I, Superman, the Supreme Commander

Chapter 107 The Only Way to Get to the Source

Zhong Kui originally planned to find a way to restore order on earth and rebuild the faith of all living beings after his reincarnation, so as to use the will of all living beings to feed back to the underworld and recall the true spirits of the gods of the underworld.

However, he could not escape the curse. Once he entered the cycle of reincarnation, his true spirit became obscured, and he could not awaken after several reincarnations.

If he had not been burned by the evil spirit's fire today and accidentally awakened his true spirit, all the efforts of the gods in the underworld would have been in vain. "Should I call you Yan Chixia or Zhong Kui?"

After listening to the story, Zhang Hong couldn't help but ask.

"...Have you ever heard of the Yellow Millet Dream?"

"——I understand. No need to explain. You are Yan Chixia!"

Zhang Hong stopped him from speaking.

I am familiar with the story of Zhuang Zhou dreaming of the butterfly.

It's the same for me.

Although I, Zhang Hong, smoke, drink, kill and set fires, am surrounded by beautiful women, and call myself the Lord of Heaven, I am essentially still that law-abiding, kind and enthusiastic five-good youth of the new era.

"The matter is almost clear now. There is still one question. Where did the Queen Mother Hou Tu go?"

Zhang Hong's biggest question: As the number one leader of the underworld and the most powerful person, why did Hou Tu Niangniang disappear after appearing once?

Yan Chixia shook his head.

"I don't know about this either. I have asked the Great Emperor and Lord Yan, but they also don't know where the Queen is."

"She has not shown any trace even after performing rituals and calling for her."

Zhang Hong was silent. The disappearance of the Queen Mother Hou Tu was even more bizarre than the disappearance of the heaven.

When the heaven disappeared, the truth was not hard to guess. It must have encountered some kind of accident - an invasion by foreign enemies or an explosion in the heaven, so it was stripped from the Kyushu world. The gods and Buddhas in the heaven were probably deeply bound to the heaven, so they were also stripped away.

It may be like an orange with moldy skin, and in order to prevent the inside from getting moldy, the skin is peeled off.

After understanding the situation, Zhang Hong asked as he looked at the big black ball of the Six Paths of Reincarnation that was continuously emitting evil spirits of karma and fire.

"So what do we do now?"

Yan Chixia frowned and said, "The only plan now is to use great magical power to take over the six reincarnations again, and gather the power of all living beings in heaven and earth to suppress the evil spirit of fire again."

"My true spirit has just awakened, and I don't have much divine power. I have to trouble the Heavenly Venerable to help me with this matter."

"This is the Book of Life and Death, which can control the six realms of reincarnation. I have already unlocked the restrictions. The Heavenly Venerable only needs to inject a true spirit into it, and he can use it to control the six realms of reincarnation."

Zhang Hong took the black book from Yan Chixia's hand.

This book feels like a high-quality plastic book, neither gold nor jade. No matter how many pages you turn, you can never finish turning them. There are white characters written in various scripts, such as oracle bone script, seal script, Sanskrit, and official script.

【Black on white...with personality.】

[The problem is... I don't have a real spirit. ]

Zhang Hong was somewhat helpless. He didn't know how to explain that he, the Heavenly Venerable, was actually a fake. He used his spiritual power and his own energy to simulate the principles of magic in this world.

But there was no other way now. Zhang Hong had no choice but to try his luck and probe his spiritual power into the Book of Life and Death...

[…As expected, it doesn’t work. ]

I tried again to recognize the master by dropping blood.

Still useless.

Seeing that Zhang Hong's operations were useless, Yan Chixia was also confused.

[How could this be? ]

[That shouldn't be the case. With Tianzun's strength, he is definitely a Daluo Jinxian, and maybe even a legendary Quasi-Sage.]

[How come you can't even make a magic weapon recognize its master? 】

"Hehe... This Book of Life and Death, can't be used if it doesn't recognize the owner?" Zhang Hong didn't feel embarrassed and asked as if nothing had happened.

