Immortality begins with meditation puppets

The magnificent palace, with its golden and jade pillars, is bathed in a myriad of golden lights and rainbows. The cinnabar-adorned corridors are smooth and lustrous, and thousands of auspicious rays spray purple mist.

What I saw before me did not resemble the dark and gloomy underworld that housed countless wronged souls and evil spirits, but rather the magnificent and dignified Lingxiao Palace.

Clouds rose beneath their feet, but the crowd remained unfazed, dismissing it as a mere trick played by the evil spirits of the place.

Upon entering the interior, the dazzling array of colors, which was excessive and even irritating, subsided somewhat.

Then, the clouds and rosy light on both sides dissipated, revealing two rows of majestic generals, each over a hundred feet tall, clad in gleaming golden armor. At the end of the two rows of generals stood two lines of Taoist priests and officials dressed in dark blue robes.

Looking further up, one sees ten seats in ten directions, where ten kings of the underworld, dressed in royal robes, sit or lie like dragons and tigers. These are the former Ten Kings of Hell, now the Ten Demon Kings.

The kings surrounded the throne in the center, which was made of white jade and gold, carved with dragons and phoenixes. It was both vulgar and extravagant, but it was a sign of evil spirits and a shallow and vulgar aesthetic. The True Lords were drawn to the circular disc on the throne, which was engraved with many mysterious and indescribable bird-script characters and slowly rotated. They could feel an incomparably heavy aura from this disc, which made them want to worship.

"Now that you have seen the Heavenly Emperor and the Earthly Sovereign, why do you not pay your respects!"

The divine generals and officials spoke in unison, and beams of divine light converged on everyone in the entire hall, as if forcibly pressing their heads down to pay homage to the being on the throne.

Among all the True Lords, who didn't know that the one on the throne was merely an evil spirit?

This evil spirit, dressed in a purple-gold robe and wearing a purple-gold crown, had a long, narrow face, resembling a bird's face and an eagle's face. It was tall and occupied an entire throne, trying its best to display the majesty of the Emperor. However, it could only deceive the group of evil spirits in the palace who had been brainwashed by it. In the eyes of the True Lords, it was even more ridiculous than a monkey wearing a crown.

"A mere evil spirit, overestimating its own abilities, dares to covet the power of the ancient underworld, and yet it is still greedy for more. Being the ruler of the underworld is not enough, it wants to be the master of the heavenly court. Does it want to control the world? Does it not know what kind of person it is? Does it have such a big face!"

"We worship Heaven and Earth, and even ordinary people with outstanding virtue can bow and worship. But we cannot worship evil spirits. If I were to do so, I fear I would disgrace my sect and bring shame upon my descendants!"

"Hey! I, Shi Gandang, am a legitimate divine official appointed by the Heavenly Emperor. I can tell who the true Heavenly Emperor is and who the false one is. The true Heavenly Emperor is right here in Your Highness. How dare you, a treacherous villain, offend the Heavenly Emperor to his face?!"

There's no point in talking to evil spirits. The True Lords didn't come here to play house with them.

All they saw was the Six Paths of Reincarnation Disc coiled above and behind its head. Everyone's hearts skipped a beat. They hadn't expected that despite their haste, they were still a step too late. This demon had already mastered the Six Paths of Reincarnation Disc, and a fierce and bitter battle awaited them.

But no matter how bitter or difficult it was, not a single Nascent Soul cultivator, or even a Golden Core cultivator, was willing to compromise with or associate with this evil spirit.

Seeing everyone's attitude, the bird-like face on the throne stretched even longer, and the ten Yama Kings on the ten seats all glared angrily.

The two divine generals, wielding halberds and spears, charged towards the assembled cultivators.

The priest in front, holding a pen and notebook, was writing furiously on the faces of the crowd, as if he were about to pull off some strange and mysterious trick.

The True Monarchs were not alarmed by this. Although the enemy had gathered their elite troops, they believed that as long as they wiped out these evil spirits in one fell swoop, their journey to the Abyss Secret Realm would be successfully completed. They all had the idea of ​​achieving their goal in one battle. Some of the less shrewd True Monarchs had even taken out the great treasures given to them by their sects, wanting to use their most powerful methods.

Erqiang stared intently at the Six Paths Reincarnation Disc on the throne. By controlling the Six Paths Reincarnation Disc, one could manipulate a portion of the power in the underworld. If his third brother, Su Qing, could become the Human Emperor or the Heavenly Emperor, it wouldn't be impossible for Erqiang to become a Yama King or a Lord of the Underworld!

The cultivators were eager to fight, but a strong wind arose, and the clouds and precious energy all dissipated. The Ten Kings of Hell were still there, but the King of Reincarnation, who had proclaimed himself the Heavenly Emperor on the throne, had disappeared without a trace, along with the Six Paths of Reincarnation Disc.

"Putting everything else aside, this rich kid doesn't sit under a dangerous roof, he's wise to protect himself, and when things go wrong, his ability to take the blame is just like that of an emperor!"

Gao Erqiang shook his head with some regret.

