Chapter 271: See the reincarnation, visit the cave

“Lose three of the six paths?

Wu Gong chewed on Huang Shang’s words, wondering in his heart: “What’s going on? The six paths of rotation are the instinct of heaven and earth, why are there only three left?”

It is unimaginable that the six realms of reincarnation have lost three of them.

Huang Shang has practiced in the Netherworld for more than a thousand years. According to him, only the human realm, the hell realm, and the animal realm remain, while the heavenly realm, the Asura realm, and the hungry ghost realm have disappeared.

“The three most powerful of the six paths have disappeared. The Heavenly Path is full of blessings and supernatural powers, the Asura Path fights against heaven and earth, and the Hungry Ghost Path devours everything. Something must have happened.”

Wu Gong was very sure that before the ancient immortals and gods left this world, some great changes must have occurred, and it was not just the catastrophe of the end of the Dharma.

Even the catastrophe of the Dharma Ending Age may be just a tiny aftermath.

The rest that is still embedded in the world, humanity, is the foundation of sentient beings and cannot be moved;
The hell realm holds countless evil karmas, which is equivalent to the purification center for eliminating the evil karmas in the world.
The animal realm is the source of all living things and must not be cut off.

These three paths are indispensable for the operation of the world, while the heavenly path, the Asura path, and the hungry ghost path are not necessary.

“Where is the place of reincarnation?” Wu Gong was full of doubts and wanted to see reincarnation with his own eyes.

Huang Shang raised his hand and said, “True Lord, the place of reincarnation is above the Five Hells.”

boom!
A ray of light that penetrated the sky and the earth shot out, directly opening up the boundless space.

Huang Shang shook his head and smiled bitterly, looked at Wu Gong and Chen Yulou who were rising up, and turned into a beam of light to chase after them.

In the blink of an eye, the three of them arrived at the place of reincarnation.

Deep in the void, there were three rotating black domain passages, filled with obscure Taoist auras. Just one look at it made one feel as if one’s soul was being sucked in.

Huang Shang came up to him and warned him, “Master, be careful, don’t get close. In the place of reincarnation, there are positive and negative whirlwinds that sweep all the souls in the world. According to the severity of their sins, the good ones will be reborn as humans, the evil ones will be reborn as animals, and the extremely evil ones will be reborn in hell. However, since the six paths are incomplete, the whirlwinds often get out of control and mistakes often happen.”

“Huh? Are you saying that when the positive and negative whirlwinds get out of control, reincarnation is random?” Wu Gong frowned.

Huang Shang sighed, “It wasn’t like this before the Tang Dynasty. At that time, both the Heaven and the Underworld existed, and there were ghosts and gods who governed the order of heaven and earth. What a pity.”

He sighed and his eyes were filled with loneliness.

Ghosts and gods have disappeared, the six paths of reincarnation have been shattered, and the Dharma has reached its end. It has only been over a thousand years, and this world has declined to this point. It is helpless.

Wu Gong looked at the three reincarnations in the shape of a Chinese character “品”. In them he saw hundreds of millions of human beings busy at work, countless animals, and the howling evil spirits in the five hells.

After a long silence, he asked, “Are there many extremely evil people who are reborn as humans?”

Huang Shang was startled, and immediately understood what Wu Gong meant. He sighed and said, “It’s not rare. It’s just that my cultivation is low and I don’t have the ability to influence reincarnation. It’s the people in the world who have suffered so much.”

Chen Yulou also heard the topic the two were discussing, and suddenly realized: “No wonder the moral level of the human race is getting lower and lower. I didn’t expect the reason to be here. It really is that hell is empty and the devil is in the world.”

Huang Shang smiled bitterly and said, “Fellow Daoist Chen is right, but he is wrong in one aspect.”

Chen Yulou: “What’s wrong?”

Huang Shang pointed at the countless evil spirits in the Five Hells reflected under his feet, which looked like weeds in the wilderness and gravel in the sea of ​​fire.

“Fellow Daoist Chen, hell has never been empty. Instead, it has become more and more crowded.”

Chen Yulou was stunned, and thought of a key point: “Before, the True Lord asked you why the souls in the Five Hells who have redeemed their sins have not been reincarnated. I also want to know.”

