Don't talk nonsense, this is the Emperor's Banner

Chapter 84 The Five Turbid World
Shen Siyuan only felt himself in a trance for a moment, and the surrounding scenery suddenly changed drastically.

This is very similar to the escape method in Jiuyou Demon Lord's memory.

Looking at the wronged souls and evil spirits that swarmed in like wasps because of the appearance of the two, Shen Siyuan directly summoned his [Ten Thousand Souls Banner].

This was the first time he had used the Ten Thousand Souls Banner so recklessly.

The Ten Thousand Souls Banner first emitted a clear and misty light, covering Shen Siyuan to prevent the invasion of evil spirits, resentment, evil spirits and other turbid spirits that were everywhere around him. Then it grew in the wind and turned into a huge flag that reached the sky, standing in the void.

Although the flag had numerous holes in it and the flagpole had a crack running all the way to the sky, it did not affect its power in the slightest.

Streams of black smoke rose into the sky from the flag, and the evil spirits and ghosts were rolled up by the black smoke and directly sucked into the flag like a giant whale sucking water. No ghost could escape the power of the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.

In just the blink of an eye, a vacuum zone formed around them.

Shen Siyuan put Duoduo down and looked at the distant sky, but he did not see the flames that Duoduo had burned the sky twice. It seemed that they were in a new place again, and the distance between them was also very far.

Looking down at the dry bones on the ground, Shen Siyuan stepped on them twice, and countless bones turned into powder, revealing the dark earth underneath. Duoduo also kicked around curiously. With Shen Siyuan by her side, she was very brave.

At this moment, Shen Siyuan suddenly discovered that there were some rusty weapons under these skeletons.

"Is this an ancient battlefield?" Shen Siyuan wondered.

"But who is the enemy?"

"And what is this place?"

"This may be the underworld."

Shen Siyuan looked up at the sky, but unfortunately it was covered by dark clouds and he couldn't see the whole picture at all.

"Dong dong dong..."

At this moment, the ground suddenly shook, and countless skeletons were shaken up from the ground. Some of them cracked directly, and some turned into powder.

These bones have been here for who knows how many years, blown by the cold wind every day, and have long become extremely fragile.

Shen Siyuan stretched out his hand, and the Ten Thousand Souls Banner in the void quickly shrank and fell back into his palm.

Then he bent down and picked up Duoduo.

"Let's go back."

Shen Siyuan knew that his strength was weak at the moment, so it was not advisable for him to come into contact with some powerful people too early.

Duoduo quickly turned the umbrella handle, and the two of them disappeared from the spot in an instant.

At this moment, Shen Siyuan caught a glimpse and seemed to see a huge black shadow rushing towards them from a distance.

Back in the rental house, Shen Siyuan put Duoduo down and put the Nether Firefly back into the Ten Thousand Souls Banner. After thinking for a while, he kept one and handed it to Duoduo.

"This Hellfire Firefly is for you."

Duoduo curiously stretched out her little hand, and the Hellfire Firefly immediately landed on her fingertips.

"Put away your umbrella. Also, you must learn to control the nether fire in your body as soon as possible."

Shen Siyuan pointed at the flames burning all over her body.

Duoduo nodded obediently. At this moment, his attention was all on the Nether Firefly.

Shen Siyuan ignored her and tied the soul-locking chain on his shoulder back around his waist. Then he immersed his mind in the [Ten Thousand Souls Banner] to check his harvest.

However, they saw that one of the "beehives" was filled with a large number of evil spirits and ghosts.

These evil spirits and ghosts have all had their souls invaded by negative auras such as evil spirits, foul air, and evil spirits, making their souls filthy and losing their sanity, and everything turned into some single conscious instincts.

For example, some evil spirits have fierce eyes and keep shouting "kill, kill, kill"...

Some evil spirits have lustful eyes and make strange laughs...

There were also some with ferocious eyes, who kept repeating the word "evil obstacle"...

These evil spirits and ghosts are good materials for repairing the [Ten Thousand Souls Banner], but Shen Siyuan does not dare to do so.

