Chapter 768: Throwing Two Rods on the Wuyou Naiheqiao, the Fisherman in the Burial Ground of the Return to Ruins

Yan Shu sat cross-legged on the green ox, flipping through the black-skinned Dao book, while Ning Qingchen hugged the jade egg transformed by Feng Shi and led the ox to walk slowly.

Only seeing her pull up a Dao bun, lift the corner of her skirt, and trek through the muddy grassland, she asked without looking back: "Yan Yan Shixiong Yan, did you see anything?"

"Saw that this tomb has a big problem..."

Yan Shu's eyes flashed with shocking Demonic Path wisdom, but he was hooked by the demonic intent flowing on the scroll of the Dao book, counting a hundred wisdoms in one breath. He covered the Dao book again, and the wisdom flowed in his eyes: "This place is arranged with nine layers of foundation, among which there is the Five Elements Great Array laid down when Qian Shidi was clear-headed, so there is a forbidden place in the southeast, northwest, and center, burying Qian Shidi's five breaths in his chest, and there are Qian Shidi's five natal magic treasures suppressing it. For others, it is naturally extremely dangerous, but for us, it has a bit of safety."

"Then there is the Forget-River Great Array laid down underground. This array takes the spiritual treasure Nine Springs as its core, connecting the Nine Netherworlds. It is an extremely huge water system underground, among which the main stream is the Forget-River, which obtained the Nine Springs and connected with the Nine Netherworlds to summon many taboos in the underworld."

"But I flipped to the back and determined that the Forget-River Great Array is no longer the way Qian Shidi first arranged it..."

"Look..."

Yan Shu recited a section from Qian Chen's diary: "... Today I swung two rods on the Forget-River. An old brother was fishing on the bridge with me. He was unlucky and empty-handed! Hahahaha... Bursting the basket, must burst the basket! Caught a Buddhist golden body, three Nine Netherworlds fierce ghosts, and several Blood Sea demonic objects, an Asura clan member... The old brother was broken, asking what level I am to be able to fish with him on the Wuyou Naiheqiao..."

"I caught the Samsara Disk, the old brother was convinced, begging me to throw the Samsara Disk back!"

"...... Today the old brother invited me to fish in another water area. I said I couldn't leave this island. He said: The way of fishing lies in concentration. If the heart is quiet, the fish will come naturally. I can'

"He dragged over a lake of blood!"

"There are many fish, but I saw the Asura Demon Clan under the blood lake hanging fish onto the old brother's hook..."

"Couldn't hold it in, I exposed him!"

"The first day I fell out with the old brother, I went back to fishing on the Bridge of Helplessness. Eh? Where did this bridge come from? Haha... so I drank Meng Po's soup."

"What is this? Drink another bowl!"

"Hahahaha..." Yan Shu laughed like a simpleton. Ning Qingchen widened her eyes, looking back at Yan Shu in horror. That old brother who could fish with Qian Yan Shixiong during his demonic possession was clearly some Asura Demon Lord from the Nine Netherworlds!

"Junior Qian Yan Shixiong cheated too!"

Yan Shu looked at the true form of the Blood River drawn in the Dao book, pointed, and laughed: "He used live bait! Hahaha... that bait can fight better than the fish. He knocked out those Blood Sea monsters and hung them up one by one!"

"Don't go underground, don't go to the River of Oblivion, the Nine Springs, or the blood lake. Don't touch anything!" Ning Qingchen warned with a serious little face.

Yan Shu carelessly shook the diary and said: "It's fine to bring a fishing rod. It says above... water ghosts don't harm fishermen, unless a dead fish bites the hook!"

Ning Qingchen helplessly pressed her forehead; Yan Yan Shixiong Yan's dementia had flared up again!

But the previous sentence was not wrong. The River of Oblivion Grand Array was definitely not as Yan Yan Shixiong had arranged it. What kind of ghost thing the 'fish' Yan Yan Shixiong caught actually was, was not yet certain! If Qian Yan Shixiong caught fish while possessed by demonic nature, and they went there, who would catch whom was not certain! Did they really think they could fish safely just by carrying a rod?

They might also be caught by the fish.

