Chapter 12 War = Wealth
"Good job." I gave Emmenis a thumbs up.
Emmenis smiled and jumped into the door: "There is no disguise to hide it from me."
Everyone followed Emmenis to carefully avoid the teleportation array and went around to the other end of the passage. The passage was really not very long, and the section behind the wall was only three meters long and reached the exit. When we walked out from here, we were all stunned.
"Why did you come to the underworld?"
Sun Wukong looked back at me and asked, "Where is this?"
I shook my head: "I don't know where it is located in the underworld."
"Aren't you the King of Hell?"
"I'm just on duty and rarely work. Besides, even the King of Hell doesn't have to remember all the places within my territory, right? Besides, this place may not be my jurisdiction, maybe it's the territory of another King of Hell?"
Fairy Zizhu said to me: "The underworld is not completely under the control of Yan Luo. Some places are from the power of the Western divine tribes, and more places are completely unowned. The area here is much larger than that of the human world, and not all places have their own belongs."
Sun Houzi asked in confusion: "If you don't know where this is, how can we determine if the person we are looking for is here?"
Emmenis reminded: "I think there is no real difference between the 360 gates you entered. It should be a network of channels connecting various places. You just happened to enter the path to the underworld, and others may have been sucked into that trap, or passed the trap to reach some other location."
"Tell me, what are you looking for?" Emmenis still doesn't know why we came in.
Fairy Zizhu replied: "We are looking for a hiding place to hide, and the physical body of the Great Sun Tathagata. Of course, there is one of the most important things - the Buddha's heart."
"Buddhist heart?" I looked at Fairy Zizhu in surprise. "What is that? Why haven't I heard you say it?"
"Strictly speaking, we are not sure what the Buddha's heart looks like." Zi Zhu said: "Any force will have its own core. The dark temple you used to work for has a dark heart. And the temple of light has a bright heart. Our heavenly court has a heart of heaven, and the Buddhist sect also has a Buddha's heart. In addition to the highest-end existence of this force, no one knows what the core of each force is. It is said that the core of each force is different. Some are items, some are a ball of energy, and some are even a living creature."
"Can the Buddha's heart be a relics?"
"No. There is only one core of a force, and there will be no more Buddha hearts. We just need to find the Buddha heart and lead ourselves, or be the body of the Tathagata, which is a great achievement."
I smiled and said, "In my opinion, these three things are probably gathered together."
"Why?" Sun Houzi asked me in confusion.
"This is not simple." Emmenis said: "The Buddha's mind and the Tathagata's body are both things without intelligence, and they can be regarded as dead objects. No matter how long their power is, they have no defense ability without intelligence. So the guide must protect these important things nearby, or do you think he will put these things alone waiting for others to get them? The stronger the person, the more he will believe in his own strength. Instead of hiding it and seeing if the enemy can find it, it is better to put it next to him and rely on the strength in his heart to protect it with confidence."
Fairy Zizhu said: "It seems that we may really find the right place."
"Why?"
"Because this is the underworld." Fairy Zizhu said: "Tathagata can only complete the six realms of reincarnation in the underworld. Because although the six realms of reincarnation have channels with all realms, there is only an entrance here. In theory, the only one who enters the six realms of reincarnation is the soul, and the physical body must be thrown away before this, so the physical body of Tathagata is likely to be in the underworld. If anyone moves the physical body of Tathagata, how can such a large energy body not be discovered once it moves?"
I immediately understood what Zizhu Fairy meant. "You mean that after entering the six realms of reincarnation, the body of Tathagata was hidden by others on the spot, and did not take it back to the headquarters, because they didn't want people to know that Tathagata's reincarnation was all done secretly."
"Correct." Fairy Zizhu said: "And so on. The underworld is the only place suitable for hiding the body, because there are a large number of unowned territories here, just find a place to hide it."
Sun Wukong interrupted, "So, come to Jie Yin to hide here?"
"I guess so!"
"Oh, he never showed up before when Ziyun Mountain was beaten like that. It turned out that he was not there at all."
"It's not a question of whether he is here or not." Fairy Zizhu said: "With the ability to guide him, he wants to come back at any time. He just cannot leave because he wants to guard the Tathagata's body and cannot leave, so he did not appear."
