PFC Chapter 1050 9 Ghosts (5000 words)
Chapter 1050 9 Ghosts (5000 words)
Chapter 1050 Nine Netherworlds (5000 words)
As the sun slowly sets in the west, the river flows eastward, and the shadows of white clouds drift leisurely. Within the palace, melodies flow like water, and the sound of the zither rises and falls, accompanying the world of ink paintings.
"Since the ceremony is over and there's nothing else to do for the time being, you should head back as soon as the wedding banquet is over. I plan to switch to a different world map and become the Sword God of Shili Slope by tomorrow at the latest, so I can start developing my character first."
Meng Qi, dressed in a festive red robe, glanced at the pot of immortal wine in his hand and ultimately resisted the instinctive urge to get drunk as usual. He also advised everyone to drink more tea and less alcohol.
I can't be the only one who can't find happiness.
"When the sun loses its brilliance and the moon is not yet visible, it is the time when the sky is ablaze with sunset glow, a time of unparalleled splendor."
Su Lin stood ramrod straight, holding prayer beads and gazing at the afterglow. Upon hearing this, she pressed the pause button on the selfie function of the Myriad Realms Knowledge Talisman:
"Sorry, I didn't hear what you just said."
"It's better to go back sooner. The real world is complicated. The Six Paths and the Demon Buddha are hiding and not making their move. They're definitely thinking about how to cause trouble," Meng Qi said.
"It's alright, I have the Great Mighty Heavenly Dragon."
"I meant causing trouble, not catching demons. Anyway, hurry back, especially you."
Meng Qi shook his head, unfazed by Su Lin's attempts to steer the conversation away from the topic.
"Don't worry, we don't have the custom of wedding pranks where we live."
Su Lin gave Meng Qi a meaningful look and said, "If you anonymously bought something from Xiao Yan, we wouldn't know."
You're the one who needs to anonymously buy medicine powder from Xiao Yan, you over-aged virgin!
Don't think I don't know you're a glass sword with high attack but low defense. When it comes to real combat experience, you're definitely better than this theoretical master.
Seeing Meng Qi transform back into a monkey, raising his golden cudgel to try and revert to Sun Wukong, Su Lin smiled slightly and then sang:
"Life and death are but a fleeting moment, yet heroic spirit shines eternally; the land is so vast, where is home?"
These tunes from Earth are actually considered folk songs in the real world, and cannot be considered the mainstream style favored by martial arts circles and aristocratic dynasties.
"You've won the world, but who did you lose to?"
Meng Qi chuckled, annoyed, "We almost couldn't get you to come to the real world even with an eight-bearer sedan chair before, but now you've picked up a bit of the Jianghu (江湖, the martial arts world) vibe?"
"Jianghu vibe?" Su Lin glanced at him and said, "That's just the 'corporate slave vibe' that's been beautified into 'socialite' vibes."
"Who would get involved in this stuff if they weren't forced to by life's circumstances?"
Alright, it's no fun if the filter breaks.
However, Meng Qi was once again certain that this guy had gone wild. He could see traces of the other party in places like the Su Nu Dao, the Shura Temple, and various unorthodox sects.
Imagine a husky that has lived in a southern city for years being suddenly taken to a snowy and icy place. Not only will its intelligence be elevated, but it can also use all its strength to run wild and roll around without worrying about the consequences of destroying the house.
"Ha—Qiu!" Huai Shi suddenly sneezed.
He rubbed his nose as he watched the great Fuxi explain music theory and Miss Ruan Yushu practice the zither. Given his current physical condition, he shouldn't have caught a cold.
Is someone insulting me?
"Taiyi GieGie~." Tongji, dressed in a black dress and looking like a little girl, smiled innocently: "It's Dijun thinking of you on the Rainbow Bridge."
Please...please let me go, big sister.
Stop talking while wearing this model and give me back my bad girl/mature woman image!
"It's okay, no one will think you're a lolicon or a sister complex, big brother." The little girl tilted her head and looked at him, saying, "Everyone thinks we're sisters."
"No big brother allowed!" Huai Shi cried out in frustration.
"Oh, then my dear Onii-chan, let's grab our Poké Balls and go catch the Celestial Path monster!"
Tong Ji blinked, and in the sunset, her dark eyes shone with a magnificent light.
"Why is Taiichi holding a Poké Ball instead of the Divine Plan?"
Huai Shi immediately sensed something amiss, like a blind student snapping to attention, but then suddenly felt something else was off: "What did you say we should grab?!"
“Of course it’s the Heavenly Dao Monster.” Tong Ji narrowed her eyes and smiled. “Go all in. If we win, we’ll have a chance to beat those idiots in the Existence Academy to a pulp.”
