After breaking up with my girlfriend, I became a Great Sage of the Demon Clan.

"Look, that great rift valley below that mountain was carved out by my sword. A group of ghostly soldiers were passing through at the time, and their leader saw me and actually tried to kill me. I had no choice but to reluctantly wipe them all out."

Zhou Yan, Xiao Yanjun, and Lin Anru looked at the distant mountain peaks. Indeed, there was a large rift valley there, but it had been covered by vegetation. Xiao Yanjun and Lin Anru could no longer discern the original shape of the rift valley. Only Zhou Yan could still observe it with his omniscience.

Zhou Yan also took a look at the age of the vegetation in the opposite rift valley. Sure enough, they were all under a hundred years old. It seemed that the plants only grew in the rift valley after Wenquxing slashed out with his sword.

At this moment, Wenquxing patted his knee.

"Then one day, while I was searching everywhere, I heard an explosion."

Wenquxing pointed to the top of his head, then looked up.

The sky in the underworld should be dark and chaotic, with no light visible, but looking up from this mountain, the sky is a clear blue, just like the sky on earth.

Wenquxing said in a daze.

"The explosion felt like I was standing outside a safe zone. I heard someone detonating something at a specific point. I felt like I was quite far from the explosion, but when I came to my senses, I saw colorful lights everywhere, and then that was it."

Little Yama asked.

"You're dead?"

Wenquxing responded with a complicated "hmm".

"Yes, I died. When I woke up, I was on the hilltop, being taken care of by my wife. I was badly injured and couldn't even get out of bed. My second aunt took care of me from my serious injuries until I could get out of bed, and then..."

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"And then you couldn't control your lust and slept with your benefactor?"

Wenquxing looked righteous.

"What do you mean by 'I've lured you into bed'? I'll take responsibility."

Wenquxing had experienced all kinds of beauty in the world and was at a level where he could easily control women. As for his second wife, Wenquxing truly loved her.

Zhou Yan, who was standing to the side, turned his head to the side.

Zhou Yan couldn't quite imagine how Wenquxing would react if he told him that his second aunt was Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.

Lin Anru stepped forward at this moment.

"So, Senior Ye, you've been searching for a way out of these mountains, but you can't find it?"

Ye An nodded bitterly.

"Yes, the first thing I wanted to do after I was able to get out of the ground was to get out of this place, but this place seems to have some mystery. I have been here for fifty years and I still haven't been able to find my way out."

Ye An smiled again.

"Young Master, Old Yan, now that you're here, you must have a way to get out, right?"

Zhou Yan and Little Yama remained silent.

Only Lin'an looked at the vegetation under his feet and seemed to ponder something.

Wenquxing noticed Lin Anru's expression and asked.

"Xiaoru, what did you see?"

Lin'an used his supernatural powers to cut a patch of grass at his feet and then manipulated water to place the grass in front of him.

These weeds, like the weeds in the human world, are emerald green and have a sweet, refreshing scent.

Even the sap inside, Lin'anru, who has the ability to control water, could feel was exactly the same as the weeds in the human world.

Oh no, now people live to be a hundred years old without light, and the weeds are gone.

Ironically, while on Earth, the lack of sunlight has led to the mass extinction of plants and animals, there exists a mountain range in the underworld, lush with vegetation and teeming with small animals.

Vibrant.

It seems that hell and the human world have been reversed.

Wenquxing was very satisfied with Lin'an's current complexion.

"Xiaoru, you've noticed something's wrong too?"

Lin'an is like looking up at the sky.

"I have……"

"one……"

Lin Anru grasped the grass in front of her and gently kneaded its stems and leaves with her fingers.

Lin'an Ru has lost count of how many years it has been since she last touched a plant in the wild.

"A very immature idea."

Wenquxing echoed.

"I actually have an idea too. Xiaoru, why don't you tell me your idea and see if we have the same idea?"

Lin Anru threw the weeds in her hand onto the ground.

"Could this place be a strange phenomenon caused by the Heavenly Pillar breaking through the barrier between the human world and the underworld?"

