The dim Underworld World suddenly flickered with a sky-blue brilliance. Accompanied by the melodious cry of a phoenix, the divine bird soared in the Underworld World, searching for the souls that had fallen here.
Suddenly, the bird pecked forward lightly and grabbed a remnant soul from the hazy black gas. It was the soul of a cultivator in the human world. Now, most of it had dissipated under the corrosion of the Underworld World.
The bird's beak trembled slightly, shaking off the Netherworld Ghost Qi on it. Ji Feichen transmitted his voice with the power of his primordial spirit, "Are you still conscious?"
After the remnant soul received Ji Feichen's transmission, its confused expression gradually became more lively, and it looked at the big bird in front of it.
"Phoenix?" Although the remnant soul had never seen a phoenix before, after seeing this divine bird, it instinctively thought of the legendary phoenix.
Not bad, it still had some consciousness. Ji Feichen asked again, "What's your name?"
The remnant soul was stunned. Just as he was about to recall his memory, his mind went blank, and he couldn't remember anything.
"Has the ghost qi corroded you to this extent?" Ji Feichen then asked a few more questions. This cultivator had already forgotten his name and even his origin. He only remembered that he was a cultivator, and he still had some skills.
"Make a contract with me, serve me for a hundred years, and I'll help you find your memory."
Knowing that the other party still had some skills of artifact forging and alchemy, Ji Feichen immediately signed a contract with him, and he stored it in the storage space of the phoenix anklet.
The Phoenix True Body didn't have many things on it, and it was difficult for the Phoenix True Body to carry things like leopard bags and Qiankun bags. Therefore, it dug out cold iron from the depths of the snowy mountains in the Lightless Realm to make a mystic gold anklet.
It had to be said that the Lightless Realm was a "primitive zone" that no one had mined, and there were indeed many treasures left. Although the lack of light led to a lack of plants, it was rich in mineral resources. According to Ji Feichen's observation, the mineral resources in the Lightless Realm accounted for at least a quarter of the entire Qian Guang State, and it had three-thousandth of the mineral resources in the entire human world. In other words, as long as there was no disturbance from outsiders, the Long Yuan Chamber of Commerce wouldn't have to worry about jade and metal materials for the next thousands of years.
"Later, we'll develop this Lightless Realm into our Long Yuan Chamber of Commerce's private land."
The mysterious and quiet darkness was the best cover. As such, Ji Feichen decided to set up Long Yuan's branch in the Qian Guang Continent in the Lightless Domain.
After putting away the living soul, the phoenix continued to search for other souls in the Underworld.
However, it was very difficult to find a cultivator's soul in the vast Underworld Earth, and it was even more difficult to find a living soul that retained its memories.
Ji Feichen spent an entire day collecting thirty living souls.
"I'm going to beat my chest and find three hundred for Shaolan." Ji Feichen felt helpless. In order to maintain his boss's reputation, he sped up his search in the Underworld.
Afterward, the phoenix continued to fly around the Underworld Earth. While searching for living souls, it also recorded the situation of the Underworld Earth Ghosts. There was no light in the netherworld, and the sun and moon did not appear. The ghosts were muddle-headed and had low intelligence. Other than their natural brute strength and natural supernatural powers, there was nothing to be afraid of.
Suddenly, Ji Feichen heard a wail. Its wings glided across the sky as the phoenix flew out of the Underworld Earth gracefully. It saw a few wandering souls in the crevices at the border of the Underworld Earth.
These souls were crying in the darkness. There was still some Yang energy on their bodies that had not dissipated, which was guiding them and preventing them from truly falling into the Underworld Earth.
"Living people?" The phoenix's eyes saw through these souls. These souls' physical bodies were not truly dead. They were only on the verge of death because they were frozen in the bitter cold environment.
"Since they are living people, then let's send them back!" Ji Feichen's kind heart stirred. He immediately saw the destiny of the future after saving them.
The river of time split into countless futures, and all of them pointed to the same target — Xuan Ming Sky Phoenix, the Lord of Death.
In the legends of the Qian Guang Continent, death and cold were inseparable. The death brought by cold was far greater than the plague and war. As for the Lightless Domain, in the understanding of mortals, it was a giant bird hidden in the darkness. It flapped its wings and brought about wind and snow. Its body covered the sky and shrouded the earth with darkness. The expansion of the Lightless Domain every year was the activity of the giant bird heading south.
Ji Feichen was deep in thought as he sized up the souls. "Looks like my faith will have to rely on them."
Thus, the phoenix appeared in front of the souls. The noble divine bird gently flicked its tail feathers and brought the souls back to the human world.
At first, the souls were frightened by the appearance of the phoenix. They did not dare to speak and held on tightly to the phoenix feathers to observe the situation around them.
Below them was blurry darkness, but Ji Feichen secretly used his divine power to let them see the scene of the Underworld Earth. Rakshasa, Yaksha, evil ghosts, souls, and other ghosts wandered in the Underworld Earth. Everyone's faces were ashen. Their instincts told them that it was a world of death.
One of the souls gathered his courage and asked, "Where is the divine bird taking us?"
"You are not dead. You should not enter the world of the dead." The male and female phoenix's heavenly voice rang in the ears of the souls. The words that did not carry any warmth or emotion were like a clear spring that soothed the panic in everyone's hearts.
"Are you here to save us?"
"No, I'm sending you away. I am the master of death, the embodiment of ice and snow, the end of all things. But at this moment, you should not return to my embrace. "
Death, ice and snow?
