529. Chapter 515: Ghost Gods in the Cauldron
Less than a hundred miles from this location, a large contingent of people was hidden in the Void Space, quietly watching these great demons fight each other like mad dogs, waiting for an opportunity to strike.
Among this group, the two leaders were one tall and one short. The tall one was thin, with a face like an ape, wearing Geta on his feet, his complexion unsettled.
As for the short one, she was a woman wearing a red and white palace dress. Her left half, a fair face, was as exquisite as jade, with crescent eyebrows on an oval face, adorned with a piece of glowing yellow jade on her forehead, making her look very dignified and intellectual.
But when she turned her head to look at the tall, thin man, she revealed the right half of her face, which looked like a rotten corpse. That mushy, rotten face was covered with a disgusting substance that looked like a spiderweb.
Izanagi could even see wriggling maggots on that disgusting face, a sight that made his complexion grow even darker. He glared fiercely at Amaterasu not far away, full of dissatisfaction.
Why, for goodness sake, did she have to invite Izanami out of Yellow Springs Country? Wasn't this making things difficult for him, her old father!
The tall, thin man was none other than Izanagi, the Creator God from Japanese Mythology. The woman with half her body rotten was his former sister and beloved wife, Izanami! Back when Izanami gave birth to Kagu-tsuchi, she was burned and became bedridden, soon dying from the illness.
Izanagi couldn't let go of his wife and personally went to Yellow Springs Country, wanting to see her one last time.
However, Izanami had just died at the time and hadn't yet become familiar with the World after death, so her body quickly began to rot. When Izanagi saw her rotting, maggot-infested body, he was so scared that he fled Yellow Springs Country.
The enraged Izanami sent several Ghost Gods from Yellow Springs Country to pursue him, but Izanagi managed to shake them off with a trick. Finally, at Yomotsu Hirasaka, he blocked the Passage between the Yin and Yang Worlds with a large stone, stopping the calamity.
One could say Izanami was also a ruthless person. To get revenge on Izanagi, she deliberately kept half of her body in its rotten state. At this moment, she intentionally turned that half-rotten face towards Izanagi. From her empty eye sockets, plump white maggots crawled out one by one.
Seeing Izanagi's grim complexion as he struggled to suppress his nausea, Izanami's gaze from the left half of her face was filled with a venomous resentment that even the waters of Yellow Springs could not wash away.
"Mother! I see that those demon monsters have suffered heavy casualties. Is it time for us to make our move?"
A woman eight feet tall, wearing a luxurious long dress with a white fan embedded with dozens of gemstones behind her collar, stepped forward. The fan behind her emitted rays of golden light, making her appear as if a Sun God had descended upon the Mortal Realm.
She first cast an apologetic gaze towards Izanagi, then walked to Izanami's side, bowed slightly, and inquired.
Izanami looked at Amaterasu's beautiful yet dignified face, her gaze filled with unconcealed jealousy: "You are the esteemed Lord of Takamagahara, Amaterasu Ōmikami, Amaterasu Sumerami Ōmikami, Sumerami Ōmikami, Amaterasu Masu Sumerami Ōmikami, Amaterasu Hime no Mikoto, Ōhirume-no-Mikoto, Ōhirume-no-Mikoto, Ōhirume, Amaterasu Ōhirume-no-Mikoto, your status is noble, how could I possibly accept your bow!"
Izanami rattled off a string of Amaterasu's titles in one breath, then glanced at Izanagi with a half-mocking look: "Now isn't everyone in Japan saying you were born from his left eye? You just need to acknowledge this one father!"
Amaterasu maintained her bowing posture, giving Izanami sufficient face, but as she lowered her head, a hint of impatience gradually appeared on her beautiful face.
This old hag, if she hadn't sensed the aura of Yellow Springs on this cauldron, why would she have ordered the Gods to release this madwoman from Yellow Springs Country?
Once that treasure cauldron was in hand and this madwoman was no longer useful, she would definitely order the Gods of Takamagahara to drive her back to Yellow Springs.
Amaterasu politely listened to Izanami's sarcastic remarks for over ten minutes before Izanami finally stopped. She looked deeply at Amaterasu, her voice sometimes hoarse and unpleasant, sometimes crisp and sweet like an oriole's song, as melodious and full as a young maiden's: "You guessed correctly, this cauldron is indeed a product of the Yellow Springs Yin World, and it very likely originates from the Central Land Underworld. Among everyone present, only my origin power is compatible with this cauldron, and only I can obtain it!"