Yan Shu continued to flip through the Dao book: "Above our heads, there is also a Sun-Moon Traversing the Heavens Grand Array, a part of the Primordial Zhou Tian Star Array. Qian Yan Shixiong dug out a portion of the array map from the Zhou Tian Star Ship, and then Qian Yan Shixiong used the Dew-Bearing Golden Plate to transform into the Great Sun, and hid the fragments of the Dew-Bearing Silver Plate into a bright pearl... transforming it into the Bright Moon! The sun and moon revolve, illuminating this place. The most important thing is... he found the Dew-Bearing Copper Plate in the ruins..."

"He transformed it into the 'Heaven' above our heads, also known as the 'Small Heavenly Realm'..."

The further Yan Shu read, the slower he became. Later, he read word by word, filled with doubt.

Ning Qingchen also realized: "Wait, if the Dew-Bearing Golden Plate transformed into the Great Sun above our heads, then what is that person on the Xianshan holding?"

"Could it be fake?"

Yan Shu suddenly blurted out: "I'm afraid it's not fake!"

The two fell into silence, simultaneously looking up at the Great Sun above their heads, as if an eye were growing on it. The originally gentle and warm sunlight suddenly carried a trace of chill at this moment.

"We can't go to the sky either!" Ning Qingchen said decisively.

Yan Shu hesitated slightly: "He even left a bottle of Undying Wine for you on the moon!"

"The Dew-Bearing Silver Plate can play a big role here. Those fragments share the same origin, and with the help of the fragments, one can reflect everything illuminated by this bright moon. This was originally a path of survival left here by Qian Yan Shixiong to avoid those fated to mistakenly enter certain terrifying forbidden areas. But, if that person is really watching the Golden Plate, or even watching us through the Golden Plate's Great Sun, then the moon must also be polluted!"

"If we look with the silver plate fragments, I'm afraid we'll see another eye."

Yan Shu lowered his head and scratched a line on the Dao book with his fingernail. Looking at the blood-seeping pages, he couldn't help but shake his head: "Sigh! Another foundation has a problem. The fourth array, Ten Thousand Gods Worship, is a Feng Shui grand array. It uses ten thousand divine statues to reside in a Feng Shui treasure land, utilizing the wishes of the gods to arrange a grand worship, also known as the Pantheon!"

Yan Shu flipped down a page, then quickly flipped past it.

"No need to look. The greatest taboo of this array is provoking evil gods. Once an evil god mixes in, the power of wishes will turn into a curse. Here... I'm afraid they are all evil gods, and they aren't statues, but the corpses of evil gods. This is not the Ten Thousand Gods Worship Grand Array; this is the Twilight of the Gods Grand Array!"

Yan Shu flipped two more pages, suddenly his eyes widened, he looked a few more times, then quickly flipped through, excitedly saying: "There is another usable grand array here."

"It is the fundamental grand array that suppressed the Primordial Great Wilderness, the remnant array of the Ten Continents and Sandao Grand Array! After the three islands sank and one continent fell, this array became the fundamental grand array that suppresses the luck of the Earth Immortal Realm today—the Nine Provinces Barrier! Qian Yan Shixiong fished out the remains of three immortal islands from the Return to Ruins, so he placed one immortal island remnant on each of the southeast and west sides leading to the Return to Ruins Illusion Sea on the back of the Divine Turtle."

"Among them is the Eastern Kunlun Ruins, on which grows the Undying Divine Tree, surrounded by Langxuan and Muhe, with Dan Water flowing below."

"The remains of the Southern Gathering Cave Continent... on which grows the Soul-Returning Tree..."

"The west is a broken Zhou Tian Star Ship, refined by the Immortal Qin in the past using part of the remains of the Fangzhang Continent, so it was also transformed into an immortal island."

Yan Shu carefully looked at the Dao book twice, confirming that these three immortal islands had not been polluted by Qian Chen, but still frowned and said: "However, the portal guarding this continent of the Yingzhou Sect is the Genyue Three Mountains Grand Array arranged by the Penglai Sandao, which is also a remnant of the Ten Continents and Sandao Grand Array! Therefore, the mysteries within the Three Immortal Islands are almost certainly known to the Penglai Sect..."

