The eighteen levels of the underworld, from the tenth level down, are basically dangerous places, with the five turbid energies flowing in the void. Even if there are some mountains and rivers, they must be dangerous mountains and dangerous waters, mysterious and unpredictable.
However, the environment in the upper ninth level of the underworld is actually quite good.
Especially in the second level of the underworld, the boundless land is colorful, the void has its own fragrance, and there are many strange flowers and plants.
King Guang of Qin, King Jiang of Chu and Emperor Song were sitting on the ground on the shore of a lake with lush flowers and plants, drinking and chatting.
Although the three of them were all wearing the robes of the King of Hell, their expressions were very relaxed, and they were obviously very satisfied with their leisurely life.
The only thing that is strange is that their movements are very slow and their speaking speed is also very, very slow.
"Good - wine - ah -"
It seemed that while they were chatting, they were distracted by countless distractions, thinking about other things with their endless spiritual thoughts.
that's the truth.
As the king of hell who was entrusted by heaven, if they were in their own royal court, they would just sit in the void all day long, motionless, emitting infinite spiritual thoughts, dealing with things in the underworld, and occasionally reflecting on recent deeds.
Now that they come out to gather, although they can feel more relaxed than when they were sitting in the royal court, they can't really turn away the official duties of the King of Hell, so most of their minds are still working on the authority of the King of Hell.
The remaining thoughts can allow them to move at an almost immortal reaction speed, but that... is really unnecessary.
After all, everyone is the king of hell. They would rather drink a little wine slowly and just think that they are the stars who have just become spirits and their brains are working very slowly.
The ten halls of the King of Hell are: the first hall is King Guang of Qin, the second hall is King Chujiang, the third hall is King Song, the fourth hall is King Wuguan, and the fifth hall is King Yama.
The Sixth Palace is the King of Bian Cheng, the Seventh Palace is the Taishan King, the Eighth Palace is the City King, the Nineth Palace is the Pingping King, and the Tenth Palace is the Wheel-turning King.
These ten palaces of the king of hell and the ten underworlds each perform their own duties.
The first four levels of the underworld are respectively responsible for taking over the wise people of humans and insects, the unwise people of plants and trees, practitioners, and demons. The true spirits of these four kinds of creatures after death will review their operations and determine their destinations.
The fifth level of the underworld, headed by King Yama, is in charge of the hells. It has eighteen major hells and 129,600 small hells. Those who have serious sins under review in the first four levels of the underworld will be escorted to the fifth level of the underworld and enter the hell. being tortured.
Those whose crimes are not enough to enter hell will be escorted downwards to the sixth, seventh, and eighth levels of the underworld, where they will be assigned peaceful residences according to their merits and karma during their lives.
Biancheng, Taishan, and Ducheng manage the lives of these ghosts until their life span is over and their memories are scattered, and then they enter the ninth level of the underworld, where the King of Pingping takes over, checks them repeatedly, and sends them into reincarnation.
As for the tenth level of the underworld, it is jointly controlled by the Chakravartin King and the Netherworld Leader, who are responsible for targeting the evil beasts in the lower underworld.
It is said that before the ancient catastrophe, the underworld system was somewhat different from now. The ten kings of hell were responsible for matters including the arrangements for the afterlife of these ghosts.
However, after the ancient catastrophe, the immortals in heaven discussed that the people in the next life are not the same in body and mind as in the previous life, so why should they bear the sins of the previous life? If the spirit in the previous life was really guilty of serious crimes, how could we allow it to be easily reincarnated?
Therefore, all rewards and punishments for merits and sins will be completed in the underworld. Although the underworld still holds the authority related to reincarnation, it no longer deliberately interferes with the trajectory of all living beings in the world after reincarnation.
It is no longer known what the opinions of the kings of hell in ancient times were on this matter. However, the kings of hell who succeeded him later did not have any opinions on this decision of the heaven. Although this matter seemed to reduce the power of the king of hell, it It also reduces the responsibilities they need to shoulder.
Responsible for the rewards and punishments of the creatures in all the worlds after their death is already an extremely complex burden. If they want to interfere in the afterlife, and interfere again when the trajectory of the afterlife is unexpectedly interfered with, it will be too much trouble.
