Chapter 225
Chapter 225
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Translator: Ace
Chapter: 225
Chapter Title: Evil Uncle Azhuo
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Can I enter the underworld along this dark spring?
Chen Shi gazed at the dark spring of moonlight that resembled a coiling dragon, his heart stirring slightly. Although he had refined this sword, he had only used the Dark Spring Dragon Sword to execute some simple sword techniques so far. He knew nothing of its special properties.
Just as he was about to follow the dark spring into the underworld, mist surged in. The moonlight reflected on the sword vanished, and the path to the underworld through the dark spring disappeared without a trace.
Chen Shi's heart stirred. "This sword relies on moonlight to reflect the dark spring. It's quite limited—it can only be used at night for this function.
For others, it might be useless, but my little temple also has moonlight!
The sky behind his little temple displayed the sky over his ancestral land, Huaxia Divine Continent. It not only had sunlight but also moonlight shining in when night fell in the ancestral land.
Chen Shi cultivated daily by relying on this temple to absorb the righteous qi of the sun, moon, and stars, enhancing his cultivation and strength.
Even more crucially, even if it wasn't night in the ancestral land or the moon hadn't risen yet, he could still circulate his technique to draw in the moonlight!
In other words, the Dark Spring Dragon Sword could produce the dark spring at any moment, allowing him to enter the underworld anytime!
He acted on the thought immediately, refining the sword. Moonlight streamed into the little temple, shining on the Dark Spring Dragon Sword. The vanished dark spring reappeared, twisting and turning, opening a path to the underworld.
Chen Shi stepped right into the rippling spring water and followed it toward the underworld.
The spring water reflected the moonlight. The moon shattered beneath his feet, reformed, shattered again, and reformed once more.
The surrounding white misty lake surface, the sound of waves, and the dragon's roar all vanished.
Chen Shi arrived in the underworld, his feet landing on a sea surface as smooth as a bright mirror, without so much as a ripple.
He looked down. In the water was his reflection—a skeleton clad in clothes.
Crows flapped their wings across the sky, cawing, "Nanming, Nanming! No crossing to the south today; your steps have no end! Nanming, Nanming! Grudge-filled souls sink there, your bones pile like mountains!"
The crow had feathers, but no flesh or blood on its body—only bones remained. Its head was a human skull with a bird's beak.
Hearing the crow's words, Chen Shi looked down. Besides his own skeletal form, countless faces stared up from beneath the surface, their dark eyes fixed on him.
These were the ghosts in the Sea of Nanming.
As the human-headed crow had said, the ghosts here walked across the Sea of Nanming forever without reaching its end, so they stopped walking and sank into the water.
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So there are even more down below...
Chen Shi's gaze passed over these ghostly faces, vaguely spotting white bone mountains piled from corpses far to the south!
His heart pounded wildly.
At that moment, he noticed his legs sinking below the surface. He hurried forward.
He walked across the water's surface. If he stopped, his body would slowly sink into the water.
Nanming must be the grand spectacle formed by Great South Lake in the underworld.
In the yang world, Great South Lake spanned hundreds of li like an ocean amid the land, but in the underworld, it had become vast and boundless, with no end in sight.
The crow circled above Chen Shi's head, seemingly waiting for him to exhaust his strength and fall into the Sea of Nanming.
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This rotten crow is waiting for me to die.
Chen Shi chuckled inwardly. "But how could it know I can return to the yang world anytime? Wait!"
His body trembled slightly. The Dark Spring Dragon Sword could open the underworld, allowing his physical body to enter.
The underworld.
But could the Dark Spring Dragon Sword open the yang world?
He hurriedly activated the little temple, shining its sunlight on the Dragon Sword. The sword merely reflected the daylight, showing no abnormality.
Chen Shi then tried the temple's moonlight on the sword. In the underworld, the moonlight had no effect on the Dragon Sword.
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This is bad, this is bad! This sword could clearly transform into a massive dragon form, shuttling between the yin and yang realms to battle those experts. Why won't it work now?
Chen Shi tried repeatedly, but the Dark Spring Dragon Sword showed no response whatsoever.
In his experimentation, he forgot to keep moving forward. His legs had already sunk into the sea, now submerged up to his waist.
Chen Shi hurriedly lifted his legs and walked forward, standing once more on the sea surface.
He picked a direction and sped forward in flight.
The Sea of Nanming was incomparably vast, endlessly浩瀚, its surface calm and eerily still.
After walking for a long time, Chen Shi suddenly spotted a figure ahead. His heart leaped with joy, and he hurriedly chased after it.
Brother, wait for me! Brother...
