I, Superman, the Supreme Commander

Zhu Huijuan said with emotion: "Big brother is indeed smart, and he is worthy of being the heir that father values ​​the most. It's a pity that big brother is not interested in the throne..."

Zhu Youxiao laughed loudly: "My brothers and sisters, don't you think that the affairs of weapons are much more interesting than being an emperor?"

"I heard from the Heavenly Master that mortals can make an iron bird fly in the sky without relying on magic. Just by relying on knowledge of equipment. Don't you think this is very interesting..."

"What's the point of using instruments? I'm telling you, brother, medicine is interesting. It's said that it can allow men to have children!"

"???"

"Ninth sister! Didn't I tell you not to read books randomly?!"

Amid the cheerful conversations of the young boys and girls, the heavy topic of succession to the throne was unknowingly forgotten in the corner.

……

Mount Tai, Dongyue Temple.

The old temple keeper who was dozing off suddenly started and woke up.

As soon as I opened my eyes, I saw a tall and imposing young man in white clothes walking into the temple calmly with his hands behind his back.

"Sir, do you want to pray to God or have your fortune told?"

The temple keeper stepped forward, bowed, and asked in a professional manner.

The young man in white did not answer, but looked up at the mottled and old statue of Emperor Dongyue in the temple.

After a long silence, he opened his mouth and said, "I have come here in person, why don't you show yourself and see me?"

A gust of cold wind blew by, and the candlelight in front of the statue flickered.

The temple keeper, who was about to question the young man in white about his strange behavior, suddenly felt a strong sense of sleepiness. He could not help but yawning, then sat back on the doorstep and fell asleep.

A black shadow flashed in the temple, and a dignified man with a square face appeared. He was wearing the same clothes as the statue of Emperor Dongyue in the temple, and his face was also 70% similar to the statue.

The dignified man bowed to Zhang Hong and said in a neither humble nor arrogant manner: "I am worthy of the sacred stone of Mount Tai. I am here to see the Heavenly Lord."

Stone talisman?

"Aren't you the Great Emperor Dongyue?" Zhang Hong asked in confusion. He looked at the statue and then at the stone dagger. They were indeed the same person.

Shi Gan Dang shook his head and explained, "I was originally a piece of stone on Mount Tai. I was enlightened by the Great Emperor Dong Yue and became a spirit. People mistakenly thought I was the Great Emperor Dong Yue, so they built a statue of me and bowed down to me."

"Where did the real Emperor Dongyue go?"

"There are more than one little gods. When the little gods were born, the great emperor had already disappeared."

Zhang Hong asked aggressively: "I announced it to the world before, why didn't you come to the capital to see me?"

"I hope you will forgive me. I was conferred the title of God of Mount Tai and cannot leave the territory of Mount Tai, so I cannot go to the capital to pay my respects."

"I see... There is something strange about the yin energy under Mount Tai. Do you know why?"

Zhang Hong asked.

If he had not come to investigate in order to discover the abnormality of the [black film] under Mount Tai, he would not have discovered that in this inconspicuous little temple on Mount Tai, there was a Yin god in the realm of ghost immortal hidden.

In order to find a way to enter the underworld, Zhang Hong once carefully studied the "black membrane" 500 kilometers deep underground. It is almost certain that the inner world under the black membrane is the legendary underworld.

He also tried to break the black film with force, but that caused catastrophic consequences, and before the black film was broken, the area within a thousand miles was about to be destroyed by a major earthquake.

Zhang Hong estimated that if the black film was broken, a chain reaction would occur and the entire planet would probably disintegrate.

So we had to find another way.

After some investigation, they found that the black film under Mount Tai seemed to have some abnormal energy, so they came to investigate it in person.

Unexpectedly, I met a Taishan God hiding in the mountain.

Shi Gan Dang...this is a famous mythological figure.

However, the world of A Chinese Ghost Story is obviously somewhat different from the myths and legends that Zhang Hong knows. The God of Mount Tai was originally the Emperor of Dongyue, and Shi Gan Dang was originally a natural god born from the magical stone on Mount Tai, and was a true god conferred by the Heavenly Court.

The Shi Gan Dang here is not a god from heaven, but a special wild stone spirit...

After thinking about it, Zhang Hong came up with an idea.

Facing Zhang Hong's question, Shi Gandang thought for a moment and answered, "The abnormal yin energy that Tianzun mentioned, is it referring to the Ghost Gate under Mount Tai?"

"gate of hell?"

Zhang Hong was surprised. He never thought that the legendary gate of hell was actually under Mount Tai.

But he quickly remembered the legend that Mount Tai was in charge of ghosts. Legend has it that the Emperor of Dongyue was in charge of life and death, and Mount Tai connected the three realms of heaven, earth and man. Since the Han Dynasty, there has been a saying that "Mount Tai controls life and death, people become ghosts after death, and their souls return to Mount Tai", so there is also a legend that the entrance to the underworld is on Mount Tai.

I never thought it would come true in this world. There is a gate of hell under Mount Tai.

Compared to the monks who use magic to open the channel between the Yin and Yang worlds to "smuggle through", the Ghost Gate is like the "customs" of the underworld, the official entrance.

[If this is really the gate of hell, maybe I can enter the underworld? ]

Zhang Hong couldn't help but feel hopeful.

He had tried many times before, trying the secret methods of various sects, and even summoned more than a hundred Yangshen cultivators to set up a formation, open the gate, and try to enter the underworld.

But all ended in failure.

The space channel constructed by magic cannot support his body. The moment he steps into the gate, the channel will collapse under the weight.

It's like an elephant trying to force its way through a dog hole made of paper. The result is that the dog hole will of course be torn into pieces.

Zhang Hong asked expectantly, "I wonder if you can open the gates of hell? I want to go to the underworld. After the task is completed, I will reward you handsomely!"

Shi Gandang shook his head and said, "I dare not lie. I am powerless. You will understand if you follow me, Lord."

Shi Gandang waved his hand, and the ground of Dongyue Temple cracked open, revealing a dark staircase that could accommodate two people walking side by side, leading directly underground.

Under his leadership, Zhang Hong walked down the stairs for tens of thousands of steps. Suddenly, the view became clear and a wide underground space appeared in front of them.

The ghost lights were dim, the air was eerie, and the dark underground space was filled with fog. A huge black wall thousands of feet high stood on the ground, stretching endlessly, like a black sky hanging upside down.

On the black wall, there is a bronze door that is hundreds of feet high. The door is covered with distorted reliefs, forming a ferocious face of a strange beast, which seems to be some kind of strange beast in mythology that can suppress ghosts.

However, Zhang Hong saw from afar that there was something wrong with the huge bronze door. There were several huge cracks on it, as if it had suffered severe damage and was covered with rust, giving people the feeling that it was... a moldy corpse.

Shi Gandang sighed and pointed at the Ghost Gate and said, "Tianzun, please look, this Ghost Gate has been damaged for some reason. It barely suppresses the entrance to the underworld. If there is no such door, the infinite Yin energy of the underworld will continuously flow into the world of the living, causing the Yin and Yang to be in chaos, and the world of the living will become the underworld."

Zhang Hong saw that a large amount of negative energy was continuously leaking out from the cracks in the Ghost Gate.

He seemed to have realized something: "It seems that the world of A Chinese Ghost Story is full of ghosts. In addition to the loose rules of heaven and earth, it is because the gate of hell is leaked..."