"Mother, please state your requirements," Amaterasu narrowed her eyes.
Izanami looked at this "daughter" and chuckled: "My requirements are very simple. I want the authority to freely enter and exit Yellow Springs Country, and regarding the matters between me and Izanagi, none of you Gods of Takamagahara are to interfere!"
Glancing sideways at Izanami, Amaterasu suddenly sighed: "It is indeed inconvenient for us juniors to interfere in the matters of our elders. You two should resolve your issues yourselves! I will order everyone in Takamagahara not to intervene!"
Izanagi's complexion had turned liver-colored by now, but he knew deeply that even though he was the founder of Takamagahara, his status in the hearts of the Japanese Gods was far inferior to this daughter's.
He could only cast a resentful glance at Amaterasu from the side, then glared at Izanami with wariness and helplessness.
Izanami saw Izanagi's embarrassed look and suddenly burst into laughter. She spread her hands towards Amaterasu, indicating that she had no other conditions.
Amaterasu bowed to Izanami again: "Since this treasure cauldron might come from the Central Land Underworld, please make your move quickly to avoid attracting interference from K'un-Lun and the Underworld!"
Amaterasu had dealt with King of the Underworld Cha Cha before and knew deeply that this woman was not easy to provoke, so she repeatedly urged Izanami to act.
"The Yin World and the Mortal Realm are interconnected. The source of the Yellow Springs Country's river is said to originate from the Central Land Underworld. My strength is essentially not different from the strength over there!" Izanami explained. As she spoke, a ghost face about a zhang in area suddenly shot out from the jade pendant at her waist.
The ghost face soared into the air, then transformed into a Samurai Ghost Shadow three zhang tall, clad in Japanese armor. The Samurai Ghost Shadow drew the katana from its back, turning into a ghostly blue phosphor fire, and rushed towards the Sea Surface in the distance.
"Unfortunately, three thousand years ago, the water volume of Yellow Springs significantly decreased for some reason, otherwise the area of Yellow Springs Country would be twice as large as it is now!" Izanami looked towards the Sea Surface from afar and let out a sigh.
Being relatively close, as Izanami spoke, Amaterasu felt a pungent fishy smell mixed with a strong stench of decay rush towards her face. Even though Amaterasu quickly sealed off her sense of smell, she was still almost overwhelmed by the stench.
It was then that Amaterasu understood Izanagi's feelings. She sincerely cast a sympathetic gaze towards Izanagi.
Izanagi, in turn, snorted coldly at this unfilial daughter and turned to look at the Sea Surface.
At the center of the Demon Monster Battlefield, under the influence of the aura emitted by the underworld cauldron, the group of Japanese great demons who had lost reason were almost completely wiped out, and the dozens of surviving demon monsters were all injured.
At this moment, the four-sided underworld cauldron was held in the hands of Ryomen-sukuna, a great demon from Japan. This fellow had two heads and four arms. He held the underworld cauldron with two hands, while his other two arms held a three-meter-long, bowl-thick refined iron staff, blocking the attacks from all sides.
Nurarihyon, known as the Commander of Hundred Ghosts, had already lifted his disguise as an old human and revealed his muscular giant-like figure. He held a katana in his hand, continuously hacking at Ryomen-sukuna.
In terms of strength, Ryomen-sukuna was naturally no match for Nurarihyon, but Nurarihyon's body was covered in dense black iron feathers, the result of a dying counterattack from Daitengu when he sneak attacked him.
The two fought fiercely with great strength. The collision between the iron staff and the katana sent up large sprays of spark, and the clanging sound of metal and iron, like blacksmithing, could be heard by the warships over a hundred miles away.
Just as the two great demons were fighting each other for the underworld cauldron, a ghostly blue phosphor fire suddenly shot out from behind Ryomen-sukuna. A sharp katana sliced through Ryomen-sukuna's wrist holding the underworld cauldron with a *whoosh* sound.
Amidst Ryomen-sukuna's bellow, the Ghost General caught the underworld cauldron and was about to slip away.
But the reacting Nurarihyon and Ryomen-sukuna stopped fighting simultaneously. A blade and a staff, carrying immense force, simultaneously struck towards the Ghost General.