Huang Shang: “Nothing special, hell is incomplete, and reincarnation is impossible. The Five Hells are only the upper level of hell, and the lower level of the Avici Hell has also disappeared. That is where the hell is finally settled.”

He paused and continued, “When a person dies, he becomes a ghost. When a ghost dies, he becomes a genie. When a genie dies, he becomes a xi. When a xi dies, he becomes a yi. When a yi dies, he becomes a wei. The xi yi below the genie is a bit of true spirit. When it comes to wei, it is nothingness.”

“Once the evil spirits in the Five Hells have redeemed their sins, they will be relegated to the ranks of the demons. They should have been sent to the Avici Hell, but unfortunately the Avici Hell no longer exists. The Five Hells are overwhelmed and are becoming increasingly damaged. From time to time, evil spirits invade the mortal world to commit evil. I really can’t take care of them all.”

Chen Yulou suddenly realized: “So you passed down the Five Prisons Immortal Method early on just to find helpers?”

“That’s right.” Huang Shang nodded and admitted: “The immortal way values ​​life and saves people without limit. However, over the past thousand years, it has been passed down to six generations of disciples. Miaozhen and Miaoli are the two most talented ones.”

“Miao Zhen has already attained the Tao, now all she needs is Miao Li. When Miao Li also attains the status of a demon, she will form a three-talent formation and draw in the power of the human, animal, and hell realms. This will calm the chaotic positive and negative whirlwinds, transcend all ghosts, and return peace to the human world.”

Huang Shang was so excited when he said this, as if he had realized a long-cherished wish, he said excitedly:

“The method of the Xianyou sect, the Xuanxian method, is to use the human ghost with the same fate as the guide, and throw the human ghost into the five hells, so that you can sublimate yourself, directly from human to ghost, and directly reach the Xuanxian, so it is called Xuanxian.”

“It’s really a fantastic idea.”

Wu Gong praised Huang Shang’s creative ideas highly. After listening to so many words, he finally understood the reason why Huang Shang asked him to make a great donation.

There is no other reason. The calamities of the Dharma Ending Age are becoming more and more severe, hell is slowly disappearing, and the endless evil spirits are making hell even worse.

The heaven and the underworld have disappeared, the spiritual energy has dissipated, and the Five Hells are the last extraordinary places in this world. Once the Five Hells collapse, this world will be infested with ghosts and the human world will be like a prison.

Huang Shang said so much, and seeing that Wu Gong understood what he meant, he bowed his head and asked:
“I beg the True Lord to show mercy and make great donations to transcend sins and relieve the pressure on hell and the human world.”

He spoke in a hurried tone, fearing that Wu Gong would not agree, and hurriedly explained: “If I can make this happen, I will have infinite merits, and I hope the True Lord will have mercy on me.”

Wu Gong remained silent, neither nodding nor refusing, and flipped his hand to summon the Dao Treasure Bottle.

“Huang Shang, although you practice heterodox methods, your actions are worthy of the golden wheel of merit behind you. However, the Aquarius Heaven Realm is very special, you will know it once you visit it.”

As Wu Gong finished speaking, ripples appeared in the void, reflecting a mysterious fairyland.

Chen Yulou knew what the Immortal Master meant, and said, “Fellow Daoist Huang, please come in.”

Huang Shang looked at the cave world with thousands of auspicious colors and fairy air, suppressed the shock in his eyes, and followed Wu Gong’s steps into it.

hum!
As you step across the boundary membrane of the cave, you will be greeted by a rich spiritual energy.

“The source of all things, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.” Huang Shang sensed the abundant spiritual energy in the cave and couldn’t help but exclaimed.

He stood high in the sky and looked around, only to see a towering sacred mountain standing in the distance.

The sacred mountain was shaped like a treasure bottle, slightly tilted, with a silver waterfall falling from the mouth of the bottle, rushing down like a silk thread, filled with water vapor and surrounded by colorful clouds. With the sacred mountain as the center, there were various extremely tall palaces dotted around, filled with monks coming in and out of Qingming.

