Netherworld

The Netherworld , also called Underworld, is one of the 10 hells.
It was said that the Netherworld existed on a Yin plane, while the world of the living existed on a Yang plane, which meant that memories of the other plane had to be erased. However, this was just a guess, and it was just what everyone said. There was no solid proof of the matter.
The majority of Netherpassage experts were not as amazing as Qu Jianying. Qu Jianying had managed to seal a portion of her memories and bring them out, but the majority of Netherpassage experts had all their memories erased by some mysterious energy.
== Subareas ==
*Nine Springs
**Yellow Springs Path
*Gates of Hell
*Purgatory
== Characters ==
== Hell ==
The so-called hell (地狱) said in stories is just a name. In reality, it is a spatial crevice between two worlds. It is the crossing zone between the Martial Heaven Continent and the Netherworld. Some creatures that die will have their souls drawn into the Netherworld.
The devil beasts fought in the Infernal Devil Abyss are lifeforms that exist in the crevice between two worlds. The Martial Heaven Continent actually has countless spatial channels. The various large powers are all guarding those channels secretly. So although this world seems very peaceful, in reality, there is a great deal of internal trouble and external enemies.
The devil beasts that come from there have a trace of yuan spiritual energy in their crystal cores. The Xuantian Dao Sect can purify them to help Foundation Forging disciples cultivate. Once you kill the devil beasts, people will come to clean up the battlefield and gather their crystal cores. They'll give them to the sect to be refined, and a portion of them will be available for sale to Foundation Forging disciples, while a portion will be put out for sale to other sects.
== Races ==
* Underworld Race
* Nether Race
* Nethergod Race
== Jade case (Qu Jianying) ==
The darkness seemed endless. It felt like he had been devoured by it and entered a world of eternity. Here, there was no time, no space.
Netherpassage experts were able to control their life and death.
This phrase sounded nonsensical. Who couldn't control their life and death? Couldn't they just kill themselves?
However, this phrase meant something different. Netherpassage experts had to experience true death.
The physical body died. The Yuan Spirit died. However, the Netherpassage experts would retain the slightest trace of life, using it to enter the gate to the Netherworld. Then they would return from that gate, completing a cycle of life and death. After that, they would have truly reached the Netherpassage realm.
The darkness Long Chen was seeing was the darkness Qu Jianying had experienced after dying. This darkness would evoke instinctual fear in people.
There was no light. 
There was no sound. 
There was nothing. 
Everything was still in death.
== Entrance gate ==
Each person enters the underworld through their own gate. Returning through that gate will return to that person's body.
He couldn't go through the other gates, because once he did, he would enter that person's body.
Who knew whether these gates would lead to the body of a human or a demon? What if they led to a completely different star-field? One mistake, and he would never be able to return to the Martial Heaven Continent.
Long Chen leaves through Zhao Mankun's portal.
=== Qu Jianying and Netherpassage ===
Suddenly, Long Chen saw a huge gate ahead of him. It was open just a crack.
His body moved toward the gate involuntarily, toward the crack. Long Chen knew that he was seeing things from Qu Jianying's point of view.
Once he was through the gate, he saw a giant bridge ahead of him. What shocked Long Chen was that this bridge had many people randomly wandering around.
As he walked forward, he saw a humanoid monstrosity in extremely ancient robes. This humanoid was carrying chains with huge hooks at the end.
This figure was using its chains to kill the people on the bridge. Anyone struck by its chains would be turned to mist and vanish from sight.
The humanoid monstrosity had strange runes in its eyes. However, it seemed to not see Qu Jianying. It was constantly tidying up the people on the bridge who were roaming around randomly.
As it killed those people, mist rose into the air. The bridge was quickly tidied up.
The slain people didn't react at all. They didn't dodge, they didn't run. They didn't seem to know what fear was. Their expressions were wooden as they were killed.
As the monstrosity killed more of them, its chains grew brighter.
After a while, the monstrosity walked to a stone pillar at the side of the bridge. At the top of the pillar was a head-sized stone.
The stone flowed with light. It was like a pearl. Through Qu Jianying's sight, Long Chen could sense terrifying spiritual fluctuations coming from the stone.