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Mount Tianzhu belongs to the Great Emperor of the Five Sacred Mountains of the East, who is the supreme deity in charge of life and death. Mount Tai is also considered the central place of life and death.

Therefore, if the pillar of heaven were to collapse, could it not only cause the heavens and earth to tilt, but also break through the barrier between life and death, creating a huge hole between the underworld and the human world?

The hole that was drilled allowed sunlight and vitality from the human world to leak in, and the mountain, which faced the hole, received the warmth and light from the human world.

Thus, this mountain acquired the characteristics of a human mountain range.

Lin Anru voiced this idea.

Wenquxing clapped his hands.

“Great minds think alike. Indeed, I’ve lived in this place for decades and always thought that the underworld is a place where yin energy gathers and is deathly still. How could there be such a mountain range full of human energy? It wasn’t until I thought that the Great Emperor of the Eastern Peak actually controls life and death, and that his sacred site might be one of the transit points between the human world and the underworld.”

"After the pillar of heaven collapsed, this transit station was breached."

The God of Literature points to the sky.

"And so this scene, which should not normally exist in the underworld, came about."

"sure."

Little Yama looked at the sky and then at the ground.

"Old Ye, that's a good idea... Does the Heavenly Pillar break through the barrier between the human world and the underworld?!"

Little Yama thought of something and asked Wenquxing.

"Old Ye, you said that before you came here, the vegetation here was less than one-tenth of what it is now, right?"

Wenquxing understood what Qi Xiaoyanjun meant; they were all old comrades-in-arms who had worked together for decades, so it was easy for him to grasp the point.

"Yes... I suspect that after the Heavenly Pillar collapsed, it had already begun to break through the barrier between the underworld and the human world. However, because the extent of the breach was small at that time, it only affected the land on this mountain..."

Wenquxing stomped on the ground, making a "pat-pat" sound.

"With that little bit of vegetation, when I came to check later, the explosion I heard must have meant that the Heavenly Pillar had completely pierced through the Underworld..."

"Do not……"

Zhou Yan looked up at the sky. Because of his low level of awakening, he couldn't see anything in the sky. However, not being able to see it didn't mean he couldn't imagine it.

"I think it's not just a problem with the Heavenly Pillar. If it were just a problem with the Heavenly Pillar, the Eternal Night Calamity wouldn't have lasted this long."

Wenquxing was somewhat surprised.

"Is the Eternal Night Calamity not over yet?"

Wenquxing came to this mountain range a hundred years ago, and he is unaware of what is happening in the human world now.

"It's not over yet."

Lin Anru, standing to the side, didn't know how to explain herself to Wenquxing.

"The Eternal Night Calamity has been intensifying, and now, humanity is on the verge of extinction."

Lin'an, after reaching adulthood, witnessed humanity's decline from its peak, and its continuous descent to rock bottom.

Just like playing the stock market, Lin Anru always feels that things are at their worst, but the next day, the reality of the following year will slap Lin Anru in the face, telling her that there is no worst, there can be even worse.

Lin'an had witnessed this hopeless future for three hundred years, and the bitterness he felt during that time was beyond the comprehension of outsiders.

"So it might not just be a problem with the Heavenly Pillar. Have you ever thought that when the Heavenly Pillar fell, the Emperor of Fengdu had already taken action?"

Zhou Yan's words made Xiao Yanjun, Wenquxing, and Lin'anru all look at Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan said sadly.

"When the Heavenly Pillar collapsed, Nuwa came to mend it. Now that the Heavenly Pillar has collapsed, and Nuwa hasn't mended it, humanity is still alive. I have reason to suspect that when the Heavenly Pillar collapsed, the Emperor of Fengdu was afraid that it would break through the barrier between the underworld and the human world, so he went up and carried it himself."

"The Emperor of Fengdu's health deteriorated again; the more he endured, the weaker he became, until a hundred years ago, with a bang..."

Zhou Yan spread his arms outwards.

