Chapter 295 Underworld

"You're very clever, little one." Shan smiled slightly, "Not bad, I do have this kind of thought."

"I'm sure you can guess from my words that I've been in this underworld for far too long. Although I can see the outside world, I cannot touch it with my own hands." Speaking of this, his voice sank slightly.

"This feeling, can you relate to it?"

"It was indeed a long, boring and lacklustre time." Lin Manshan nodded his head and lamented.

He probably would have gone crazy if it had been him.

"However, if a junior inherits your Divine Position, wouldn't that make it impossible for me to leave the Underworld as well?" Then he opened his mouth to question.

Shan shook his head, "It won't. Your soul is very, very special, able to influence your physical body at all times, transforming it into a special physique capable of coexisting with the Underworld. For countless years, you are the only existence I have encountered who possesses this kind of physique. It is also only with this kind of physique that you will be able to perfectly inherit my divine position."

"And you are also my only hope to break away from the constraints of the Underworld."

"In that case, is it impossible for the junior to refuse?" Lin Manshan couldn't help but say.

"That's right!" Shan nodded solemnly and laughed, "Even if you refuse, when your physical body completes its transformation, I will do everything I can to pull you down from the human realm."

"As the Lord of the Underworld, the rule that the Divine Realm cannot interfere with the lower realms does not apply to me."

Damn it, did I rush myself to the edge of a cliff? Lin Manshan was inwardly speechless, feeling that he had long been on the hook.

"But you don't have to worry, you have the ability to enter and exit the Underworld at will, in the future, if you want to choose an heir it will definitely be a million times easier than me. If you really don't want to be the Lord of the Underworld, you can just train another successor." Shan persuaded, "Anyway, in the Underworld, you can observe all the lower realm beings developed by the Divine Realm, so you can find a suitable one."

"From a certain perspective, the Underworld is one of the two sides of the same coin that exists with the Divine Realm. The more worlds the Divine Realm controls, the wider the range the Underworld can radiate."

The current situation is something that exceeds the capabilities of the current me, and it's useless for me to refuse. Thinking in this manner, Lin Manshan nodded his head slightly, "Senior Shan, there's no rush in this matter. Right now Junior's strength is low, and his physical body has yet to complete its transformation, so I'm afraid it's still too early to talk about this."

"Don't worry about this, I will help you." Shan smiled, "And today, it just so happens that you have come."

"." Lin Manshan was speechless, looking up at the secret spaces suspended in the sky in the distance, he changed the topic, "Senior Shan, these secret spaces were all created by the Gods of the Divine Realm? What are they used for?"

"Well, all of them." Shan responded, "As for the use, they are either used to support divine souls to dwell in, or they are used as divine examination secret realms to select successors."

Speaking of this, he let out a cold smile, "One of the reasons why the Divine Realm is so eager to devour the Underworld is because of the Divine Realm system. According to the regulations, the person who inherits the divine position of a first-level god is allowed to ascend to the divine Realm with his family."

"And not every god who passes down the god position will leave. The Divine Realm is that big, and with such a system, the number of people who stay in the Divine Realm naturally grows as the Divine Position is inherited for an unending period of time. In this way, space is naturally compressed along with it."

Population expansion. Lin Manshan nodded slightly.

"In addition, there are also the divine priests who serve the gods and the spokespersons that the gods left behind on earth, plus their families. These people themselves do not have the strength to become gods, so what was brought up to the Divine Realm was not a physical body, but a transformed divine soul." Shan continued.

"To say that the most suitable place for divine souls to live, that is of course the Underworld."

"In the Underworld, the fallen souls will be washed away by the River Styx until only their essence remains. The excess soul power, on the other hand, will overflow to sustain the Underworld. As long as this pure soul power is absorbed into the space, it can sustain those divine souls."

"Coupled with the aura of the divine realm received down from the divine realm, the divine souls can be sustained forever."

So, the places that the original Sea God told Tang San that gods went to after death were these secret spaces? Lin Manshan couldn't help but think quietly.

"In addition to that, not everyone who inherits the divine throne can become a True God." Shan added, "The initial batch of innate gods who were born almost without exception were born by upholding the laws of heaven and earth, and from a certain perspective, they were the laws themselves, with the ability to destroy the heavens and the earth when they raised their hands and feet. The latter-day gods who succeeded the divine throne were, at most, administrators who could utilize the authority of the divine throne and could not be compared to the innate gods at all. Unless one can comprehend the laws contained in the divine throne to one hundred percent."

"And those who fail to comprehend it, the strength they can exert naturally plummets. Even, some gods' physical bodies collapsed as their comprehension of the laws deepened. Therefore, some gods in the Divine Realm chose to abandon their physical bodies."

"Anyway, I've already seen quite a few of these gods outside of the Divine Realm wandering around."

"And some of these gods likewise live in the Secret Realm space."

"In addition, there's the previously mentioned Divine Examination Secret Realm. This is something that only certain first-level gods or main gods can do, pulling the soul or spiritual consciousness into a secret realm with the aura of the Underworld to create a more realistic illusion, sharpening the mentality of the test taker, and allowing the test taker to be more attuned to his or her divine throne, which greatly helps to transmit the divine throne in the end. Especially the seven emotions assessment, ordinary illusions that act on the spirit will be easily recognized, but with the direct involvement of the soul or spirit consciousness, it can be 100% real."

