Ying Gou swung his Heaven-Shattering Dragon Halberd to block Xiang Yu. His headless body still moved freely, and his head quickly flew back to his neck, healing completely.
Now both of them had the Heaven-Piercing Dragon Halberd, and Xiang Yu's wounds gradually increased. If he kept running away, it would be difficult for Ying Gou to hurt him, but this was not what Xiang Yu wanted. The Heavenly Realm was just the beginning; his goal was the Divine Realm!
Only by reaching the Divine Realm can one truly be invincible across all realms. At this point, it doesn't matter if one gets injured or even dies a few times.
Cangquan Base, outside the main gate of the core area.
Xiang Sheng single-handedly held off the monsters, constantly blocking their frenzied attacks. The frustrating part was that he couldn't kill them; at most, he could only slice them into monster clubs.
Previously, Xiang Sheng used the Overlord's Moon Shaving Step and Tornado skills to finally arrive here before the monsters broke through the gate, and then used the Tornado skill with the lowest damage to hold out until now.
Outside, Xiaoyaozi was freezing all the monsters as he went, turning them into ice sculptures. However, because there were too many monsters and his moves were too weak, it would take a while before he could finish freezing them all.
According to Dionysus, these monsters that have fused with the souls of the underworld army are all excellent source of elemental energy. Killing them and releasing their souls back to the underworld would be a huge waste and cannot be tolerated!
Xiang Sheng naturally knew what the God of Wine was thinking, so he tried his best to control the knife in his hand, so as not to accidentally kill the two of them.
However, neither Fang Lao nor Daisy knew the reason for this, nor could they see the battle situation after Xiaoyaozi entered the underground, as the monitors and communicators along the way were all broken.
Therefore, when Daisy came out to speak to Xiang Sheng at this moment, she was actually taking a great risk, even a death wish.
Sizzle...
The door opened a crack, and Daisy slipped out, gritting her teeth as she said, "Hello, Xiang..."
"Go back! What are you doing out here?" Xiang Sheng was a little displeased. This woman was just a burden here, and he had to spend a lot of energy taking care of her. What if he accidentally killed a few monsters while trying to save her?
Daisy suppressed her anger, "Were you with Feather God?"
"Yes, you can go back. Yu Shen will wake up on his own before that machine explodes. We don't need you here." Xiang Sheng swung his sword, knocking away hundreds of monsters with a series of slaps, but he used the back of the blade to strike them down.
"How did you know?" Daisy wondered. Could it be that gods could foresee the future? Or did they have super hearing?
"Hurry up, sis, I'm busy here!" Xiang Sheng said impatiently.
Daisy stamped her foot and turned around, but then turned back, about to leave. "Why didn't you kill them? You used the back of your knife? Gods don't kill?"
Xiang Sheng's lips twitched violently. "I can't kill them now! If I do, they'll go back to the Underworld. We'll capture them all alive and send them to the Yuan Energy Creation Center later! Alright, hurry up and go in!"
At this moment, the monsters had noticed Daisy Rain, and several lunged at her, trying to pierce her, but they were all swept away by Xiang Sheng's sword.
Daisy sighed inwardly. The immortals were truly formidable; not only did they annihilate the enemy, but they also made a fortune. Back when they besieged the Underworld Gate, they had indeed wasted a great deal of energy; sometimes, leaving any survivors was extremely difficult.
“I see. I’ll head back now. Here’s a walkie-talkie for you, so I don’t have to come out next time I need to contact you. Also, be careful they don’t commit suicide.”
"Oh, okay." Xiang Sheng took the communicator and put it on his ear. He really hadn't thought of that. If they died in the underworld, they would immediately return to the underworld. If they felt they had no chance of winning, they would definitely try to escape!
"But why aren't they running away?" Hao Jiu suddenly asked. It would be a big mistake to think of these monsters as mindless creatures. The souls of these monsters are all military spirits sent from the underworld!
boom!
With a loud bang, the ground collapsed, creating a large hole. Several monsters jumped out from the ground and went straight into the Yuan Energy Training Center!
Previously, Hong Hong supplied all the elemental energy to the training machine, which was equivalent to removing the strongest defense in the core area. As a result, the monster army actually pulled a sneak attack!
Old Fang closed his eyes, and that was it!
Daisy pulled Old Fang towards a corner, knowing that being surrounded on all sides would only hasten their death. At the same time, she shouted, "Xiang Sheng! Come in quickly!"
boom!
Xiang Sheng blasted open the door and rushed in, only to be blown out by a powerful hurricane.
"Certainly!"
A familiar voice rang out, and then countless monsters seemed to be frozen in place, many still in their pouncing poses.
Sizzle...
The hatch of the energy training machine opened, and Xiang Yu slowly sat up. The Overlord Divine Halberd appeared out of thin air beside Xiang Yu.
