The ghost king's guards waiting outside, as well as the ghost generals and ghost soldiers who hurriedly gathered around because of the great changes in the underworld, could not see clearly what happened in the fog.
The two sides were obviously at a stalemate and fought for the entire second half of the night, but when You Tu was most needed to take charge of the overall situation, He Dong jumped over and killed him.
Under such circumstances, if Zhou Bai jumped out and proclaimed himself king, he would not be recognized.
Not to mention that he tried to command all ghosts to return to the underworld, which aroused the suspicion of many big ghosts.
They followed You Tu to the Yangshi, but they worked hard and the price was too heavy. Now you want to go back?
After Youtu died in battle, the first person to question and challenge Zhou Bai was the former Ghost King Guards.
Most of the birds and beasts dispersed, but there were still nearly five to six hundred guards to express their gratitude to You Tu. They stared at them eagerly and approached step by step, their faces full of anger and bloodthirsty.
"He Dong, you take advantage of my king's serious injury to challenge me, but I won't accept it!" The roars of so many strong ghosts are still very intimidating.
Many big ghosts who wanted to get ahead held back their thoughts and waited to see how Zhou Bai would respond.
However, just like that, Zhou Bai didn't need to take action. Two hundred heroic spirits blocked him at some point, with a team covering them on all sides, and numerous swords and guns.
They all took a step together, and their murderous aura rose up. The guards who originally wanted to avenge You Tu looked at each other and stopped dramatically.
Others don't know how powerful this strange ghost soldier is. Don't they know it? The battle loss is one to ten.
Even if all the remaining 600 guards were used up, they would not be able to harm Zhou Bai in the slightest.
"You are not convinced?" When the guards were temporarily frightened by the heroic spirit, Zhou Bai followed with a cold snort, and his spiritual consciousness imitated Youtu's ghost king's power and fully covered it.
The monstrous ghost energy surged out, one after another, and no one would believe him even if he said he was not the ghost king.
The huge coercion was especially aimed at the six hundred guards, pressing firmly on their shoulders, one breath, two breaths, three breaths...
Within a moment, there was an overwhelming crowd around Zhou Bai, as if they were kneeling in submission.
There are several ghost generals at the level of fierce ghosts who know that if they don't speak out, they may not have a chance to speak.
"The city of Cangbei County is about to be destroyed. If you want us to respect you as the Ghost King, please give us 300,000 flesh and blood as a reward."
"Brothers, are you right?!"
These ghost generals were all powerful factions in the ghost tide. They came out with a large group of ghost soldiers, and their noisy words also aroused widespread response.
"He Dong, we don't want to go back to the underworld. If our nest is gone, we will be gone."
"You can enjoy endless life, flesh, and blood in this world, and be free and happy..."
Zhou Bai watched coldly, knowing that without killing methods, it would be difficult to complete the plan.
The souls of several leading ghosts will be directly hit, and bang, they will turn into black energy in an instant, and their souls will fly away.
At the same time, the same situation happened everywhere, and the talkative ghosts died one by one, so that they didn't even have to be ghosts.
"Those who follow me will prosper, and those who go against me will perish." A gloomy ghost voice sounded.
At this time, the ghosts still didn't understand that these strange tricks were done by the new ghost king in front of them.
All the original confusion and doubts were now in vain, and no one dared to touch the Ghost King's brow anymore.
"When today becomes a big world, ghosts like us can also be free for a while. Everyone wants the flesh and blood of the Yang world, but there is a difference between Yin and Yang, and it is limited by the rules of heaven and earth, so we must take it slow."
"So the prerequisite for being happy in the Yang world is to protect the underworld. Otherwise, how can we and the Yin ghosts be able to compete with the power of the immortal gods in heaven?"
"Nine Heavens Thunder, how can you stop it?"
Zhou Bai's explanation shook the hearts of the ghosts. After all, they were just ghosts in the underworld, and they were not tolerated in the world.