"Aren't the disciples sent in by the Penglai Sect just a group of people who have barely reached Core Formation?"

Yan Shu shook his head: "Although I don't know what Qian Yan Shixiong is calculating, the Penglai Primordial Spirit is definitely not there! And that Penglai Primordial Spirit True Immortal is very strange; he is deeply immersed in the Dao of Creation, and even... when he creates things out of thin air, one can detect a trace of the Dao Fruit..."

Ning Qingchen looked at the light of wisdom in Yan Shu's eyes, which had deepened a bit more. Wuyou Wuyou Naihe could she not know that this was wisdom Yan Shu had obtained from who knows where.

Yan Shu flipped through it slightly and shook his head: "Besides this, there is some Witch Dao Demon-Summoning Grand Array, the Immortal Qin Ancient Battlefield Army Array... Sigh! I even went to the Immortal Qin Ancient Battlefield once! Next to it is the burial place of the Western Metal among the Five Qis in Brother's chest—the Sword Tomb."

He simply put away the Dao book and said directly: "They are all extremely evil things. Knowing them is useless; the more you know, the more likely you are to run into them. If you are unlucky enough to run into them, it won't be too late to look then."

Ning Qingchen counted.

There is a 'forbidden area' in the southeast, west, and north, which are the palaces of the Five Qis in Qian Yan Shixiong's chest.

Among them are the Western Extreme Ten Thousand Sword Tomb, the Eastern Extreme Undying Divine Wood, the Southern Extreme Red Lotus Volcano, the Northern Extreme Taiyin Xianshan, and the final one—the Central Xuanhuang Jade Platform!

On it lies Qian Chen's chest remains, which is also the location of the main tomb.

In addition, there is an immortal island in the southeast and west, which are Kunlun, Gathering Cave, and the Zhou Tian Star Ship. Next to the Zhou Tian Star Ship, a ten-thousand-foot golden man is also sunken.

Underground, there are nine spring eyes that converge into a dark River of Oblivion. On it is a Bridge of Helplessness, and a lake of blood is hidden somewhere.

In the sky, there are the sun and moon, both transformed by spiritual treasures, and there is a Small Heavenly Realm, and it is unknown what arrangements are there...

In addition, there are various demon souls and old gods summoned by Witch Dao and Divine Dao, many of whom are existences that can sit and discuss the Dao with Qian Chen. These people are distributed in various ruins, and Qian Chen has built temples for them to cultivate.

Fortunately, Yan Shu roughly figured out a few ways to deal with them through Qian Chen's diary.

But Ning Qingchen didn't know that outside the diary, there were even ruins left by several other spiritual treasures that Qian Chen didn't know about...

Counting the 'taboos' in this burial soil, even Ning Qingchen, whose temperament had been tempered by the Blade of Severing Emotion of Heaven's Will and Human Heart, couldn't help but feel a bit tired. She stroked her forehead and sighed: "Qian Yan Shixiong is really..."

"Not even peaceful after death!"

Yan Shu said indignantly.

Wang Longxiang held the fragments of the Dew-Bearing Silver Plate and cast a spell to reflect the bright moon in the sky with the fragments like a broken mirror. In this Return to Ruins burial ground, the sun and moon shine together. Although there is movement, they only move in a circular motion around the back shell of the Golden Turtle.

Therefore, the broken mirror reflects down with the help of the Taiyin Star, but it can overlook this burial ground and see some terrain clearly.

Wang Longxiang used this to find a relatively safe road outside the lake where everyone fell. This place is full of spiritual herbs and immortal flowers, but it is also extremely dangerous. Several noble family disciples were deceived by the quiet and peaceful atmosphere here, went to the small mountain nearby without authorization to pick a ten-thousand-year-old medicine king, and were then snatched away by a demonic beast.

This made that group of noble family disciples realize that it was not that there were no creatures here, but that ordinary creatures simply couldn't survive here.

On the demonic side, a large tomb was dug out under a nameless small mountain, led by the Fu Fu Lao Mo of the Blood Sea himself. Several demon disciples inside were eaten by a golden corpse, but this golden corpse, comparable to a Yang Spirit, was also subdued by the old demon.