"A definite treasure. Those people's souls were all gathered into this orb. The Spiritual Strength inside it has reached the pinnacle of purity. Just what is going on? Those people didn't look like cultivators. They seemed like ordinary people who came here in a spiritual state, but they didn't have any spiritual fluctuations. And that strange monstrosity, he seems like a jailor. Those chains are extremely powerful against souls," thought Long Chen.
Everything he was seeing, hearing, and feeling was the same as what Qu Jianying had experienced when she had entered the Netherworld. His line of sight could not be moved. Long Chen guessed that Qu Jianying was currently hidden in a corner.
Just at this moment, a huge gate appeared in the air, and a figure walked out from a crack. Long Chen was startled. It was someone from a race he had never seen before.
He was three meters tall with a body covered in scales. He had a single horn on his head and a fish-like tail on his back.
A member of the ancient races? No, his aura was completely different. A Xuan Beast? Also wrong. This person had a dark aura that was different from any of the lifeforms on the Martial Heaven Continent.
Long Chen suddenly understood something. A Netherpassage expert who entered the Netherworld had their own gate. This person's gate had appeared not far from Qu Jianying's gate.
That person's gaze swept around, even going past Qu Jianying. However, he didn't see her. Qu Jianying must be hidden very well.
Long Chen praised Qu Jianying inside. This attention to detail was definitely far superior to the old man. If it had been him, he would definitely not have thought of hiding and observing things first.
This tailed person walked forward. He quickly reached the center of the bridge and saw the monstrosity killing the souls.
The tailed person snorted and sent a punch at the monstrosity. His punch was incredibly powerful, but he was sent flying by a punch from the monstrosity.
Long Chen was startled. "It's possible to activate magical arts and Battle Skills here? Then the spiritual body that enters this place is actually also a physical body. What a strange place."
Just at this moment, a blood-colored rune appeared in that monstrosity's eyes. The chain in its hand shot toward the tailed man.
The tailed man sneered and began muttering something Long Chen couldn't understand. He once more sent out a punch.
However, this time, the tailed man's arm exploded and blood mist flew out. He was actually a solid body.
The tailed man let out a miserable cry. Only at this moment did Long Chen see countless barbs on the chains that were pulling out that tailed man's flesh. Those barbs were like teeth.
The tailed man turned to flee back to the gate he had come out of. Unfortunately, he had just gotten there when the monstrosity's chain explosively grew. It smashed through the tailed man's body, causing him to scream.
His body then rapidly withered until he was nothing more than dust. The monstrosity returned to its original appearance, but now it went to another orb. Its chain had a dozen drops of essence blood that dripped onto the orb.
"Damn, so it's gathering essence blood." Long Chen was startled. This thing was gathering souls and essence blood at the same time. Just what was it doing?
At this moment, Qu Jianying walked out of the place she was hiding and crept forward, carefully going past the monstrosity.
It completely ignored her, and she continued onward. The bridge was very long, and she encountered over ten of them that she carefully went around.
=== Wu Guangyuan ===
The old man had agreed to let Long Chen come, but only to the outer regions. He was to leave from his gate once they reached the Gates of Hell.
This gate had the old man's spiritual mark on it. As long as the old man didn't die, this gate would stay open. Although the Netherpassage realm was mysterious, there was still some general knowledge passed down from ancient stories.
== What death feels like ==
The old man's Yuan Spirit enveloped Long Chen in its energy. Long Chen could feel the old man's vitality slowly dissipating. His vision turned dark.
"So this is how it feels to die. Endless darkness..." Long Chen felt like he had descended into eternity.
It was no wonder old people said that people had to live properly and be grateful for everything they had. It was because people's deaths always lasted much longer than their lives.
He didn't know how much time had passed. Eventually, a gate appeared within the darkness, and a ray of light shot out of the gate.
The surroundings were still simply darkness. The only thing visible was a path formed of that light. Long Chen found that he and the old man were present, not just spiritually. They were in the same state as they were in the world of the living.
He raised his arms, he raised his legs, and he found nothing different about himself in this world. His power was still there.
The old man was also testing this new world. However, he quickly found that although his clothes were still present, his spatial ring had vanished along with his connection to his spiritual space.