You must know that even after the reorganization of the underworld, the number of matters that the Ten Palaces of Hell need to deal with is still unimaginable. With the mind running, countless Taoist sayings and Taoist pictures are circulating in every moment and need to be approved.
All titles in the Heavenly Court were originally obtained by cultivators based on their own strength. Only the ten kings of hell had additional blessings, which allowed the strong men in the emperor realm to control the great power of the heavenly realm without being burdened like those masters of holy lands.
In fact, it takes into account the heavy responsibilities and heavy duties of the underworld.
If there were not such great benefits, it would not be enough to attract an emperor-level powerhouse to take over the post of King of Hell.
But generally speaking, there are very few kings of hell who are willing to stay in office for a billion years.
"Well, in a few years, this catastrophe will break out again. By then, we don't know whether we will be a little more relaxed or whether we will become busier."
King Qin Guang moved slowly and poured himself another glass of wine.
"Being busy doesn't necessarily make you busier, but it can definitely be dangerous."
King Chu Jiang shook his head, "It's a pity that the cause and effect on me is hard to repay. Even if I run far away, I will definitely be involved in the catastrophe. Only by becoming the king of hell can I be more sure of surviving the catastrophe. Otherwise, I would have died early." For hundreds of millions of years, I have been traveling far away from chaos, free and at ease.”
Emperor Song said in a gentle voice: "The King of Hell is not bad. After all, after being blessed by the position of King of Hell, the power of the Heavenly Lord is more brilliant than that of the ordinary Lord of the Holy Land. As for the energy we usually spend dealing with things in the underworld, it may not be It’s much harder than when the emperors of the heavens managed their own holy lands in the early days.”
King Qin Guang and King Chu Jiang looked at each other and didn't want to say anything.
This Song emperor originally ascended from the lower world. When he became an emperor, he gained insights from looking at the sea of chaos from a distance. It is not too difficult to repay the cause and effect with Taiqing Chiming.
So many years ago, he had traveled far away from Chaos. Unfortunately, he had bad luck. He was seriously injured not many years after leaving, and fled back to Taiqing Chiming. After recovering from his injuries, he thought that the cause and effect on his body was still not too serious. So he ran out again and was seriously injured again.
After doing this again and again, the cause and effect between him and Taiqing Chiming became so deep that he couldn't get rid of it even if he wanted to, so he had no choice but to fight for the position of a king of hell. Now his mentality is more calm than other kings of hell.
"Speaking of which, the experience of this King of Yama seems to be similar to that of Emperor Song?"
When King Qin Guang mentioned this matter, Emperor Song's expression was a little subtle.
"I was only at the beginning of the three realms of the Emperor at the beginning. It was easy for me to get into danger when I traveled far across the sea, which was reasonable. But when King Yama came to take office, I was already at a high level, right?"
The Emperor of the Song Dynasty clicked his tongue, "The high-level emperor can still hit the wall many times and needs to escape to Taiqing Chiming to cultivate. I think he is really unlucky. Maybe he has been cursed by the Heavenly Lord of the Plague Department, hahaha!"
King Qin Guang and King Chu Jiang couldn't help but laugh.
When that fellow Taoist was elected as King of Yama, everyone laughed once when they heard about it. King Qin Guang was the most cautious person, and at that time he was still a little suspicious, thinking that there might be something fishy.
But later, King Pingping led everyone to check the past of that fellow Taoist, and there was no problem with the approval from Huobu Tianzun. King Qin Guang also dropped his suspicions and could only think that the fellow Taoist was really unlucky.
While the three kings of hell were talking and laughing, their heartstrings suddenly trembled. The blessing power of the king of hell gave them a shock for the first time, making them look up involuntarily.
I saw the Emperor Demon Pond exploded to pieces, the Tao Fruit from ancient times reappeared, and the divine light shot straight into the heavens.
All the heavens and realms connected to the human world, and the infinite number of realms, all emerge under the reflection of that divine light.
Each universe group seems to be a grain of fine sand emitting shimmering light. But now, there are countless fine sands, as vast as the sea, and the existence of the underworld is also revealed, like a dark island in the endless sea of light. .
