The Eighty-first: The Great Principle of the Earth's Karma in the Cycle of Heaven and Hell, Ghosts and Spirits, Cause and Effect on One's Body.

  Qingqiu Mountain, Xie Yuxuan.

  Zhou Cheng turned back to Qingming again, let out a light sigh, "Heaven's will!"

  He immediately ordered: "Baiyun, quickly go outside the mountain gate to welcome Ancestor Wutu Niangniang." After finishing speaking, he got up and left the thatched cottage.

  Baiyun, as usual, was drinking with Huang Jing in the Dragon Palace. As they drank, he became somewhat intoxicated and started scolding Huang Jing, thinking that the wine tasted bland and assuming that he had added water to it. Suddenly, he heard a message, initially thinking it was Huang Jing speaking.

  "Huang Jing, why did you ask me to go outside the mountain gate to meet Hou Tu? Who is Hou Tu?" Bai Yun asked, drunkenly patting Huang Jing's hand.

  Huang Jing was also slightly drunk, but after hearing Bai Yun's words, he immediately jumped up, "Ah?! Stop drinking and go quickly. It must be the teacher calling you to meet the ancestor of the Wu tribe, Hou Tu Niang Niang."

  "Hmm, come back and drink again, I'll go first." Baiyun only understood after hearing it, the wine also woke up, with a jump, Tengyun immediately left the Dragon Palace and went straight to the outside of Qingqiu Mountain.

  Houtu held a black and yellow tower in her hand, and soon arrived at Qingqiu Mountain. She looked at the green misty scene in front of her, seemingly lost in thought.

  Before long, a red-haired little boy came out of the mountains from afar, riding on clouds and rushing towards Hou Tu. Because he was in such a hurry, his flight was somewhat erratic, causing Hou Tu to smile despite herself.

  "I humbly ask, fellow Taoist, are you the Earth Mother of the Ancestral Witches?" A white cloud somersaulted and landed on a auspicious cloud, seeing only this one woman outside the mountain gate, he cupped his hands in respect.

  The Queen of Earth saw a little boy with white clouds, who made a similar gesture and bowed, being mischievous but not losing his courtesy, and she liked him even more in her heart.

  The brothers under Master's door are indeed all wonderful people. Although there is no great method, it is even more revealing of their nature. Later, Tudi smiled and said:

  It is Hou Tu.

  "Houtu Niangniang, the teacher has invited you." Baiyun stepped aside and extended his hand to invite Houtu to proceed, but in his heart he muttered: Such a beautiful Niangniang comes to find the teacher, what good fortune.

  Houtu followed the white cloud into Qingqiu Mountain, sighing at the faint aura of the Tao emanating from the scattered mountains, which was similar to Zixiao Palace. The sacred place of the saint was indeed extraordinary.

  "Sister, this time coming to Brother's humble abode on Qingqiu Mountain is really condescending." Zhou Cheng stood with a smiling face beside the stone steps at the top of Qingqiu Mountain, looking at Hou Tu who was riding on a cloud.

  "White Cloud, go to your parents' place and bring back four Ginseng Fruits. Also, prepare plenty of Spiritual Fruit Wine and send it to Xie Yu Xuan. Master wants to entertain the mistress well."

  Zhou Cheng's words, however, were even more astonishing to Hou Tu. It wasn't bad that the disciples under him managed the mountain gate's daily storage, but his senior brother was different - he even let his disciples manage the ginseng fruits given by others. His senior brother was truly one of a kind.

  Two people entered Xie Yu Xuan, sitting on both sides of the bamboo couch. Although Zhou Cheng knew what Hou Tu had come for, he was reluctant to speak up and changed the subject instead.

  "Sister, come and taste this Ling fruit that was born from the first spiritual root after the opening of heaven. It's called Ren Shen Guo. Zhen Yuan Zi's disciple is indeed a wonderful person. Last time at Wu Zhuang Guan, it was just a trivial matter, but he sent someone to deliver ten Ren Shen Guos, truly generous." Zhou Cheng lifted the Jin Xiu Shan He Pa, picked up one of the Ren Shen Guos and casually tossed it to Xiao Pi Hai Bai Yun as a reward for leaving, then took another one and handed it to Hou Tu.

  She stretched out her hand to receive the ginseng fruit, with a grateful face. "The three tribes' hundred-year war, Elder Brother protected the human tribe, that's truly a generous person. I'm just not capable enough, this time I should thank Elder Brother for not blaming the witch tribe."

  "The Wu clan has its own karma, why must you worry so much, sister?"

  Houtu lightly opened her cherry lips, elegantly finishing the fruit, and looked up at Zhou Cheng. "Senior brother, this time Houtu has come here for the matter of the Blood Sea. As senior brother is a Saint of Mixed Origin, I suppose you can see the cause and effect with just a snap of your fingers. I hope senior brother will inform me how to proceed."

  Zhou Cheng saw that Hou Tu was still asking about the things he worried about, and he also felt a bit helpless. "Hou Tu, I have already understood the cause and effect of this matter. The number of the Great Way is 49, and Hong Jun's teacher combined the way with the heavenly way, not the great way. Therefore, one of the ways to say it, there are many places where there is a lack of damage." He said as he stood up, turned his back on Hou Tu, and looked out the window at the deep abyss of ten thousand feet, where everything was floating clouds, occasionally with spiritual birds flying over, but it was a good scene. "The matter of the human tribe, I am not unaware, but the matter of ghosts is different from others, my intervention is useless, there are other causes and effects. The heavenly way has defects, and the arrangement for the ghosts to return home has not been made, the matter of ghosts, it is difficult to reverse the heavenly way with human power, only can be repaired in the heavenly way, complete the number of the ghost tribe."