After the [Banner of Ten Thousand Souls] devours these evil spirits and ghosts, the evil energy, turbid energy, and murderous energy on these souls will all turn into demonic energy, and by then the demonic energy will absolutely be surging.

Shen Siyuan didn't think that with his current strength, he could withstand the invasion of these evil spirits.

The [Banner of Ten Thousand Souls] is a magical weapon, and it has the instinct to devour its master. If it had not been severely damaged by the thunder tribulation and only one tenth of its power remained, Shen Siyuan would have been devoured by it and become a puppet of the [Banner of Ten Thousand Souls].

That's why Shen Siyuan was so cautious and didn't dare to use the [Ten Thousand Souls Banner] indiscriminately.

Otherwise, those wandering souls in all shapes and sizes in the human world, contaminated by desire, would have already been enshrined in the [Banner of Ten Thousand Souls].

He didn't dare to do so because he was afraid that it would affect himself, causing his temperament to change drastically and turn him into a slave of the [Ten Thousand Souls Banner].

And Shen Siyuan was willing to take the risk and absorb these dead souls into the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, naturally not because he was too idle and liked adventure.

Instead, he wanted to see if he could find clues to that world from the fragmentary memories of these evil spirits and ghosts.

Is it just a den of ghosts or the underworld? This is very important if Shen Siyuan wants to restart the cycle of reincarnation.

Thinking of this, Shen Siyuan directly captured a few evil spirits and looked through their memories one by one.
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“Kill, kill, kill… kill, kill, kill…”

In my memory, there was a strong young man wearing leather armor and holding a halberd. He followed his companions and rushed forward like a tide.

There were corpses all around, and the ground was dyed red with blood. At this time, he was completely blinded by killing, and he couldn't tell east from west, south from north. His only thought was to swing the halberd in his hand and stab the enemy, stab forward, stab forward...

Then his throat was cut by the enemy and he fell to the ground. Only then did he calm down and stare at the blue sky with wide eyes, and finally he completely lost consciousness...

……

“Kill, kill, kill… kill, kill, kill…”

He was still waving the halberd in his hand, following his companions, riding the cold wind, and rushing forward like a tide, but this time, the world was completely different.

The whole world was gray, and countless monsters popped their heads out from the clouds.

There are giants that are shaped like giant statues, there are slender monsters like snakes with eyes all over their bodies, and there are monsters that are as big as mountains and shaped like giant deer...

They opened their mouths and sprayed out countless filth. The dead souls immediately lost their minds and turned into fierce ghosts. Only instinct remained, rushing and killing each other in the air, devouring...

……

"Is this a manifestation of evil?"

Shen Siyuan was shocked. He learned from the memory of Lord Jiuyou that this kind of evil and turbid image was rare in the Great Wilderness.

Evil and turbidity are created by the six desires, which are called the five turbidities in Buddhism and the calamity energy in Taoism.

The five turbidities are the turbidity of kalpa, the turbidity of views, the turbidity of afflictions, the turbidity of sentient beings, and the turbidity of life. The time and space with these five living conditions of sentient beings is called the "evil world of the five turbidities."

This is the manifestation of the evil thoughts of sentient beings, the five turbidities and evil times, the collapse of rituals and music, the loss of moral principles, the absence of good thoughts, and the time and space where they are located have become ghosts and demons, corrupting all spiritual wisdom and light, devouring spiritual energy and magic power, the five declines of heaven and man, and the end of the law. This is a disaster...

If this calamity can be survived, Buddhism will flourish. If not, the world will become a demonic realm.

Shen Siyuan seemed to understand something vaguely.

The world he was heading to should be the so-called underworld.

In order to prevent evil from invading the human world, and at the same time to prevent the souls of the dead who were polluted by desires in the human world from growing stronger, a powerful person completely sealed the underworld.

If Shen Siyuan wants to restart reincarnation, he must first clean up the evil in the underworld.

Shen Siyuan cast his gaze on the [Ten Thousand Souls Banner] in his hand.

Fight the devil with devil?

(End of this chapter)