The contents of Yue Lingfei's storage ring were divided equally at will, except for the invitation stone from the Netherworld Auction that was counted as an extra.
Zhao Ning did not refuse, just said a few words and returned to the small courtyard where she lived.
When passing by the courtyard where Ting Lan was, the courtyard was quiet, as if no one was there.
Zhao Ning paused for a moment and then walked in quietly. The closer she got, the less breathless she felt.
His spiritual consciousness swept across the small courtyard, not missing any corner, but could not find the slightest trace of Ting Lan.
It's really a powerful breath-hiding technique. Zhao Ning sighed slightly in her heart.
She trusted Ting Lan not to break her promise and leave at will, so she stood there and said calmly, "Come out, the people from Tiangong are gone."
After about a few breaths, Ting Lan's figure came out of the shadows and greeted Zhao Ning without any haste.
"Uncle Shen...Thank you, Uncle Shen." Zhao Ning said, "Are you afraid that the people from the Heavenly Palace will send you to the Fallen Immortal Realm?"
Ting Lan said nothing, which was his acquiescence.
But Zhao Ning reminded her, "Then if you're afraid of Tiangong, it's better to be afraid of me. I'm the easiest one to send you back."
Ting Lan was calm. This sentence just made her lower her head and said, "Ting Lan can save it."
"We will leave for Jiuyou in three days."
Zhao Ning said, "I know that this trip may not be smooth, and the goal may not even be achieved. But I hope that before we find the road to Jiuzhou, we will all stand on the same boat and share weal and woe. You understand Tinglan?"
The words were flat, with a flat threat, but they revealed no murderous intention at all.
Ting Lan responded, but she was not angry because of the hidden murderous intention. She said calmly, "Master Shen is Master Ting Lan. He saved Ting Lan three times in critical situations of life and death. Ting Lan will never let you down... until I find him and go back." Before the journey. Ting Lan swears by his Taoist heart."
"good."
Zhao Ning only responded, turned around and disappeared.
The safest way is to use both kindness and power, and the bond of friendship does not need to be tied to Zhao Ning and these people.
Three days later, the spirit boat flew high over the Qingyue Palace, and Zhiyue sent it off in the sky.
"Zhiyue is waiting for you to come back. You must be safe." Her words were full of emotions and really came from the heart. "Zhao Ning, when you come back, I will take you to visit the Red Mansion and the Boat!"
He Jie almost spit out his tea.
Zhao Ning has become accustomed to Zhiyue's teasing words from time to time.
This trip to the Netherworld of Cultivation did not involve flying through the air or breaking the void. The distance was really too far, spanning the world of nine states, and even the Nascent Soul realm couldn't bear the distance.
The spirit boat went to the south of Yangzhou. It went out to sea from Yangzhou, sailed out of the sea outside Yangzhou, passed through the Tianhai Sea, passed through the fog of the ends of the earth, directly entered the far north of Kyushu, and then went from the far north to the Netherworld of Cultivation. .
But after the spirit boat entered the Netherworld of Cultivation, He Jie and Xiang Hongxuan discovered that the spirit boat was not going in the direction of Daxuan Mountain, but straight to the junction of the Netherworld of Cultivation and Chengxuan Cultivation World.
"Boss Shen, where are we going?" He Jie asked curiously.
Zhao Ning replied, "The new entrance to Jiuyou mentioned by Venerable Haochu is the exit of Heishui, the capital of Youdou. Even Nascent Soul and I can't resist the mysterious power of Black Water. But we must use the Black Water to go upstream. , so we have to ferry them across in a soul boat.”
He Jie suddenly realized.
Xiang Hongxuan said, "When the Heishui River in Youdu was not solved, an old man did appear to ferry the soul tree to both sides of the river. But later, the Heishui River dried up and the old man disappeared. There were cultivators who searched for him many times. For the strange soul wooden boat and the divine ax on the boat, I heard that the old man died because of it."
Charon is dead?
At that time, the underworld guard was already old, and the underworld demon's lifespan was relatively long, only a few decades. Zhao Ning thought that he would probably die because of the end of his life. After all, he had the divine ax from Jiuyou in hand, and ordinary means There was nothing he could do about it, but if he really died because of being murdered and cheated... Zhao Ning frowned.
She counted with her fingers, and what she calculated was the current situation of Hades. It wasn't good news, but it wasn't bad news either.
The underworld guard is indeed dead, but his soul is still in the underworld, and it is the place where Zhao Ning met him.
"Boss Shen, what's the point?"
Zhao Ning just said, "Go over there first."
