Is the cultivation world now only populated by demonesses?

Chapter 78. The World Reversed in an Instant

Sirens are extremely strange creatures; if they were to be classified, they could be categorized as demons.

They prefer to live in groups and feed on fish.

Generally speaking, sirens do not attack humans, but today these sirens seem to have gone mad, rushing up to devour the whales.

The waves receded.

They were a group of blue-skinned, humanoid monsters with two fins on their backs. They held bone forks in their hands, hissed in unintelligible words, and charged onto the whale's back.

Soon, the sea monsters and the cultivators were locked in a chaotic battle.

Amidst the chaos, Xiao Hai, clutching the memorial tablet, frantically hid. He could feel the tablet still trembling, and he gave a bitter laugh: "Ancestor, don't move, I'm about to die."

The whale howled in pain and suddenly flipped over. Some of the people riding on its back fell directly onto the water, while others had to use their magical artifacts to stand on the sea.

I don't know when it started, but a milky white fog began to spread all around.

Lu Changyuan frowned: "Have these sea monsters also been corrupted by lust?"

The demon of desire does not only corrupt cultivators; once a demon gains sentience and develops desires, it must also be wary of the demon of desire.

The siren that pounced on them had bloodshot eyes, seemingly also corrupted by lust.

If it were only one or two, it would be fine, but hundreds or thousands of sea monsters have been infected.

Lu Changyuan raised his sword and cleaved a sea monster in two, the blue blood dripping onto the whale's back, corroding its flesh. "No, it's not a lust demon, it's the Netherworld." Lu Changyuan said, "When Netherworld energy enters the body, it makes sentient beings yearn for death."

The Underworld is a realm formed by the King of the Underworld collecting the "death," "spirit," and "resentment" of living beings. If one's willpower is insufficient, one will be devoured by the energy of the Underworld and become a "spirit" of the Underworld. After that, one can never leave the realm between life and death.

stab.

Not far away, a cultivator clutched his head, then took out his sword and cut off his own head. The remaining half of his body swayed in the air before collapsing with a crash.

This was not the end. Countless buds sprouted from his body, and soon, they crawled out little by little and merged into the mist.

Another whale roar.

The Beast Taming Palace's Sky-Swallowing Whale closed its eyes forever and sank into the sea.

Whales are said to be the oldest creatures in the world, and their sounds are etched on the path between life and death. It is said that if you listen to the sound of a whale dying at the moment of its death, you can travel to the past.

Boom!

The world seemed to turn upside down in an instant.

A hazy pillar shot into the sky after the whale's death. Soon, something seemed to be flying around the pillar in the mist, obscuring the sky and resembling a giant bird.

"move back!"

Lu Changyuan grabbed Su Youwan's hand and sped backward across the water.

Soon, piles of white bones suddenly appeared where they had been standing—human bones, demon bones, and even snake bones stretching for thousands of miles.

Did the bones rise from the seabed and eventually spread across the sea surface?
Lu Changyuan had no time to think. He raised his sword again, beheaded the charging sea monster, and then retreated rapidly.

"Not quite right."

This time, something's not right about the Underworld.

Lu Changyuan had only been to the Underworld once, when he first began cultivating Taoism. Chang'an Taoist entered Taoism at the age of fifty and was subsequently thrown into the Underworld that was opened that time, where he stayed for a full hundred years.

However, the opening of the Underworld Kingdom that time was not as grand as this one.

No.

Even in the recorded history of the opening of the underworld, there was never such a grand display.

Lu Changyuan remembered that the path to the Underworld was in the middle of the sea. When the sun split in two, alternating between black and white, an illusory gate would appear between heaven and earth. Stepping through the gate would lead to the Underworld.

Although the opening of the Underworld is slightly different each time, the differences should not be significant. Ultimately, one must enter that gate to enter the Underworld.

But this time, not to mention the door, the fog that blots out the sky makes it impossible to see in any direction.

The Third Princess said, "Young Master Lu, the mist here is draining life force."

"Keep retreating!"

An unknown howl echoed from the thick white fog, as if it were the voice of some ancient creature, a sound left behind from bygone eras, traversing time to manifest in this world. "Don't let go."

The mist remained, a hazy mist formed by the dark energy that filled the sea, and everyone seemed to have disappeared into the dark energy.

The Third Princess softly replied, "Okay."

Lu Changyuan suddenly felt as if he were standing on the ground.

He looked down at the soles of his feet.

White bones.

A path made of bones appeared beneath their feet, and a faint blue light emanated from the sides of the bones, as if to illuminate them.

The fog suddenly dissipated, and when I looked up at the sky again, there was no sun, only a black and white sphere.

The sky was completely swallowed by the night, or more accurately, it was as if it had been smeared with black dye. The original sky was forcibly covered up, and Jian Guyang's sword mark had also disappeared without a trace.

Life and death hang by a thread; the underworld lies on that line.

"Young Master Lu, don't move."

"Ok?"

The silver-haired girl suddenly bent down, looked closely at Lu Changyuan, and then reached out to cup Lu Changyuan's cheeks.

"Your Highness?"

"I think I just saw a red light in Young Master Lu's eyes."

Lu Changyuan couldn't help but laugh: "Red light? Could it be that I'm like the Third Prince?"

Red eyes are a sign of lustful desires.

Su Youwan shook her head: "Perhaps I saw it wrong."

"Let's go, Third Princess, let's see what lies at the end of this road of bones."

There are two paths to the Underworld.

One is a way to make a living.

One is a dead end.

Lu Changyuan had walked a dead end, but he turned it into a path to life. And the path to life was probably the one that Lu Changyuan and Su Youwan were walking on.

Lu Changyuan actually became quite interested.

There have always been rumors about the path to survival in the underworld, but there has never been any record of it, which is quite a novel experience.

"Young Master Lu is very familiar with this road?"

"Not really. It's just that there's a stone tablet in the Underworld that says, 'Those who walk the path of life are innocent and can pay homage to the King of the Underworld.'"

The silver-haired girl paused for a moment: "If there's a way out, what about a way to die?"

Lu Changyuan smiled and said, "Those who walk the path to death are guilty. If they can complete the path to death, they can be pardoned. Of course, the Underworld is in ruins, and the path to life and death is no longer of any use."

Su Youwan had heard some stories about the underworld: "But the King of the Underworld should already be dead."

"No, it's highly likely that Hades is not dead."

Lu Changyuan said, "The people of the Underworld have waited for a thousand years between life and death, and will eventually welcome back their king."

"Young Master Lu is starting to sound like a storyteller. How can the dead be brought back to life?"

The path lies between life and death.

Death can also be called returning to the Way.

There has never been a case of a dead person being resurrected in this world.

Lu Changyuan said softly, "At least I believe that the path that the Underworld Lord proved is called Death."

(End of this chapter)