The souls turned pale. After looking at each other, one of them asked with a trembling voice, "Nether … Nether Bird?"
Nether Bird was a demonic bird that mortals imagined about the Lightless Realm. It controlled the power of wind, snow, and death. Feeling the radiance of the phoenix, it did not have the warmth of the legends. Instead, it was an ice flame that did not carry any warmth. It was a power that was completely different from the current phoenix race.
"That's what mortals call me. If you want, you can call me that. " Ji Feichen's tone was calm as he recalled the attitude of the Heavenly Mother. He pretended to be an otherworldly saint and maintained a calm tone from beginning to end. "I am the wind and snow, the bitter cold, death, and the end. In the face of death, regardless of human, demon, immortal, or demon, everyone should accept the fate of death equally. "After all, he was a big shot in the Underworld. Ji Feichen had his own understanding of death. Except for those Heaven Immortals who had jumped out of the five elements. No one could avoid death.
"Nonsense. Because of you, we can only keep moving south every year. Who knows how many people will die! "One of the souls was agitated. His parents and relatives had long passed away under the corrosion of the Lightless Realm. When he saw the culprit, he immediately cursed out loud.
When Ji Feichen heard those curses, his tail feathers trembled. The man was so frightened that he hurriedly grabbed Ji Feichen's tail feathers and did not dare to continue.
He almost forgot that this was Ji Feichen's body!
His companions hurriedly held him down and did not let him continue. Otherwise, if they offended Ji Feichen, they would not be able to leave.
The souls were nervous, afraid that Ji Feichen would be angry. At this time, a chuckle came from ahead. "Mortals always like to push their sins on others. I am the symbol of nature, the embodiment of death. This is the objective law of nature. I walk according to the Dao, why should I attack you? Besides, what good will killing you do to me? "
The souls were stunned. Yes, was killing people useful to phoenixes?
In the distance, a giant hundreds of meters tall appeared, trying to stop the phoenix from leaving. The phoenix only spat out a silver light and killed the giant.
Of course, this was all an illusion. Ji Feichen deliberately left an impression of invincibility in front of everyone to show his majesty.
In the illusion, all kinds of ferocious ghosts appeared, but they were all forced back by the phoenix one by one. Leading the group of souls, it gradually approached the "entrance to the human world" in the sky.
"Ice and snow are objective natural phenomena. However, living creatures regard ice and snow as death and do not dare to resist. If you can find a way to cut through mountains to build cities and refine fire to generate light, you can still find a way to survive even in the Lightless Realm. If you can give up on suspicion and killing each other, focus on growing food, and improve your living standards. You can also reduce the chance of death. "
The souls gradually fell into deep thought.
Yes, many times, the death of their clansmen was not simply because of the natural environment, but because of the lack of food. They had no choice but to fight each other for food.
"You fight with your clansmen for your own interests. You only care about today's life and death. Every day, you live in a daze, but you ignore the great cause of thousands of years. Therefore, you can only be the slaves of nature and blame all your inactions on nature's revenge. "
"But … but even so, every time the Lightless Realm moves south, there will be people who completely disappear in the darkness …" Someone said weakly, "They, they can't be …"
Legend has it that the Nether Bird ate them.
"I don't eat people. The phoenix does not eat unless it is refined and does not drink unless it is a spring of good wine. The blood sacrifice that you mortals imagine is too dirty for me. "In other words, I despise your dirty bodies and do not care about eating blood. The phoenix's tone was somewhat disdainful, deeply hurting the self-esteem of the souls.
"However, when I act according to nature, there are often malicious ghosts and demons following me every year when I operate the ice and snow and darkness. They fish in troubled waters and sneak attack mortals. They must be the ones who do it, right? "Ji Feichen's expression did not change as he directly pushed the sins of the past onto the heads of the ghosts of the Underworld. In any case, they were going to be destroyed by the Underworld soon, so he might as well use them a little more.
However, Ji Feichen was not wrong.
Over the years, many of the people who died in the Lightless Realm were killed by the cultivators. The Devil Path needed to kill people to practice their skills and make weapons. Even some Immortal Sects secretly used mortals as sacrificial offerings to immortality pills. In the end, they pushed everything to the Lightless Realm, leaving themselves clean, and peacefully allowed mortals to worship them as Immortal Masters and enjoy their nourishment.
"We're here." After passing through the long dark fog, the radiance of the Yang-Realm appeared in front of them. The phoenix let out a long cry, and the souls fell into a trance as they returned to their bodies.
Meeting with the phoenix and coming back to life naturally brought a new myth to the legendary Nether Bird, the phoenix.
Moreover, after seeing Ji Feichen's appearance, the souls reconstructed the image of the Nether Bird according to Ji Feichen's appearance, taking the faith of mortals in the Lightless Realm as their own.
Faith was not simply good and evil, but it was just the perception of a certain concept. Ji Feichen guided the faith and took the faith accumulated over thousands of years under his own name, which was enough for the Phoenix True Body to step into the level of Ground Fairies or even Sky Immortals.
"It's a very long path to become a Heavenly Phoenix with my Phoenix True Body in the Mortal Realm. However, if I have this part of the faith, it will be much faster. "
Ji Feichen laid the groundwork and continued to dive into the Underworld to search for the souls of cultivators.
However, this time, he suddenly felt the call of a force. It was of the same source as part of Ji Feichen's power, and it guided him to the depths of the Underworld.
"This power is a little familiar … Could it be her?" Without hesitation, Ji Feichen immediately rushed into the thick fog in the depths of the Underworld.
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