I frowned when Fairy Zizhu said this. "Although the possibility that the results of the analysis are correct is very high, I would rather we guess wrong."
"Why?" Sun Wukong asked in confusion.
"Because this place is so big! If we really guess it right, we may never find them!" Fairy Zizhu said helplessly.
Sun Wukong was very confident. "Don't worry. I'll find it soon after a few days."
I turned around and faced Sun Wukong and said very solemnly: "First, this is the underworld, which belongs to several different forces. You can easily be regarded as an invader when you enter it. Some of the masters may not escape without any stamina. Second, the total area here is more than 700 to 1,000 times the land on earth, and 90% of the areas are covered by dark fog. Even with your eyes, the visibility is no more than fifty meters. It is impossible to search in large areas. Third, the underworld is not only one layer, but also the second, third to the seventeenth layer. Except for the eighteenth layer, Tathagata and others will definitely not be able to enter. No other layer is certain. Last, the weak water in the underworld is not only one river. There is also a sea of sinking that is tens of thousands of times the land area between the various continents of the underworld. It is an area that can drown even if the upper gods are called to drown."
Sun Wukong shivered in fear. "To be honest, this weak water in the three realms can make me, Old Sun tremble. I have been sprinkled before, but the taste is really not very good."
I smiled and said, "You can survive until you are sprinkled because you are strong and lucky. Of course, the most important thing is that you are lucky. We adventurers may not be as good as you in terms of spells and combat power. But when it comes to research, you are not as good as us. Since becoming the King of Hell, my guild has been studying the nature of weak water. Do you know what we have developed?"
"I don't know." Sun Wukong's head was shaking like a rattle.
"Negative energy polymerization fluid and microorganisms that can decompose mana and positive energy bodies."
"What are you talking about?" Fairy Zizhu obviously didn't know much more than Sun Wukong.
I thought about it and explained: "The immortal methods you use, the Buddhist teachings, and the magic I use, although they are slightly different in form of existence, their essence is actually the same. You all know that Taoism is obtained by absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and then converting it into your own magic power. Buddhism is actually the same. As for magic, although the names are different. In fact, the things used are also the vital energy of heaven and earth, but Western great gods call this magic element, which is actually the same thing. But no matter what they call it, the things we use should actually be energy, and positive energy. And this weak water is negative energy."
"What will happen if positive and negative energy is in contact? Will it explode? I heard that the combination of light and dark forces in the West will explode."
"No. There will be no explosion, but will disappear silently."
Fairy Zizhu understood a little bit. "What do you mean is that once the magic power we have worked hard to cultivate will be transformed into nothing after it comes into contact with this thing?"
"Whether you have left depends on how much you are exposed to. According to our guild's analysis, it is enough to consume 10,000 points of magic power, just one drop of weak water, and the consumption of immortals and Buddhism seems to be the same. Like me, I am a person with strong magic power among adventurers. But I only need a small cup of weak water and I become a mummy."
Fairy Zizhu said: "According to what you say, I will become a mortal if I only have a bathtub of weak water. A person like Yuanshi Tianzun is probably the size of a small pond and it will be over."
I smiled evilly and said, "So I said that even the God of the Supreme One can drown in it, that's why."
Sun Houzi said with some fear: "I asked why it was like burning the ground after being splashed a few times that time!"
I continued: "In addition to negative energy, there are also those microorganisms. These microorganisms that live in weak water obtain energy by decomposing energy organisms. Any positive energy substance that falls into it will be decomposed."
Sun Wukong said: "Then it's better to fly high when I pass there in the future."
"I suggest you don't want it." I said: "There is a lot of negative energy floating on the sea of sinking. Although it will not hurt people due to concentration problems, if you use spells in this environment, the energy consumed will rise up in geometric multiples. If you can't fly out of five hundred meters with your mana, you will fall into the sea of sinking because of the exhaustion of mana. Then with a squeak of two bubbles, you will completely disappear, and you will not even have a soul left."
“Isn’t that impossible to get through there?”
"No, you can go over the boat of the Dead on the Ferry Land."
"Will that ship be absorbed?" asked Fairy Zizhu.