Yan Chixia said gloomily: "It can be used. But it only has partial authority, equivalent to the Ox-Head and Horse-Face, which is lower than the authority of a judge like me..."

"Never mind, let's just take it one step at a time!"

There is no other way now. The creatures in the world are hiding in the city. Although there is a concealment formation provided by Zhong Kui, they can temporarily avoid the detection of the evil spirits of fire, but the effect of this formation can only last for a few hours.

Moreover, the Karma Fire Spirits that have lost their target will accelerate the process of devouring and merging with each other, and finally turn into the [Karma Fire Demon], which is the fire giant that Yan Chixia encountered before.

The Karma Fire Demon is an existence similar to the projection of gods and Buddhas. It can use the power of laws left in the evil thoughts of karma and fire of gods and Buddhas, making it even more difficult to deal with... If it goes on any longer, you might see the Jade Emperor and Buddha made of karma fire wandering around the world.

Thinking of that scene, Zhang Hong felt a little numb.

He was not afraid of the karma fire, as he had tried it just now and the karma fire had little effect on him - probably because he was not a creature of this world, and the sword of the previous dynasty could not kill the officials of this dynasty.

But all the living beings in the Nine Provinces must have died. Not even their souls were left, so they couldn't even be reincarnated.

"Yan Chixia, I am leaving now! I will leave the world of the living to you!"

Zhang Hong shouted, grabbed the Book of Life and Death, and dived into the big black ball in the sky.

"Tianzun, be careful!"

Yan Chixia only had time to shout loudly before Zhang Hong's figure disappeared into the big black ball like a stone sinking into ink.

Gritting his teeth, Yan Chixia turned around, opened the passage to the world of the living, and returned to the human world.

"boom!"

Endless red flames rushed towards him, and everyone rushed to hug Zhang Hong.

Just as Zhang Hong guessed, the inside of the big black ball was filled with endless red fire.

The space inside the big black ball is much larger than it looks from the outside. To be precise, space has lost its meaning here. Zhang Hong couldn't even sense the boundary of the sea of ​​fire, nor could he find where he came in.

It was colder here than outside, even colder than the dark outer space where Zhang Hong had been before.

Even with his superhuman physique, he couldn't help but shiver.

Zhang Hong suddenly became extremely alert, raised his guard to the highest level, and was ready to take action at any time.

The hellish fire was like a group of hungry sharks fighting for food, transforming into countless ferocious faces with sharp teeth, biting Zhang Hong madly.

Zhang Hong unfolded a biological force field, covering the surface of his body. The flaming teeth were like silicone against steel, and there was nothing he could do.

The Book of Life and Death emitted a white light, guiding Zhang Hong forward in the sea of ​​fire. Zhang Hong followed the instructions and flew forward.

It felt like he had flown for tens of thousands of miles. Before his eyes, flames became brighter and he actually rushed out of the sea of ​​fire. A red planet made of lava appeared in front of him.

There is a circle of vacuum zone around the planet, and flames are like a sea of ​​clouds surrounding the lava planet, just like the scene in the eye of a typhoon.

No. That wasn't lava - Zhang Hong could see that the entire planet was made up of karmic fire that had condensed to the extreme, and the flame had substance.

A closer look revealed that there were mountains, rivers, oceans and land on the planet's surface. Zhang Hong was immediately surprised when he saw it - wasn't this the Kyushu planet?

A scaled-down version of the planet Kyushu made of lava.

But unlike the real Kyushu planet, the surface of the lava planet is as sticky as a quagmire, rolling like boiling mud, and the rolling bubbles and folds are countless entangled, twisted, and wailing creatures.

It was like a wax figure struggling in pain in a big pot, melting and sticking together. The scene made Zhang Hong lose his sanity.

If this were the world of Cthulhu, he would probably have gone crazy.

The light from the Book of Life and Death pointed at the lava planet, showing that it was the body of the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

[Fuck, this thing is the six realms of reincarnation?! Have all the gods in this world gone crazy! ]

Zhang Hong couldn't help but curse in his heart.