He Jie and Xiang Hongxuan didn't know the situation, so they could only follow Zhao Ning's arrangement.
Until the spirit boat quickly approached a large river, which was the Blackwater River back then. The Blackwater River on the ground had dried up under the treatment of Ji Han Palace and others, but the river bed was flowing down, so they simply used the Thousand Miles of River Transport method to transport it. The river bed here was filled with water from other rivers, and a new river was formed.
At this time, there was a strange-shaped canoe in the middle of the river. The canoe had a nose and eyes in the head, with just a short ax inserted into it. There was a plan table on the canoe, and two phantoms were playing chess on both sides of the table.
"Uncle Hades."
Zhao Ningyu lowered the spirit boat and stopped it in the river. It also became a flat boat. The three of them stood on the flat boat.
The game between the two phantoms stopped instantly. One of the phantoms panicked and slipped into the hull of the ship. The other phantom was extremely happy and stood up and bowed quickly.
"Fairy Shen, you are fine."
Zhao Ning glanced at him. It was really surprising. Ming Wei didn't even practice when he was alive, but now his soul state is close to the Nascent Soul realm.
"Old Mingwei, I haven't seen him in years, he is really amazing."
Hades Wei smiled, "This is all an opportunity given by the fairy."
"Back then, I was only focused on ferrying the boat, but I never thought that due to some combination of circumstances, I would be able to get rid of my own shackles. In a moment of enlightenment, I would break through my state of mind, and I would be able to achieve cultivation without any problems."
"The moment of enlightenment and the glow of clouds during the day are the reason why the old man's piety has been recognized by heaven, and it has nothing to do with Zhao Ning."
The underworld guard smiled, "No matter what, the fairy is the old man's benefactor."
He slightly looked past Zhao Ning and looked at the two people behind her, then looked back and asked, "Ignorant person and two masters are here, but I have something to do."
Zhao Ning briefly introduced He Jie and Xiang Hongxuan to him, and then said, "We want to go up the Blackwater River, enter the depths of Youdu, and reach the source of the Blackwater. We need to borrow a soul wooden boat."
The underworld guard was stunned, but after thinking for a while, he continued, "Does the benefactor really want to go to the source of the Blackwater? After the leak of the Blackwater River was resolved, I went upstream. Although the leaked place deep in the Nether City was The ruler of heaven and earth suppressed it, but there seemed to be another world behind it, which was strange and terrifying.
I just don’t know which source the benefactor is going to. "
Zhao Ning said calmly, "The source will naturally reach its end."
The underworld guard understood, "I've been here once before. If my benefactor doesn't mind, why don't you let me pass by?"
"That's very good." Zhao Ning responded, "But we still have three colleagues waiting at the entrance of Youdu."
The underworld guard looked at the narrow boat and smiled, "Please wait a moment, my benefactor."
As he said that, he floated to the magic axe. He did not pull out the magic axe, but just discussed it with the face of the boat head.
Before he could say anything, he saw the soul wooden boat stretched several feet and its width widened several times. From the beginning to the end, he only saw the eyes of the boat's head tightly closed, as if there were still eyes rolling inside. roll.
The Hades Guard was first surprised and then nodded in amusement, and then he respectfully invited Zhao Ning and others to board the ship.
When Zhao Ning stepped onto the soul boat, the face on the soul boat's head disappeared and he disguised himself as an ordinary spirit boat.
"Boss Shen." He Jie whispered beside Zhao Ning, "Why does this boat look so afraid of you?"
Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, the disappeared Zhoutou face suddenly appeared, with two ugly wooden eyes staring straight at He Jie.
He Jie was startled, but at least his cultivation was there. He raised his eyes and stared at him. His wooden eyes didn't even last three breaths before they retracted.
Mingwei held back his laughter and apologized to He Jie, "Master He, I'm so sorry. My old friend has a bad temper and is sensitive. My benefactor also knows that and I offended him."
"It's okay." He Jie waved his hand carelessly.
Everyone was sitting on the boat. The underworld guard stood at the head of the boat and pulled out the divine axe. The axe glowed with spiritual light, turned into an oar, and moved upward against the current.
After practicing for many years, it is rare to be so calm on the boat. The ferry of the Hades is extremely stable. The soul wooden boat travels backwards in the mist in the early morning. Looking at the color of purple stars in the distant mountains is a unique artistic conception.
After a long time, Zhao Ning asked about the murder and treasure grabbing mentioned by Xiang Hongxuan.