"It really is just like the legends. Once in the Netherworld, it's impossible to bring in things from the outer world. Even these clothes are fake, formed from the surrounding laws," said the old man.
Long Chen also couldn't sense his spiritual space, but he was delighted to find that he could still sense his primal chaos space.
He extended a hand, and a wooden staff appeared in his hand. It was the staff that the old man usually held.
Long Chen had previously been told by the old man that in the Netherworld, people were dead. According to some legends and sayings, the things on the Yang side were unable to enter the Yin side.
That was why Long Chen had specifically asked the old man to give him the black staff. He had placed it in his primal chaos space. However, he hadn't actually expected to be able to take things out from his primal chaos space within this world.
It had just been a casual experiment, but it had actually succeeded. If only they had brought the Heaven Splitting Blade, then the old man's chances of success would have been practically guaranteed.
"Little fellow, you really have some skill." The old man took the staff excitedly. With a weapon in hand, his confidence rose. Seeing Long Chen's vexed expression, he said, "Be happy with what we have. This is the Netherworld, the opposite side of the Yang world. The Heaven Splitting Blade's nature is heavily Yang. If we brought it in here, it would be like carrying a lantern in the darkness. That's too dangerous. The staff is good enough, and its body originally came from a darker place. It's not as conspicuous in this world, and I can use Split the Heavens with it. As for going back, that's impossible. Once I go back through this gate, the gate will forever close, and I would never have another chance at the Netherpassage realm."
== Memories ==
"How regretful. Once I return to my true body, all these memories regarding the Netherworld will disappear. I really don't know how Qu Jianying managed to seal a portion of her memories of this place," sighed the old man.
For most Netherpassage experts, their final memory would be going into the gate. Everything that happened in the Netherworld would be erased.
It was unknown what technique Qu Jianying had used to retain a portion of her memories. Even the old man had no choice but to admit that her abilities were amazing. 
The old man had originally wanted to tell what he had seen in Qu Jianying's memories to Boss Bao and the others. However, he was stunned to find that whenever he wanted to say it, his memories of it would vanish.
Then when he no longer wanted to say it, his memories returned. The secrets of the world of the dead could not be spoken.
Although the two of them knew some of the secrets of this world, only they could know it. They were unable to transmit it to others.
Regretfully, once the old man left the Netherworld, his memories of the Netherworld from Qu Jianying would probably also be erased along with these new memories.
== Treasures ==
There was a mass of chains. He counted over eight thousand, while he had over six thousand of the triangular blades. He hadn't come up with any concrete plans on how to use them, but since they came from Purgatory, and based on the intense aura of death they emitted, they had to be useful.
He had three blood essence stones containing terrifying blood essence energy. Compared to the Alldevil monster's essence blood he had obtained back then, the blood essence stones contained many, many times the amount of energy.
According to Xie Qianqian's hypothesis, the blood essence stones were probably condensed of the purest, refined essence blood of the experts that failed to pass through the nine springs. A single blood essence stone might contain the merged essence blood of millions and millions of lifeforms.
He had six blood soul stones as well, while he didn't have even one life spirit stone. Those had gone to Xie Qianqian, while the rest had gone to him.
The six blood soul stones should be formed in a similar way to the blood essence stones. However, one condensed essence blood, while the other condensed soul essence.
Xie Qianqian had said that blood essence stones were priceless treasures and could be used to upgrade the Yuan Spirit. That really did make them priceless treasures for Long Chen. He could use them to upgrade the Dragonblood warriors' Yuan Spirits.
Other than those, he had a lake of death spirit water. That was definitely a treasure for scheming against others. Who could block such a terrifying thing?
However, the thing that excited him the most was a nail.
== The Ancients ==
"The ancients really were wise. They were the ancestors of noble character and integrity. And I, Long Chen, am not at all inferior to them."
"The ancients said that they would voluntarily go to hell. As for me, not only have I gone there, if I had another chance, I would go again." Long Chen patted his chest with a proud expression.
"Tch, they were talking about sacrificing themselves for others, while you're clearly just after the treasures in Purgatory. Is there the slightest relationship between the two?" said Evilmoon disdainfully.
==References==
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