"You've mistaken me for someone else. I am the future Abyss Sun, and Taiyi is in the next timeline," Huai Shi replied expressionlessly.
Heavenly Monster
Even if this woman shrinks, her wickedness is still concentrated, right?!
How could I possibly touch that Heavenly Monster?!
In the real world, Donghuang Taiyi's previous incarnation was Huang Laojun, the Central Heavenly Emperor. Huang Laojun perished with the destruction of the era, and his true spirit was reincarnated as Donghuang Taiyi, while his physical body was transformed into a monster of the Heavenly Dao.
In the next era, Haotian and Donghuang fought a great battle on the other side, and Donghuang Taiyi failed in his struggle for the Dao and perished.
Before his demise, Donghuang Taiyi, through his connection with the Heavenly Dao Monster, subtly merged a portion of his will, flesh, and Dao Fruit with the monster, thus escaping his death.
Now, the remnants reside in this first evil entity of all time.
Rather than expecting her to use a Poké Ball to catch a Celestial Path monster, it's more accurate to say that this wicked woman would definitely tie herself to the Poké Ball and throw her out with the words:
"I've chosen you, Little Peppa Pig from Huaihai Road!"
I'm fighting the Heavenly Path monster?
Don't be ridiculous. Even if you look at Taiichi's personal comics, you absolutely can't win this round. That's a genuine monster of the Other Shore level!
He was just a wedding musician who came to the real world to collect 200 yuan and freeload off the guests; there was no need for him to risk his life.
"Pikachu can take on legendary Pokémon, can't you be a little more ambitious?" Tong Ji said, somewhat exasperated.
"That's Pikachu, and I'm just a Pikachu lying on the roadside." Huai Shi shook his head repeatedly, refusing to be fooled or fall for the woman's empty promises.
Not far away, Meng Qi pointed to the two people interacting over there.
"Look, Huai Shi is much more cautious than you."
"They kept urging me to leave."
Su Lin asked suspiciously, "Why do I feel like you're hiding something from me?"
"Uh..." Meng Qi thought for a moment and confessed:
"The causes of my various effects are influenced by unknown factors, which can greatly enhance the causal connection. Just like the enhanced version of the Universal Knowledge Talisman in your hands, if some legendary or higher-level experts who have karmic connections with me get close, they can sense the 'other self' outside the void."
"If Yang Jian were to leave Yan Sen's protective range and appear in the real world, Yang Jian could even perceive him clearly. There is also a vague connection if he leaves the real world."
While Meng Qi was explaining, he observed Su Lin, but the other party just listened quietly without making any other moves, not even the expected action of running away and throwing a ball of "light" at him.
"Oh." Su Lin nodded.
"?"
So calm?
"Can you hurry up and go to your bridal chamber so I can go travel the world? I have a feeling there are still a lot of wicked women with amazing potential in this world that I could cultivate."
Dude, are you playing a simulation game in the real world?!
However, there is another possibility: this guy spent a lot of money on the banquet and doesn't want to leave until he has earned enough for his travel expenses.
"As long as you know it yourself, that's fine." Seeing that the other party was full of confidence, Meng Qi didn't say anything more to avoid seeming fussy.
After realizing that the causes of his various consequences had changed, Meng Qi was unwilling to involve his fellow group members, but if a kind-hearted passerby offered assistance in case of an emergency, that would naturally be ideal.
I don't necessarily have to suffer and go through tribulations; I'm determined to pursue the "torture master" genre.
However, he concealed the fact that he saw in the Jade Void Ancient Well about the outer universe stitching together Brahma (Su Lin, Klein).
The inference is that it is also affected by the amplification of signals from the causes of the effects, as well as some indescribable mystical factors.
In short, I logged in and received 100 free draws.
It was really enjoyable to smoke.
"Also, remember to take Xingbao with you. If she really goes to the Sword Washing Pavilion to learn swordsmanship, she will become Zhiwei's junior sister."
Meng Qi pointed to the Star Core Fairy, whose poem was titled "My only love in my life is the seven-foot staff," and said.
The other party was chanting something like "This body is a sword," "Abandoning ordinary iron, stealing a ray of moonlight to illuminate all rivers," and "This beautiful scene is for everyone to enjoy," while demonstrating sword moves that he had imitated from somewhere.
If it were just some mediocre guy, that would be one thing, but the key is that Xing can actually come up with some things and modified theories.
If this isn't stopped, Jiang Zhiwei's art style might go astray in the future. Although the probability is small, for Meng Qi, it would be no less than his past fond memories turning from traditional Chinese style to Picasso style.
"Su Meng, there's been some progress on the matter of the Samsara World that you commissioned the people from the Immortal Realm to investigate." The Taoist Chonghe, with his white hair and beard and skin like that of a baby, walked over.