"No, because the boat of the Dead does not touch the sea at all, it is a thorough spacecraft. Besides, that thing cannot be broken down at all. I once cut some fragments from the boat to study it. It seems that it is made of neutral matter, and it doesn't matter whether it comes into contact with positive energy or negative energy. It is not afraid of corrosion at all."
Fairy Zizhu said, "No matter what the weak water is like. After all, we can't get through Tathagata and Guizhi, but the land area alone is enough for us to find."
Sun Wukong said: "Aren't you the King of Hell? How about mobilizing the ghost army to find it? Tens of millions of ghost army spilled out and even if you check it hand in hand, you can search a large area. You should be able to find it?"
"It seems that you can only use this stupid method. You can wait for me for a while, and I will discuss it with other Yan Jun."
I said it was a discussion, but there was actually no need for negotiation. Heavenly Court wanted to find Guigui and Tathagata, so how could Yan Luo not help? Anyway, this place is under the jurisdiction of the underworld. It is convenient to find it. Tens of millions of ghost soldiers and over 100 million temporary recruitment lands began to conduct a network-style investigation of the underworld. Every rock and every grass was not carefully turned over. If we needed it, these ghost soldiers could probably count how many undead grasses there were in hell.
Although so many undead were used to search, things were not as simple as imagined. The scope of the underworld was too large. The area that the underworld could control was only a small part of it. Most areas were still wilderness and could not be searched at all. In addition, there were even wild monsters in some places.
Don’t think that the underworld is a good place. This place is much more dangerous than the human world. The undead has nothing to do with the control of the underworld, but once you leave this area, you can only wait to die. The wild spirit-devouring creatures are much more powerful than the monsters on earth.
With the help of Emmenis, other heavenly personnel led by Yuanshi Tianzun have checked all the passages, basically connecting different places, but most of them are temples, and even have a teleportation array that directly leads to the heavenly court. However, after listening to our analysis, everyone also knew that Tathagata and Guizhi were probably in the underworld, and it only took time to find them out.
Although Tathagata and the guide have not been found yet, Ziyun Mountain has finally been defeated. Buddhism has no formal strongholds in China, and the remaining strongholds are all in India. Affected by the national borders, the Heavenly Court cannot take the initiative to go abroad to fight. Therefore, the Lingshan Mountain can only rely on our guild. However, the Heavenly Court has agreed that no matter what we lose on the battlefield, they will be responsible for compensation and will prepare a super prize for us.
With the promise of the Heavenly Court, the subsequent problems are not too difficult. There are not many masters left in Lingshan, and as long as Tathagata and Jie Yin are not there, there will be no problem. Besides, our guild can also ask the three major national protection beasts to help. Even if they don’t really work hard, they can at least support the situation. As for the benefits, this can be reimbursed for the Heavenly Court.
The war in Ziyun Mountain has subsided, and the rest is to deal with the post-war problem. The Four Saint Beasts moved the entire Wutai Mountain next to Ziyun Mountain. Now they have to trouble them to move it back, but this is nothing to them. Is it just a hard work!
Ziyun Mountain, Wutai Mountain and another battlefield where I did not participate. There were more than 10 million people and more earthly beasts killed in Buddhism and the Heavenly Court. All of these corpses were sent to the Tushita Palace in the Heavenly Court. The alchemy furnace of Taishang Laojun temporarily acted as the function of the corpse burner. These people and the divine beasts who died in the battle were all masters of cultivation. The true energy in the body could become a pure immortal pill after being calcined in the alchemy furnace. In fact, the immortal pills are all refining the earth in this way. For the gods in the Heavenly Court, the plants or monsters filled with the vitality of heaven and earth are put in, and the immortals don’t care. As long as the vitality of heaven is strong enough, the corpses will be burned anyway. The only thing left is the pure heaven and earth vitality.
In addition to those who died in battle, the wounded are also a problem. For the gods, they can basically be rescued as long as they are not dead at that time. Therefore, the wounded on this side is not a problem. The key is how the other side’s wounded are dealt with. In addition, in addition to the problem of wounded, we still have a lot of prisoners to solve, so we can’t keep them all the time, right?
