Book 7: Chapter 15: Opening Up The Underworld
Bai Qiuran finally left the cave.
He didn’t know how long it has been since he started closed-door cultivation. The last time he went out to walk with Jiang Lan, Jiang Lan told him that he had been in the cave for more than a year, and the second time he went in, he himself didn’t know how long it took.
Anyway, when he entered, Bai Li was only in the middle of the Deity Transformation stage. When he came out, the latter had reached the peak of the Deity Transformation stage, and there was a faint sign of a breakthrough.
Fortunately, Jiang Lan still looked like before, which meant he hadn’t been in closed-door cultivation for ten or eight years at least.
Bai Qiuran first went to find Bai Li, who was practicing physical skills with the monkey and told him the answer to the question he asked before, and then he said to Bai Li and the monkey:
“Let go of the question about practice, and you two will come with me first.”
He left the valley with Bai Li and the monkey and ran into Jiang Lan who was watering vegetables at the entrance. In the past few years, Bai Qiuran told her some methods for cultivating and planting spiritual plants from the future. A few fields were opened at the entrance of the valley, and the vegetables were grown by planting spiritual plants.
However, Jiang Lan was ingenious, and her grandfather was once the god who created the grains, thus the vegetables she grew were very delicious.
Seeing Bai Qiuran walking out with two apprentices, she hurriedly asked:
“Qiu Ran, where are you going with them? It’s dinner time.”
“Do big things.”
Bai Qiuran stopped and apologized to Jiang Lan:
“Sorry, Little Lan, you can eat by yourself for a few days.”
“Oh.”
Jiang Lan put down the kettle, thought about it, and asked:
“Can you take me to see it?”
Bai Qiuran thought after hearing the words. He was going to open up the Underworld and initially establish the Six Paths of Reincarnation. There was no danger. Although Jiang Lan’s current strength is only in the Qi Refining stage, she has been a goddess for a long time. Her knowledge was still there.
In any case, his wife’s wisdom was not below him.
So Bai Qiuran nodded and agreed. Jiang Lan happily put down the kettle, and then asked the maids to help take care of her vegetables, and then came to Bai Qiuran’s side and took his hand naturally.
Bai Qiuran didn’t say anything, but Bai Li and the monkey, who was walking next to each other, exchanged a meaningful glare, and then Bai Li took his monkey and quietly fell behind.
After leaving the valley, Bai Qiuran asked Bai Li to use the Earth Escape, bringing everyone into the underground.
He let Bai Li go all the way down, through the thick rock layer. When they came near the lava layer, Bai Qiuran let Bai Li stop.
Bai Li opened the soil layer with his force, and a small space was created here, and a group of people stood in this space.
Bai Qiuran protected Jiang Lan with his True Qi, then stretched out his hand and slowly pulled out Tranquil Autumn Water behind him, slashing into the void.
This sword was so fast. The others only saw a flash of white light, and a terrible crack was cut out in the space in front of them.
Void’s violent energy continuously gushes out from the fissure. Bai Qiuran retracted the sword, raised his hands, and then kept playing various mysterious magic arts. The True Qi in his body flew out crazily but replenished quickly. His magic arts pressed the storm back into the void, and then continuously expanded and opened up on the opposite side of the rift, slowly opening up a huge space on the opposite side that was no less than this world.
These actions immediately aroused the attention of Heaven. A huge Heaven’s Will came and then poured into the opposite space through the crack, began to guide the aura on its own, transforming the opposite world.
Bai Qiuran also expanded his Soul Awareness at the same time, entered the world on the opposite side of the rift, and communicated with the will of Heaven.
After a while, he successfully persuaded Heaven, the two reached an agreement, and Heaven began to transform the opposite world in accordance with Bai Qiuran’s requirements.
Amid the rumbling sound of changes, a magnificent scene appeared on the opposite side of the fissure, changing the world. Bai Qiuran brought the other three people to the fissure to watch how Heaven transformed an empty space.
Taking advantage of this moment, Bai Qiuran also secretly remembered Heaven’s transformation techniques in his heart, and when he recovered, he found that the other three beside him were also thoughtful.
Bai Qiuran nodded in satisfaction.
After a long time, the heaven and the earth on the opposite side of the rift gradually stabilized, and the will of the heavens spread through it, completely completing the transformation, so Bai Qiuran also took Jiang Lan and the others and walked in.
They followed Bai Qiuran to a river beach. The river was filled with scarlet blood, flowing quietly. Looking up, the surface of the river was surrounded by weird smoke, and I couldn’t see how wide it was.
Bai Qiuran found a tree on the bank, refined it into a bridge, crossed the river, and led everyone to the opposite bank.
He opened up a world.
Along the way, even Bai Li’s monkey understood this fact. Bai Li couldn’t help admiring Bai Qiuran even more, while Jiang Lan was full of pride in his heart.
This method, even the Eastern Emperor Taiyi couldn’t do it.
But now, Bai Li hasn’t seen any signs of life. He can’t help asking:
“Master, what exactly did you open up this world for?”
Bai Qiuran turned his head and glanced at him, then replied:
“This is a world opened up for the deceased.”
“A world for the deceased?”
Bai Li thought for a while, opened his eyes, and asked:
“Could it be?”
“Yes, when the Eastern Emperor Taiyi did his purge, I also collect all the souls left behind.”
The painting appeared in Bai Qiuran’s hand, he unfolded the scroll, and then released all the human souls that were sleeping inside.
On the ground in front of them, a large white shadow suddenly appeared, and a grey air came over, which looked particularly gloomy.
“Sneezes.”
The negative energy was too strong, making Jiang Lan next to him sneezed a little. Bai Qiuran quickly transported True Qi into her body, and at the same time let her stay away.
Bai Li found a familiar face in a white shadow.
“That’s my people! Ah, that’s my wife!”
He passed through the ghosts and ran towards that side, and a group of ghosts over there also discovered his existence, and the spirit of Bai Li’s wife met him.
“Little Lian!”
“Li!”
They hugged each other excitedly, and then Bai Li’s wife passed through his body.
“Ugh?”
“Stupid boy.”
Seeing this scene, Bai Qiuran couldn’t help saying:
“Forgot how I taught you? Humans and ghosts have different ways to talk about it. She hasn’t cultivated before, and that is the spiritual body. How do you use the physical body to hug her?”
“Then Master… what should I do?”
Bai Li said anxiously.
“I’ll give you a formula, you can deduce yourself, how ghosts should cultivate.”
Bai Qiuran said and read a section of the cultivation method to him.
The cultivation method of ghosts and immortals was definitely different from that of humans, but Bai Qiuran once heard Xue Ling talk about how they cultivated as ghosts, and this section was what Xue Ling told him. It was the basic method that could be learned by every ghost when they started.
After listening, Bai Li thought of it in place, while his wife knelt and sat beside him with him.
Jiang Lan came to Bai Qiuran, looked at the human ghosts flying in the sky, and asked:
“How do you think about opening up a world for the dead?”
“Learn from experience.”
Bai Qiuran looked up at the ghosts in the sky.
“But I have also thought that after becoming a ghost, whether it is to become food for gods and beasts, or to slowly wear away between the heavens and the earth, it is too painful for the human race, even if the heavens and the earth naturally have its set of big cycles. I still hope to create such a world where the souls of the human race and even other races can enter the reincarnation happily.”