With a muffled sound, the katana in the Ghost General's hand was shattered by the combined force of the two great demons. However, the Ghost General, having lost his katana, did not panic. The flag behind him fluttered, and dozens of small ghost faces, two feet tall and baring their fangs, shot out from behind him. They leaped up and pounced towards Nurarihyon and Ryomen-sukuna, opening their large mouths full of fangs to bite at the two men's faces and necks.
The Ghost General did not linger. Taking advantage of the two being entangled by dozens of little ghosts, he took the underworld cauldron and turned to return and report.
After walking a few steps, he suddenly stopped. His green, eerie face looked at the black cauldron in his hand, only to see a clear light suddenly emerge from within the cauldron. The Ghost General was instantly enveloped and disintegrated by the clear light, vanishing into nothingness in an instant.
Seeing the masterless black cauldron suspended in mid-air, dozens of great demons rushed towards it.
However, the black cauldron began to rotate. Within the rising clear light, black cloud spread. The dozens of great demons who rushed into the black cloud were instantly dissolved, like snowflakes falling into seawater.
The black cloud spread, instantly reaching Ryomen-sukuna and Nurarihyon. Ryomen-sukuna raised his broken iron staff, and Nurarihyon swung his katana, unleashing dozens of sharp blade lights. But the seemingly light black cloud was as heavy as an entire world pressing down.
*Crackling*~~~ The two great demons, famous throughout Japan, were engulfed by the black cloud in less than a tenth of a breath, unable to withstand it.
Tamamo-no-Mae, watching from afar, was so frightened by this scene that her folding fan fell to the ground. Her fox tails behind her stood high, transforming into a demonic wind, and she was about to flee into the distance. But the black cloud instantly appeared behind her. With a sweep of the black cloud, the figure of this great fox disappeared in a flash.
On the Sea Surface not far away, several Japanese Kongo-class guided missile destroyers were speeding towards this Sea Area.
These Japanese warships were not here for disaster relief on Honshu Island; their target was to salvage the unidentified object that had fallen to the seabed.
However, before these warships, disguised as frigates but actually destroyers, could reach the coordinates, several warships disappeared into the expanding black cloud.
"No! My Yellow Springs Ghost General has lost contact!" Izanami's complexion suddenly changed. Before she could finish speaking,
The immeasurable black cloud surged up from below.
In an instant, the entire sky was covered by the layers upon layers of black cloud.
Many Japanese ghost gods were shocked, and they all unleashed their magic arts, wielding various divine artifacts with distinct Japanese features, trying to break through the sudden black cloud.
For a time, various chanting and spellcasting sounds roared within the black cloud. Various flames, thunder and lightning, water flow, and wind blade lights flickered chaotically within the black cloud, but they were quickly extinguished by the black cloud.
Within this rolling black cloud, these Japanese ghost gods were like fish caught in a tidal wave. With a single sweep of the wave, they were directly pulled in. The black cloud suddenly contracted, and with a *whoosh* sound, it turned into a wisp of black smoke and entered the mouth of the cauldron held by Tang Song.
Inside the God Prison, on the peach tree that suppressed the God Prison, Shen Tu and Yu Lei, who had just finished escorting a group of great demon souls and sending them into the God Prison, stared dumbfounded at the hundreds of Japanese ghost gods who had just been sent in.
"What exactly did Fujun do in Fusang? Did he slaughter the entire Fusang Divine Pantheon?"
Shen Tu and Yu Lei were about to step forward and escort the group of dazed Japanese ghost gods, suppressed by the underworld cauldron, into the Ghost Gate, when among the confused Japanese ghost gods, Izanami's gaze suddenly shifted, regaining clarity.
"This is the Yin World!" Izanami felt the Underworld aura, dozens of times denser than in Yellow Springs Country, and her complexion lit up with joy.
"Hmm, arriving here, beneath this three-thousand-mile Peach Mountain, you still have consciousness."
Shen Tu looked at her in surprise. Two rays of golden light shot out from his eyes, carefully examining Izanami. He quickly understood: "So you are also an Underworld God. No wonder you can regain consciousness here. But now that you've arrived, just be an obedient prisoner in Helheim!"