The wounded and prisoners can be said to be troublesome or considered as interests, it depends on what you think. Anyway, I think prisoners are very valuable. However, compared to prisoners who cannot be converted into interests in a short period of time, the benefits of ready-made land are more attractive.
Ziyun Mountain is also the headquarters of Buddhism in China, and it is still Fushan, and its strategic value is immeasurable. The reason why our guild has attacked foreign guilds many times but won again and again is that we have a flying Aisinger. If this Fushan can be equipped with a power system, it will be a more terrifying existence. A sky fortress that cannot be shot down, even if it does not participate in the attack, as long as it stops there, it will have a fatal impact on the morale of the enemy.
Considering so many fragmented issues, we finally held a spoils-sharing conference under the leadership of the Heavenly Court. Of course, we cannot be so straightforward on the surface. This spoils-sharing conference declared to the public a "conference meeting on celebration and aftermath matters."
On the second day after the battle, the conference finally officially began. The meeting location was the warehouse I had emptied before. The reason was that it was relatively hidden and airtight. According to Rose, underground transactions had to be carried out in a cave so that it felt like underground.
In the Heavenly Court, the elders of Yuanshi Tianzun did not come, and they didn't care about this. The highest representative of the Heavenly Court was the Jade Emperor. Of course, he also came under the guise of inspecting the front line. The Jade Emperor brought almost his entire leadership team, and hundreds of gods and immortals looked spectacular. There were many people coming to our guild, and I also gathered the main leaders of our guild, especially Rose and Sumei, the two super think tanks. Vina, as the main god of our guild, also attended the meeting, and Hongyan and the three major national guardian beasts also came. The three of them came here mainly to introduce them to the Heavenly Court, and then to slightly determine the relationship between us. Theoretically, we are all on the same side, but people always have selfish intentions. Heavenly Court hopes that the three guilds will come back, but they don't want to be compared by them. Naturally, we have to explain everyone's obligations and rights first, and put the ugly words in front to make it more conducive to future stability and unity.
After everyone arrived, the celebration began, which was basically the same as the Peach Banquet in Heaven, but the people who were really talking about the matter had already gathered in a small warehouse inside the warehouse. The Jade Emperor only brought Taibai Jinxing alone, and I only brought Rose alone. Su Mei said that her meaning had been clearly explained to Rose, and it didn't make much sense whether she could come in. As a third party, the three national guardian beasts are still outside for the time being, and it was their turn to end our spoils.
There are only four of us in this small room, so it is convenient to talk about it and avoid disputes.
The Jade Emperor said very directly: "Okay, we are the only one left. We have a good understanding of each other, so there is no need to make those false things, just tell your thoughts, right?"
"The Jade Emperor is indeed a leader and decisive in his work." Meigui first flattered the Jade Emperor, and then continued: "Since that's the case, let's just point it out, but what part does the Jade Emperor want to talk about first?"
"Of course, let's talk about your remuneration first." The Jade Emperor said quickly: "You help the Heavenly Court send troops to wipe out Buddhism. Such a big thing cannot make you work in vain. As a reward for helping us, what do you hope to get?"
The old fox of Jade Emperor is indeed cruel enough! Fortunately, Rose and I are not stupid, otherwise we would have been fooled. On the surface, the Jade Emperor wants to pay us labor fees, but it seems like a good thing, but in fact it is a big trap. If you fall in, you will be finished.
The key point of this labor fee lies in the form of war. If we collect labor fee, it means we admit that we are working for the Heavenly Court, and then there is no need to talk about the things in the future, because it has nothing to do with us. It is like a salesperson in a supermarket, you are selling things for the boss, you are getting a fixed salary, and how much the boss earns has nothing to do with you. And once we ask for this labor fee, we will really become a working child in the Heavenly Court.
However, if we do not charge labor fees, that is another situation. First of all, we did participate in this battle, and the Heavenly Court cannot deny this point. If we do not charge labor fees, then we and Heavenly Court have become cooperative relations before. Cooperation and working are different. Cooperation means that we can distribute dividends. Even if the proportion of the share is relatively small due to the gap in strength between us, it is definitely much higher than the salary.
Chapter completed!