In the sea of ​​clouds, dragon roars could be heard from time to time, like the clatter of a copper plate, stimulating the clouds to surge, and occasionally revealing a fragment of their claws.

In the far west, there is a sacred tree that rises from the ground to the sky. The huge tree blocks out the sun, and there is a yellow-orange phoenix leading cranes, birds, and eagles to dance, casting large patches of spiritual light.

“The ancient fairyland is just like this.” Huang Shang exclaimed.

Ever since he became an immortal, he has been living in the netherworld, where all he sees are glaciers, blazing flames, and seas of blood, and all he hears are the wailing sounds of billions of evil spirits.

He would occasionally go to the human world for a walk, but due to the instability of reincarnation and the increasingly serious damage to the Five Hells, it had been more than a hundred years since he last went to the human world.

It has been so long that he has forgotten the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers, as well as the fun things in the world. As for the rich spiritual energy of heaven and earth, that only exists in his dreams.

Wu Gong built a rainbow bridge and took Huang Shang on a tour of the Aquarius Heaven Realm before returning to the Fayi Hall.

The Xiantian Ling Lake was shimmering with jagged waves, and the ancient Wudao tea tree was radiant with divine light, leaving Huang Shang dumbfounded.

The Jianmu boy brought fairy peaches, fire dates, and blood bodhisattvas, and the neon boy presented soul-purifying wine, toad pills, and fairy bait elixirs, making Huang Shang mistakenly believe that he had returned to ancient times. It was not until Chen Yulou poured him the enlightenment tea that he suddenly came to his senses.

“Friend Huang, please.”

Looking at the fragrant fairy tea in front of him with the divine light of a fairy rising from it, Huang Shang felt like a country bumpkin coming into the city, and the shock in his heart took a long time to subside.

At the same time, his originally free and easy mood also became a little unnatural.

Coincidentally, the voice coming from outside the hall at this moment eased his embarrassment.

“Fellow Daoist Wu, I haven’t seen you for three or five years. I came here specially to ask for a cup of tea.” The voice of the snake god Jingjian Ahan sounded from outside the door.

Wu Gong laughed dumbly and said, “Okay, the person who smells the tea is here. Yulou, go and invite him in.”

“Yes, Immortal Lord.” Chen Yulou stood up.

Wu Gong smiled at Huang Shang and said, “The one outside the door is a fellow Taoist who is temporarily living in my Aquarius Heaven Realm. He comes from the Mountain and Sea Realm, and is the offspring of the Time Lord Zhulong. His true form is a virtual snake named Jingjian Ahan, the ruler of the virtual and real, the herald of the True Spirit Realm, and a true immortal.”

This series of titles, the vast world, the son of Zhulong, and the master of reality and illusion, made Huang Shang stunned and more restrained.

Jing Jian Ahan walked into the Dharma Hall, saw and heard Wu Gong’s introduction, smiled and waved his hand, saying: “Daoyou are too kind, that happened millions of years ago, it’s not worth mentioning.”

He was not at all shy and sat down under the ancient tea tree, looking at Huang Shang, especially gazing at the dark yellow golden wheel of merit for a long time.

“This fellow Taoist’s method is peculiar, it seems to be the way of ghost immortals, but it is also not so. However, it is not easy to accumulate this golden wheel of merit.”

Huang Shang didn’t dare to be so arrogant as to call him “fellow Daoist” and quickly stood up and saluted: “I’m sorry, fellow Daoist Master Zhenjun. I’m Huang Shang, a cultivator from the lower realms. I practice the immortal method I created myself, but I’m showing off here. I’m guilty, guilty.”

Jing Jian Ahan smiled and said, “Guixian? I haven’t heard of it, but if you created it yourself, you are quite capable. If I’m not mistaken, yours should be the last of the five immortals, another method of cultivation of ghost immortals.”

As he spoke, he looked at Wu Gong and said, “Fellow Daoist Wu comes from the ancient world and carries the supreme inheritance. He should not be short of such ghost immortal methods, right?”

“There is no shortage.”

Wu Gong calmly drank a sip of tea. At this moment, he had somewhat understood the purpose of Jingjian Ahan’s visit.

