Chapter 147: Chapter 143: Opening the Netherworld Gate! Chapter 147: Chapter 143: Opening the Netherworld Gate! “The Gouchen Grand Formation is actually real!”

Li Ping’an exclaimed in amazement, his mind immediately enlightened that this must be the so-called Gouchen Grand Formation starting to take effect!

So that means everything Ye Wenjie said is true!

As he was shocked, the seemingly bottomless black abyss kept swallowing everything, after swallowing the entire Dragon Capital Sky Tower, it began to consume the countless and never-ending ghosts, fierce ghosts, and the “well-fed” evil spirits. This time, Li Ping’an didn’t even need to lift a finger to slay them!

Consequently, the temperature of the once ice-cold world began to rise, thawing the male and female cultivators who had nearly frozen to death or had been frozen unconscious. They were now all safe and sound.

“Immortal Li, I’m about to succeed! I’m going to open the Netherworld Gate!”

As Ye Wenjie, who was already extremely weak, shouted excitedly to Li Ping’an, the black abyss beneath their feet rose rapidly, once again presenting Li Ping’an with the illusion of the abyss breaking through the roof of the Dragon Capital Sky Tower when it ascended.

The moment the black abyss shattered the rooftop beneath Li Ping’an’s feet, he was back to reality, but the scenery before and around him suddenly changed, transforming into an ocean in the blink of an eye. Li Ping’an and the others were by the sea, with a hazy starry sky above their heads and the rapidly rising temperature.

With a mighty roar that echoed through heaven and earth, the sea next to Li Ping’an suddenly surged with roaring waves, mysteriously stirring up a whirlwind and huge waves. The same black abyss from before emerged from the sea and continued to ascend.

It was not until the black abyss flew out of the sea that Li Ping’an could clearly see that his feeling was not wrong; the black abyss was indeed a giant mouth, which belonged to the massive Kunpeng.

As its mouth closed, the previously immobile Great Emperor Gouchen immediately leaped atop it, ascending to the sky together, while the countless ghosts, fierce ghosts, and strengthened evil spirits, as if guided, also followed the Kunpeng into the heavens.

The teeming ghosts and fierce ghosts and the strengthened evil spirits seemed like a constantly growing black pillar stretching into the sky, as if carrying the Kunpeng into flight.

“Ha! Netherworld Gate, open!”

With a loud shout from Great Emperor Gouchen, an ancient and colossal Heaven’s Gate suddenly appeared atop the skies, yet that gate was tightly shut. After his loud shout, Great Emperor Gouchen, stepping on the Kunpeng, leading countless ghosts, fierce ghosts, and strengthened evil spirits, crashed into the Heaven’s Gate!

This magnificent scene lasted the duration of one incense stick before any change occurred!

At first, when Great Emperor Gouchen, riding the Kunpeng and leading the host of ghosts, crashed into Heaven’s Gate, the gate only budged slightly, and the impact made Great Emperor Gouchen, the Kunpeng, and all the evil spirits disappear.

However, the number of ghosts, fierce ghosts, and strengthened evil spirits was simply too many to count, not in the tens of millions then at least in the millions, and still increasing, replenishing. Under their continuous assault, the Heaven’s Gate actually cracked open, and finally, it was completely breached!

“A miracle! A true miracle! Ye Wenjie, you really did not deceive me! Truly an awe-inspiring feat, usurping the creation of heaven and earth!”

Li Ping’an repeatedly exclaimed in amazement, and as the Heaven’s Gate was breached, the dense and innumerable ghosts suddenly seemed to gain consciousness and scattered in all directions, the Pillar of Ghosts Reaching to the Heavens “collapsed” with a thunderous boom!

“Hmm? What is that?”

In the blink of an eye as the host of ghosts scattered, Li Ping’an saw a huge eye emerge from the opened Heaven’s Gate, curiously and fearfully observing Li Ping’an’s world, just as Li Ping’an was studying it.

In a flash, the huge eye suddenly disappeared, and Li Ping’an saw the figure of a Demon flash past the Heaven’s Gate and into the pitch-black space beyond, dark and inscrutable, with no way to see what truly lay inside.

“My children, inform the Three Realms! The seal of the Nineteenth Layer of Hell that was bound for five hundred years has been broken!”

A fleeting voice reached Li Ping’an’s ears. Just as he was trying to ascertain what the ethereal voice from within the Heaven’s Gate was saying, his legs were suddenly embraced, and a voice, genuine beyond doubt, reached him:

“Immortal Li, stop wasting time, and help me become an Immortal!”

The speaker was none other than Ye Wenjie, who at this moment knelt before Li Ping’an, clinging desperately to him and begging ceaselessly.

“Hmm?”

Li Ping’an blinked in a daze, and in the blink of an eye, he was back in the real world, looking again at the True Immortal Taoist Temple. This confusion left him unsure which was real and which was illusion, everything seeming like a fleeting dream or a bubble, illusory and elusive.

To confirm what was real and what was fake, he carefully surveyed his surroundings, finding that every male and female cultivator had collapsed into unconsciousness on the ground, their lamps extinguished at some unknown time.

Focusing his gaze on Ye Wenjie, who was kneeling before him, Li Ping’an was shocked to see that she had suddenly aged decades. Not only had her hair turned white, but her skin had become loose and aged, and she appeared feeble, as though she was on the verge of dying of old age.

“How did you suddenly become like this?”

Once Li Ping’an confirmed he had freed himself from the illusions of the Gouchen Grand Formation and returned to the real world, he scrutinized the near-death Ye Wenjie. Under the state of Divine Power: Insight into the Hidden, he could clearly see Ye Wenjie’s five signs of decay and three deficiencies of fate, that is, her life span, which seemed like a delicate, flickering thread about to snap.

This could only mean one thing: Ye Wenjie, like the female broadcaster Zhou Shufenzi whom he had encountered earlier, was about to die! And her death was coming faster than Zhou Shufenzi’s, likely in a mere moment!

“This is the price!”

After saying this, Ye Wenjie continued to plead:

“Immortal Li, I know you are a kind-hearted person, I beg you to help me achieve immortality!”

“How can I assist you in becoming an Immortal?”

Li Ping’an had a look of utter bewilderment:

“Didn’t you use some Five Prison Immortal Transformation Method?”

“Kill me! If you kill me, I can become an Immortal!”

“If I kill you, you can become an Immortal? Have you gone mad?”

Li Ping’an, still in shock, saw Ye Wenjie pick up a handgun from the floor and present it with both hands reverently:

“Are you suggesting that I should…”

“Correct, use a weapon to kill me, undergo disintegration, achieve immortality!”

Ye Wenjie persisted in her earnest pleas.

“It seems you’re not crazy, you just think I am. In this world, killing you, the most powerful person in Yan Kingdom—do you want me dead that badly!”

Li Ping’an immediately pushed Ye Wenjie away, prepared to leave:

“I’ll repeat what I said before, what do your ambitions of becoming an Immortal have to do with me?”

But Ye Wenjie clutched tightly at Li Ping’an’s legs, almost imploring:

“Immortal Li, you will be free from sin if you kill me, everything that happens here will be sealed away forever, you can be assured of that! I beg you, please hurry and kill me!”