When he caught up, he saw that the figure walking on the sea was not a person, but a departed soul.
It was an old man like rotten wood, eyes lifeless as he shuffled forward woodenly. He must have walked this sea for who knows how long.
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Old man...
No sooner had Chen Shi spoken than the old soul seemed to lose all hope of continuing onward. He sighed and slowly sank into the Sea of Nanming.
Chen Shi steadied himself and continued forward.
He encountered more wanderers, stumbling across the sea surface. Some sank into the sea one after another, becoming one of the faces gazing upward from below.
Their bones sank to the seabed, becoming part of the bone mountains there.
Seeing this scene, Chen Shi felt a profound sorrow.
Suddenly, an idea emerged, occupying his mind.
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Shiji, can you absorb the bone mountains at the seabed? Chen Shi awakened Lady Shiji from the divine shrine in the little temple and asked.
Lady Shiji had sprouted tiny limbs and needed vast amounts of demonic qi or bones to cultivate and restore her body. Lately, Chen Shi had stayed home, with Little Ten sticking close by, so she hadn't dared show herself and had only slept to recuperate.
Awakened by Chen Shi, she didn't yet know where they were. When she saw their surroundings, she exclaimed in shock, "Envoy, are you dead? Who did the deed and killed you?"
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You're the dead one!
Chen Shi snapped irritably. "Quick, see if you can absorb these bone mountains in the sea."
Lady Shiji stepped out of the little temple to the doorway and looked down south, her heart stirring. She leaped from the temple, standing on the water surface.
Her head was over a zhang in circumference, making her body look as thin as an ant's legs—odd proportions, yet she stood steady, gazing intently at the scene below.
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Lady, don't snap your neck.
Chen Shi reminded her nervously.
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Don't worry, Envoy. Though my new body is small, it's a demonic god's body. Few in the world can harm me.
Lady Shiji laughed. "How could I break my neck just by looking down? Do you know the origin of these bone mountains under the water?"
Chen Shi replied, "
They're probably just illusions.
Look, there's even my reflection below. My reflection is just bones."
Lady Shiji giggled. "Envoy, you're still a bit inexperienced.
This is Nanming, the Sea of the Underworld. It can't reflect living flesh—only the state after death.
After you die, aren't you just bones?
She had that personality—arrogant when gaining the upper hand, terrified at setbacks. Now somewhat smug, her tone grew more brazen. "For example, Envoy, after you die and are buried in the soil, in a few years your flesh rots away, leaving only bones.
In the yang world, your corpse soaks in underground water, but in the underworld, your bones fall to the floor of the冥海, piling into mountains with nearby dry bones.
Nanming is the underworld's Great South Lake!
Her massive head's tiny arm lifted, pointing at those still walking on the sea. "See these souls? They're people already dead and buried, their bodies rotting but not fully decayed.
Their walking on the sea, endlessly without reaching the end—that's the process of their corpses rotting.
Once fully rotted, leaving only bones, the souls despair and sink.
Her eyes gleamed with excitement as she laughed. "When I first came to West Cattle New Continent, this place hadn't formed a sea yet! I never imagined that after these years, it would have bone mountains at the seabed!"
Chen Shi asked, "Lady, can you absorb these bones to restore your true form?"
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Of course!
Lady Shiji grew incoherent with excitement, even more arrogant, laughing. "This lady can finally restore her true form! Nezha, Old Man Taiyi, this lady didn't come to New Continent in vain! Once restored, I'll punch Old Man Taiyi and kick little Nezha! Heh heh, who in all West Cattle New Continent would dare breathe?
Chen Shi urged, "Lady, don't get ahead of yourself. Absorb these bone mountains first, lest some underworld bailiffs or strong yin attendants come to drive us away!"
Lady Shiji laughed. "Little Ten, this lady is about to be invincible! With my true form nearly complete, what do I fear from yin attendants? I only wish they'd come—otherwise, even they would kneel and call me grandma! Little Ten, from now on, this lady's got your back—you can strut through the underworld!"
Chen Shi mumbled agreement and urged her again.
Only then did Lady Shiji restrain her boasting. She circulated her demonic art, drawing the stone essence from the seabed bone mountains.
As a demonic god, her absorption speed was astonishing. Soon, swathes of the white bone mountains collapsed into powder.
With the bone mountains crumbling, the mirror-calm sea surged with waves. The waves grew larger, tsunamis rising, massive billows surging ever higher, ever more terrifying.
The souls on the Nanming sea ignored it, continuing their walk. No matter how high the waves or horrific the tsunamis, they always stayed atop the crests, never swept under.