Meng Qi was originally considering using underhanded tactics to fix his ranking with the Six Doors, to prevent his ranking from being maliciously pushed down. Upon hearing the other party mention it, he suddenly remembered the mission hanging in the Immortal Traces.
I didn't expect to get a clue so quickly.
“Good.” Meng Qi clapped his hands and smiled: “Senior, please speak freely, there is no need to hold back.”
“There is a small team of peripheral members who once obtained the ‘Hun Tian Bao Jian Divine Skill’ in the First Emperor’s tomb in a martial arts world. They are willing to trade it for some resources.”
As the 'Lingbao Tianzun' of the immortal realm, Chonghe relayed the information he had gathered one by one:
"The era they lived in was a thousand years after the death of the tomb's owner. The White Lotus Sect and the Sun Moon Sect were active in the martial arts world. In that reincarnation world, the White Lotus Sect was still a righteous force."
"The Heavenly Sword Divine Skill you are looking for does indeed circulate in the Samsara World, but this team has not collected it."
It looks like the world of "Legend of the Emperor". Liu Dao probably wouldn't be so bored as to artificially create a fragment of cosmic light, which is one of the myriad worlds derived from the real world.
"There is also a book called 'Magnetic Field Rotation,' a method for cultivating cosmic energy. If you need it, you can trade it together with 'Hun Tian Bao Jian.'"
Cough, cough!
Su Lin almost choked on the wine in his glass.
"Ribbit, is that the damn magnetic field lunatic?!"
Meng Qi's eyes widened slightly. The outer team members were at most at the level of beginners in outdoor filming. This team was really unlucky.
Chonghe hadn't expected that a mere cycle of reincarnation could cause such a stir among the top-ranked individuals on the Black List and Heaven List. He pondered whether this cultivation method had anything special about it, and wondered if he should copy it down and practice it when he returned.
"I'm troubled to buy them all for me, senior. These are gifts for another young friend," Meng Qi said, clasping his hands in a fist salute.
Song Shuhang can practice it for fun on his own, but he really can't touch this type of martial art that makes muscles bulge out.
Chonghe nodded and continued:
"As for the realm of suffering, there are indeed people who have been to the relevant cycle of reincarnation, which roughly corresponds to your description."
"But most of these team members have already perished. It is only when individual reincarnators talk about their experiences that they exchange information and pass it down by word of mouth."
"There isn't much information about this reincarnation world, and the main storylines of similar missions are all related to the corruption of the Nine Netherworld, and most of them are death missions."
According to Chonghe, it's hard to say whether this cycle of reincarnation still exists, since those who reincarnate in the Six Paths of Reincarnation sometimes encounter apocalyptic scenarios.
To trick people or reclaim reincarnation points, the Six Paths often resort to tricks like secretly adjusting the difficulty and creating pitfalls in the task descriptions.
In comparison, Abyss Reincarnation Space is practically a conscientious company.
"The Bitter Realm." Su Lin's brows furrowed instantly: "The Bitter Realm exists in the Realm?"
“You can enter the Six Paths of Reincarnation Space now to exchange for the Holy Demon Embryo and become a true Abandoned Heaven Emperor,” Meng Qi said.
"The Abandoned Heaven Emperor?" Chonghe asked in confusion. "There used to be a half-step Dharma Body team, one of their series of missions was to stop the native gods and demons of that world called the Abandoned Heaven Emperor."
It has most likely been sent.
But these were not Su Lin's main concerns.
"I also thought those martial arts techniques were just rebranded versions of the Six Paths Cheat," Meng Qi said, pausing as he watched Chong He's departing figure.
"Mainly, I also practiced your Heavenly Buddha Formless Dharma Body, and it felt very strange and peculiar, so I asked around to see if there were similar fragments of cosmic light in the Samsara World."
“I think I only taught Shuhang,” Su Lin said.
"He taught me again."
"Next time I'll devise a method to make something self-destruct if it's open-sourced without permission."
It's fine if I teach it to others in the group, but since Meng Qi stole it, I always have the illusion that this guy has been taking advantage of me ever since I came to the real world.
Whether it's a gift of money, an insurance device, or this martial art.
"So you plan to go to the original home of Tianfo?" Su Lin asked, puzzled.
"In fact, I suspect you may be mistaken. This technique is not from the Bitter Realm, at least not the one that you and I have in mind and knowledge."
Meng Qi didn't show off and said directly, "The Heavenly Buddha Tower and Weituo practice the Five Aspects of the Heavenly Buddha's Incarnation Method, while your Heavenly Buddha's Formless Dharma Body is completely different."
"If you have read all the martial arts works in the relevant series, you should know the difference between the two."
