Ten Thousand Soul Banner: Deceased, do you have any unfulfilled wishes?

Chapter 1238: Chapter 1234: Divine Might

Dou Dou’s words scared Tang Tang a little. She didn’t want Dou Dou to take care of her; she just wanted to tussle with Dou Dou.

Seeing Tang Tang’s pitiful, almost-crying expression, Shen Siyuan grabbed Dou Dou for a little scolding.

"Don’t listen to her nonsense. How could I ever not want you? I would never not want you," Shen Siyuan comforted her, sitting her on his lap.

The little one was easy to cheer up. Hearing Shen Siyuan’s words, she immediately grinned with a happy smile.

Of course, it was mostly because Dou Dou got a pummeling, clutching her behind and yelping in pain.

Time flew by like a white steed across a crack, gone in an instant. Unknowingly, the New Year passed. Taozi went to Xiajing to start preparing for the wedding.

Ruan Hongzhuang was worried she’d struggle alone, so she took a few days off to accompany her to Xiajing. Of course, she had some opinions.

"What do you call this, a husband getting married while I’m here with a big belly, happily helping to prepare the wedding," Ruan Hongzhuang couldn’t help but complain.

Huang Jiayan, following behind them, stifled her laughter, her body trembling nonstop.

As Lin Libo’s wife, Daodao’s sister-in-law, and a local powerhouse in Xiajing, she naturally accompanied them the whole way, bustling around.

Even though the banquet hall hosted the wedding banquet, the specific arrangements, the entrance style, and so on, needed a wedding company for planning.

"I feel like your wedding is grander than mine was," Ruan Hongzhuang said, unable to hide her jealousy.

"Don’t worry, you’ll be my bridesmaid—that’s already a given," Taozi playfully jabbed at her.

Ruan Hongzhuang angrily pinched her cheeks, but Taozi dared not play around too much, given Ruan Hongzhuang’s pregnancy—she was the family’s treasure.

This was also why she’d voluntarily reduced her workload because this child was extremely important to her.

Meanwhile, Shen Siyuan wasn’t idle either; he’d been busy exploring the Xuzhou Netherworld. With a flick of his finger, a bronze square seal quietly floated in his palm, the Xuzhou City God Seal.

The cloud seal inscriptions on the seal flowed, spreading divine light as his Divine Sense infused it, covering the entire Xuzhou Netherworld’s earth veins like a web.

It had been over a month since obtaining the City God Seal. He used it to methodically sort out the Xuzhou Netherworld.

His task wasn’t just to expel the Polluted Energy but also to find the true core authority of this Netherworld—the Earth Suppressing Treasure Seal King Taishan left in Xuzhou.

During the search for King Taishan’s Treasure Seal, he also did some cleansing of the Xuzhou Netherworld’s evil energy.

During this time, the three little ones contributed significantly, growing considerably.

Especially Xiao Yue, seemingly inspired by Duoduo and Dou Dou; she’s worked hard recently, exploring more uses for the Soul Hook and the Three Pure Ones Bell.

As for Duoduo and Dou Dou, these two little ones possess a "born to win" trait, completely oblivious to the concept of effort. They either play or mess around daily, and all their strength is gifted naturally. But with their backgrounds, their power rises rapidly, as if they’re directly fed.

That day, using the City God Seal’s earth vein sensing ability, he finally detected an anomaly at the Netherworld earth vein’s core.

"Let’s go, down we go."

Shen Siyuan called out, and the three little ones immediately gathered around.

Xiao Yue held the Three Pure Ones Bell, with the Soul Hook swirling around, looking ready for action.

Duoduo tossed the umbrella handle into the air, turned into a wisp of green smoke, and vanished entirely.

Dou Dou, meanwhile, had the Lotus Lamp on her head, holding the Bronze Double Hammer, with flames roaring around her, ready to fight aggressively.

The three little ones had distinct personalities, leading to their varied reactions.

Shen Siyuan chuckled and shook his head, flicking his fingers as the Five Elements Primordial Magnetic Sword burst out from his sleeve.

Red, green, yellow, white, and black auras exploded along the sword’s spine, and a pale purple primordial magnetic halo spread out, surrounding them all.

He didn’t use the sword to cut through the ground but instead immersed his Divine Sense into the sword, summoning omnipresent primordial magnetic power from deep within the earth. In mere moments, he altered their magnetic field frequencies, synchronizing completely with the Xuzhou Netherworld’s geomagnetic source.

The hardened basalt layer beneath them, the sticky, bone-eroding Yin Sha evil energy, and the layered earth veins split silently apart like flowing water.

Wrapped in a pale purple magnetic glow, they sank rapidly into the earth, moving along the ground vein fissures without making a sound.

The three little ones watched in amazement; they never knew Shen Siyuan could use the Earth Escape Technique.

This was a special Escape Technique unique to the Five Elements Primordial Magnetic Sword, called Magnetic Escape, which Shen Siyuan had been practicing for a long time.

However, his Magnetic Escape’s power now was mainly due to the Five Elements Primordial Magnetic Sword, a clever trick.

In just a short time, they had descended three thousand feet underground, and the scene before them suddenly opened up.

A magnificent underground palace, standing silently at the core of the earth’s veins.

The entire palace was cast from a whole block of Netherworld Mysterious Rock, with dozens of large stone pillars reaching straight to the top, covered in Cloud Seal runes. Even after a millennium, with the dome half-collapsed and the tablet broken in two, the formidable presence of Yama still lingered.

