Chapter 79 Digging Through the Netherworld!
In the small courtyard on the northern outskirts of Qingyun City.
"Clang! Clang!"
The Ancient Devouring Beast, in its Incarnation as Xiao Hei Gou, was holding a rusty shovel with its two front paws, frantically digging up dirt in the center of the courtyard.
After finishing the bowl of "leftover bones" poured for it by Demon Venerable Wanhua, Xiao Hei felt that the sealed Ancient power within its body had actually recovered a tiny bit. This made it completely recognize reality—working under this white-clothed great Devil King, as long as the work was done well, the benefits were absolutely ten thousand times better than when it ate dirt in the Primordial Era!
"Dig! Today, this seat must dig out a top-grade spiritual spring that will shock the Heavens and Myriad Realms, to make the Lord look at me in a new light!"
Xiao Hei was full of energy, the shovel swinging wildly as the pit grew deeper and deeper.
Just as it had excavated downwards for about several dozen zhang.
"Crack!"
The tip of the shovel seemed to pierce through an invisible barrier. Immediately after, a bone-chilling Aura of Yin coldness gushed out from underground like a bursting flood!
This coldness was no ordinary ice and snow cold, but carried thick Death Qi, resentment, and the Netherworld Law capable of corroding all life in the world!
“Boom—!”
Mist as black as ink instantly soared into the sky, shrouding the entire small courtyard and even the surrounding construction site in a ghostly wailing and howling gloom.
On the construction site separated by only a wall.
The True Immortal Cangqiongzi and Ancient Ancestor Yuanmo, who were pushing bricks, stopped in their tracks at the same time, their entire bodies shuddering violently.
“This Aura... is the Netherworld Yellow Springs of the Underworld?!”
Cangqiongzi turned pale with fright, even throwing away the wheelbarrow in his hands. He stared fixedly at the rising black mist, his voice trembling: "How deep did that local dog dig? To actually pierce through the Netherworld Barrier that isolates the realms of Yin and Yang!"
Ancient Ancestor Yuanmo's scalp also felt numb: "It's over! The Yellow Springs are flooding back, and the Hundred Ghosts are walking the night! This Qingyun City is likely to become a living hell!"
Accompanying the exclamations of the old monsters.
From that deep well just dug open, a burst of hair-raising wild laughter rang out.
“Jie jie jie jie... A million years! The Yin-Yang passage has finally opened again!”
A ten-zhang tall [Netherworld Ghost King], clad in bone armor and wielding a Soul-hooking Scythe, stepped onto the churning waters of the Yellow Springs. Leading a dense army of millions of evil ghosts behind him, he crawled out from the well's mouth, baring fangs and brandishing claws.
“Fresh flesh! Delicious living Souls! My children, follow this King to trample this mortal realm and have a feast!”
The Netherworld Ghost King let out an excited roar to the heavens, his terrifying Ghost Immortal pressure sweeping in all directions.
The Zixiao Holy Land Cultivators outside the wall retreated in fear one after another. Xue Kuang even sat directly in the mud, his legs trembling uncontrollably.
However.
At this terrifying moment of the Hundred Ghosts' night walk and the ghost soldiers' passage.
Xiao Hei, standing by the edge of the well, silently put down the shovel in its paws.
It tilted its dark, scruffy dog head, looking at this dancing bone Ghost King in front of it, and then at the group of evil ghosts behind him that looked like clumps of black mist.
Xiao Hei couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva.
It was the Ancient Devouring Beast! Back in the Primordial Era, what True Immortal or Devil God had it not eaten? But ever since being suppressed beneath the Nine Serenities, it hadn't eaten this kind of pure "Soul-type" snack for a million years!
Moreover, this group of blind lonely Souls and wild ghosts actually dared to emerge from the well it had worked so hard to dig, making the water dirty! If it made the Overseer Lord unhappy and its dinner was docked, what would it do?!
“So noisy.”
Xiao Hei opened its dog mouth and let out a disdainful snort.
The Netherworld Ghost King, who was preparing to go on a killing spree, looked down at this local dog that wasn't even knee-high and gave a cruel laugh: "Where did this mongrel stray dog come from? Just right to fill the gaps between my teeth..."
Before his words could land.
Xiao Hei's mouth suddenly opened, and a terrifying Devouring Law exclusive to the Primordial Devouring Beast exploded from its seemingly ordinary dog mouth!