This defied reason, but this was the underworld—reason held no sway.
The seabed bone mountains, mere mortal remains, had accumulated terrifying stone essence. Lady Shiji's ant-like body gradually grew, becoming reed-thin but dozens of times taller.
In a short time, her body below the neck reached about a chi in height and kept growing.
Seeing the waves rise higher and the surroundings grow more terrifying, Chen Shi grew alarmed inwardly and said hastily, "Lady, this commotion will surely alert nearby yin attendants. Let's move elsewhere!"
Lady Shiji giggled. "Yin attendants? What do I have to fear now? Even if Ox-Head, Horse-Face, Black and White Impermanence come, let those four brothers charge together—I'll not fear them a bit!"
Cawing echoed from the sky as the human-headed crow that had stalked Chen Shi panicked, flapping wildly, repeatedly attempting to strike at Shiji but holding back, sensing her extreme danger.
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Little thing, I'll absorb you too!
Lady Shiji's eyes flashed凶猛. With one glance, the human-headed crow's bones disintegrated, leaving only feathers drifting down.
Utterly smug, Lady Shiji laughed. "Little Ten, how's this lady's prowess?"
Before Chen Shi could respond, a buzzing of wings sounded. Looking toward the noise, he saw things flying over the Nanming sea—dense black swarms of bee-headed human-bodied and human-headed bee-bodied Evils!
These bee insects wore yellow-and-black garb, flying aggressively from the air.
"Uncle Azhuo's bee swarm?
Chen Shi froze. "He's in the underworld too? Isn't he an Evil in Great South Lake?
Why is he here in the underworld?"
No sooner had the thought crossed his mind than the swarm surged forward. A human-headed bee called from afar, "
What demon dares trespass in Nanming, stir winds and waves, and harm my master's scouting crow?"
In moments, Lady Shiji's body below the neck had grown to three or four chi, topped by her zhang-wide head. She laughed. "Little Ten, no panic. My strength now is worlds apart—mere Evils will fall with a flick!"
She rose into the air, tiny legs riding demonic winds as she flew, shouting, "What demons are you? Do you recognize Lady Shiji, Moon-Wandering Star Lord?"
Before her words finished, countless bees turned tail forward, sharp stingers like spears gleaming at their ends.
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Whoosh! Whoosh!
Countless stingers shot toward Shiji with chilling light.
The light flickered, unlike mortal dao arts.
"Lady, careful!" Chen Shi shouted.
Lady Shiji laughed. "
Little Ten, watch closely! With one sweep of my sleeve, I'll turn them all to stone!
She swung her sleeve. Innumerable bees ahead turned to stone, plummeting from the sky into the Sea of Nanming. But the spear-like stingers shooting toward her did not petrify.
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Eh? Underworld spells! Not bad!
Lady Shiji didn't dodge, laughing. "My true form is invincible worldwide—no spell can harm a hair—"
Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle!
Thousands of stingers pierced her face in an instant.
Chen Shi watched in shock as Lady Shiji's face rapidly blackened—poisoned, no doubt.
"Mama!"
Another volley of spear-like poison stingers flew. Her dainty body below the head bristled with them.
Lady Shiji panicked visibly, turning to flee. Endless whooshes followed as poison stingers riddled her occiput, back, and legs.
Stuck like a giant porcupine, poisoned severely, limbs and magic out of control, Lady Shiji plummeted from the sky.
Chen Shi rushed to rescue her, but the aerial Evil bees turned their rears toward him.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Poison stingers like a dark cloud shot at him!
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We're on the same side! Azhuo is my uncle!
Chen Shi yelled frantically, dodging while activating the Dark Spring Dragon Sword to block. But the stingers seemed insubstantial—the sword couldn't touch them.
"Sizzle! Sizzle!
Several stingers hit Chen Shi's face. He shielded it hastily, then his belly stung as a cluster pierced his body!
Foam at the mouth, mind fogging, Chen Shi struggled, "Azhuo is my uncle..."
The bee swarm buzzed closer, unclear if they heard.
Moments later, Chen Shi woke groggily. He was flying in the sky, hands and feet bound, hanging upside down.
His body numb, he strained to turn his head, barely seeing the bee swarm gripping him as they flew over the sea.
The stingers on him had been removed, but paralysis lingered—even his nascent soul was numb.
Beside him hung Lady Shiji, upside down too. Her tiny body and huge head looked comical.
Stingers still bristled on Lady Shiji; she remained unconscious.
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These poison bees treated me this well—surely because I called out 'Uncle Azhuo.'
Chen Shi relaxed slightly.
End of chapter.