-scaled snake to plug the crack, and she wanted to see what the creatures in this world were busy with. If they felt that this place was already in chaos, there was no need to plug the crack, and they could just cut off the connection with this world.
The Dragon King and his companions wiped the sweat from their foreheads. It was a close call. If the underworld also cut off its connection with this world, the dead would be shattered into pieces and no new life would be born. This world would be truly over.
Zhong Ling'er was shocked. "Sister Ba, you are so cruel. There are so many living beings in this world. You just give up when you say so. Are you always so hasty in making decisions?"
Ling Ji smiled embarrassedly, "Junior Sister, this is really not my fault. This is a place abandoned by the gods, or in other words, a garbage dump. Do you still want me to have a conscience when it comes to garbage?"
Zhong Linger rolled her eyes, "Our cultivation world was doing fine, how come it has become a garbage dump? Without you polluting the sea, we would be even better off."
"Can you fix that crack?"
"There's no way!" Ling Ji said helplessly: "Junior Sister, the Underworld doesn't want to be a bad guy, otherwise it would have abandoned this world ten thousand years ago. The reason why the crack appeared is because your world is collapsing, which is not something we can change."
Zhong Linger frowned. Collapse? This word doesn't sound good.
"Can you plug this hole?"
"I can't block it. The most I can do is set up a formation at the entrance of the cave to prevent dead water and evil spirits from coming here."
Zhong Ling'er looked at Ling Ji steadily, "Sister Ba, I want to ask the most crucial question now. How to deal with these evil spirits? The underworld must have a way."
"The way of the underworld is to let the copper-scaled snake eat them all, but you have to think carefully, the number of creatures in each world is fixed. If so many evil souls are eaten, the number of people in your world will become much smaller, and no new life will be born for a long time!"
"And once no new life comes, you will also be destroyed."
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