  "Senior brother, this time I've brought the River Styx senior brother, and I hope you can enlighten him as well." Hou Tu took out the Xuan Huang Tower and released the murky aura. The murky aura flashed and transformed back into the appearance of the old ancestor of the River Styx. Seeing Zhou Cheng, he was shocked and wanted to use the Blood God Son's division technique to escape.

  "Ding." Zhou Cheng raised his hand and pointed at Ming He, who couldn't move even a single inch again.

  "Master, Master... the matter of ghosts has nothing to do with the Nether River. I'm just doing heaven's will, helping the ghosts find their resting place." Although he felt no guilt and wasn't afraid of Zhou Cheng, when facing this Fifth Master who had killed demons without hesitation and beheaded his own Fourth Master, he still feared him extremely. He didn't fear being blamed by him, but rather that he wouldn't listen to reason and would end his life with a single sword strike.

  Zhou Cheng saw the appearance of Minghe and was very satisfied with his own performance in front of Wuzhuangguan. He moved his mind and lifted the spell on Minghe's body, "Don't be panic, you acted like this, it's not surprising that you would do so, the Shura clan also has a chance, but the time is not yet ripe, we need to wait. However, thinking of harming Hou Tu, that's your fault. I pity you and want to help the Shura clan, so I'll spare you this time, next time... hum!"

  Minghe saw that he could move again, knowing that Zhou Cheng would no longer blame him, and cupped his hands in a salute: "Thank you, Brother, for not blaming me. Minghe will be more careful from now on." He thought to himself that with her current cultivation progress, she probably wouldn't dare bully him anymore, so he retreated to the side and quietly listened to their conversation.

  "I humbly ask, Master, can this repair the Heavenly Way? The ghostly energy is now complete." Hou Tu saw that Zhou Cheng did not blame Ming He, so he no longer held it against him.

  Zhou Cheng heard this and turned around again to look out of the window. After a long time, he let out a soft sigh.

  "Alas, the heavens, the heavens are hard to defy! The six paths of reincarnation, the present world and the underworld, the ghosts and spirits transform into new bodies due to cause and effect. The Naihe Bridge will not be able to be so tyrannical again, if it harms Hou Tu... Hmph, you can go now, there is a destined opportunity!"

  The two men saw Zhou Cheng with his back to them and did not turn around. They knew there would be no more discussion, so they bid farewell simultaneously and left separately.

  After the two left, Zhou Cheng slowly turned around to face the direction where Hou Tu had gone, muttering to himself: "The Six Paths should have been completed when Pangu opened up the sky, but unfortunately, the number of the Great Dao is destined to be supplemented by later generations. Although it's not necessarily so, if you want to use it to achieve something, Hou Tu was left behind by Pangu and can't help but transform into the Six Paths, but still needs to be calculated."

  Having said that, he didn't think much more, took down a bamboo pole hanging on the wall, put on a rain hat, and went to Qingping Lake to fish in the fine rain like cow hair on the top of Qingqiu Mountain.

  After leaving Qingqiu Mountain, Hou Tu thought deeply about Zhou Cheng's words "Six Paths Reincarnation, Ghosts and Spirits Transmigrate, Cause and Effect Body", feeling that it was profound and unparalleled, like the true words of the Great Way. As for her defense of Zhou Cheng, it came from the heart, feeling a burst of excitement in her Dao heart.

  Houtu drove the cloud aimlessly, and before she knew it, she had arrived near a human tribe in Qingqiu Mountain. She saw that the humans were busy, but under the guidance of the heavenly machine, her interest was piqued.

  In front of the human tribe, there was a river. Countless humans were coming and going, busy with their work, some carrying logs, others carrying stone blocks, all working together to divert the river water. Then, people holding tools directed others to work together to move countless large stones into the diverted river. After 100 days, a strange building appeared in the middle of the river, something that had never been seen before on this land.

  "The old man, the young lady has paid her respects." However, Hou Tu retracted his breath and descended to the ground, blocking an elderly man who was directing the construction of a building in the river.

  The old man saw a Taoist woman descending from the sky, knew she was a cultivator, and didn't panic. He cupped his hands in greeting and said: "Greetings, Immortal Elder, may I ask what brings you here?"

  "May I ask, old man, what is this thing?" Hou Tu asked, pointing at the structure in the river.

  "This is the arched bridge taught by Zhou Cheng, a sage from Qingqiu Mountain, for crossing rivers. The bridge has six holes, which only serve to divide the water flow. Local people call it Zhou Bridge." The human tribe returned to the vicinity of Qingqiu Mountain again, and Zhou Cheng also instructed his disciples to pass on more survival skills, and this arched bridge was one of them.

  "Arched bridge? Diverting water..." Later, Tu looked back at the arched bridge and saw that the upstream water first disappeared into the six holes and then flowed out from another side. Although the water was divided by the six holes, it eventually gathered together again.

  "Six Paths, one truth! I see!" The Queen of the Earth was overjoyed. Under the guidance of the Taoist machine, she suddenly understood the heavenly mechanism. She bid farewell with a bow and hurriedly returned to Qingqiu Mountain.

  (Tonight at 12 o'clock, I will post another chapter on time. In order to rush into the new weekly rankings, Xiaoyu has been writing while enduring hunger, and it's estimated that even if we eat early, it won't be until 11:30. Brothers, this week we were ranked first in the weekly recommended list thanks to everyone's efforts, thank you! Let me see the power of my brothers again in this new week.)