"Farm of Gods and Demons?"
Luo Kai frowned. This word really made him uncomfortable.
Azhu nodded in fear and said in a trembling voice, "The Underworld is a place where evil energy gathers in the universe. There is a place called the Desire Realm. This realm is dominated by material, and all living things pursue pleasure. That's how it got its name.
Legend has it that the Desire Realm is where the Gods raise livestock. Just like how humans raise pigs, horses, cattle, and sheep, the Gods and Demons also need a stable and unusual source of food. They raise all living things in captivity and feed on their desires and negative emotions such as arrogance, jealousy, rage, laziness, greed, lust, gluttony, and so on.
As Azhu said this, Luo Kai suddenly felt a sense of crisis. Even his soul was a little shaken, and dust was rustling on his clay body.
Humans had their own path, and Gods had their own path. The Gods and Demons in the Underworld obviously fed on the spirit and negative emotions derived from the power of the soul, and the source of this power was the materialistic human society.
A large wide-body passenger plane was flying toward the two of them at an extremely fast speed. Luo Kai could already see the horrified expressions of the two pilots in the cockpit.
They were seen by the people of this world, and similarly, they were monitored by an unknown existence.
Without much time to think, Luo Kai pulled Azhu and disappeared into the horizon.
As they flew, Luo Kai's face became more and more ugly. He felt that his strength was draining little by little, and he could not maintain the stability of his clay body. Dust was constantly falling off.
Azhu was in an even worse state. Her soul was emitting wisps of green smoke, as if she was melting water.
She looked at her soul disappearing little by little, and muttered to herself as if she had lost her mind, "We are going to be eaten."
To be exact, they were being purified by some unknown force, just like a computer anti-virus program that detected disharmonious elements, and would immediately start the program to kill them.
Just like how Luo Kai decomposed and reassembled matter, they were being decomposed by an unknown force.
This method was comprehended by Luo Kai when he saw the Realm of Gods. Naturally, it was extremely powerful. As the clay body dissolved, his starlight soul was revealed.
The unknown power was still trying to break down his soul, but it stiffened after touching it.
Then, a huge energy vortex erupted in the void, and the two completely different powers collided.
After exchanging blows, Luo Kai and the unknown existence both understood the source of each other's spirit force.
If it was said that Luo Kai's spirit force was like the righteous energy of two extremes, extremely tough and yang, then this unknown energy was filled with greed and brutality, extremely yin and evil.
The originally clear sky was covered with dark clouds, and the mountains and rivers on the ground began to crack.
This was only a test of strength between the two sides, but it also made the world feel as if doomsday had arrived.
…
In a chaotic and unknown domain, a pair of blood-red eyes slowly opened. They passed through the barriers of endless space and saw Luo Kai, who was like a blooming star in the sky.
In his eyes, the spirit aura emitted by this human seemed to contain all the beauty of humanity. It was radiant and holy, like an angel that had fallen into the mortal world. Angels were the existences they hated the most!
He spoke in a majestic voice, "Where is the Throatless God? Quickly go and clean it up."
"Yes." A moment later, a respectful reply came from the void.
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Different from the Yang-Realm that worshipped materialism, the Netherworld worshipped spirit force. But where did the source of spirit force come from?
It came from one's thoughts, or it could be said that it came from one's emotions and desires.
The Bible recorded the seven original sins of humanity: pride, jealousy, wrath, sloth, greed, gluttony, and lust.
Buddhists named greed, anger, foolishness, slowness, and doubt as the five poisonous hearts.
Daoists also had the saying of severing the three corpses, which represented the evil desires of humans.
If there was evil, there would naturally be good. What opposed the seven deadly sins were the seven beautiful emotions of humanity: modesty, tolerance, patience, diligence, generosity, temperance, and chastity.
These two completely different types of spirit force could be called evil force and origin force, and the Netherworld was the place where evil force gathered.
As the saying went, one could become a Buddha or a Devil with a single thought. Heaven and hell were separated by a single thought.
In the intense clash of spirit force, Luo Kai gained a comprehension of this world's power system.
Seeing that Ah Zhu's soul had already become as faint as smoke, he gave up on the idea of fighting with the other party. He picked up Ah Zhu and disappeared into thin air. Not only did his external appearance disappear, but the fluctuations of his soul also decreased to the extreme.
The unknown force was just an ownerless adaptive program. It gradually retreated when it couldn't sense any disharmony.
In a crisp field, Luo Kai's soul gradually appeared. The seemingly formless spiritual confrontation just now was actually far more dangerous than a physical battle. His soul had become much dimmer, and his mind was also feeling tired for the first time.
He now understood the essence of this world. This was a small world like the Small Huan World. The only difference was that the Small Huan World was a world of death, while this world was alive.
From a certain point of view, the unknown force just now represented the will of this world, and this world was the other party's personal domain. Going against it was equivalent to going against the world.
In other words, he was a small program that invaded this world, and the other party was the main program. Once he was discovered, he would immediately be killed.
Ah Zhu in his hand was like a wisp of smoke that could dissipate at any time. Although it was just a spiritual confrontation between Luo Kai and the unknown existence, the power that appeared in reality wasn't something that a low-level life form could withstand.
Luo Kai said apologetically, "I'm sorry, I couldn't protect you."
Ah Zhu smiled sadly and shook her head. "I'm afraid Ah Zhu will enter the cycle of reincarnation. Only the most powerful Demon God can build a Demon Farm. Master, you should run away quickly." As she said that, she couldn't maintain her soul and gradually dissipated.
Luo Kai sighed softly. In his heart, he had never regarded a ghost like Ah Zhu as a normal life form. But obviously, there was no difference between a human and a ghost.
Before he had time to feel anything else, he felt something again. An invisible consciousness swept over here.
Just now, it was a passive perception. Like a software error, it would naturally trigger a correction program.
But this time, it was an active scan. The whole world belonged to the other party. Naturally, nothing could hide. Luo Kai couldn't avoid it. He was instantly locked on by a cold consciousness.
He didn't expect to fight with a powerful ghost god in this world as soon as he arrived in the underworld.
He stroked the ring on his finger and sent his consciousness into it. Because there was an independent space inside the ring, he called it a storage ring. He took out the metal snake that was sleeping soundly and flew up into the sky amidst the unwilling chirps of the metal snake.
In the sky, a cloud of black smoke appeared and gradually gathered into a strange creature with horns. He looked at Luo Kai with a puzzled expression and asked coldly, "Human?"
Luo Kai looked at him and asked, "What are you?"
The horned monster said indifferently, "I am the Throatless God."
"The Throatless God?"
This was the first time Luo Kai came into contact with a ghost god. Unlike the Gods in the material world, this one had a form but no substance. It seemed to be a consciousness formed by complex thoughts and emotions.
Luo Kai's guess was right. The horned monster, also known as the Throatless God, was a life form formed by five negative emotions: greed, anger, infatuation, slowness, and doubt. Because it was a higher level, it was formed by the consciousness of an ancient Demon God called Throatless. Therefore, it called itself the Throatless God.
Unlike the material world, the most powerful ghost gods in the underworld were mostly life forms formed by some kind of pure soul power.