Chapter 621: The Struggle of Various Parties
The Demon Emperor Naraku stood on the Dragon Bone Avenue, and he closed his slender white fingers and continued to grab the young monk. The death intent in the rules of the underworld gathered, and the gray-white light spread from the withered green lotus in the monk’s hand, and then extended through the palm of his hand to the monk’s whole body.

But within two or three breaths, the monk’s originally handsome skin turned into snow-white ashes, floating like a burnt bonfire. After the flesh and blood were wiped out, the light golden bones quickly turned black, forming a charcoal-like structure, and then collapsed with a loud bang, leaving only a skeleton mixed with black charcoal and white ash in its place. Among the bones, a light golden relic had a dim glow.

Just one finger was enough to annihilate an Arhat who had sneaked in. All the three levels were frightened. At this time, they had no time to plot against each other. Only by breaking this dream first would they have a chance to escape!
“Amitabha!”

On the Baijia side, the Arhat who cast a spell to draw in the power of the Queen of Heaven continued to chant the Queen’s name.

Thousands of miles away, the Queen Mother, who was processing documents in the Pingzhang Palace on Yujing Mountain, put down the red pen in her hand and looked towards the underworld. The underworld where the Fourth Yama Palace was located had been repaired by the Shintoists. At this time, the entire ancient city was wrapped in a huge twenty-four-grade lotus. Under the vast Buddha’s power, even a first-grade lotus would find it difficult to break in directly through the air.

However, the Queen herself is a Buddhist, and her power is also a kind of Buddhist Dharma, so she can directly descend from the air. The crescent-like eyes between her brows opened.

At first, she didn’t care when the monk from Da Xia used her power to create dreams, but when the monk from Da Xia borrowed her power again to fight against another existence of the first rank, it naturally aroused her curiosity.

With the help of [Divine Eye], the Queen Mother’s gaze penetrated the dream of the Chariot Bureau and saw the Demon Emperor Naraku. In an instant, a bright moon rose in the dark sky of the dream, and the white moonlight shone on the Demon Emperor Naraku. A layer of frost condensed on the Demon Emperor’s jade feet, preventing Him from moving.

“Youyue?”

The Naraku Demon Emperor raised his head and looked at the gradually stronger moonlight in the sky. His expression was puzzled at first, and then he was filled with admiration and joy from the bottom of his heart. “I didn’t expect that there would be a moon in the underworld. This is great.”

Seeing that the feet of the Ghost Emperor Naraku were frozen by the Queen Mother’s Taiyin Moonlight, the expressions of the third-rank officials on the Da Xia side relaxed a little. They were about to go up to see if they could negotiate. After all, the Ghost Emperor in front of them was just a creation in a dream, not a real first-rank official.

But the next moment they heard Naraku Ghost Emperor say seriously, “It’s a pity that there is no Youyue in our era. Do you think it’s Mianlong?”

What responded to him was the fog that permeated the entire Fourth Yama Palace. The fog produced by the collision of karmic fire and the underworld had been gradually dissipating due to the dragon priest changing the rules of the underworld, but suddenly it erupted like a blowout. The city made of bronze and black iron, and the rows of buildings were like neatly arranged dragon scales. In a trance, this huge dragon sleeping in the underworld was disturbed, and thick fog came out of his nose and mouth.

Layers of white fog were like thick quilts, covering the entire Fourth Yama Palace and blocking out the moonlight projected by the Queen of Heaven. At the same time, it caused the mutated dreams in the Chariot and Horse Bureau to expand rapidly, covering the entire Fourth Yama Palace and plunging this ancient ghost town into a world that was half real and half virtual.

In Pingzhang Palace, when her own power was blocked by the Ghost Emperor Mianlong, the Queen Mother could only shake her head helplessly. Mianlong was the descendant of Canglong, and he possessed the ability to reverse day and night. In a sense, he did restrain her Nether Moon.

But now the battlefield is still inside the Fourth Yama Palace, and the Queen of Heaven cannot leave Yujing Mountain, so the power that descended from the air was blocked by Mianlong.

On the other side, the terrifying white fog completely covered the entire Fourth Yama Palace. Outside the Yama Palace, in the Buddha’s light that reached the sky, Maitreya, the Dragon Priest, and the Thunder Priest looked at each other.

Maitreya said to the Dragon Priest, “It seems that your brother doesn’t like others disturbing his deep sleep.”

The Dragon Priest was silent for a while. “He always has a bad temper, especially when he is sleeping.”

However, the three of them did not take action immediately to break the fog laid by the Sleeping Dragon, because the other First-Ranks had already locked onto them and prevented them from continuing to act.

Previously, Maitreya and the other two had straightened out the distorted space of the Fourth Yama Palace in order to repair the rules of the underworld, so with the right time and place, Zhuge Dan and others could not stop them.

