The primordial era began with the Upper Cave Man.

Chapter 268 The Three Realms Battle DLC Begins (Second Update)

When a person dies, it's like a lamp going out; the dead cannot be brought back to life. The three souls and seven spirits are lost. The unfortunate ones have their heavenly soul return to heaven and their earthly soul return to earth, while their living soul dissipates, leaving no trace. From then on, they are no longer recorded in the world, and their lives cease to exist. The fortunate ones, however, retain their three souls and become lonely ghosts, nameless and faceless, without knowledge or wisdom, but they can at least temporarily exist in the human world.

Later, when the Nine Netherworlds were established, wandering souls in the world had a place to go. The Nine Netherworlds guided these wandering souls, which also reduced many ghostly and strange events in the human world.

Yu Qing's death was an accident, but it was also within Luo Zu's expectations. However, Luo Zu did not step in to stop the accident.

Only when faced with calamities and hardships can one truly transform.

Furthermore, Luo Zu was not his nanny. Although he had made great achievements in the methods of the Earth Immortal, there were many people in this world who practiced the methods of the Earth Immortal, and many of them were quite wise. There were also those who could cultivate a single realm and deduce it to the extreme. Therefore, Luo Zu would not really be reluctant to part with this talented person.

However, this near-death experience also gave him an opportunity, sending him to the Netherworld.

Within the Nine Netherworlds, there are also those who cultivate the methods of Earth Immortals. Moreover, the methods of Creation Cave Heaven and Creation of Heaven and Earth have not been dispersed or hidden; they can be freely found within the Nine Netherworlds.

So his death this time can be considered a "blessing in disguise." Of course, experiencing death is definitely not a good thing.

Luo Zu was aware of this situation, which is why he did not stop the event from happening.

Furthermore, the war that Ning Hao and Fa Yin started has a very wide reach, and now they are about to turn their attention to Jiu You.

In other words, Yu Qing, who has already indirectly died at their hands once, may have to die at their hands again.

This time, however, death will be a true death, and the saying that a ghost dies and becomes a spirit may not exist in the present primordial world.

The boundary between the dead and the living in the primordial world was not very clear. Both lived on the primordial land, but the dead hid underground and were active at night, while there were no legends about the dead of the dead. Luo Zu once communicated with some intelligent dead people in the primordial world, and they confirmed that there were no dead people outside of the dead. When the dead died, they were dead, completely annihilated.

Of course, if one possesses great supernatural powers, one can be resurrected at some point.

Returning to the situation in the world within the pot, after Ning Hao and Fa Yin launched their war, Jiu You actually noticed the situation in the human world, but at the time he only thought it was a large-scale war like the usual three-race struggle for supremacy.

However, as the number of deaths gradually increased, including those involving primordial spirits and true immortals, the ghost kings of the Nine Netherworlds began to take notice of this unusual war in the human world.

As for Yu Qing, who fell into the Nine Netherworlds, no one (ghost) cared about him except for Luo Zu.

Upon arriving at the Nine Netherworlds, Yu Qing immediately switched to cultivating the Ghost Immortal method, then integrated it into the Earth Immortal method. He also "accidentally" obtained the original Earth Immortal method, which is the Earth Immortal method that relies on the earth's veins and energy veins.

From then on, he began his rapid journey to becoming a "protagonist".

However, his path as the "protagonist" came to an abrupt end just as it began. After the unification of the human world was completed, Ning Hao and Fa Yin did not even have time to rest their troops before leading their army directly into a crevice in the Nine Netherworlds.

This was the first time that human beings had entered the Nine Netherworld. However, the environment of the Nine Netherworld was so unique that human beings could not adapt to it and were subsequently besieged by the ghosts of the Nine Netherworld.

If you were to ask how many ghosts there are in the Nine Netherworlds, it would be well over a hundred billion.

Although living beings do not necessarily become ghosts after death, the lifespan of ghosts in the Nine Netherworlds is a thousand times longer than that of living beings with physical bodies. Moreover, the environment of the Nine Netherworlds is too suitable for ghosts, and ghosts will automatically awaken the cultivation methods of ghost immortals in it. This is one of the rules that Luo Zu personally left in the Heavenly Dao of the Nine Netherworlds.