At this time Chen Yulou poured tea for everyone, starting with Wu Gong, then Jing Jian Ahan, but when it came to Huang Shang, he was stopped.

Jingjian Ahan raised his hand to stop him and said, “Young friend Huang Shang, do you know who is in front of you? How dare you be so arrogant and let Master Chen serve you tea?”

As soon as these words were spoken, Huang Shang’s heart skipped a beat and cold sweat broke out.

“This…” He stammered. He had been imprisoned in the Five Hells for a thousand years and had never exchanged witty remarks with anyone. He had almost forgotten those cumbersome words.

He looked at the immortal in front of him with a strange aura, snake scales and vertical pupils, and knew at a glance that he was not a human, but the virtual snake introduced before.

He knew Zhulong, the god of Zhongshan recorded in ancient books. When his eyes were open it was day, and when his eyes were closed it was night.

Huang Shang originally thought that this was just a fabrication in ancient books, but now that the descendant of Zhulong was standing in front of him, the shock was still huge, especially since this existence in front of him seemed very dissatisfied with him.

Seeing Huang Shang’s uncomfortable expression, Jingjian Ahan explained, “The one in front of you is the reincarnation of the Ancient Realm Master, the only Taoist god respected by all the immortals and gods in the heavens and myriad worlds, the Lord of the Treasure Bottle, who opened up this heavenly realm and possesses the supreme immortal inheritance and countless treasures.”

Huang Shang swallowed his saliva. He didn’t expect that Wu Gong actually had such a status. Even though he didn’t know what the One Dao God was and what the ancient world was, it didn’t prevent him from seeing the respect for Jingjian Ahan.

The only ones who can gain respect from beings of the immortal level are those who are even more transcendent. At least he, a mere immortal who only cultivates his spirit, can only look up to them.

Wu Gong saw Huang Shang’s embarrassment, and since Jing Jianhan was present, he couldn’t say much, so he said to Yulou:
“Yulou, take three pieces of Enlightenment Tea and give them to Huang Shang, and take him to the Netherworld Palace to take a walk and meet the ghost cultivators such as Wuchan Najiahai, as well as the Xuanyin Corpse Osmanthus tree.”

Huang Shang was already feeling uncomfortable, and upon hearing this, he followed Chen Yulou out of the Fayi Hall.

After Jianmu Tongzi closed the gate again, Wu Gong laughed and scolded: “You ruined my good deeds, if you scare Huang Shang away, I will hold you responsible.”

Jing Jian Ahan drank the tea in one gulp and said with a smile, “I saw you earlier taking that man on a tour of the cave heaven on the rainbow bridge. Add to that the strong aura of hell’s authority on that man, and I knew what you were planning.”

“Oh? I’d like to hear more about it.” Wu Gong took a sip of tea.

Jing Jian Ahan said: “The yin and yang of your cave heaven are out of balance, with the yang being strong and the yin being weak. The most important thing at present is to open up a subordinate underworld. I guess Huang Shang is the one you chose to rule the underworld. Moreover, you are planning to let Huang Shang rule the underworld, so as to absorb the underworld and integrate it into the cave heaven to save energy. Am I right?”

Bang bang bang.
Wu Gong clapped his hands and said jokingly, “I didn’t expect you to see through my wealth. It seems that removing the seal was not a wise choice.”

Although Jing Jian Ahan knew that Wu Gong was teasing him, he still said anxiously, “Daoyou, Lord Divine Master, I rushed here in a hurry and scolded Huang Shang away because I was afraid that you would take a shortcut and suffer a great loss in the end.”

“Ok?”

Wu Gong paused holding the teacup and looked at Jingjian Ahan: “What do you mean?”

“Hehe, I knew that the memories you recovered were incomplete. There must be no real records about hell.”

He picked up the teapot and poured himself a cup of enlightenment tea, then continued, “Hell is a very special realm, or rather, the netherworld is very special. If you don’t want to be summoned by the Divine Sky Calamity Palace too early, it’s best not to try to build the Six Paths of Reincarnation, and don’t even touch the Avici Hell.”

“This is a taboo in opening up the world. You must be cautious.”

(End of this chapter)