"Moreover, your method of condensing the Dharma body can also enhance my understanding of the general principles of the Tathagata's Palm. Even the Buddha of Heaven isn't that powerful, is he?"
At this moment, Su Lin, who was facing him, seemed to be listening to something incomprehensible, his eyes revealing bewilderment. The place where the three of them were located gradually fell silent, which was in stark contrast to the noisy, playful, and clinking of glasses in the palace hall around them.
"No," Su Lin said, her mouth slightly agape, raising her hand. "Actually, I haven't seen the 'Buddha of Heaven' series."
Meng Qi: "?"
"I only know that it has this name, and it's also written as 'Buddha of Heaven' in my instruction manual," Su Lin couldn't help but say.
"More than 2600 episodes, each lasting tens of minutes, something that's been airing since the last century. It's impossible for me to have watched every single one of them when I was in school. Who would have that much free time?"
Meng Qi, a martial arts enthusiast who often had nothing to do, twitched at the corner of his eye.
He had indeed overlooked the fact that, compared to his own love of martial arts, Su Lin was so eclectic that he dabbled in everything. Even the time management master Luo couldn't possibly help one person master all the second-generation games, PC games, console games, visual novels, anime, movies, and novels within a limited time.
"It might be because the titles are similar. Where did you get your goods from?"
"I found it through a random channel."
"So you're the one who smokes, right?"
Meng Qi withdrew his gaze and pondered, "I thought you obtained the cultivation technique from the Real World, but it seems I was overthinking it. You had never been to the Real World back then."
"There's something I need to remind you of."
Klein, who had emerged from the gaps in history, sipped his sweet iced tea, ignoring the two who were cautiously retreating, and said, "He already had the skill of historical projection before I joined the group."
After saying that, he took out the interdimensional talisman and glanced at the group.
Su Lin slapped his forehead and exclaimed in realization, "Oh, right!"
What do you mean, "right to you"?!
Meng Qi was still in a daze, his mind filled with thoughts of the supply channels Su Lin had mentioned. Just then, Gu Xiaosang walked over with Xuan Bei, who had come to say goodbye.
Meng Qi subconsciously responded to his uncle, who was also his master.
"The abbot entrusted me with conveying his gratitude to you and that fellow Daoist Su through the Universal Knowledge Talisman. He hopes you will remain true to your principles."
Xuan Bei looked at Meng Qi with a mixture of relief and satisfaction. After a while, he patted him on the shoulder and then turned to Su Lin, saying:
"The Venerable Master is a successor of the World-Honored One. If your affinity with Shaolin is not yet over, we will certainly welcome you with open arms and hope that you will not hesitate to answer your questions so that you may be well-versed in Buddhism."
"This is a message entrusted to me by the abbot. If you are willing, you may add Abbot Kongwen as your contact person."
"Namo Amitabha."
Xuanbei leaned forward slightly.
"Master, why do you say he is the successor of the World Honored One?" Meng Qi clearly felt Su Lin was right behind him, but his aura was gradually receding.
Like the harbinger of a storm.
Xuanbei smiled slightly: "The Avatamsaka Sutra says: 'Without understanding the Dharma, there is no form; therefore, one cannot see the Buddha.'"
"The Dharmakaya has no illusory form, yet it also grasps the essence of the Tathagata's Divine Palm, clearly representing the true and orthodox lineage of Buddhism,"
"In addition, the Master mentioned that he was a disciple of the Buddha of Heaven. It just so happens that among the three sages of Huayan, the Buddha of Heaven is the head. Among the three realms of Heaven, Earth and Man, Heaven is the head, and the Buddha of Heaven is the most honored. This should be the Buddha of Heaven."
"After thoroughly searching through the Shaolin scriptures, Abbot Kongwen roughly deduced that the fragment of cosmic light we were in was the legacy left behind by the Buddha of Mount Ling, who once measured the Nine Netherworlds. Therefore, he specifically instructed me to be sure to tell him the truth."
Before Xuan Bei could finish speaking, the hairs on Meng Qi's neck suddenly stood on end. In the instant he turned around, he saw Su Lin freeze time and rush towards Klein in that fleeting moment of eternal space-time, without the slightest hesitation or any extra emotion.
Su Lin: "Run!"
Without needing to say more, Klein, whether he was all-knowing or just overly perceptive, seemed to have already prepared himself and simultaneously threw out the interdimensional talisman in his hand.
Dude, what happened to the promised journey through the martial arts world, the travels, and the redemption process by a bad woman?!
boom--
Just before the two were about to step into the interdimensional gate, a candle suddenly lit up in the Dinghai Pearl in Sha Wujing's arms where 'Li Huowang' was.
Black mist billowed, and the filth of the Netherworld poured in from the cracks.
(End of this chapter)