NOVPUB787: Chapter 14: The Realm of the Dead
787 -14: The Realm of the Dead
In the following days, Tang Xian began to cooperate with Tang Jing.
The two were separated by nearly half of the mining area world and lacked verbal communication.
However, they were in perfect sync, and to convince the judge, Tang Jing would come up with a reasonable explanation regarding how he knew Tang Xian’s whereabouts.
To make the judge believe, Tang Xian also had Tang Feiji cross the Ashen Sea and cause some disturbances along the coastline.
Tang Feiji himself had learned how to use the teleportation fissures, so Tang Xian and his people were essentially split into two groups.
Tang Feiji was responsible for creating distractions, while Tang Xian, Tang Xiaojiu, and Tang carried on to the Sin Snatching Territory.
The coordinates for the Sin Snatching Territory had been preserved since Bai Mansheng and Tang Xiaojiu left last time, so they could travel directly back and forth.
Just the day before, they were searching for the Sea God’s inheritance on a southern island, and the next day, Tang Xian had appeared in the Northwest direction of the mainland with his group. 𝖓𝔬𝔳𝔭𝔲𝔟.𝖈𝖔𝔪
Tang Feiji was quite unhappy with this arrangement, feeling like a fool being left out.
But under Tang Xian’s command, the ones with the deepest hatred for the judge were these two dragons and phoenixes.
The mystical bird was originally arranged to help Tang Jing, but Tang Jing completed the task so efficiently that there was no need for the mystical bird, so Tang Xian’s other arrangement was to have the mystical bird meet up in the Sin Snatching Territory.
After making a ruckus in the Ashen Sea, Tang Feiji’s next stop was to head directly to the Hungry Sea to leave behind the coordinates.
This was a battle against time, so Tang Xian hoped to save all the time spent on travel.
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Sin Snatching Territory.
Following the incident of the expedition against Tang, the power of the Thousand Beasts Court seemed to have weakened, but for the myriad beasts, the court became even more domineering because the judge finally walked out from the altar.
The rise and fall of all things have their own cycles of cause and effect.
Therefore, Tang Xian believed that the reason the Sin Snatching Territory was so dead silent must be related to the Nether Phoenix.
The mystical bird had been waiting in this place for a long time, and Tang Xian arrived much faster than it had anticipated.
The main reason for meeting with the mystical bird was that, due to the mysterious and unusual space of the Netherworld, only the mystical bird had the sensing ability.
Searching for its master’s inheritance, the mystical bird was very proactive and didn’t want to delay at all, quickly taking Tang Xian toward the extreme west after seeing him.
This was the first day.
To avoid the judge, Tang Xian had the mystical bird extinguish its blue flames.
It felt like a phoenix had turned into a sparrow.
It was like a cat that looks fat, but when you shave off all its fur, it suddenly appears thin.
The mystical bird didn’t mind.
“This is the intel from Bai Shuang, saying that there have been undead sightings in the extreme west.
I always thought that the things in the Spiritual Purgatory that look like ghosts were just a special type of energy.
But after seeing the Sea God’s obsession, I’m beginning to think that maybe this world does have ghosts?”
Feeling bored during the flight, Tang Xian struck up a conversation with the mystical bird.
The mystical bird said,
“The so-called undead are indeed obsessions incarnate, and the Spiritual Purgatory is the place to suppress them.
The stronger the Nether beasts that make up the Spiritual Purgatory, the stronger the undead within it.”
“So, the weak appearance of the undead in your Spiritual Purgatory implies you’re not that powerful?”
“…”
Taking into account that it could no longer defeat Tang Xian, the mystical bird decided to hold back and replied,
“If it weren’t for the fact that you and that monster have such strong life forces, you wouldn’t be able to deal with them in the Spiritual Purgatory, let alone me.”
Tang Xian was indifferent, but he more or less understood some aspects.
On reflection, although the mystical bird could devour those undead, Tang couldn’t do anything about them within the Spiritual Purgatory.
“What happens to the powerful creatures that leave behind obsessions after they die, if those obsessions are not in the Spiritual Purgatory?”
“Such a situation does not exist; the Spiritual Purgatory is both a prison for them and the only place they can exist.
The undead cannot leave the Spiritual Purgatory.”
Racing through the high sky, Tang Xian pondered over the mystical bird’s words and felt that something was off.
This world certainly isn’t very scientific, but from the mystical bird’s words, the so-called undead seem to be a special form of energy that also requires a special form of force field to manifest.
That is to say, there is indeed a Netherworld, but it poses no threat to living beings.
But what if the Spiritual Purgatory is too vast?
What if the guardian of the Spiritual Purgatory dies and the Spiritual Purgatory doesn’t break?
There lies a paradox.
If the King of Hell dies, who is there to judge him?
“The owner of the largest Spiritual Purgatory in the world is your master, the Nether Phoenix.
Powerful species leave behind obsessions after death, and get trapped within the Spiritual Purgatory.
There aren’t many species in the world stronger than the Nether Phoenix.
So it’s certain, if the Nether Phoenix had a Spiritual Purgatory—it would definitely leave behind its obsession, right?”
As Tang Xian spoke these words, the mystical bird flying high above suddenly quivered, almost causing Tang Xiaojiu and the others to fall off.
The mystical bird’s heart was a bit unsettled.
Tang Xian’s assertion was indeed very rational.
It suddenly became nervous,
“Could it be that my master…
has become an obsession?”
“It’s hard to say, we need to find the place with the strongest Netherworld aura, and you’re the only one who can accomplish this.
I even have a premonition that perhaps the Nether Phoenix’s obsession itself is its inheritance.”
The mystical bird did not understand this statement; it was merely consumed with the thought that its master might truly have left a trace.
Tang Xian did not say anything less optimistic to diminish the bird’s anticipation.
