Chapter 177: Bestowing the Dragon Clan with Duties in the Netherworld!

The Ancestral Dragon lowered his head, lost in thought for a moment.

As if accepting reality, the aura of twilight grew increasingly dense upon him; the domineering might of his past, when he ruled the heavens and earth and commanded all spirits, was no longer to be seen.

He looked toward Diti with eyes full of hope, his gaze brimming with yearning and helplessness.

"Lord Di Jun, I have heard that you are on good terms with Houtu, the Master of the Six Paths of Reincarnation, and that you are the Great Emperor Fengdu within the Nine Serenities Netherworld, who holds the authority over the judgment and reincarnation of all living beings. Is this true?"

The change in the Ancestral Dragon's attitude, as well as the question he asked.

Diti did not even need to guess to anticipate what the other party meant.

"That is correct."

"The Great Emperor Fengdu currently within the Nine Serenities Netherworld is indeed me."

"I know what you wish to say."

"I can also guarantee to you that after the Azure Dragon completes his heavenly mandate, should he perish, I will certainly gather his true spirit and send him to be reincarnated."

"And I shall have Qinglian reborn into the Dragon Clan once more. How about that?"

Allowing the Azure Dragon's true spirit to be reincarnated into the Dragon Clan was, for him, a trivial matter that could be accomplished with just a few words.

However, everything he said now was merely rhetoric to appease the Ancestral Dragon.

After the four spiritual beasts of heaven and earth suppressed the four poles of the world, the merit they obtained would be incomparably vast.

Except for that unlucky fellow, the Black Tortoise, who was destined to perish, the Azure Dragon, the Vermilion Bird, and the White Tiger would all attain the Dao of the Hunyuan Da Luo under the baptism of merit.

By then, the Azure Dragon would certainly be able to recover his sanity.

Although he might be unable to take action against ordinary living beings due to the restrictions of heaven and earth.

Yet, with a living Hunyuan Da Luo at his peak standing behind the Dragon Clan,

any living being with a normal brain would basically find it impossible to go and court death by provoking the Dragon Clan, let alone causing trouble for the Azure Dragon.

Moreover, with the continuous heavenly merit obtained by the Azure Dragon for suppressing the four poles,

the karma and sins clinging to the Dragon Clan's fortune would certainly be completely removed within a short time.

If there were truly any iron-headed existences who insisted on seeking their own deaths,

what they would have to face would not just be the Azure Dragon.

It would be the Dragon Clan, gradually recovering to its peak!

Under such circumstances, unless the Star Brilliance Divine Court took action to suppress and stop the impending conflict,

otherwise, those who dared to stir up trouble would absolutely die without a burial place!

"Many thanks to Lord Di Jun for your grace."

Since there was already a guarantee, the Ancestral Dragon did not continue to dwell on it.

Man is the knife and the chopping board, and I am the fish and the meat.

He had inflicted this upon other living beings countless times before.

Naturally, he knew what kind of taste this situation had.

That Diti was able to explain the reasons to them

was already out of consideration for the value the Azure Dragon brought.

If they were still unappreciative and self-righteously tried to bargain with him,

the final outcome would absolutely be more miserable than the extinction of their race!

After all, the current power of the Star Brilliance Divine Court

not only occupied the entire extraterrestrial starry sky and more than thirty percent of the territory of the lower realm,

but also dominated the Netherworld Ghost Realm and the Nine Serenities Netherworld.

It held the final destination and reincarnation of all living beings.

To have a conflict with it, or even to show an irreconcilable hatred,

meant that even if one perished, one could not escape the other party's control!

Compared to being muddled for a moment and burying the entire Dragon Clan,

he still felt that compromise was sometimes an extremely good method!

"Lord Di Jun, this is the token to open the formation."

"I need to suppress the Guixu Sea Eye here and cannot go to the Guixu Dragon Tomb in person to unseal the Azure Dragon."

"I can only trouble you to go personally and take the Azure Dragon away."

"In addition, the Azure Dragon now has the cultivation of a perfected Hunyuan Golden Immortal; if you wish to release him, you must be extra careful."