"It really is a dream, Elder Fang. This Yuan Energy Training Method is truly a wonderful technique."
"You flatter me, Feather God. Compared to your divine power, our skills are nothing." Old Fang was so happy to see Xiang Yu that he burst into tears. This dramatic turn of events in life was just too exciting.
Daisy poked the nearest monster with her elemental dagger and found that the monster was still alive, but every part of its body was controlled by domineering energy. It couldn't even move its eyelids and could barely breathe.
Xiang Sheng crawled out of the rubble and, seeing that the monsters around him were all immobilized, rushed to Xiang Yu's side, "Lord Yu, this humble general is incompetent..."
"It's alright, that training machine is about to explode anyway. I would have come out anyway. I heard that the president of Country A is the current leader of the Underworld Gate? He just tried to commit suicide, but I stopped him. Was it him?" Xiang Yu said calmly, then raised his hand and grabbed the neck of a strangely-looking person with an unusual hairstyle.
"Huh?" Old Fang looked bewildered. He looked at the person in Xiang Yu's hand and realized that it really was the president of Country A who often appeared on TV and trended on social media.
Daisy swallowed hard. Luckily, she and Old Fang hadn't done anything wrong while Yu Shen was training. This was truly amazing. They had captured the target instantly from across the ocean and even prevented the target from committing suicide.
This is amazing!
The first thing Xiang Yu did after waking up was to unleash his domineering energy to occupy the entire plane. Combined with the intelligence Hao Jiu had gathered, he quickly located the position of the leader of the Underworld Gate.
The culprit actually wanted to commit suicide to return to the underworld, but he was a step too slow, or perhaps he was afraid of the pain and didn't dare to do it.
"Spare me, hero! I surrender! I know a lot of information; no one knows the underworld better than me!" the leader of the Underworld Gate said, his voice trembling with tears.
Old Fang glanced at him disdainfully. This generation's leader of the Underworld Gate didn't seem very reliable; he was too cowardly.
"Does the transformation of the soul into an idiot affect the generation of elemental energy?" Xiang Yu asked.
"Uh, it won't affect anything," Old Fang replied instinctively.
Then.
Xiang Yu slapped the leader of the Underworld Gate on the head and began the soul-searching technique. Souls below the True Immortal level could now be searched, so it was clear that this leader of the Underworld Gate was far from being a True Immortal.
It turns out he was just an ordinary official in the underworld. He was banished to the human world to become the leader of the underworld because he made a mistake. Moreover, in his previous life, he was a swindler who was outspoken, always shifting blame and cheating people!
Chapter 548 Doppelganger
After a piercing scream, the leader of the Underworld Gate became dazed and confused. The main cause of this soul search was damage to the soul, which was basically irreversible.
Xiang Yu had no intention of accepting such a person, but he believed his statement that "no one knows more about the underworld than me," so he decisively began searching for the soul.
This guy was sent to the mortal realm to be the leader of the Underworld because he committed a crime in the Underworld, and also because of his expertise: he was able to easily become the president of Country A and use Country A's power to carry out this operation.
In the past, the leaders of the Underworld were very capable fighters, but the results were not very good. This world lacks spiritual energy, so even if they are too strong, they cannot exert their strength and may even be turned into elemental energy.
Therefore, the underworld changed its approach this time, sending a civil official as the leader of the underworld to proceed gradually. The results were quite good. If Xiang Yu and others hadn't interfered, it would have been too difficult for Country C to turn the tide.
Xiang Yu tossed the brainwashed leader of the Underworld aside like trash. This guy didn't actually know much about the Underworld, and much of the information might not be accurate, but one thing was probably true: the ruler of the Underworld was extremely powerful and a terrifying being.
Of course, this terrifying being may not be the Ying Gou that Hong Hong set up in the training program, but its strength is definitely not bad, and it should be at the Dao Ancestor realm.
However, this Dao Ancestor didn't seem to care much about the trivial matter of developing soul technology in the mortal world. It was mostly figures like various feudal lords who wanted to collect large numbers of souls for cultivation.
However, if Xiang Yu were to march into the underworld to deal with these feudal lords, the Dao Ancestor would most likely still intervene, unless Xiang Yu also became his subordinate, which is impossible.
Therefore, Xiang Yu's next plan is to stay in this plane for the time being to improve his strength, and then go to the underworld to solve the underworld problem once he is stronger and more confident.
It's important to understand that although this plane is a mid-level plane, it ranks very high among mid-level planes. It's just that for various reasons, the plane hasn't been upgraded.
The true essence of all planes lies in the hidden underworld, a realm comparable to the realm of true immortals.
Moreover, in Hao Jiu's view, the human world in this dimension is not as simple as he imagined; the map is completely different from the modern world in which Hao Jiu originally lived.
There are four continents in total, arranged very neatly, like a cake cut horizontally and vertically, or like two invisible chains binding the entire planet, leaving a cross-shaped mark.
