158: Chapter 158 The Ancient Ferry of the Yellow Springs Moors the Moon Boat, A Half-Saint Adds Fire to Ignite the Divine Ship

"Borrowing the Law of the Netherworld, open the Yellow Springs path!"

As Daoist Lingjing sprayed a mouthful of his essence blood onto the pitch-black Fengdu jade tablet.

In the thick, impenetrable night of The Great Ruins, a terrifying, sickly green crack suddenly tore open.

A bronze gate, a hundred zhang high and carved with countless hideous evil ghosts, slowly swung open on both sides with a teeth-grinding screech.

Behind the gate lay a dead, dim-yellow Netherworld that stretched on without end.

"Demon Lord, the gate is open. Crossing this gate leads to the final resting place of all living beings in the Major Thousand Worlds—the World of the Living Dead."

Daoist Lingjing's face turned deathly pale, and he collapsed weakly to the ground.

"Too wordy."

Ye Xiu snorted coldly, his bright red dragon-patterned wedding robe remaining perfectly still in the chilling wind.

He didn't even glance at the eerie and terrifying gate, striding directly inside with bold, decisive steps.

Qin Mu followed closely behind, taking a deep breath.

Forcing himself to endure the trembling of his Soul caused by the intertwining of the night of The Great Ruins and the Death Qi of the Netherworld, he followed Ye Xiu's footsteps closely.

He knew that as long as he followed this god-like Brother Ye before him, even the eighteenth level of Hell would be as easy to walk upon as flat ground!

"Hum—"

The moment they crossed the bronze gate, the scene before them opened up, yet it exuded a suffocating grandeur and deathly stillness.

There was no sky here, only a grey, hazy Chaos; there was no land, only the turbid Yellow Springs flowing beneath their feet, capable of melting a Divine Soul.

Countless ghostly green will-o'-the-wisps drifted in the air like fireflies, and the shrill wails of ten million departed Souls could be faintly heard.

However, neither Ye Xiu nor Qin Mu cast their gaze toward the distant Fengdu Ghost City upon their first step into the World of the Living Dead.

Instead, their eyes were fixed firmly on a terrifyingly colossal object on the banks of the Yellow Springs!

"Brother Ye! Look at that?!"

Qin Mu's pupils contracted sharply as he pointed ahead, his voice filled with unconcealable shock.

At that turbulent ancient Yellow Springs ferry, quietly anchored was an ancient giant ship so large it defied description!

This giant ship was crafted entirely from unknown ancient divine wood, its hull covered in the weathered marks of blade slashes and dried blood of gods and demons.

Most chilling of all, at the top of the giant ship's mast, thick chains of Law bound half a broken, long-extinguished, and deathly silent moon!

Massive, tragic, and exuding the oppressive aura of a behemoth that had suppressed the primeval eras!

"The moon boat..."

Qin Mu gasped, and the ancient secrets his Blind Grandpa from Canlao Village had once told him instantly surfaced in his mind.

"Brother Ye! This is the legendary moon boat of The Great Ruins! The supreme divine vessel under the command of the Founding Emperor, capable of traversing the Major Thousand Worlds and the boundless Void Realm, carrying the sun, moon, and stars!"

Qin Mu's breathing became extremely rapid, and his eyes shone with startling intensity at this moment.

He had originally been worried, as Wuyou Township was hidden within layers of complex Void Realm mazes. Even with Ye Xiu's heaven-defying combat power, finding a single coordinate in the boundless Void Realm would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.

But now, this legendary interstellar warship, capable of ignoring spatial barriers, was parked right before their eyes!

"Brother Ye!"

Qin Mu turned his head sharply to look at Ye Xiu, his eyes burning with a wildly insane fire, the lawlessness inherent to the Heavenly Demon Sect:

"The Village Chief and Sister Youyou are trapped in the Void Realm of Wuyou Township, in imminent danger! Since the Great Emperor of Fengdu parked this ship here, it must be Heaven's will!"

Qin Mu gritted his teeth, pointed at the giant ship resembling a continent, and roared:

"Can we... steal this ship? As long as we start the moon boat, we can smash through the Void Realm and charge into Wuyou Township to save them!"

Daoist Lingjing, who had just climbed up from the ground, nearly bit his tongue off upon hearing Qin Mu's "treasonous" raving.

"You're crazy! You little lunatic!"