Diti took the token handed over by the Ancestral Dragon.

He did not set off for the Guixu Dragon Tomb.

As long as he could persuade the Dragon Clan and obtain control of the Azure Dragon in a legitimate manner, that would suffice.

The timing was not yet ripe; releasing the Azure Dragon now would only increase trouble for no benefit at all.

His coming to find the Ancestral Dragon this time was, to put it bluntly, to demand a title.

If he really wanted to forcibly take the Azure Dragon from the hands of the Dragon Clan,

even if the Ancestral Dragon and the others were not suppressing the Guixu Sea Eye,

uniting to resist the Star Brilliance Divine Court would be like throwing an egg against a rock; they could not pose any threat to him at all.

"Since you have already made the correct decision,"

"I will not stay here any longer."

"The time is not yet ripe, so the Azure Dragon shall remain in the Guixu Dragon Tomb for now."

"When I need him to play his part,"

"I will naturally send someone to take him away."

Putting away the token handed over by the Ancestral Dragon, Diti tore through space and time at will, opening a space-time tunnel leading to the sky above the East Sea.

"Furthermore, for those in your clan with lighter karma and sins, you may let them go to the nearest Star Treasure Pavilion."

"I will notify the Star God of Wenqu to arrange for them to go to the Nine Serenities Netherworld and be responsible for guiding the souls of the dead."

"Although the merit obtained each time is not much,"

"long-term accumulation will also allow the karma and sins clinging to the Dragon Clan's fortune to be effectively suppressed and cleared."

Hearing these words, endless ecstasy suddenly rose in the eyes of the Ancestral Dragon and Ao Yang.

He was truly worthy of being the Supreme destined to rule the Honghuang Tian Di.

His generosity was truly incomparable!

While others were still worrying about how to obtain merit,

he was already using the power of merit as a bargaining chip to win over other living beings!

Just from this point alone,

the Demon Race Heavenly Court could not compare to the Star Brilliance Divine Court at all!

"We thank Lord Di Jun for his vast grace!"

Under the bowing and shouting of the Ancestral Dragon and Ao Yang,

Diti stepped into the space-time tunnel and arrived above the nine heavens of the East Sea.

"The White Tiger, the Vermilion Bird, and the Azure Dragon are all in my grasp."

"Currently, only the Black Tortoise remains to be dealt with."

"I hope it can still be taken down smoothly."

With a flash of contemplation in his eyes, Diti tore through space and time at will, using the Demon Realm as a springboard, and instantly arrived at the North Sea of Ming.

And according to the aura provided by the Star Treasure Pavilion,

he quickly locked onto the whereabouts of the Black Tortoise.

"Truly worthy of being an existence capable of supporting the heavens."

"The body size is indeed incomparably vast."

"It could almost compare to the Western Land, could it not?"

Saying he found the whereabouts of the Black Tortoise,

in fact, there was no need to search carefully at all.

The size of the Black Tortoise was so vast that it almost covered most of the North Sea of Ming.

As long as one dived to the bottom of the North Sea of Ming, there was a high probability of standing on the other party's turtle shell.

What he was searching for according to the aura,

strictly speaking, was not the entire Black Tortoise, but the other party's head.

After all, to communicate with it, one had to at least find the head first.

"Even the eyeballs alone are tens of thousands of zhang in size."

"If I were to wake it up and cause its ferocity to erupt, the commotion caused would definitely not be small."

"It seems I can only take it into the Chaos Bead."

"Only then can I ensure nothing goes wrong and not cause too much influence, making Hongjun and the others turn their attention to this North Sea of Ming."

Thinking of this, Diti immediately used the Dao of the Soul to forcibly suppress the Black Tortoise's divine soul.

Ensuring it could not wake up in the short term,

he then used the Thirty-Six Heavenly Dipper Methods: Size as Desired, to gradually control the other party's body to shrink slowly.

Ensuring that while creating a deep-sea cavity, the surrounding seawater could be refilled in time.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 178 =====