Who are you indirectly referring to with those words?
Su Qing was immediately displeased upon hearing this.

To demonstrate his true imperial demeanor, he did not hide behind the two strong men and the group of True Lords this time.

Let Tiger Egg and the Stone Priests find suitable opponents to deal with.

He himself, wielding the Xingtian Blood Axe, arrived before the two strong men and killed his way to the Ten Kings of Hell.

With the departure of the King of Reincarnation, the strongest beings in this hall are these ten Yama, who have stolen the bodies of the ancient Yama King.

When Su Qing stepped forward, they all showed a strange expression.

In their eyes, Su Qing, who possessed numerous Dao patterns, was like a gourmet platter made up of various immortal fruits and precious medicines. Just seeing him made the demons' mouths water, and they wanted to feast on him.

At this moment, when they pounce on you, it's as if the food is being offered to them. How could they possibly dodge or avoid it? They would simply come to meet you.

Although the food was delicious, the person possessed various Dao patterns, his physical body and primordial spirit were flawless, and he wielded the powerful weapon, the Xingtian Blood Axe, so no one dared to underestimate him, lest they accidentally break their teeth from the delicious food.

The ten Yama demons billowed their robes, invoking the power of Yama, attempting to inflict divine punishment upon him.

"There is a man named Su Qing who has rebelled against his superiors and caused chaos in the underworld. He shall suffer the torment of being imprisoned in the Avici Hell forever!"

Wisps of black energy rose from the Ten Directions and Ten Seats, like countless black chains, attempting to bind and imprison Su Qing, capturing and confining him.

The moment Su Qing's body was covered in azure dragon patterns and his back displayed the sun and moon of the Great Void, revealing the proof of the Human Emperor and Heavenly Emperor, it became clear who was superior and who was inferior. The one who was disobedient and rebellious was not Su Qing, but the false Yama who was using the power of the Underworld to deceive the people.

The Soul-Locking Black Chains not only did not cause it any trouble, but under its influence, they all drew V-shaped arcs in the air, binding the Ten Directions Yama.

Seeing this, the ten Yama demons knew that their Yama King authority was nothing in front of the Heavenly Emperor and the Human Emperor, so they all gave up the idea of ​​using Yama King authority to target Su Qing.

This is also why Su Qing took the initiative to seek out the Ten Directions Yama to fight.

This place is the ancient underworld, where the Ten Yama Kings, by borrowing the power of the underworld, can unleash all sorts of mysterious and wondrous methods. If other True Lords were to face them, due to the difference in their rank, whatever crime the Ten Yama Kings would sentence them to, they would suffer accordingly. This is the authority bestowed upon the Ten Yama Kings by the ancient underworld itself, which can also be called the Yama King's supernatural powers. These are the perks that come with the position of Yama King, allowing them to better perform their duties.

The Heavenly Emperor and the Human Emperor are clearly not subjects that the Kings of Hell can judge, so their supernatural powers are ineffective against him. Therefore, he is the best candidate to deal with the Ten Kings of Hell.

Yama's supernatural powers were ineffective against him; the Yama demons also had other methods.

But the Yama demons on the ten directions and ten seats all transformed into true demonic forms, completely abandoning their pretense, intending to fight and subdue him with demonic supernatural powers.

Some Yama have countless white bone wings; some have upper bodies twisted like worms, but lower bodies with the head of a tiger; some have round heads and square faces, with rounded bodies, resembling bodhisattvas or Buddhas; some have pointed upper bodies and round lower bodies, unlike any living being, but rather like a drop of water.

Demons are formless and shapeless, yet they can transform into countless forms. If they are not disguised to deceive people, the things they transform into are only to unleash their strongest abilities.

The Ten Directions Yama Demon is born with demonic energy, yet it also displays divine nature. This is because the demonic origin has not yet assimilated with the Yama God Mark within it. This made Su Qing's mind stir, and he secretly thought that if he could kill the Ten Directions Yama Demon, he could not only obtain the Ten Directions Five Elders Dao Mark, but also the Ten Directions Yama God Mark!

All of this will have to wait until he has killed all ten Yama demons.

The aura emanating from the strongest of the Ten Directions Yama was far superior to that of the group of fifth-tier demons he had encountered before, and even more powerful than the deep-sea monsters that he had previously entrusted to Erqiang to deal with.

Looking up, one sees a black robe soaring straight into the sky, more than ten thousand feet high. The black robe billows, with countless eerie face shadows twisting and coiling on it. On top of the black robe is a brown stone face with the character "Qin" engraved on its forehead.

However, he was the strongest of the Ten Kings of Hell, a sixth-order evil demon named Qin Guangmo.

To his left and right were two other Yama demons, both exuding the aura of sixth-order great evil. They were also dressed in black robes, with stone faces on their heads. They were slightly shorter than Qin Guang Demon, but still seven or eight thousand feet tall. They were Zhuanlun Demon and Chujiang Demon.

The three sixth-tier Yama demons stood like three towering mountains before Su Qing, their mere presence enough to crush him into dust.