When that divine light rises into the sky...
The entire "sea surface" is tilting! ! !
All the heavens and worlds are tilted, the time dimension is torn apart, and all things that are immeasurable are evolving towards the state of great wilderness that the divine light loves.
Until the ninth level of heaven emerged, a sword shadow slowly emerged from the heaven.
This single sword was like lifting up the order of all the heavens and worlds, stopping the collapse of all worlds, and it was even more like making the progress of the divine light rushing towards the heaven become out of reach.
"Gonggong, do you insist on joining in the fun at this time?"
The Emperor's Sword flew high in the sky, unreachable, and the divine light soared into the sky, but it was unstoppable. What's more, at this moment, the surface of the Great Void Sea suddenly trembled.
Another voice sounded from the heaven, causing layers of infinite ripples to shrink towards Taiqing Chiming.
"Haha, when the old friend of the Emperor of Heaven returns, why should he reject him thousands of miles away? !!"
The ripples of the infinite void struck, and divine light rushed into the realm of heaven. In an instant, the thirty-third heaven realm shook violently.
All the heavenly holy places lost control at this moment and fell rapidly.
The main body of the heaven covering the nine heavens also burst apart one after another, and countless heavenly palaces and holy lands were thrown out together.
Another sword shadow emerged from the heaven. With a turn of the swords, the infinite void, the divine light of all realms, and the remaining part of the heaven were all shrouded in a layer of hazy waves and disappeared at the same time.
The tendency of those holy lands to fall from the heavens has also been greatly alleviated, but they are still pressing towards the surface of the Great Void Sea in an irreversible manner.
They have all left the realm of heaven and will soon be at the same level as the human world.
So many holy lands fell onto the surface of the Great Void Boundary Sea at the same time. The violent waves of the bounded seas caused by each other would exterminate many creatures in the inner realms of the holy lands.
Although the human world is protected by heavenly rules and will not be destroyed, I am afraid that all life will be washed away.
At this time, the deities and emperors who had just escaped from the heaven took action one after another to lift up the holy land. The spiritual mountains in the west emitted solemn Buddha light, surrounded by auspicious clouds, and there were many pure lands of great Bodhisattvas.
In the Xuanyuan Holy Land of the human race, a spear was raised, stimulating the energy of the entire human race. The other seven holy lands formed a concentric formation to share the falling places of many holy lands.
The many holy places of the fairy clan each turned into giant birds. The old world of the wilderness hidden in the sea of world suddenly opened up, and the secret realm of the devil behind the Lingshan Mountain quietly emerged...
Countless kinds of divine light intertwined, and the waves of the Holy Land falling were mixed together.
The entire area of the boundary sea suddenly became chaotic to a state that even King Qin Guang and the others found difficult to spy on.
The eighteenth level of the underworld also received a huge impact and began to tremble.
At this moment, four rays of golden light descended from the level of the Boundary Sea and went straight into the underworld. Each of them emitted strange mantra sounds, touching the power of reincarnation in all realms contained in the underworld.
"Who are you, who want to reincarnate rashly?!"
The secret realm of the Emperor Demon Pond collapsed, the Lord of the Great Wilderness reappeared as Dao Guo, the heaven was shaken, the holy land fell, and the series of changes caused the strong men in the underworld to be shocked and stunned for a moment, but those four golden lights wanted to touch the authority of the underworld and immediately attracted them of alertness.
King Qin Guang took the lead, but only one of the four golden lights was able to compete with him.
King Chu Jiang, King Song, and even King Wuguan from the fourth level of the underworld also arrived, and they completely blocked the intrusion of the four golden lights.
"If you want to defeat these four people, I'm afraid at least seven kings will have to come together."
King Guang of Qin sent a message, "Yam Luo, Bian Cheng, and Taishan Lord, please come to help quickly!"
No matter which force it is, it is impossible to take over the underworld with four people who hide their heads and show their tails.
But the next moment, the expressions of the kings of hell on the first four levels changed, because they all felt that King Qin Guang's message failed to cross the fifth level of the underworld.
And the fifth level of the underworld has moved slightly.