Now he is using the demons among his disciples as materials to refine a Ten Thousand Demons Heart-Devouring Corpse-Refining Method, wanting to demonize that golden corpse and refine it into an Undying Divine Demon—a Flying Yaksha!

The Penglai people seem to have been walking east, but they encountered a Mountain God Temple on the way.

They didn't listen to the advice of Little Fish and others, violated the taboos of the Mountain God, and some people died.

It's not that the Penglai true disciples weren't cautious enough; who told that Mountain God to have only a small temple of three zhang, and the Mountain God enshrined inside was only a stone statue of a mountain demon, which would never be taken seriously by the proud Penglai true disciples.

However, they also had a blessing in disguise. After being chased by the Mountain God, they discovered a Yin Spring leading to the underground in a mountain cave, where a group of small fish lived, which were pure Yang objects and extremely precious.

Now those disciples of Penglai have caught the fish and are discussing whether to drill down along this Yin Spring.

Because someone recognized that this Yin Spring had a very upright aura, as if it came from the netherworld.

At this time, a demonic beast blocked Wang Longxiang's path. It was shaped like a lion, with a short nose and a wide mouth, spitting out red mist, which was fire in the stone that burned out of thin air. The temperature of the flame was very high, scorching the air at its mouth and nose until it was distorted. Its lion-like nostrils were panting heavily, looking like it had a bad temper.

"Red Flame Ni Beast?"

Wang Longxiang recognized this demonic beast that had already gone extinct in the Earth Immortal Realm. The green snake in his sleeve spat, and the sword qi hidden in his heart sprayed out. Without releasing it, a sword mark separated the flame mist spat by the Ni beast.

"This is?"

Wang Longxiang noticed some traces under the Ni beast's buttocks and frowned slightly, but he restrained his sword qi.

"So it's a mother beast with cubs. Did I break into your territory and startle you?"

Wang Longxiang withdrew his flying sword. The Ni beast in front of him seemed to feel his kindness, slightly lowered its body, took a few steps back, and made way, its bucket-sized eyes still staring at him vigilantly.

Just as Wang Longxiang was about to leave, he saw a group of Southern Jin noble family disciples, in small groups of three or five, also following. The leader was a disciple of the Lu family of Jiangdong with a Core Formation Third Rank, who also had some reputation among the noble families. When they saw Wang Longxiang, they nodded one after another: "Brother Wang!"

At this time, a female disciple of the Gu family nearby saw the Ni beast behind Wang Longxiang, but also noticed the traces after it gave birth. Her eyes lit up immediately, and she pointed at the Ni beast: "Yan Yan Shixiong Lu, it's a mother beast that just gave birth!"

"Red Flame Ni Beast? This beast has long been extinct. I didn't expect to see one here. Let's catch it! If we can take it back, it will be a very majestic mount!"

"What's the use of a mount? My noble family values filial piety the most. If we offer it to our elders..."

Another person next to him said with some disdain: "This is the Return to Ruins burial ground, where countless supreme treasures are buried. What is a Ni beast?"

But some people retorted: "I don't want to run into dangerous places anymore. Wuyou Wuyou Naihe many times have I experienced life and death on this road? Yang Spirit True Immortals are such terrifying figures, and they died like dogs. If it weren't for the care of the Daoist brothers, we would have long ago. Sigh! Now I just want to pick some spiritual herbs and catch a few demonic beasts. If I can hunt a high-quality internal pill, it would be good to go back and help my younger brothers reach Core Formation! I don't want to break into those dangerous places anymore, I just want to go home!"

These words moved everyone for a while.

Compared to the Ni beast in front of them, although there are countless treasures in those forbidden areas, the danger is also unpredictable. By comparison, it is better to get what you can get first.

These people are certainly not mediocre. They raised their magic tools, and they also had various powers. Like the magic tools of the level of the Dragon Sparrow Ring that Miaokong gave Qian Chen at the beginning, there were also a few pieces, all of which were elite disciples of various families. They also invited Wang Longxiang to come together.

"Brother Wang, this Ni beast has more than one cub. Those who see it have a share. Why don't you take one, Brother Wang?"