At this moment, even Gao Erqiang, who had always been dissatisfied with Su Qing making him take the blame, wanted to volunteer to help Su Qing share the burden.

After all, the current situation on the other side looked like they could easily crush Su Qing.

Su Qing waved his hand, telling him not to come over and to focus on helping the other True Lords fight their enemies.

It should be noted that while he is under great pressure, the other True Lords are not having an easy time either.

At the moment when the Ten Yama Kings attacked him.

The seemingly respectable deities and officials who had previously appeared in the palace hall had all transformed into demons and evil spirits.

These evil spirits are mostly mid- to low-level demons. They don't have any particularly powerful abilities, but because of favorable timing and location, they first occupied the bodies of many ancient eccentric gods and officials, stealing their divine power for their own use. Furthermore, because they are in this abyss secret realm filled with resentment and death energy, they have been nourished by demonic energy for many years, and their development environment is completely incomparable to those evil spirits outside.

Among the lower and middle-ranking demons, many possessed the power of the fourth or fifth rank, while the weakest had the combat strength of a third-rank demon.

Cultivators already find it difficult to kill or destroy demons, and the fact that these demons can use the methods of cunning priests makes the situation even more difficult.

A demon held a pen and a book, using its demonic eyes to see the past life of a True Lord, recording it in the book. With just one more stroke, it was revealed that the True Lord, who had enjoyed hundreds of thousands of years of life and should have been free from illness and disaster, had developed rotting flesh and sores on his body, as if he had contracted an acute and strange disease, and was about to die like a mortal. Even the spider medical cart that Su Qing had placed below was helpless, and even a spiritual physician like Guo Qiaolian was equally at a loss, only able to watch the True Lord wail incessantly.

It was Shi Renjiang Shi Gandang who, with his keen eyes, immediately saw the crux of the problem.

"It is a civil judge who uses a judge's pen to write books of crimes and punishments, judges people's lives, and imposes crimes and punishments. In the ancient underworld, it was also known as the pen-wielding official. Using the pen as a knife, it is more troublesome than real swords and guns. When evil spirits possess the body of this judge and use this method, they are even more vicious and powerful than the real civil judge!"

Reminded by Shi Gandang, the True Lords immediately focused their gazes on the sinister-looking Taoist who was being protected by a group of demons.

Everyone understood that once they seized the judge's pen and the book of punishment from him, he would no longer have the ability to arbitrarily fabricate other people's crimes and bring down divine and earthly punishments.

The True Lords employed various methods, and Su Qing's puppets, who were not afraid of the Judge's Pen and the Book of Punishments, charged forward. In addition, there were more than 3,600 stone god officials cooperating. Originally, there should have been no problem in killing this Judge Demon. After all, no matter how fast his pen was, it would be difficult to punish everyone instantly.

Unexpectedly, another black wind arose inside the palace.

Evil spirits surged in from all directions.

From the east came a great demon with a dragon's head and a human body, behind which were hundreds of white, bone dragons, devoid of any flesh or blood.

It must be the Dragon God Prince, one of the four demon lords that Shi Gandang had warned him about, and his subordinate, the evil Bone Dragon.

A black-faced Buddha, seated on a black lotus throne, appeared from the south. His body was entwined with snakes and pythons, and he was completely naked. He held a pure bottle in his left hand. When he landed in front of the crowd, black soul fire ignited in the bottle. Anyone who touched even a tiny spark would burn their flesh and soul, and it was extremely difficult to extinguish, which made people tremble with fear.

The Great Black Buddha Demon, one of the Four Demon Lords, wields a jade bottle formed from the fiery tongues of the underworld. Anyone who has committed even the slightest sin or evil deed will suffer the torment of having their soul and body burned by this fire. Although the True Lords present were acting for the greater good of the world, they had all made minor mistakes over the years. No one is perfect, and that is what makes them human. It is normal for them to be tormented by this jade bottle to the point of ecstasy.

A six-tusked white elephant came from the west. Its head alone filled the entire western field of vision. This palace could not contain its body. It was another of the four great demon lords, the Prison-Suppressing White Elephant. It was the former underworld divine beast Di Ting Hua Xie, which transformed into the appearance of a white elephant and possessed unparalleled power.

What came from the north was a soul banner, with dozens of withered and bloody Taoists strung on it. It was the number one soul banner in the world, crafted by the ancestor of ancient demonic cultivators. Legend has it that this soul banner was transformed from the shaft of the God-Slaying Spear, whose ferocity surpassed even Xing Tian's Blood Axe. It was extremely vicious. Even a blank soul that walked through this soul banner would be corrupted into an extremely vicious and evil ghost. If it was already a ghost, its ferocity and evil would be unimaginable after being nurtured by this soul banner.

With the arrival of the four Demon Lords, the cultivators who had initially held the upper hand suddenly found themselves stretched thin and unable to cope.

This is also why Su Qing, despite seemingly being at a disadvantage against the Ten Great Yama Demons, didn't need Er Qiang's help, as Er Qiang still needed to deal with the Four Great Demon Lords.

These ten Yama demons here, Su Qing himself will have to take them on. (End of Chapter)