If it really makes a big fuss, Heaven will be free to take care of it, and there will be nowhere to run.
Just when they were hesitant, Zhou Bai took the lead and passed through the waves of ghosts to reach the cracks in the earth.
This crack does not mean that the underground is the underworld, but connects two dimensional spaces, with Yang on the top and Yin on the bottom.
Because it is filled with divine power and the golden divine light overflows, it is very restrained against ghosts, so no ghosts dare to approach.
Zhou Bai also groaned in time, and the ghost energy on his body was weakened by 30%. He leaned over and looked into the crack. There was a deep passage inside.
At the end of the passage, a god displaying his divine power stood. The golden body was so bright that it was difficult to look directly at it.
It is Cangbei County City God Chao Qu who is sitting here. He seems to be bridging the cracks and sealing the passage.
"Zhou Bai, you're here, what's the situation outside?" Chao Qu noticed Zhou Bai's spiritual consciousness penetrating into him, so he asked quickly.
"There's only one last step left, just follow the plan."
While speaking, Zhou Bai also saw clearly the current situation of the City God. Although he was so powerful that he could frighten millions of ghosts and could not pass through the underworld, in fact, he was just trying to hold on.
Most of the divine power that was finally accumulated was consumed, and the divine body and golden body revealed outside could not be maintained for long due to the collapse of Cangbei County's basic system.
The golden light emitted, which contains divinity, is constantly being lost. This is the loss that destroys the golden body.
The position of the City God of Cangbei County was derived from the fifth-grade Jinchi. However, with insufficient incense and the loss of the priestly jurisdiction, it was naturally difficult to maintain the status of the Jinchi.
Now that he is forced to reveal his golden body, Chao Qu pays the price of leaving the priesthood. After this battle, not to mention the death of the god, he will also fall into a long sleep.
Perhaps one day, Cangbei County will return to its heyday, and the people will offer sacrifices to Him in large numbers to revive Him.
Sensing Zhou Bai's worry, Chao Qu shook his head and replied with his spiritual thoughts: "If you die, you will die. Anyway, I, the city god, cannot survive if the city is destroyed, so why not make some contribution to the people in this city."
"And didn't you mention in your jade slip that a temple was recently built for the God of Cangshan Mountain? I guess a county god's general's office can afford it, right?"
Zhou Bai responded seriously: "As long as you can take away the 300,000 people from Cangbei County, Cangnan will know your contribution, and it will not be difficult for the people to worship you."
Chao Qu groaned, and another ray of golden divinity left, and said quickly: "Let's do it quickly, while I still have some power of the pseudo-yang god, I can shock them later."
Guessing that the sun was about to rise outside, Zhou Bai took action immediately without further delay.
All the majestic Yin Qi hidden in the body burst out, and black mist surged for a moment, firmly suppressing the golden light emerging from the cracks.
Will evil prevail over good? In the eyes of the ghosts outside, this mysterious new ghost king is now better than the righteous city god.
The city god in the passage has been driven away, replaced by a strong and gloomy ghost aura, and the underworld aura leaked out, making the ghosts outside very comfortable.
"All ghosts listen to the order and return to the underworld quickly!" Zhou Bai's difficult voice sounded, and he looked like he was struggling to suppress it.
"Mo Feier, you want me to waste my soul power in vain?!"
Forced by the power of the Ghost King, most of the ghosts took a few steps forward, and then the first batch of people entering the passage began to appear.
Then groups of ghosts turned into black energy and poured into the cracks continuously. The endless ghost tide gradually became sparse, and there were no ghosts outside the county city attacking the city wall.
At the outermost periphery, the heroic army formed a long queue with their hands in hand, driving away the ghosts who were still confused and entangled.
Anyone who dares to disobey will be beaten, or killed.
Not to mention these ordinary ghosts and imps, many arrogant ghost generals were killed to scare the monkeys, and their souls were driven away.