Wang Longxiang frowned slightly, but given his personality, he didn't want to care about these things. He nodded slightly and got up to retreat.

Just then, a figure flashed. Those noble family disciples were already frightened birds, and seeing the figure, they attacked with several magic tools one after another.

Startled, the Ni beast jumped up, spitting out rolling, thick, and bright flames from its mouth. Its hair fluttered, carrying bone-attached flames. Relying on its physical body, it had the power of a demon king who had cultivated a demon pill. In addition, the attached fire in the stone was sticky and bone-eroding. Once contaminated, it would not go out even if it burned to the bone. Such a difficult fierce beast had to be solved by several people working together, but since it had already been distracted by that figure, there were inevitably some omissions.

The Ni beast slapped down, and the fire in the stone exploded, knocking down a jade screen magic tool. At the same time, it pounced, biting toward the throat of the Gu family woman as fast as lightning.

According to Wang Longxiang's temperament, whether to save people or not was a matter of choice.

But the figure that appeared suddenly strode forward, stepped between the man and the beast, pressed the Ni beast's head with one hand, and grabbed the various magic tools that the group of noble family disciples had thrown out in a panic with the other.

The bone-eroding fire in the stone burned fiercely, but it failed to hurt the skin of that golden palm, and those magic tools were even caught casually.

The noble family disciples saw the person clearly. He was wearing a tattered cassock and was pure gold all over, but he was an old monk.

Someone exclaimed: "Master Zhutanmo!"

At this moment, even Wang Longxiang couldn't hold back. He turned his head and saw that it was indeed the holy monk who had guarded outside the yellow mud dog hole—Zhutanmo, who had cultivated the Dharma Body Golden Body of the Buddhist sect!

But at this moment, his expression was withered and silent, and he had fallen into a very deep meditative state, his body acting entirely on instinct.

Perhaps his cultivation had indeed reached the level where even a little instinct had to stop them from killing.

…………

Little Fish and the old Daoist lay cautiously in the dark corner, peeping at the small temple that was only three zhang away.

The old Daoist said solemnly: "Are you sure this thing is not a mountain spirit, but a person from the Xiaoyang Kingdom?"

"This mountain demon definitely has something strange!" Little Fish stared at the small temple with his eyes wide open and said: "That Yin Spring seems to be connected to the netherworld. You have also seen it. The Feng Shui here is a rare 'Curved Eel Hidden Ground' formation. The curved eel has no claws or teeth, is good at hiding, and drinks the Yellow Springs to become a dragon! This yellow dragon is blind, good at escaping, eats soil and spits sand, and is called Huang Quan Sand! If that Yin Spring really leads directly to the underground, the Feng Shui here must have already turned into a dragon!"

"And this temple is the location that suppresses the dragon cave!"

The old Daoist shook his head: "Have you ever thought that it is not because of the Yin Spring and the hidden eel that the Yellow Dragon trend was formed, but because something dug up from the Yin Spring underground that achieved that spring and the Feng Shui here?"

"I looked, the Feng Shui formation here has only been formed for a few decades, so the latter is more likely!"

Little Fish suddenly realized: "You mean, someone arranged a mountain demon temple here to guard the Yin Spring and monitor the things coming out of the hole?"

"That blind yellow dragon molting is called—Earth Dragon Molting, which is one of the supreme treasures of our Dao! It can dive into the Yellow Springs, hide human qi, and avoid the treasure owner's corpse from changing and waking up. But why does this mountain demon temple monitor the Earth Dragon? It wouldn't really be catching it to fish, would it?"

Little Fish laughed.

He remembered a legend—the Earth Dragon is born by drinking the Yellow Springs, so it is good at avoiding life and death. Often there are those who have lived beyond their lifespan and have not been discovered by the netherworld. These yellow dragons, in addition to becoming more and more profound in their cultivation, and even producing a primordial great sage, most of them disappear inexplicably, as if they were caught by the ghosts of the Nine Netherworlds!

The world does not know why the ghosts of the Nine Netherworlds want to catch the yellow dragon, so some people joked: they took it to fish!

(The predecessor of the yellow dragon, the curved eel, is what people call an earthworm, so there is this joke.)