Chapter 623: Youde Palace
Qin Jiangxue took Li Jianhu away and went straight to Youde Hall.

The Youde Hall is equivalent to the Jinluan Hall on Yujing Mountain in Daxia, and is the place where the Yinshenmen of the Fourth Yama Hall hold court.

The steps under your feet are made of clear green jade, but this jade has been nourished by the dragon energy of the underworld for thousands of years and has turned into a dark green color. Each piece is priceless.

The middle-grade ones who followed Li Jianhu had their eyes shining when they saw the green jade under their feet, especially the thief Sun Bojin. He couldn’t help but reach out and touch the green jade closest to the Youde Hall. The green jade here was not only a thick dark green color, but also had faint dragon shadows swimming in the dark green jade. Each dragon shadow was actually evolved from at least nine dragon seals.

Sun Bojin couldn’t help but say, “Wow, moving two bricks will make us break even!”

The ores from the nine dragon seals are capable of forging a top three secret treasure. For the middle-grade practitioners, this is indeed something that can only be encountered once in a while. When he said this, the others immediately became interested.

Li Jianhu quickly stretched out his hand to stop them, saying, “Everyone, digging up all the Youde Hall here is like fishing for the moon in the water, a waste of effort.”

Sun Bojin and the others looked at Li Jianhu in confusion, so Li Jianhu told them some of the reasons that the middle-grade masters didn’t know, so as to prevent their actions from causing trouble. “Haven’t you ever thought about why the Naraku Demon Emperor suddenly appeared? We have actually quietly entered the reflection of the Fourth Yama Palace. No matter how much you dig up here, it’s just an illusion, and you can’t take anything away!”

“what!”

Sun Bojin and other middle-level people realized it later and only reacted at this time.

“I thought so. The Ten Kings of Hell were wiped out by the Three Saints of the human race ten thousand years ago. No wonder they suddenly appeared here. It turns out this was just a dream.”

Since everyone had entered the illusory world of Taixu, they were not surprised by this method of making the entire Fourth Yama Palace become a dream.

Sun Bojin pounded the ground with his hand and looked at Qin Jiangxue complainingly, “If I had known this would happen, I wouldn’t have come in with you. You, the disaster star, really don’t call me unless there’s something bad going on!”

Qin Jiangxue chuckled twice, then turned to Li Jianhu and asked, “Anything else you found?”

Li Jianhu continued, “Although it is a dream, don’t you find anything strange?”

Li Jianhu looked towards the deep and dark hall. In his eyes, whether it was a dream or reality, this hall that had been sealed for ten thousand years was dead silent.

“What’s strange?” Sun Bojin asked curiously.

Qin Jiangxue reacted and said in a serious tone, “It’s too quiet here.”

Li Jianhu said, “Yes, it’s too quiet here. Just now, we were in the dream of the Horse and Carriage Bureau, reflecting the dream history of the arrival of the Demon Emperor Naraku. It was bustling with people, and then the Demon Emperor Naraku called on the power of the Sleeping Dragon, causing the dream that was originally confined to the Horse and Carriage Bureau to expand and cover the entire Fourth Yama Palace. Logically, the Fourth Yama Palace should be as ‘lively’ as it was back then. The Demon Emperor Sleeping Dragon should be wearing a solemn dress and waiting with the ministers in the Youde Palace to meet the Demon Emperor Naraku.”

Li Jianhu pointed to the Youde Hall. The open hall was hundreds of feet wide. Only nine pillars built with various bones could be seen near the door. As for the deeper places, they were completely covered by thick fog, and the scene inside could not be seen. It was as if an invisible thing had swallowed up the Ghost Emperor and his ministers who were supposed to exist.

“Where’s your judgment?”

Li Jianhu replied, “I didn’t have any ideas before, but just now they said that the emperors of Daxia turned into drought demons in order to achieve immortality and were buried in the Ten Palaces. I happen to have some understanding of dreams.”

“What do you know?”

“When I was with Lord Zhou, he once explained to me some knowledge about dreams. We were just in the Chariot and Horse Bureau, and the dream changed drastically. I just heard the name of the Naraku Demon Emperor a moment ago, but the next moment the Naraku Demon Emperor appeared directly. This is because the thoughts of all of us are affecting the deduction of the dream. Even those third-rank people cannot control the changes in the entire dream.”

“And the silence here is because the Great Xia Emperor turned into a drought demon. Even in his deep sleep, his will completely overwhelmed the influence of all of us on the dream.”

The observer effect in this world can directly affect reality, so the impact on dreams is naturally even more severe.