“Suck—!”
There was no earth-shattering explosion, only an extreme suction like a black hole!
“Whoosh!”
That aggressive army of millions of evil ghosts that had just crawled out of the well didn't even have time to scream. Like lint targeted by a super vacuum cleaner, they instantly turned into a black tornado and drilled directly into Xiao Hei's belly!
“This... what kind of monster is this?!”
The wild laughter on the Netherworld Ghost King's face instantly froze, replaced by endless horror. He desperately brandished his Soul-hooking Scythe, wanting to flee back to the Underworld, but that devouring force bit firmly onto his bone armor.
“Crunch! Snap!”
Xiao Hei bit onto the Ghost King's leg and, like eating a bursting beef ball, chewed up and swallowed this Ghost Immortal who dominated the Underworld in just a few bites.
“Burp—”
In less than three short breaths.
The sun-blotting Hundred Ghosts' night walk vanished, and the sky-filling Yin Qi was also sucked completely clean.
Xiao Hei smacked its lips as if wanting more, let out a satisfied burp, and blew a black smoke ring from its nostrils.
“The taste is okay, just a bit stuck in the teeth. This Yellow Springs water is quite cool, though.”
It picked up the shovel again, looked at the churning Netherworld Yellow Springs water at the bottom of the well, and nodded with satisfaction. This water was bone-chillingly cold, just right to hand in for the job.
Outside the wall.
Cangqiongzi and Ancient Ancestor Yuanmo were completely dumbfounded.
A million ghost soldiers and a Ghost King were just... slurped up as an after-dinner snack by that local dog called "Xiao Hei"?!
“Old Cang... I believe it now.” Ancient Ancestor Yuanmo wiped the cold sweat from his forehead with difficulty, “The dog raised by the Lord is indeed something we can't afford to provoke. In the future, when it's eating, I'll definitely take the long way around.”
...
Just then, the courtyard gate was pushed open.
Lin Yuan walked in carrying two jin of fresh ribs, leading Xiao Yuer. In Xiao Yuer's hands, she carefully held that newly sprouted Chaos Azure Lotus seed.
“Old Wan, go plant this morning glory in the corner and give it some water.”
Lin Yuan handed the seed to the running Demon Venerable Wanhua and turned to look at Xiao Hei in the center of the yard.
“Oh, Xiao Hei, the well is finished?”
Lin Yuan walked over and looked down into the well.
He saw the well water was crystal clear, yet it constantly emitted a cool white mist, with dense bubbles churning on the water's surface.
Lin Yuan raised an eyebrow in surprise: "You actually dug out carbonated mineral water? This water temperature is quite cold; it's like natural soda water."
Lin Yuan had heard in his past life that using soda water to wash or stew meat could make the texture even more tender.
Without another word, he directly threw the two jin of ribs in his hand into the well to wash them, then fished them out, nodding with satisfaction.
“Not bad, not bad. These ribs washed with this water look tender. Old Wan, start the stove and get the oil hot; tonight we're making soda water sweet and sour ribs!”
Outside the wall, the Zixiao Holy Land old monsters peeking through the crack in the door felt their legs go weak, and they all knelt down in a row.
“Using... using the Netherworld Yellow Springs water that can corrode the Physical Body of a True Immortal to wash mortal pork ribs?!”
Cangqiongzi clutched his heart, feeling his worldview being pressed into the ground and rubbed once again.
“The Lord is cooking food using the Laws of Life and Death! Those aren't ribs; that's clearly a supreme Divine Pill that transcends the boundaries of life and death!”
“Woof!” Xiao Hei wagged its tail as if claiming credit.
Lin Yuan was in a great mood and casually tossed a raw bone to Xiao Hei: "Well done, this is your reward. From now on, this well will be used as a natural refrigerator."
...
After dinner, the night grew deeper.
That Chaos Azure Lotus sprout planted in the corner by Demon Venerable Wanhua, after absorbing the Yellow Springs water and the supreme Dao charm in the courtyard, was growing wildly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
In just a few hours, it turned into a thick emerald vine, climbing along the blue brick courtyard wall, covering nearly half the wall under lush green leaves.
And at the highest point of the vine, a fist-sized flower bud emitting a faint Chaos azure light had formed.