On the broken plaque, the seven ancient seal characters of "Taishan King’s Xuzhou Palace" were still clearly discernible.

At this moment, the entire ground of the palace was moving slightly in a way that was almost imperceptible to the naked eye. What seemed to be the cracks and ravines of rock were actually the folds of a giant creature’s body segments.

"Watch me," Dou Dou mumbled, her flames surging up, transforming instantly into a humanoid torch, illuminating the surroundings.

A massive Mud Worm, stretching for miles and resembling an earthworm, was tightly coiling the entire Taishan King’s Palace within its body.

Its body, condensed from Polluted Energy and the earth’s veins, was as thick as a gigantic tree that ten people could barely circle, with black bristles like steel needles covering each segment. Wherever the bristles brushed, even the Netherworld Mysterious Rock was corroded with dense pits.

It connected head to tail, turning the palace into a sealed cage. Countless twisted faces wailing and floating within its viscous form were the dead souls trapped for a millennium, nourishing its power.

Its mouthpiece, filled with fine fangs, was hidden beneath the platform at the deepest part of the palace, facing a floating Profound Black Square Seal, as if intending to swallow it.

Yet the Profound Black Square Seal was extraordinary, emitting beams of black light to resist the giant creature’s maw.

"Wow, what a big caterpillar," Dou Dou exclaimed in horror, as she was most afraid of caterpillars.

Then—

"Nasty thing, get lost," Dou Dou’s entire body was ablaze, lifting her double hammers high to strike directly at the enormous corrupted body.

Dou Dou had never shied away from fear, knowing nothing of evasion.

"Uh—"

Shen Siyuan was about to warn them to be careful, but Dou Dou had already charged up.

Seeing Dou Dou rush forward, Xiao Yue and Duoduo naturally wouldn’t lag behind, charging toward the front from both the left and right.

"Are they really this reckless?"

Shen Siyuan spoke this skeptically, yet his hands moved skillfully.

Gripping the Five Elements Primordial Magnetic Sword in one hand, he pointed the sword tip to the depths of the earth, spreading his Divine Sense instantly to fully connect with the geomagnetic source of Xuzhou Netherworld.

In an instant, countless arcs of light burst from his sword tip and fell on the ground, which then emitted an arc of light connecting to the sword tip.

This time, when Shen Siyuan lifted and swung his sword, it seemed as if a gigantic electric python was drawn from the earth, its flickering arcs creating thunder-like echoes throughout the underground space.

First came the pervasive static prickling sensation

Every particle of dust, every wisp of Polluted Energy, and even the unique cold-yin aura of the Netherworld were instantly charged with surging electromagnetic potential.

The three little ones were the first to be overwhelmed, as if a predator was eyeing them, a fear quickly spreading in their hearts, halting their forward rush.

Shen Siyuan would not allow them to be harmed, so the Ten Thousand Soul Banner turned into a cape, waving his sleeve, he instantly drew them into the Ten Thousand Soul Banner.

Soon, the rumbling sound grew louder and louder.

It wasn’t the explosion of ordinary thunder, but a deep-frequency resonance provoked by the entire Netherworld geomagnetic source.

The dull rumble surged up from the depths of the earth, drilling its way through rocks and land.

Soon, the low-frequency rumble was replaced by the cracking sound of high-frequency explosions, as the electric python burst open mid-air, countless arm-thick purple arcs scattered like celestial maidens spreading flowers onto the ground, each arc drawing a thicker bolt of electricity from the rock layers upon landing, forming numerous loops of electromagnetic torrents between the sword tip and the earth, the sizzling ionization echoes throughout the entire hall, even the air itself twisted and heated.

Most astonishing was the visible geomagnetic anomaly.

Once formless and invisible, the geomagnetic lines now transformed into tangible pale purple light bands, like a sky of descending star rivers, from the collapsed dome to the rock floor, from the massive stone pillars to the miles-long Mud Worm body, all intricately woven into an impenetrable giant magnetism net.

The gravitational rules of the entire space were completely disordered, with fragments of rock, broken tiles, viscous pollutants, even the surging black-brown Polluted Energy uncontrollably floating to mid-air, instantly pulverized by the crisscrossing magnetic lines once lifted.

Shen Siyuan himself was surrounded by astonishing phenomena.

Standing with one hand gripping the sword at the core of the magnetic net, he transformed into the sole magnetic pole of this space, with the earth’s south and north magnetic powers converging behind him forming two massive interlocking magnetic rings.

As if planetary rings, they rotated slowly, the flowing electric light on the ring every flash illuminating the entire underground hall.

A great sun appeared behind his head, summoned by the magnetic force, wrapping the glowing golden light with a dense layer of purple light. The Supreme Yang and Firm Sun God Fire merged with the indestructible Primordial Magnetic Power, dissolving everything it passed.

Even more astounding, as his Divine Sense synchronized completely with the geomagnetic source, the entire hall’s space experienced magnetic distortion, with light being bent by magnetic force, distant stone pillars, and the Mud Worm’s body bizarrely stretched and folded, though miles apart, the Mud Worm’s tail was forcibly pulled to the front of the platform by the magnetism, the head-to-tail cage torn out of shape.

At this moment, he stood as a True God upon the earth.