The return of the ghost tide to the underworld is actually very fast, but the last time the power of the Qingxu Realm disrupted the underworld of the Tianyuan Realm, there were too many ghosts running out, and they couldn't be collected in a while.
"Zhou Bai, we need to be faster. If my City God priesthood is completely separated, then the passage in this underworld will really not be closed." Chao Qu, who had been pretending to be suppressed in the corner of the passage, said in a somewhat impatient voice.
With a thought in Zhou Bai's mind, the ghost energy around him suddenly weakened, and then the passage shook.
"Cangbei City God, you are looking for death!" Before the ghost outside could figure out what was happening, he immediately shouted angrily, then stepped into the passage and chased after him.
"No, it's because the City God tried his best and the passage is unstable."
"The ghost king He Dong chased into the underworld..."
A few ghost generals poked their noses into the cracks to take a look, and then started to panic.
The Ghost King is not here to watch, do they still want to go in?
Then Zhou Bai's voice came out from the crack: "The one who pacifies the foreign enemies and recovers the Youtu Ghost City will be the king!"
"I, He Dong, will guarantee that next time I return to Yangshi, I will have priority in obtaining flesh and blood!"
As soon as these words came out, Gui Xiong, who was originally a little gloomy, could not sit still and led his troops towards the crack without saying a word.
The position of the Ghost King! Even in the underworld, a ghost king is often not born for hundreds of years.
If he said it in front of the ghosts in the Netherland in several nearby counties, it must be true, unless He Dong didn't want to stay in the Netherland anymore.
Led by some ambitious ghost heroes, more ghosts stopped dawdling, and all turned into black energy and penetrated into the cracks, returning to the underworld.
For a moment, you and I were fighting for it, and the cracks in the earth were like a giant funnel, collecting the ghosts who had fled to the Yang world.
It’s rare to find a hero among ghosts, but there are always those with a keen mind who feel something is wrong.
Youtu Ghost City is already the largest ghost city in the underworld with a radius of thousands of miles. Where did the foreign ghost army come from? All ghosts need to return to support it.
"Where are the You Tu ghost soldiers who reported the news before?!"
"They were the first ones to go back, what happened?"
"No, none of the spies I planted came to report the news. Let the brothers stop the other ghost soldiers."
The day of Yangshi arrived quietly, and the sunlight was blocked by the dark clouds above.
Before some heroes could take action, the sky thundered, boom!
The ghost tide trembled suddenly. This was the ghost's instinctive fear of thunder.
"It's the monk's thunder method. There is a big cultivator who wants to kill us. Run." This voice suddenly came from somewhere in the ghost tide. The ghosts suddenly woke up and headed towards the cracks.
"Don't be afraid, there are no cultivators of the Third Realm nearby, and ordinary lightning techniques cannot break through the clouds of ghost energy."
Guixiong, who had reacted before, was still trying to stop his panic. The clinker's thunder seemed to have eyes, and a blazing white thunder snake with thick arms fell from the sky.
With Guixiong as the core, all the nearby ghosts within a few dozen feet were electrocuted into ashes, and the remaining ghosts could only flee crazily.
After a series of preparations, no need for Zhou Bai's induction was needed. Now all the ghosts think that whoever does not return to the underworld is a fool.
"It's awesome, nothing more than this!" Lei Xiu at the top of the city looked up to the sky and sighed.
"Leader, what is going on? Why did the new ghost king lead the ghost army back to the underworld after the ghost king's internal fight?"
"We seem to have been saved... The City God is heading to the Underworld, and there are Thunder Cultivators from the Three Realms responding outside, as well as a new Ghost King... The situation is too complicated, so I'll just wait and defend the city."
The city has lost the real person in charge of the overall situation, and now the remaining monks can only rely on guessing. They only know that someone is indeed targeting Cangbei County to rescue them.
At this time, the thunder clouds in the sky mixed with the clouds of Yin Qi, and no second thunder fell for a long time, maintaining a deterrent effect.
Accompanied by thunder, rolling torrents descended from the sky.