Soon after, the Divine Sword warship, having wiped out the enemies on the moon, arrived at the Cangquan base, bringing with it elemental energy and taking away a ship full of monsters.
Xiaoyaozi and Xiang Sheng went to the moon with the ship to deal with any unforeseen circumstances, while Yu Ji, Li Canghai, and Xu Fu stayed at the Cangquan base.
"Congratulations to Overlord on advancing to the Heavenly Realm!" the three women said in unison.
Xiang Yu was in high spirits. "This plane is very important to me and the Great Chu Empire. I will try to break through to the Divine Realm here from now on. Canghai, immediately arrange for all the generals who cultivate the Overlord Qi to come here for training and see if they can break through."
“Yes, Feather God,” Li Canghai replied.
"God of Feathers, the Sage has arrived." Old Fang walked over with a smile.
"Elder Fang, I dare not call myself a sage before the Feather God. This junior greets the Feather God." The second generation of sages clasped his hands in greeting.
"It's alright, let's call you Sage. You're worthy of the title, being able to create an energy training machine." Xiang Yu looked at the person in front of him who resembled him somewhat with a similar appearance and build, his eyes filled with approval. Without this training machine, it would probably have taken him a long time to reach the Heavenly Realm.
The second generation of sages smiled wryly, "God Feather has misunderstood. The first generation invented this. I am the second generation, and I have only improved some things."
"Oh, I thought you, the second generation, were just a reincarnated sage. Turns out you and he are different people. That's quite remarkable. But what about the first generation of sages? Aren't you able to reincarnate?" Xiang Yu asked, puzzled.
The second generation of sages sighed, "Alas, the first generation sacrificed himself in a great battle with the Underworld, his soul was completely scattered, and he didn't have time to reincarnate. Why don't we find a quiet place to have a good talk? I heard that the Feather God wants to cooperate with us."
"Oh, then come with me." Xiang Yu said, opening a door and stepping into the alternate dimension first.
The second generation of sages then entered the alternate dimension, remarking, "This place is truly breathtaking."
"This is my private space. No one outside can hear me, not even the gods of the underworld." Xiang Yu used his domineering energy to conjure a table and two chairs, then chose one and sat down.
"The Feather God's magical power is profound; I admire it. I did lie just now, but that can be considered an official response. Very few people in Country C know the truth; even Elder Fang doesn't know where the First Generation went, only that the First Generation's soul did not perish."
My intuition tells me that I can trust Yu Shen, so since Yu Shen asked, I'll just tell you the truth. In that battle, the first generation of sages was mortally wounded and died; their souls traveled through time and space to ancient times…”
"Hmm? The generation of sages went to ancient times?" Xiang Yu was somewhat surprised. Shouldn't he be considered as someone who traveled from ancient times to the modern era?
Hao Jiu grinned. "What a coincidence. Could it be that guy also has a system?"
"How could someone with a system be defeated by the Underworld?" Xiang Yu immediately rejected this idea. The Underworld, as the representative of the Underworld in the mortal world, was actually just a mortal being.
Since the underworld can only send souls there through reincarnation, and souls are immediately sucked into the underworld upon death, it must be subject to some rules and restrictions.
Otherwise, wouldn't sending a Void Refinement Realm spirit directly be enough to slaughter everyone? Even without a physical body, a spirit alone could be invincible in this world.
This was the first plane that Xiang Yu and Hao Jiu encountered that had a corresponding underworld. In other words, when people die, their souls do not dissipate, but enter the underworld to live. Whether it is heaven or hell depends on the person.
The second generation of sages nodded. "Yes, he went back to more than two thousand years ago, but then disappeared again. His whereabouts are a closely guarded secret. If you want to know, Feather God, I can tell you."
"Did he go to the underworld?" Xiang Yu guessed.
"As expected, the Feather God is incredibly insightful. The first generation of Sages did indeed go to the Underworld. He is a man who refuses to admit defeat, nor is he one to passively endure attacks. If nothing unexpected happens, he has already established a firm foothold in the Underworld. The fact that the Underworld Gate has not launched a major offensive for so long may also be related to his efforts," the second generation of Sages said solemnly.
"Then who are you? What is your relationship with the first generation?" Xiang Yu vaguely felt that this second generation sage must have some kind of connection with the first generation. Since he was not a reincarnation of the first generation, could he be the child of the first generation?
"Because my soul was severely damaged, I don't know who I am. But I have merged with a wisp of the first generation's soul and have his memories and thoughts. I guess it's a backup plan he left behind. It's not unreasonable to think of me as his clone." The second generation of sages revealed his secret.
Xiang Yu nodded. "I see. Perhaps I have a way to restore your original memories."
The second generation of sages was slightly taken aback, then shook his head and smiled, "Thank you, Feather God, but I think I'm fine as I am now."
"Whatever you say."