Daoist Lingjing pointed at Qin Mu, screaming as if looking at a dead man:

"That is the foundation the Great Emperor of Fengdu uses to suppress the Yellow Springs! This is the World of the Living Dead! Not only are you not going to meet the Great Emperor, but you want to rob the Netherworld's divine vessel the moment you enter? This, this will alert the Ten Kings of Hell and result in the punishment of never being able to be reincarnated!"

However, Daoist Lingjing's screaming did not cause anyone to panic. Responding to him was a burst of sky-shaking laughter from Ye Xiu that was so wildly arrogant it caused the waters of the Yellow Springs to surge backward!

"Hahahaha! Good! A good 'seize the boat to point at Wuyou'!"

Ye Xiu grabbed Qin Mu's shoulder, his heterochromatic gold and silver eyes erupting with unprecedented admiration and fanaticism:

"As expected of someone from my Heavenly Demon Sect! Arriving in the Netherworld, not bowing to the King of Hell or burning incense, the first thing is to rob! This is what you call the true nature of the Demonic Path!"

Ye Xiu turned his head, casting a look of extreme disdain at the trembling Daoist Lingjing.

"What Ten Kings of Hell? What punishment of never being able to be reincarnated?"

Ye Xiu's lips curled into a cruel sneer:

"I'm not just going to steal his ship today, I'm going to use his Fengdu ship to smash through that coward Founding Emperor's tortoise shell!"

"Boom!"

Before the words faded, Ye Xiu stepped down. The terrifying pressure of a Fourth Immortal Half-Saint erupted, and Ye Xiu's bright red dragon-patterned wedding robe was like a mass of ultimate karmic fire blooming in the Netherworld.

He grabbed Qin Mu, crossed the Void Realm as if teleporting, and landed steadily on the deck of the incomparably massive moon boat!

This was not the first time the two of them had come to this ship. However, they had been in too much of a rush last time and hadn't explored further.

Sensing these two familiar auras, the moon guardian, who had long since merged with the ship, reacted immediately.

"What are you doing?"

"This ship is not something you can control; you will be drained of your essence blood just like me..."

But before this guy could finish speaking, the jade pendant on Qin Mu's chest, anxious to save people, lit up.

"Big Brother, I think I can!"

"Help me!"

"Good!"

Ye Xiu's lips curled into an extremely arrogant smile, and from his heterochromatic gold and silver eyes, a cyan divine light as dazzling as a supernova suddenly erupted!

"In front of my [Shrouding the Heavens Method], even if it's a corpse, I can make it live a second life!"

"It lacks Origin, so I will give it Origin!"

"Rumble!!!"

Ye Xiu slammed his hands open, pressing them firmly onto the deck of the moon boat. The cultivation of a Fourth Immortal Half-Saint erupted without reservation! But what he injected into the moon boat was not the Sword Intent that destroys everything.

It was the Origin essence of the [Azure Emperor Scripture], containing infinite creative vitality, which he had just obtained from checking in!

"A single lotus in the eternal blue sky! Give it to me—come back to life!!!"

Accompanied by Ye Xiu's hysterical roar, that extremely ancient, pure-to-the-extreme cyan creative immortal light, like a burst river of stars, flowed along Ye Xiu's palms and frantically poured into every piece of wood and every crack in the Formations of this massive giant ship!

A miracle was unfolding in the World of the Living Dead!

"Crackle, crackle—"

Nourished by this Azure Emperor vitality capable of reshaping the Physical Body and reversing life and death, those ancient divine woods that had been dead for ten million years miraculously sprouted new buds!

The broken Formation patterns were forcibly reconnected and reshaped by cyan Dao patterns!

The entire moon boat, as massive as a mountain range, erupted at this moment with a cyan divine light ten thousand times more brilliant than in its prime!

"Hum!"

The most terrifying transformation happened at the top of the mast. That half-broken moon, bound by chains and long since dead, after absorbing Ye Xiu's Pure Yang True Fire and Azure Emperor Origin, erupted with a "boom" and began to burn once again with dazzling silver moonlight!

The giant ship revived! Divine light illuminated the entire Netherworld Yellow Springs!

"Qin Mu!"

Ye Xiu stood before the helm wrapped in cyan divine light, his bright red wedding robe dancing wildly in the reborn divine wind. Like a supreme Great Emperor controlling the Universe, he laughed arrogantly at the stunned Qin Mu:

"I've already started the boat for you!"

"Now, keep your eyes on the direction for me! We are going to drive this flagship of the Netherworld directly to smash through the gates of Wuyou Township!"