Above the Great Dao
Chapter 472 - 225 Evil Spirit Uncle Azhuo

Chapter 472: Chapter 225 Evil Spirit Uncle Azhuo

"Can one enter the underworld by following the Youquan spring?"

Chen Shi stared at the spring, which resembled a wandering dragon in the moonlight, and a thought stirred in his heart. Although he had performed Sacrificial Refinement on this sword, he had only used the Youquan Wandering Dragon Sword to execute some simple sword moves. He was still completely unaware of the special properties of this treasured blade.

He was about to follow the Youquan into the underworld when suddenly, mist surged forth, and the moonlight reflected on the sword vanished, along with the Youquan that led to the underworld, disappearing without a trace.

Chen Shi’s heart stirred, "This sword relies on the moonlight to reveal the Youquan; its limitations are great, requiring the night to utilize this function. It may be useless to others, but in my little temple, there is also moonlight!"

The sky above the small temple in his mind showed the sky over the Huaxia Divine Continent, complete with not just sunlight but also moonlight that shone down during the Continent’s night.

Chen Shi’s daily cultivation relied on this temple to absorb the Righteous Qi of the sun, moon, and stars to enhance his cultivation strength.

Even more crucially, even if it wasn’t night in the Divine Continent without the moon’s appearance, he could still operate his Cultivation Technique and absorb the moonlight!

This meant that the Youquan Wandering Dragon Sword could unleash the Youquan at any time; he could enter the underworld whenever he wished!

No sooner had he thought this than he immediately began to refine the sword. Moonlight from within the temple shone down, illuminating the Youquan Wandering Dragon Sword, and the previously vanished Youquan reappeared, winding and twisting, opening a path to the underworld.

Chen Shi immediately waded through the glistening spring water, following it towards the underworld.

The spring water reflected the moonlight, with the moon beneath his feet shattering, reassembling, then shattering and reassembling again.

Around him, the misty white fog covering the lake surface and the sounds of waves and the Dragon Roar all ceased to exist.

Chen Shi arrived in the underworld, stepping onto the surface of the sea as still as a Bright Mirror.

As he looked down, he saw his reflection in the water: a skeleton wearing clothes.

A crow flew across the sky, cawing, "Nannan, Nannan! You in the south never crossing over, your journey endless! Nannan, Nannan! Souls sinking therein, your bones piling high like mountains!"

The crow had feathers, but no flesh, only bones, and its head was a human skull, yet it had a bird’s beak.

Chen Shi, hearing what the crow said, looked down to see, in addition to his own skeletal remains, numerous faces beneath the water looking up at him with round, staring eyes.

These were the ghostly apparitions of the Sea of Lost Souls.

According to the crow’s words, these ghostly apparitions wandered atop the Sea of Lost Souls, never reaching an end, and thus eventually stopped and sank beneath the water.

"So below the water there are..."

Chen Shi’s gaze moved past these faces, and he could vaguely see that beneath Nannan, there stood White Bone Mountain, built from accumulated skeletons!

He felt his heart thumping wildly.

Just then, he noticed his legs were sinking below the surface of the water, and he quickly moved forward.

With each step on the water, as soon as he stopped, his body would begin to slowly sink.

Nannan should be the magnificent sight formed by the great southern lake in the underworld.

In the mortal world, the great southern lake spanned hundreds of miles, like an ocean within the land, but in the underworld, it became boundlessly vast, with no visible end.

The crow circled overhead, as if waiting for Chen Shi to exhaust himself and fall into the Sea of Nannan.

"This damn crow is waiting for me to die."

Chen Shi chuckled to himself, "But how would it know that I can return to the mortal world at any time... Wait a second!"

He shuddered slightly, realizing that the Youquan Wandering Dragon Sword could open the underworld and let his physical body enter, but could the Youquan Wandering Dragon Sword open the mortal world?

He hurriedly urged the small temple to shine sunlight on the Wandering Dragon Sword, but the sword merely reflected the sunlight with no anomaly.

Chen Shi then tried to use the moonlight from the temple to illuminate the sword, but in the underworld, illuminated by the moonlight, the Wandering Dragon Sword showed no response.

"It’s terrible, terrible! This sword was clearly able to transform into a giant dragon-like creature, traversing back and forth between the Yin Yang Two Realms, battling against those masters. How come it’s not working now?"

Chen Shi tried repeatedly, but the Youquan Wandering Dragon Sword showed no response.

In his urgency to test, he forgot to keep moving forward, and his legs had already sunk into the sea, submerged up to his waist.

Chen Shi hastily lifted his legs and walked on, immediately standing on the surface of the sea again.

He set a direction and sped forward with a flying sprint.

The Sea of Nannan was vast, immense and tranquil, its surface so still that it was terrifying.

After walking for a long while, Chen Shi suddenly spotted a figure ahead and, joy rising in his heart, he quickly chased after it.

"Brother, wait for me! Brother..."

As he caught up, he saw that the figure walking on the sea was not a man, but a wandering spirit.

He looked like an old man, as decaying as rotten wood, his eyes devoid of life as he walked forward with a wooden expression, presumably having walked on this sea for an untold length of time.

"Old man..."

Just as Chen Shi uttered these words, it was as if the old spirit suddenly lost all hope of moving on, sighed, and slowly sank into the Sea of Nannan.

Chen Shi steadied himself and continued to move forward.

He encountered many more walkers, stumbling across the sea surface, and ceaselessly, people sank into the water, becoming one of the faces looking up from beneath the surface.

Their skeletons would sink to the seabed, becoming part of the White Bone Mountain beneath the sea.

Seeing this scene, Chen Shi felt a wave of desolation.

Then, an idea sprang to mind, dominating his thoughts.

"Stone Rock Lady, can you absorb the White Bone Mountains beneath the sea?" Chen Shi called upon the Stone Rock Lady from the niche atop the temple, asking her.

The Stone Rock Lady, since growing small limbs, needed a vast amount of Demon Qi or white bones to cultivate and recover her body. Chen Shi had been staying at home these days, and with Nannan clinging to him, she had not dared to show her face, so she had no choice but to sleep and nurse her health.