"In the Nine Hells and Yellow Springs, unfathomably deep, where do the dead return? To the earth of constancy."
What lay before Xu Xuan was a realm of shadows, boundless and devoid of light. Yet his ghost god body felt like a fish in water here, as though he could traverse this world with a single thought.
This was the Secret Realm where Penglai stored its golden nature. Named the [Constant Earth Realm], it had been constructed from various objects of subduing earth.
Huaiyin had only just led this ghost god inside when he discovered that his companion had vanished. He could only bring out a lantern.
Pure moonlight flickered within it. Clearly, an exceptionally precious ray of Greater Yin spiritual light served as its source. Only then did the surrounding shadows brighten, though even it could not illuminate them completely.
The bronze ghost face appeared and disappeared in the moonlight, and Xu Xuan spoke with a sigh of feeling. "The original Gloomy Netherworld was formed from the union of subduing earth and hearing the nether. One was the earth of constancy, burying human bones; the other was the path of inconstancy, bidding human souls farewell."
He had, after all, encountered that righteous order golden nature, whose Dao lay in Wu and Subdual and whose name was [Righteous Order Great Resignation Eternal-Sleep Nature]. He had also stolen a look at the Netherworld's subduing earth Daoist Canon, so naturally, he knew a fair amount.
In ancient times, after people died, their bodies entered the earth and their souls returned to the nether. Subduing earth and hearing the nether were what handled them. Reincarnation only came later, evolving into an entire system of the underworld.
The ancient name of the Divine Ability [Burial Mound of Artemisia] was precisely [Constant Earth]!
Subduing earth