A roll of Sutra of Salvation can reveal affairs of the past life.
Through the revolving lantern of the three brothers, Xu Qing saw many unknown secrets.
When the Celestial Lord General was seriously ill but not yet dead in Guangzong, the Human Lord General devised a plan, persuading his elder brother to use the secret Nine Netherworld technique, borrowing the power of the corpse to reshape his form.
"Elder brother has exhausted his heart and blood for the world, the great cause is not yet completed, how can one easily give up? Although the technique of corpse transformation discards the human form, the aspiration remains unchanged. As long as elder brother is willing, he can still raise the Yellow Heaven once more!"
At that time, the Celestial Lord General questioned, "Tell me honestly, what exactly is this corpse? Have you been deceived by demons?"
The Human Lord General hesitated but ultimately, unable to withstand his brother's authority, revealed to him the plan of the three corpses to rule the Netherworld and reorganize the order of the three realms.
"Elder brother, your entire life has been dedicated to this great cause. If you die, who can replace you? Whether it's this great cause or the suffering people under heaven, all need elder brother to rescue."
"Absurd! The foundation of our Taiping Dao's establishment is to clear the universe and liberate the people. If we borrow the power of evil spirits, transforming into demons, don't we fall into the Demon Dao and mingle with monsters? Such evil techniques corrupt my resolve and erode my ambition. Even if I survive, it's as a Walking Corpse!"
The Human Lord General still did not give up: "What if you become a corpse demon? As long as we remain committed to the people and aim for the world, there will be a revival day. But if you give up, all prior efforts will be wasted indeed."
"Elder brother, have you forgotten Nanhua Elder Immortal's prophecy? You are the person designated by Yellow Heaven, even as a corpse demon, there might be a day for resurrection."
The Celestial Lord General, bedridden with illness, yet upon hearing his brother's words, forced himself to sit up, pointing at the sky:
"Under the Yellow Heaven, all beings receive heavenly virtue. What's the significance of my life or death?"
"When I die, successors will bear the aspirations of Yellow Heaven! But if I trade this body to consort with demons for a tainted shell, then what I sought all life, turns into illusion!"
"This is not seeking life, but a method of self-debasement and self-destruction!"
The Human Lord General saw that persuasion was futile, thus ceased attempts but secretly conspired with the Earth Lord General in Guangzong.
"How unfair is Yellow Heaven? We've followed elder brother all this way to assist his great endeavor. If elder brother dies midway, how can we bear it?"
"I have a way to let elder brother carry on the great endeavor, even after we die, we can follow elder brother, and rise again..."
The Earth Lord General arranged an altar in Guangzong as instructed.
Soon, the Celestial Lord General passed away, the whole city mourned with white banners, and cries shook the land.
Taking advantage of the generals' grief, the Human and Earth Lord Generals burned ghost grass, broke old cauldrons, forcefully altered yin and yang, summoned spirits, and turned their elder brother into a reanimated corpse, then sent him into the Ancient Yin River Dao, nurtured over years by accumulated yin qi to become an undead corpse demon.
After the Celestial Lord General's death, the Taiping Army lost heart, and the great momentum was gone.
Subsequently, the Human and Earth Lord Generals followed suit, instructing Taiping Dao confidants to arrange altars, similarly entering the Ancient Yin River Dao, but lost all original consciousness, becoming corpse demons controlled by the magical corpse.
At that time, the magical corpse had not yet fully ruled the Netherworld, lacking interest in invading the mortal realm, hence the Celestial Lord General's three brothers became unable to transcend the demons endlessly causing strife in the Yin River...
This also explains why the Celestial and Human Lord Generals thanked and repented to Xu Qing after his salvation.
Xu Qing didn't have time to tally gains, he turned to the chaotic ruins and cemetery forest and immediately switched to Flying Corpse mode, activating the Yin Country domain, followed by summoning the Mountain and River Sacrificial Cauldron.
The cauldron suppressed the rivers and mountains, under the intimidation of the threefold Yin realm's heavenly emperor aura, a hundred thousand corpse soldiers and generals bowed their heads.
Meanwhile, in central state.
The itch-scratching Red-tailed Monkey suddenly heard the sound of a mighty cauldron landing in the river.
It had just raised its head, yet before catching a breath, a white stream of light swiftly approached from afar.
White Gentleman hadn't stabilized his form but urgently shouted: "Fifty miles west, the flood has risen, Hou Immortal Family must immediately suppress!"
The Red-tailed Monkey's heart tightened, it immediately shifted fifty miles afar, overseeing the space, where the thousand-mile waters boiled like hot water, with a fifty-mile long rift penetrating yin and yang in the river's center!
When the hundred-zhang high turbid wave rose, the Red-tailed Monkey's spirit surged, its Prison Dragon Staff expanded with the wind, reaching a hundred zhang in length, but then its expression drastically changed.
It initially thought the hundred-zhang water height was the turbid river's limit, yet didn't foresee the arrival of a Netherworld Ghost River, compounded of spiritual power, yin fiends, and blood lake incense!
The yin power demonic fiend continuously purified by the blood lake incense, but instead of spiritual energy tides, monstrous waves ensued!
The Red-tailed Monkey's heart thumped incessantly, hurriedly launching the Yellow Banner, activating the Nine Twists Yellow River Great Array.
Qimen Dunjia Eight Gates autonomously operated, separating the tumultuous mixed yin-yang river into nine tributaries, revolving in cycles within the Eight Gates.
Yet the river's flow rate didn't slow down with the Nine Twists Array's guidance but intensified over time.
The Red-tailed Monkey gritted its teeth, adhering to the Sect Leader's words, utilizing the divine technique of shifting mountains and filling seas, nearby shifting mountains, pushing rivers to divert flow.
However, with its cultivation, where was there enough magical power to squander?
The White Gentleman, similarly dividing the river, reminded: "Hou Immortal Family! Don't be stingy, quickly use the Sect Leader's elixir!"
"...
The Red-tailed Monkey gritted its teeth. Xu Qing granted it many elixirs, it thought it could pocket them, bringing them back to Monkey Mountain for its offspring to taste, yet now it understood, the Sect Leader truly hadn't planned on giving it preferential treatment.