"The Great Emperor of Fengdu has fallen. This Heavenly Pillar has completely pierced through the Underworld. With the piercing of the Heavenly Pillar and the Underworld, and the fall of the Great Emperor of Fengdu, the Eternal Night Calamity began to prevail."

Wenquxing's expression changed slightly. He had indeed heard a violent explosion and colorful light filling the sky when he was looking for the strange things on this mountain. After that, Wenquxing pondered for many years and believed that it was a strange phenomenon in which the Heavenly Pillar broke through the barrier between the human world and the underworld.

Now, hearing Zhou Yan's words, this is probably a sign that the Dharma body of the Fengdu Emperor has perished.

The Emperor of Fengdu died in the underworld and became a firework.

Qiu Xiao Yanjun thought for a moment and then praised him.

"This idea is very likely."

Little Yama and Zhou Yan had previously discussed that regardless of the current state of the Underworld or what had happened, the supreme ruler of the Underworld, the Great Emperor of Fengdu, was either dead or on the verge of death. Otherwise, the evil spirits and vengeful ghosts of the Underworld could not have escaped to wreak havoc on the human world, and the Yin energy of the Underworld could not have spread from the Underworld to the human world.

2. Therefore, the death of the Fengdu Emperor was the premise, and only then did the speculation about Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva becoming a demon arise.

But now that Zhou Yan has changed his tune and said that the Emperor of Fengdu perished because he was supporting the Heavenly Pillar, a new possibility has emerged.

Little Yama asked Zhou Yan.

"If what you're saying is true, then Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva might be innocent. So many evil spirits running away from the underworld might be because the collapse of the Heavenly Pillar caused such a commotion that the evil spirits were forced to migrate?"

Most animals are territorial. Even fierce bears and tigers won't deliberately kill you as long as you don't enter their territory.

5. These territorial beasts, when faced with natural disasters such as earthquakes, droughts, torrential rains, and fires, will actively choose to flee their habitats and seek survival in new places.

Thorns are for migration.

With a great calamity looming over the underworld, it's possible that large numbers of vengeful spirits and evil ghosts, terrified by the oppressive power of the Heavenly Pillar, fled to the human world.

According to this calculation, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva is naturally innocent. He did not drive away all the wandering ghosts in the underworld in order to become a Buddha for himself.

Zhe Zhouyan took out the black jade token given to him by the Emperor of Fengdu from his bosom.

"Sometimes I really feel..."

Mai Zhouyan stroked the patterns on the black jade token.

"The word 'fate' is truly wondrous."

Little Yama also stared at the black jade token. This was something Little Yama had asked the Great Emperor of Fengdu for, something to protect Zhou Yan's life.

Last time, when Zhou Yan went to the world a thousand years ago in "The Legend of the White Snake," he used this thing to summon the Ten Yin Marshals and gathered together several officials from the Imperial Observatory to defeat them.

At the time, Zhou Yan was thinking how useful the favor of the Fengdu Emperor was. Now, it seems that the reason the Fengdu Emperor gave him this thing was not just to help him overcome his tribulation in "The Legend of the White Snake".

Zhou Yan handed the black jade token to Little Yama.

Little Yama took it.

The moment he received it, Little Yama could sense the rich aura of the Fengdu Emperor within the black jade pendant.

This aura cannot be used as proof that the Emperor of Fengdu is alive or dead. After all, when Zhou Yan went to the South Heavenly Gate, a group of big shots who were dead and only bones were left were still jumping around and shouting "White-haired beast" with hatred as they came to kill Zhou Yan.

The death of gods is very subtle; often, even those who are beyond dead can leap out of their graves and continue their wanderings.

But things are different now.

This place is the underworld, and this mountain range is the opening between the underworld and the human world that was pierced by the falling pillar of heaven.

As Zhou Yan said, the Emperor of Fengdu probably died here, and his body may be found in some corner of this place.

If you were to stimulate the black jade token, which carries the aura of the Fengdu Emperor, beside the corpse of the Fengdu Emperor…

The little Yama, who was holding the black jade token, began to pour his divine power and yin energy into the black jade token.