Shen Tu held a peach branch and struck towards Izanami's face. Izanami felt the divine power wrapped around the peach branch and naturally dared not be hit by it. She quickly raised her hand, and a black light struck towards Shen Tu's face.
*Clang!* Yu Lei's chain flew out from the side, entangling the black light. The black light revealed its main body, which was surprisingly a comb made of white bone.
Seeing her magic treasure bound and the peach branch about to strike her body, Izanami simply twisted her body, shedding her kimono-like clothes, revealing her half-rotten, half-human physical body. This shocking sight made Shen Tu instinctively turn his head away. Who would have thought that in the next second, Izanami's body shook, and the maggots on her body transformed into eight Thors, leading fifteen hundred Yellow Springs Army soldiers, wielding blades and guns, charging forward.
"Audacious!"
Seeing the eight Great Thors leading the Yellow Springs Army soldiers to attack, Shen Tu roared fiercely, his voice like a great bell, causing even the leaves on the peach tree to tremble from his shout. In Shen Tu's roar, the Yellow Springs Army soldiers had their souls scattered one by one, turning into formless Yin Qi.
The eight Great Thors born from Izanami's corpse were also like kites with broken strings after Shen Tu's shout. Their souls and physical bodies seemed to separate, their divine power unable to circulate, and they froze in place.
Yu Lei flicked his chain, which rattled and extended over ten zhang, locking up the eight Great Thors one by one.
Seeing this scene, Izanami retreated repeatedly in fear, not understanding why these two, also Underworld Gods, were so formidable.
Yu Lei was about to flick his chain and capture this woman as well, when he saw the Void Space in front of him suddenly tremble slightly, appearing wrinkled as if scorched by high temperature.
The next instant, along with the earth-shattering vibration, a pitch black torrent, like ink, burst forth from The Void!
*Boom!!* The Void vibrated, and the entire God Prison seemed to be boiling.
*Wailing~~~* Endless sounds of ghost crying and god wailing echoed in the air. These were the ghost gods imprisoned in the God Prison, who had smelled the aura of living people.
For these ghost gods, who had been imprisoned for who knows how long, these living people were blood food, incense offerings to restore their strength!
For a time, the God Prison rioted. If not for the Ghost Gate blocking them, those ghost gods would have likely rushed out by now. Even so, the treetops on the three-thousand-mile Peach Mountain were shaking, clearly indicating that the rioting ghost gods were continuously attacking the Ghost Gate.
"This is!"
Shen Tu and Yu Lei, the two Deities, were suddenly shocked. They saw that within the black cloud, there seemed to be countless shadows wrapped within it. The dense, immeasurable number, nearly a hundred million mortals, were wrapped in that black cloud.
One must know that this was the God Prison. In the past, Fujun only imprisoned Gods after death, or at the very least, human butchers and ghouls that the Underworld could not suppress, who were escorted here.
Let alone living people, even ordinary ghosts were not qualified to be sent here.
But why would Fujun send so many living people? One must know that if K'un-Lun were to learn of such a thing, it would inevitably trigger a war between the two worlds.
From their aura, these people should be mortals from Fusang. But if Fujun did this, would the Gods of Fusang come knocking... Shen Tu and Yu Lei looked at the hundreds of Japanese ghost gods not far away. Uh, it seemed these Fusang ghost gods were also caught in one fell swoop by Fujun. Then it's fine.
The two exchanged a gaze.
"What does Fujun intend by sending these living people to the God Prison?"
"This is the first time I've seen living people appear in the God Prison, and so many of them!"
The two were stunned by the sudden scene and were momentarily negligent, overlooking Izanami. By the time they reacted and looked again, they were startled.
The Japanese ghost gods suppressed by the peach tree had, with Izanami's help, all regained consciousness at some point and were slowly approaching this side.
"These Gods have also come here with their physical bodies!" Shen Tu frowned, unable to understand how Fujun could make such a mistake! Gods with physical bodies, divine ranks, and incense offerings are completely different existences from Gods who only have their souls left. The three-thousand-mile Peach Mountain only suppresses souls.
"Where is this place?" Amaterasu looked at the two Gods before her, secretly alarmed. The aura of either of them was no less than her own. However, she was with the Gods of Takamagahara, which gave her the confidence to question Shen Tu and Yu Lei.