After Li Jianhu finished his reasoning, he turned around and asked Qin Jiangxue, “What is your purpose in bringing me in this time? You can’t really bring me in to get benefits, right?”

Qin Jiangxue frowned. This was completely different from what he had thought. This time he came in with two missions. The first was to help the Qing Emperor’s lineage find a missing second-rank elder, and the second was to help Elder Lian obtain something.

If he were in the real world, he would have entered the Youde Palace at this moment and would have been very close to his destination. However, after entering, he discovered that he might just be in a dream and could not even touch the door of the real Youde Palace. There was also a Naraku Demon Emperor chasing them from behind.

“I came here this time because I was entrusted by the Qing Emperor to find a second-rank elder of their clan. They gave me something. As long as we can wake up that second-rank elder, with his help, we can easily escape from the Fourth Yama Palace. As for the reward, the Qing Emperor will give us what we want, and we don’t have to continue taking risks in the Fourth Yama Palace.”

He was halfway through his speech.

Sun Bojin slapped his thigh and said, “Damn it, it turned out to be the Chongshan Palace that did it. I was wondering why you were willing to take on such a tough job.”

Suddenly, balls of dark red flames rose from under everyone’s feet. It happened so suddenly that everyone was burned by the flames.

What’s even more terrifying is that ordinary flames use cloth and wood as combustibles, but this boundless dark red flame that covers the entire inner city uses evil fruits as fuel!
Qingqing of the Ca Nu Dao screamed, “Karma Fire!”

She only had time to scream, and then the karma fire met her like it met the finest cotton and linen, and suddenly burned Qingqing’s whole body. It was obvious that Qingqing had done a lot of bad things in her daily life.

The karmic fire burned Qingqing so hard that she was completely unable to resist and she wailed in pain. All the means she used were unable to stop the burning of the karmic fire. The only possible effective method was to use the secret technique of the Ca Nu Dao to find a male nearby to share the damage.

Unfortunately, the karmic fire before his eyes would not only burn Qingqing, but everyone. Even if he found someone else to share the burden, it would not reduce his own danger. Instead, it would anger other people, making him even less likely to be rescued.

When the fire of karma came, everyone felt the pain deep into their bones. This pain not only burned the flesh, but also stripped away the traces of the person’s existence, that is, the soul. The only good thing was that the fire of karma, as the punishment fire of the netherworld, was mainly based on torture. It would burn everyone from the flesh to the soul little by little, giving them time to resist.

Qin Jiangxue was prepared for the approaching karmic fire. He took out a white lotus from his Qiankun bag and threw it on the ground. Immediately, the surrounding fire gradually extinguished from large to small.

“Yin De Lotus!”

Sun Bojin was freed from the pain of being burned by the karmic fire. Out of his instinct to steal, he looked at the lotus that Qin Jiangxue had thrown on the ground with shining eyes. It was a rare item.

“Chongshan Palace is indeed very wealthy. They even prepared the Yin De Lotus for you…”

As soon as he finished speaking, the suppressed karmic fire suddenly surged, causing the Yin De Lotus thrown by Qin Jiangxue to wither at a speed visible to the naked eye.

“what happened?”

Li Jianhu was the first to react and pointed to the sky in the distance. At this time, everyone realized that the target of the suddenly rising karmic fire was not them at all, but the Demon Emperor Naraku who was walking from afar.

Around her, thousands of pure white Yin De lotus flowers formed a sea of ​​flowers and a road, trying to lead to the inner city, but the karma fire formed a high wall, blocking the way of the Naraku Demon Emperor.

“I understand.”

Li Jianhu suddenly said, “The Ghost Emperor Naraku in this dream wants to enter the inner city because of the will of Ghost Emperor Mianlong. Ghost Emperor Mianlong is using the mutation we just experienced to get out of his own predicament, which directly caused the counterattack of Hanba buried here. These karmic fires are not targeting us at all, but the Ghost Emperor Naraku. We are just fish in the pond that have been affected.”

“Then why didn’t we trigger the karma fire when we first entered here?” Qingqing asked, panting. She had just suffered the greatest damage, so now she was in a state of daze and had no way to think carefully.

“Because someone among us will directly help Hanba escape from trouble, it certainly won’t attack its helpers right from the start!”

Qin Jiangxue looked at the Yin De Lotus that was almost withered and added, “But it doesn’t look like it has much patience. If we don’t act quickly, it will burn us to death before the Naraku Ghost Emperor breaks in!”