But now the rules of the Fourth Yama Palace have been fixed, and Mian Long, the lord of the Fourth Yama Palace, has begun to block the power of Maitreya and others. If Maitreya and the other two take action at this time, they will break the rules of the underworld and lose the advantage of time and place. Zhuge Dan and others will naturally not let go of this opportunity.

Even like now, it is enough to entangle Maitreya. Most of the time, the first-rank people can’t do anything to the opponent, nor can they kill the opponent. One of the important reasons is that the first-rank people’s perception and calculation ability of information is extremely terrifying. If there is something wrong, they will only entangle the opponent and will not take action personally, just like this time when they opened the fourth Yama Palace.

During the entire process of an event, the First Ranks will find the most advantageous moment to take action, and the rest of the time will be used mainly for containment. They will never rashly take action themselves unless they have extremely strong confidence.

Therefore, when the first-rank warriors fight against each other, they often involve the opponent’s top combat power and use the chess pieces they have arranged to achieve their own goals.

The dream in the Chariot and Horse Bureau spread, the sleeping dragon exhaled, white mist filled the sky, and the moonlight in the sky quickly dimmed. The white frost under the feet of the Naraku Demon Emperor no longer gathered and condensed, but gradually dissipated.

“Thanks, Sleeping Dragon.”

The Demon Emperor Naraku greeted him and raised his hand again, his fingertips touching the monk who had just drawn the power of the Queen of Heaven.

The Arhat of Daxia had a terrified look on his face, as he felt that boundless death energy was gathering from all directions, just like the moonlight of the Queen of Heaven that could not be defended against. In the underworld, the power of these ten Ghost Emperors also possessed some sub-saint qualities, encompassing the entire space. As long as they could not block every gap in the space, it would be equivalent to facing a full-strength attack from a first-grade master!
“Wait, Lord Naraku!”

This arhat’s skin began to turn gray, just like the young monk. The only way he could think of to save himself at this time was to convince the Demon Emperor Naraku with words.

Sure enough, the word “Yan Jun” which was not in the memory of Naraku Ghost Emperor attracted Him and slowed down the gray-white color spreading on Arhat’s body.

But the gray and white color continued to erode Luohan’s vitality, and he only had a little extra time to finish his words. Luohan hurriedly said, “Lord Yan, we are not from this time, Lord Yan, you are not your real body now…” Luohan’s thoughts were turning rapidly, and the only way he could think of to escape in desperation was to help the Demon Emperor Naraku to resurrect.

The Naraku Demon Emperor in front of him was just a shadow in a dream, his real body had already perished in the great war between Shinto and humanity, but even if a first-class demon perished, there was a chance for resurrection. The Naraku Demon Emperor had not been able to resurrect for so many years, which should be related to the fact that the Ten Yama Palaces were sealed and suppressed.

If someone is willing to unseal the Tenth Yama Palace and gather faith for the Demon Emperor Naraku, then the Demon Emperor Naraku will naturally be resurrected.

However, helping the Demon Emperor Naraku to resurrect is such a major matter, the causes and effects involved are too great, and this Arhat did not dare to make a direct promise. He just wanted to use words to delay the Demon Emperor Naraku first.

“You talk too much.”

The Naraku Demon Emperor raised his eyebrows with a hint of impatience. The next moment, the gray-white color on Arhat’s body accelerated, and in just a few breaths, he turned into a ball of ash mixed with white ash and black sand, just like the monk before.

Just when the Demon Emperor Naraku was about to find his next target, suddenly a golden light rose from the fog that had expanded to cover the entire Fourth Yama Palace.

The golden light did not hit the Demon Emperor Naraku directly, but hit the bridge built with dragon bones under his feet. Then a sound of “fall” was heard!
The avenues built with real dragon skeletons were suddenly affected by a supreme power. Even the Demon Emperor Naraku looked a little stunned. Then the entire avenue collapsed like a shoddy construction and fell from the sky!

As the Dragon Bone Avenue fell, the teams of Naraku Demon Soldiers holding the flags could not stand steadily, which caused the black flags in their hands that symbolized the Naraku Demon Emperor to shake, and they fell into the heavy fog of the Fourth Yama Palace.

The figure of the Demon Emperor Naraku, who was about to arrive at the Carriage and Horse Bureau, was suddenly pulled away by tens of thousands of feet, and vaguely appeared in the black cloud outside the Fourth Yama Palace, and his jade feet seemed to have just stepped out of the black cloud.

“I understand!”

The third-class novelist Sha Wu screamed. He didn’t have time to explain. He took out a jade pen and wrote in the air, “The Naraku Demon Emperor is afraid of the Sleeping Dragon and dares not come in person!”