In addition, Luo Zu has always spared no effort in "cultivating" the Nine Netherworld. In the early days, he directly sent many filthy and evil energies and calamities from the human world into the Nine Netherworld. Therefore, although the Nine Netherworld was opened up later than the human world, its foundation is no less than that of the human world. After all, it has been sucking blood from the human world for a long time.

If the mortal realm were not the focus of Luo Zu's cultivation, with the spiritual energy of the primordial world constantly flowing into it, and the essence of the sun and moon occasionally flowing into the mortal realm, thus perfecting the Great Dao of the mortal realm, and the projections of the sun, moon and stars from the primordial world enriching the foundation of the mortal realm, then by simply infusing the Nine Netherworlds with this kind of blood transfusion, the mortal realm would probably have fallen into the end of the Dharma and the final calamity first.

But regardless, the ambitions of the heroes of the world came to an abrupt end with this hastily concluded conquest.

This result was completely unexpected for most people; no one expected it to end this way.

They thought it would be a counterattack by the mortals against the Netherworld, catching them off guard. However, the environment of the Netherworld was far too harsh for the living. The pervasive yin energy, evil spirits, curses, and various strange rules of heaven and earth greatly restricted the living.

However, such an environment is like a fish in water for the dead in the Nine Netherworlds. In this environment on which they depend for survival, their ghostly energy is inexhaustible, and the power of their ghostly magic is also increasing.

Because they miscalculated this situation, although the living beings in the human world caught the Nine Netherworld off guard, they did not gain much benefit.

Ultimately, if Ning Hao had not used the Seal of Ten Thousand Laws to advance and change the environmental laws of parts of the Nine Netherworlds, driving away the Yin Sha, the living in the human world might not have even had the chance to leave.

Although Ning Hao possessed profound Taoist skills, he was ultimately just a Celestial Immortal, a Celestial Immortal whose abilities had been "castrated" by the environment of the mortal world. No matter how clever his methods were, or how powerful the Seal of Myriad Laws was, he could not directly confront the entire Nine Netherworld.

However, if he were to be ruthless and unleash the Seal of Myriad Laws, along with his years of cultivation, he might be able to shatter the Nine Netherworld directly.

Unfortunately, just as he was about to make his move, the Nine Nether Heavenly Dao was already provoked and relayed the news to the Central Plains.

Upon learning of this situation, Yang naturally came to support Jiuyou. After receiving the teachings from Luo Zu, he also attained the status of a Celestial Immortal, and even more so, a Celestial Immortal who had obtained the Heavenly Dao and Heavenly Heart of Jiuyou. He also took care of the Divine Dao, becoming the Lord of the Ghosts and Gods of Jiuyou and obtaining a great deal of authority in Jiuyou. Although he did not directly break through his realm, his cultivation was comparable to that of a powerful being at the sixth level of Celestial Immortal.

Moreover, thanks to Luo Zu's support, he will not suffer a backlash from heaven and earth after bearing the Nine Nether Heavenly Heart, thus avoiding the fate of Qin Molong.

With the support of the Central Government, the Ghost Kings of the Nine Netherworlds, who were comparable to True Immortals, directly forced Ning Hao into the domain opened up by the Seal of Myriad Laws. They then drew the Heavenly Dao of the Nine Netherworlds into it, forcing Ning Hao to retreat. This prevented Ning Hao from directly using the Seal of Myriad Laws and taking a risky move to shatter the Nine Netherworlds.

"The successor of the Martial God?!" Yang frowned deeply while exchanging blows with Ning Hao from a distance, because he sensed a strong aura of the Martial God within the Seal of Myriad Laws.

However, his surprise was met with Ning Hao's disdainful sneer.

Ning Hao saw that Yang was not easy to deal with, and also felt that the human army had withdrawn, so he also retreated to the human world and destroyed the Nine Nether Rift.

Thus, the first counterattack by the human world against the Nine Netherworlds came to a hasty end.

(End of this chapter)