After saying that, Qin Jiangxue, holding the Yin De Lotus, walked towards the Yin De Hall shrouded in thick fog. What he did actually made the surrounding karma fire gradually smaller.

After entering the Youde Palace, the scene in front of them suddenly opened up. Although the fire of karma was still burning slowly under their feet, the fog that had been covering the place dissipated. Huge bone pillars supported the entire space, making the entire Youde Palace look vast and boundless.

All the cores of the Divine Court have one thing in common, that is, as the core place for sacrifice, the core of the Divine Court is not only the place for the parliament, but also the hub of the Divine Court’s radiation.

For example, when the Taihang Mountain Divine Court was first established, nine pillars led to nine geocentric nodes in the Taihang Mountains, ensuring that the Divine Court could send troops to suppress these places at any time.

The Fourth Yama Palace is much more perfect than the fragment of the divine palace in Taihang Mountain. In ancient times, the Fourth Yama Palace ruled the underworld of the entire dragon clan. There are as many as eighty-one pillars in front of us!
“Why are there so many?”

Li Jianhu said to himself in surprise. Because of Xiaobai, he knew what the Taihang Mountain Divine Court looked like now. They were both first-grade divine courts, so why were there only nine pillars in Taihang Mountain but eighty-one here? The gap shouldn’t be that big.

“Because the Netherworld is huge.”

Xiaobai, who had been hiding in his arms, communicated with Li Jianhu through his mind.

Xiaobai was born as a natural god after Taihang Mountain. He helped Zhou Tieyi find the core fragments of the Divine Court. In return, Zhou Tieyi bestowed a third-grade virtual godhood on Xiaobai, making him a member of the gods of Taihang Mountain.

It’s just that this third-grade virtual godhead is more like a fiefdom, and it’s also a secret plan left by Zhou Tieyi. In order to deal with the changes in Concubine Mo’s place, although Zhou Tieyi and Hu Wenlang have always cooperated well, Zhou Tieyi has not forgotten Concubine Mo’s prophecy.

Therefore, Xiaobai usually does not manage the specific affairs of the Divine Court, but he is secretly cultivated by Zhou Tieyi as the ‘crown prince’ of the Taihang Mountain Divine Court. Even if he abdicates from the Taihang Mountain Divine Court in the future, there will be other choices for this first-class Divine Court, and it does not necessarily have to be Concubine Mo.

“I know the Netherworld is huge.”

“No, you don’t understand.”

Xiao Bai continued, “When I say big, I mean our planet is big. The world you live in now is just a small part of it. Because of the fall of the Nine Ancient Gods, the desperate situation after their death formed a seal, and you are actually confined to one of the lands. In the past, the netherworld covered the entire planet, even the moon in the sky, so there are eighty-one pillars here, but now most of these pillars cannot be used, because they lead to the netherworld ruled by the blue dragon, which is not in your world.”

As a natural born god, Xiaobai knew many secrets, which were passed down to him directly through the information between heaven and earth when he was born.

Li Jianhu realized why Xiaobai suddenly said this to him, “You mean that the second-rank elder of the Qing Emperor might have wanted to enter a certain pillar to go to the outside world, but instead fell into the passage leading to the outside world?”

“What else?” Xiao Bai analyzed, “According to the information you have, the Qing Emperor must be very familiar with the Fourth Yama Palace and know who is sealed inside. So he was very careful when entering the palace and would definitely avoid Mianlong and Hanba. If he really faced Hanba and Mianlong directly, even if he was a second-grade, he would definitely be dead now after so long, and would not have been delayed until you came to rescue him.”

“Enter the Fourth Yama Palace and find a safe path to the outside world. This is in line with the value of the Qing Emperor’s lineage to let a second-rank person take action.”

While Li Jianhu and Xiaobai were communicating, the other people from the Shinto side who had also entered the hall started to take action. The others didn’t know where the eighty-one pillars of the Fourth Yama Hall corresponded to, but the lineage of the Emperor of Life and Death had a clear record. After the Abandoned Corpse God entered this place, he brought the Evil God and others directly to a pillar, but before they could open the pillar, the entire Youde Hall suddenly became bright.

Light poured in from outside the hall, and the righteous energy that Li Jianhu was familiar with directly put out the karmic fire on the ground. It was no less powerful than the sea of ​​Yin De lotus that was rolled up by the Ghost Emperor Naraku. In the light, Deng Zhenquan had completely turned into a ball of light, but his whole person seemed unreal in this dream, which was caused by the integration of God’s will in the dream.

(End of this chapter)