It is very dangerous for a first-rank god to rashly descend upon the temple of another first-rank god, so the dragon bone road under the feet of the Naraku Demon Emperor is extremely particular. The dragon bone road below symbolizes the power of the sleeping dragon, while the flag waved by the Naraku demon soldiers above symbolizes the power of the Naraku Demon Emperor.

The two are integrated together to build a bridge leading to the inside and outside in the fourth Yama Palace. In this way, if either side feels danger, they can block the bridge and close the connection between the inside and the outside.

However, they did not expect that ten thousand years later there would appear a peerless magic weapon that could restrain the avenue jointly built by the two Ghost Emperors!
When the avenue collapsed and the Demon Emperor Naraku appeared outside the city, Sha Wu used this fact to stop the Demon Emperor Naraku.

The fourth-grade novelist “Entering the Reality” can lead the opponent into a dream silently. If the opponent believes what happened in the dream, such as his hands and feet being chopped off in the dream, then his hands and feet in reality will also be cut off. This is an entry point to confusing the real with the fake.

At this moment, the method of “entering the truth” plays a greater role, because this is originally a dream, and everything that happens here is real. With the combination of the two, not only will the novelist’s consumption be reduced, but his ability to exert will also be increased, and he can already influence a factual outcome!
The moment he put pen to paper, the third-rank legalist also reacted at the same time.

“The novelist’s method here is enhanced!”

The two third-grade masters took action and immediately formed an invisible barrier in the dream, preventing the Demon Emperor Naraku from entering.

Then everyone ran away at the same time. Even with the help of the cleverness of the rules, the obstacles set up by the two third-grade masters could only stop the Naraku Ghost Emperor for a few breaths at most. If they did not escape from the Chariot and Horse Bureau now and hide in the vast Fourth Yama Palace, once they were caught by the Naraku Ghost Emperor, their fate would definitely be worse than that of the two monks!

Qin Jiangxue and other middle-grade warriors had no room to resist in the battle just now. They could only watch the situation evolve. But Li Jianhu was an exception. He was extremely sober from beginning to end. Even when the Ghost Emperor Naraku came, he knew that the Ghost Emperor in front of him was just an illusory dreamer. He was like a bystander, watching the various characters performing inside through the screen made of mirage.

So in such a critical situation, he even flew into a ball of black and white ashes, dug in it twice, and picked up a light golden relic. This relic was exactly what the young monk Jiemie left behind at the beginning. Li Jianhu’s spiritual perception told him that this relic was very useful!
His reckless act of picking up the relics shocked everyone, but at this time, others did not care about Li Jianhu’s strange behavior and fled in their own ways, with only three exceptions.

The thief Sun Bojin was certain that Li Jianhu was a spy and descendant of a big shot, so he kept a small part of his attention on Li Jianhu and followed the direction of his escape.

Qin Jiangxue knew Li Jianhu’s background better than Sun Bojin, so even though there were many third-grade warriors around, Qin Jiangxue ignored the direction in which these third-grade warriors were fleeing and just followed Li Jianhu.

As for the last person, it was naturally Hao Ren who had just thrown out [Yanhuang Tongbao] to resolve the crisis. After Hao Ren seized control of the Dragon Bone Avenue, he first shook off the ghost soldiers belonging to the Naraku Ghost Emperor. At this time, the Dragon Bone Avenue no longer had the power of the Naraku Ghost Emperor, and it was impossible to connect the inside and the outside, but this avenue still contained the power of the Sleeping Dragon Ghost Emperor.

This is equivalent to the top-level public bus, which can run freely in the inner city of the Fourth Yama Palace. So under Hao Ren’s command, the huge dragon bone road was swung, no longer leading to the outside of the city, but to the inside of the city. Of course, Hao Ren did not dare to directly lead the dragon bone road to the core of the “Youde Palace”, but casually landed in front of the surrounding palaces near the Youde Palace. He stepped onto the dragon bone road and beckoned to Li Jianhu, “Come on up!”

Li Jianhu recognized Hao Ren, and relying on the fact that he was always awake in this dream, even the Naraku Ghost Emperor could not hurt him, so he confidently stepped onto the Dragon Bone Road that Hao Ren had taken away.

The time Hao Ren spent waiting for Li Jianhu gave some time for the slow-running third-grade warriors to react. They all rushed onto the Dragon Bone Avenue without hesitation. Hao Ren did not chase them away, but directly built the Dragon Bone Avenue to reach the inner city. Then the Dragon Bone Avenue disappeared in the mist.

At this time, the Demon Emperor Naraku also tore open the invisible barrier set up by the novelist, but he did not rush in to hunt down everyone. Instead, he looked at his own jade-white palm in a daze. Even if he was a peerless demon, it would still take some time for him to accept that he was just an illusion.

(End of this chapter)