The underworld guard smiled generously, "I did meet him, and he did die because of that one time. However, it was not that person who killed me, but the old man who killed me. It turns out that the old man's lifespan at that time had reached the limit, and the next person who had been training for many years was But the ferryman couldn't bear the loneliness of ferrying all year round, and would sneak back to Chifang City every once in a while. The old man knew that he would never become a real ferryman."
"When the cultivator snatched the soul canoe and the divine axe, the old man had already thought about it. Although the old man's life span has expired, the soul can last for hundreds of years after enlightenment, but it is limited to the physical decay. When the cultivator snatched it, At this time, the old man saw this as an opportunity, so he simply gave up his body and placed his soul in the divine axe."
His understatement summed up the hesitation, entanglement and hopelessness in his heart at that time, which only made Zhao Ning and the other two people listen with admiration and shock.
But Mingwei just smiled calmly and handed over to Zhao Ninggong, "My benefactor, this is a selfish act of an old man, and he has taken possession of the divine ax just because of it. Please forgive me."
"The Divine Ax has no owner, so lending it to Old Man Ming is to exert its greatest effect." Zhao Ning shook his head, "This time, Old Uncle Ming fully devoted himself to the Divine Ax and became the spirit of the Divine Ax. It is between you and the Divine Ax." fate."
Xiang Hongxuan also said from the side, "Old Mingwei, giving up the body and reincarnation in such a free and easy way is something that only a few people can do. With such a desire to ferry, do you want to use the ferry to enter the Tao?"
The question made Mingwei stunned. Mingwei smiled and shook his head, "I have never thought about becoming a Taoist. This enlightenment is just a coincidence. I am just doing a simple and comfortable thing."
The three of them looked at each other and realized that the state of mind of Hades was something that none of them dared to achieve.
In the following time, the soul canoe went all the way up. If he encountered any strange sights or anything happened along the way, he would tell them slowly and leisurely like a story.
I have never practiced any practice along the way, but I have an experience of cultivating my mind that is more precious than practice.
The riverbed of this original Blackwater River started from the center of the Nether Cultivation World, passed through several large gathering areas and several Cultivation Workshops in the Nether Cultivation World, and then spread to the extreme eastern boundary of the Nether Cultivation World. They went against the current. , going from a deserted and quiet place to the bustling depths.
Gradually, along the road, some uncultivated ghosts can be seen using this river to wash clothes or process simple ingredients. Even though the landform and environment of the ghost cultivation world are far different from the outside world, the fireworks in the world are the same.
After passing through the bustling city and heading into Daxuan Mountain, you will enter the confines of Youdu.
The soul canoe entered the mountain through the waterway covered by many trees, and then led deeper. The light suddenly dimmed, and the chirping of insects and birds in the mountain disappeared, replaced by a moment of silence.
The underworld guard said at this time, "You three, please be careful. We are about to reach the Black Water area. Three hundred miles from the Black Water is the place where the Heaven and Earth Rulers will suppress you."
The three of them moved their positions, trying not to exceed the protection range of the soul boat.
Zhao Ning asked, "The Blackwater River was not completely solved back then? Why is there Blackwater here?"
"The black water was indeed solved back then. All the black water was collected by the magic weapon of the Jihan Palace Master, and then suppressed with the Heaven and Earth Ruler.
But decades later, the suppressed place suddenly shook for several days, as if something hit again, and soon a gap opened. Strangely, nothing slipped out.
Only the black water poured here for three hundred miles and stopped spreading. Later, the gap closed on its own, and fewer people came to explore it. Only when the old man had some free time, he used the soul wooden boat to take a look at this place. "
"I see. What the old man said seems to be that there is another world, but is it because of the gap in the past?"
"Exactly. My benefactor is smart. I have always felt that this gap has not disappeared. There is still a place of suppression, but it is just invisible. My benefactor will go and see it..."
Before he finished speaking, he was suddenly startled by the sound of fighting in the distance.
Others on the boat also noticed.
The entire mountain range was trembling during the fight, as if it was about to collapse in any minute. This was at least a Nascent Soul level fight.
After the soul wooden boat drove another incense stick, it entered an extremely open area. The mountains and rocks were completely lost, and the edges were shrouded in mist and netherworld.
But at this moment, they saw the fighting clearly.
It was a huge two-headed hell dog, more than ten feet long and three to four feet tall. It was surrounded by black flames full of corrosive power. It was at least the fourth level. This appeared before entering the netherworld. This type of Youdu monster is truly an anomaly.
At this moment, a ray of light is fighting with it. Not far away, there is a man and a woman watching with their arms folded. They both have a cold temperament. A glance at it seems to freeze their vision.
Zhao Ning recognized the woman as Zhan Xuexuan.