"Yin and yang are different, heaven and earth are in order, the general of heaven is here to subjugate demons! If you evil ghosts linger at all, you will be punished by thunder!"
It turns out that after Zhou Bai chased Chao Qu to the underworld, he returned to the Yang world through the City God's Domain, and then used his Yin God body to attract the mighty thunder from the sky.
It's just that the body of the ghost has its limitations after all. In addition, it takes a lot of mana to break through the clouds formed by the layers of ghost energy, so after one thunder, the ghost tide is driven back as much as possible.
Feeling the sting of the soul, Zhou Bai did not dare to drive the thunder clouds, otherwise the negative matter in the Yin Shen would attract thunder earlier.
The Hunyuan Spirit is rooted in his Dantian, so when the spirit and body are united, he can perform the Five Elements Tiangang Technique without restraint, but the Yin Shen cannot do it when he is out of the body.
In this way, despite the danger of being struck back by thunder at any time, the ghost tide around the county finally dissipated quickly.
Zhou Bai tore through the clouds, floated to the ground next to the yin and yang crack, shot a message into it, then suppressed the anxiety in his heart and waited silently.
After a while, Chao Qu rushed out of the underworld with several ghosts and gods. It could be seen with the naked eye that the golden light on his body was close to nothing.
There was no time to tell Zhou Boduo, the golden light on Chao Qu's body finally burst out, and he pressed down on the crack with the power of the priesthood: "Seal the Netherworld, join!"
Amidst the unwilling wails of countless ghosts, the cracks closed, which meant that unless there was another celestial change, Yin and Yang would not be able to reverse themselves again in a short period of time.
Click~
At the same time, Zhou Bai heard the sound of breaking. He subconsciously looked at Chao Qu. Sure enough, the golden body was broken and the priesthood was separated.
However, Chao Qu was not too sad or surprised, but smiled at Zhou Bai and said: "Without the priesthood, my status will continue to fall for a period of time until I fall into a deep sleep."
Before he finished speaking, the aura on his body became weak again. He smiled bitterly and said: "Now we are from the sixth level. I wonder if the agreement between us is still valid?"
Several ghosts and gods behind Chao Qu were also very depressed, including the night wanderers who had been in contact with him a lot, and they all looked at Zhou Bai with complicated expressions.
Once upon a time, these gods really had to live by their breath.
Zhou Bai's face straightened and he said solemnly: "You can rest assured, I will immediately organize the relocation of the people in the city. Chao Qu, your priesthood will be tentatively designated as the County God of Pingcang County."
"Of course, this is only the official priest recognized within the jurisdiction of the General's Mansion, not the official god of the dynasty."
Chao Qu didn't say anything when he heard this. He led a group of gods to bow, which was still the courtesy of a courtier.
"If the general does not give up, we, the little gods, would like to recognize the general as our lord!"
Zhou Bai sighed, the mountain god favored him, the city god recognized him, and in the end he was accepted as his subordinate.
He couldn't help but ask: "Heaven hasn't checked your merits yet, what if you have a chance to become a god in heaven?"
Chao Qu shook his head and continued to bow and salute: "This is the responsibility of the City God. It is just a duty and does not count as any merit. Even if there is any, it is the work of humanity, not the work of heaven."
"Subduing demons is not just about being the master of humans, but it is possible that you can be the master of both gods and humans."
"Lord!"
Zhou Bai didn't show any more pretense and accepted the gift generously.
[Status: God and man co-lord] (Elementary level)
Co-lord of Gods and Humans: There are 500,000 subjects under your rule who regard you as their lord. This is the beginning of human-lordship. At the same time, two gods above the red edict recognize you as their lord. This is the beginning of divine-lordship. The two are merged into co-lords of gods and humans. It possesses a certain amount of coercion and is convinced by gods and men.
You are a natural monarch in front of gods and humans. The more loyal subjects you have, the stronger this state will be.
(End of chapter)