The Lord of the Sixth Level of the Underworld, King Bian Cheng, has already led his army of ghosts and gods, and the Sixth Level of the Underworld Ghost Clan, to activate large magic weapons, operate formations, and be ready.
I saw more than 100,000 behemoths squeezing against the sky barrier of the sixth underworld, continuously crushing downwards.
"Yam Luo, it turns out you are a traitor..."
King Bian Cheng looked deeply at the Lord of Thousands of Hells, "If you dare to take action, there should be your accomplices in the underworld, right?"
"certainly."
King Yama had a green face, fangs, and dark red hair. He smiled boldly and said, "If this were not the case, why hasn't Lord Taishan caught up yet?"
The boundary of the seventh layer of the underworld.
King Taishan tore his royal robe with one hand, and his whole body was boiling with mana. The mountains moved like armor and scales, covering his right arm. He raised the mahogany ax in his hand and led the army towards the city that had just attacked him. king.
The tenth level of the underworld.
The Wheel-turning King raised his head and saw the great changes in the heavens. Suddenly he felt that the lotus flowers in Ksitigarbha's pure land were extinguished, and he couldn't help but turn his head to look.
I saw everything in the Pure Land of Ksitigarbha, like ashes flowing, the scenery changing, and the objects reshaped.
The ground is flat and made of precious glass, full of light and fragrant fragrance.
The city outline is made of imperial green treasures, and eight wide avenues are built of gold and silver. The eaves, windows, and railings of the buildings, palaces, and small buildings are all decorated with various gems. Tianxiang treasure trees are everywhere, arranged in rows, and hanging from their branches. Tianzhu ribbon.
There are hanging precious bells everywhere, blowing in the breeze, playing beautiful music, praising the impermanence, suffering, emptiness and selflessness of Buddhism.
Countless Vajras, gods, monks, white elephants, buffaloes, and pythons chanted sutras and prayed together, causing wonderful and strange fragrant flowers to fall one after another, making the bottoms of rivers, seas, and lakes covered with golden sand and filled with pure water.
This is still a wonderful scene that can only be displayed after practicing the wonderful Buddhist teachings to the Buddha's realm.
However, this is definitely not the path held by Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, who was named the leader of the Netherworld.
"you……"
The King of Chakravartin blurted out one word, but before he could finish speaking, his figure suddenly changed and four arms appeared.
The two arms facing the back held an ancient disc together, blocking the silent slap that broke through the barrier of the great world.
The shape of the palm was strange, with the middle finger as the dividing line, and the left and right sides were completely symmetrical. It seemed that there was a middle finger, two index fingers and two thumbs on this palm.
The boundary sea was greatly impacted, and the eighteenth level of the underworld was also trembling, with a general trend from top to bottom.
This palm came from the ninth level of the underworld, gathering boundless power, but it was hidden in the void and unknown to anyone.
It seems that this supreme divine power and a young willow leaf blown away by the breeze are equal entities.
Although King Chakravartin responded in time, the palm of his hand shattered the Dharma plate, shattered the two arms facing his back, damaged the Dharma image, and golden blood oozed from the corners of the mouths of the four faces.
"King of Equality!"
The Chakravartin Dynasty quickly retreated from the side, paying attention to the movements of King Ping Ping and King Ksitigarbha, feeling frightened and angry in their hearts.
"When did you betray the underworld?"
The fake Ksitigarbha held the beads and smiled, and then the Buddha's voice vibrated and resounded throughout the underworld.
"It's now!"
King Chakravartin immediately felt that the majestic magic power in the pure land was moving, crossing the void, penetrating downwards, and resonating with the things in the eighteenth layer of the underworld.
In the eighteenth level of the underworld, two Mani beads collided in mid-air and turned into a golden cloud of light. The center was dark and seemed to have traces of light, like a golden ring across the stars.
The next moment, the formation formed by thirty-nine emperors, with the help of this Buddha's light, broke through the eighteenth level of the underworld, continued upward, crossed many boundaries, and rushed towards the tenth level of the underworld.
"King of Chakravartin!"
The fake King Ksitigarbha stood up, overflowing with domineering power and force, "Today is the time when the underworld changes its owner, will you surrender or not?!"