Shen Tu and Yu Lei, the two brothers, had been guarding the Ghost Gate since ancient times and had rarely descended to the Mortal Realm, so they couldn't understand Amaterasu's Japanese language at all.
Seeing their expressions, Amaterasu quickly and skillfully switched to Chinese language: "Who are you two, and what is this place?"
Shen Tu pondered for a moment, exchanged a look with Yu Lei, then frowned and said: "This is Helheim, where Gods go after death. My brother and I are here by the decree of Taishan Fujun, responsible for guarding this place. Who are you, and why have you come here with your physical bodies?"
"Taishan Fujun, Helheim!"
Hearing Shen Tu's words, Amaterasu was first stunned. Her mind stirred, she narrowed her eyes, then smiled: "So this is actually Taishan Fujun's God Prison. We also entered this place by mistake and will leave now!"
Shen Tu shook his head: "No one has ever left the God Prison. Since you have come, whether by mistake or not, you will stay here quietly and await Fujun's judgment upon his return!"
Amaterasu's complexion changed upon hearing this. Behind her, a short God leaped out, grinning strangely at Shen Tu and Yu Lei:
"Bastards! We have hundreds of High Gods from Takamagahara here! Just the two of you, aren't you afraid we'll overturn this Helheim of yours!"
"Just you, mere minor Gods from the Land of Barbarians, think you can destroy Helheim!" Shen Tu and Yu Lei looked at the Japanese Gods with disdain, their tone full of contempt, clearly not taking them seriously.
The two indeed had this confidence. They had guarded the God Prison for thousands of years, and not a single ghost god had ever escaped the Ghost Gate, not to mention they had the empowerment of the three-thousand-mile Peach Mountain.
Just as the two groups were on the verge of conflict, a voice suddenly sounded from above the black cloud overhead.
"An unexpected gain!"
Shen Tu, Yu Lei, and the group of Japanese ghost gods all looked towards the sky. Within the black cloud, condensed from dense Underworld black energy, a colossal face appeared, far larger than the three-thousand-mile Peach Mountain. That face clicked his tongue in wonder, looking down.
"Audacious! How dare you peek into the God Prison! Who are you?"
"You ask who I am? I am naturally the new Master of this Helheim!" A ray of radiance bloomed in front of Shen Tu and Yu Lei. The moment that ray of radiance rippled out, it opened a massive Void Channel before the two of them.
Shen Tu, Yu Lei, and the Japanese ghost gods all looked towards the Void Channel.
Dimly, everyone seemed to see, beyond the boundless Void Space, at what seemed to be the end of boundless Space-Time, a great and mighty existence bathed in brilliant light stood tall.
That existence seemed to be holding a fruit in his hand. As he raised his head, his calm gaze penetrated through layers of Void Space, fixing on the three-thousand-mile peach tree behind everyone.
"What a large peach tree. I wonder how the fruit it bears compares to Fellow Daoist's flat peach..."
Separated by an immeasurable distance in Space-Time, everyone clearly heard this calm, gentle voice.
"Don't bother thinking about it. This peach tree has existed since ancient times and has never borne a single peach. I even suspect that the peach tree planted by Taishan Fujun is fake!" A cold female voice echoed in the Void Space.
Shen Tu and Yu Lei's hearts trembled simultaneously. They recognized the identity of the woman speaking.
Ancient Kunlun God, how could she be here?
"Hmm, this peach tree is actually formed from the origin/source of this underworld cauldron. No wonder it doesn't bear fruit. Oh, it turns out it needs sufficient divine origin power as nutrient. There are some good nutrients here! Fellow Daoist, wait a moment, I'll see if this peach tree can bear two peaches. If it succeeds, celebrating Fellow Daoist's return to his divine rank with these peaches would be a fine story!"
At the end of that Void Channel, the great and mighty existence, who seemed to stand at the end of Space-Time, seemed to discover something. With a slight raise of his hand, a meteor was seen streaking across the Void Space, descending with seemingly slow, yet ultimately terrifying speed, along that unfathomable Void Channel! In less than a thousandth of a second, the Void Channel began to shake violently, as if an indescribably terrifying giant beast was about to burst through The Void!
Shen Tu and Yu Lei had been in Helheim for a long time and had the deepest cultivation base. With their eyesight, they quickly saw clearly. Within the Void Channel, a light like a meteor was faintly visible, and that figure was a woman with a cold expression.
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