"I see." Lin Manshan nodded, and his mind couldn't help but recall Tang San and Qian Renxue's examination in the original.

Damn, there were really a lot of sloppy manoeuvres from these gods.

As if he thought of something, he couldn't help but ask again, "Senior, why is this underworld so cold?"

Upon hearing this, Shan's face instantly stiffened, and he sighed, "Because I'm not a True God myself. Otherwise, as the Lord of a realm, how could I have no one under me and allow the Divine Realm to be so rampant." With that, he turned around and continued, "Follow me. The reason for this will be known to you later."   

After saying that, he walked straight forward.

Seeing this, Lin Manshan quickly followed.

Not long after, the two of them arrived in front of a large hall and walked in with the same steps.

Looking around, a huge eyeball suspended on a dais pillar was the first thing that caught their eyes within the open-roofed hall.

"This is?" With such a bizarre scene, Lin Manshan was also stunned.

Shan raised his head to look at the eyeball, turned around, and said with a slightly sentimental and helpless face, "This is the supreme artefact of the God of the Underworld, the Eye of the Soul, which contains the Underworld God's divine throne. At the same time, it is also the core of the Underworld, my own body."

"Senior's body?" Lin Manshan was immediately taken aback.

"That's right." Shan nodded, "My body is the purest soul breath in heaven and earth, and my situation is not much different from that of the God of Destruction, except that his Destruction Condensation can be materialized, and can thus be transformed into a physical body. I, on the other hand, only have a pure soul that cannot be transformed into a physical body. Coupled with the special nature of the Underworld, there isn't any substance around that can carry my soul."

"As such, I used the soul laws and divine position I had mastered as the core and used the purest soul power to condense this Soul Eye. Originally, I thought that with enough time, the soul eye would be able to materialize and carry my soul. Or, after carrying the Divine Position with this Soul Eye, I would be able to get rid of my shackles and leave the Underworld. But as a result, it was a disappointment."

"Don't worry, I have no intention of taking over your physical body." Nodding slightly, he continued.

"For countless years, I've long since gotten tired of watching the outside world."

"What I want to do most right now is to find someone to inherit the divine throne, and then enter the gate by myself to reincarnate and be reborn, to truly experience some earthly life. Only by forgetting everything that happened so far will I really be able to start a happy life."

"Inserting myself midway and experiencing someone else's life is never what I want."

It had to be said that this God of the Underworld was indeed quite unlucky, being trapped in one place as an old otaku for countless years. As a soul body, he couldn't even move his left hand and right hand in slow motion, it was really too miserable. Lin Manshan sighed silently as soon as he heard this and nodded his head slightly.

"Senior's words, Junior naturally believes them."

"Then let's begin." Shan smiled, and in the next moment, the huge eyeball above suddenly looked at Lin Manshan, and then.

"Poof!" A pillar of glowing green light shot straight towards Lin Manshan.

A very pure soul power locked on his soul, which cannot be avoided. Lin Manshan was deeply taken aback at that moment.

Shan's voice also sounded again at this time, "I will now inject soul power into your body, grow your soul origin. I hope that you will be able to attain the Divine Soul level. In this way, when you return, this enhancement will automatically feed back into your physical body, speeding up the transformation process. You've absorbed multiple spirit bones and two 100,000-year-old spirit rings, so now your physical body is fully capable of carrying this soul power."

"By my estimation, when you break through level 90 and absorb the ninth spirit ring, the transformation should be completed very quickly."

Honestly, he had thought about seizing Lin Manshan's body before, but after thinking about it for a while, he dismissed the idea. He really didn't want to experience life with countless years of memories, it felt like it would be boring. Moreover, not having his own physical body always felt almost meaningless. He was also tired of staying in this underworld, and since he had the opportunity, it was better to start everything over again.

Thinking like this, he immediately increased the infusion of soul power.

At this very moment, within the Supreme Pontiff Palace in Spirit City, Bibi Dong opened the secret room and slowly walked in.

Walking to the central platform with a large number of lines engraved on the ground, she raised her right hand, and a green light circle immediately appeared in front of her.

Seeing this, Bibi Dong did not hesitate to step in.

With a turn of sight, she arrived at a large hall full of demonic patterns, and in front of the hall, there was a giant woman sculpture. A green armour hardly concealed the voluptuous body, with flawless features, holding a huge scythe, it constantly emitted an evil atmosphere.

In front of the sculpture, is an oval pool, dark green water swirling around within.

After taking a deep breath, Bibi Dong slowly removed her clothes, took a small step into the pool, and then her body fell backwards until she was immersed in the pool.

In the next moment, the entire surface of the pool suddenly boiled.

"Success!" A ripple could not help but fluctuate within Bibi Dong, then, in the next second, she only felt her entire body burning, "Crunch Crack." As the water in the pool continued to churn, the crackling sound of bones grinding resounded.

Dazzling light rose from the pool, and on the snow-white skin, layers of bony material began to surface.

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