Only at the Mahayana Stage Does the Reversal System Appear - Chapter 365

Chapter 365: Creating a Breach in the Underworld

. Jiang Li understood. While the Nine Provinces world was thriving, the worlds beyond it were ensnared in the machinations of the extraterritorial demons, steadily dwindling the human race.

He had saved several worlds, but compared to the countless worlds, they were still too few.

Too many worlds had fallen, or even remained utterly silent.

With the death toll increasing, the number of places available for reincarnation dwindled, leaving ghosts with no place to stay in the Underworld. Since

the Immortal Realm was inaction, Jiang Li would sooner or later visit them to settle the matter.

“After drinking Meng Po soup, you still have vague memories of your past life?” Du Ping was surprised. If one couldn’t completely forget their past lives, wouldn’t that mean that cultivators retained memories of their past lives after reincarnation?

This would create a huge ethical dispute, and the Underworld would not allow such a thing to happen.

Xiaofang shook her head. “Mengpo soup isn’t the final step in reincarnation. We ghosts still need to pass through an artifact called the ‘Six Paths of Reincarnation Stele’ to be reincarnated.”

“The ‘Six Paths of Reincarnation Stele’ contains the principles of the cycle of life and death. It will cleanse our souls, completely severing our ties to our past lives, allowing us to forget everything and start afresh.”

“But this was all told to us by a kind-hearted ghost messenger. As for whether it’s true or not, we don’t know.”

“Originally, all of us were about to enter reincarnation and be reborn. The person ahead of me had already been cleansed by the Six Paths of Reincarnation Stele and successfully reincarnated. I was next in line. But then a fight broke out up there.”

“A fight broke out up there?”

“I don’t know. It was a chaotic situation. I only know someone attacked us from above, creating a breach in the underworld. That’s when the Black and White Impermanence arrived, activating the Six Paths of Reincarnation Stele, intending to send us on our way to reincarnation. However, the process was interrupted, and we fell into a coma. We don’t know how much time passed, but when we woke up, we found ourselves in your world.”

“It now appears that we didn’t successfully reincarnate, but are stuck between souls and the living.”

“How did you manage to hide?” Du Ping wondered. The concealment methods of these ordinary ghosts were far too advanced, even his divine sense couldn’t penetrate them.

“It’s a trace of the power of life and death left in us by the Six Paths of Reincarnation Stele. We’ve relied on this tiny bit of power to survive until now.”

The power of life and death? Jiang Li heard the familiar words and pulled a book from his storage ring.

“Can you activate this thing?”

“Is this a replica of the Book of Life and Death?” several of the still-conscious ghosts exclaimed. The underworld holds several crucial artifacts, such as the Three Lives Stone, the Naihe Bridge, the Six Paths of Reincarnation Stele, and the Book of Life and Death. Because there are so many ghosts, the Yama Kings are overwhelmed by the shared Book of Life and Death. Special exceptions have been made to allow for the creation of replicas, but even so, the underworld only has a few.

How could there be replicas of the Book of Life and Death in the living world?

Du Ping and Ji Kongkong hadn’t expected Jiang Li to possess such a thing.

“I happened to see the Black and White Impermanence and borrowed it to look at. I wanted to return it to them, but they left in such a hurry that they didn’t have time to take it.”

Xiaofang looked puzzled. The living and the dead were separated, and the underworld couldn’t interfere in the affairs of the living. It was impossible for the Black and White Impermanence to lend the Book of Life and Death to someone else.

And they left in such a hurry that they didn’t have time to take it. It didn’t make any sense.

Several ghosts also looked at Jiang Li with strange eyes. Could it be that he had snatched the Book of Life and Death from the Black and White Impermanence?

“What realm are you in?”

“Mahayana.”

The ghosts glanced at each other, having never heard of such a realm.

“Activating the Book of Life and Death requires a mastery of the cycle of life and death. We haven’t even mastered the basics, so we can’t activate it.”

“Then do you know how to get to the underworld?” Jiang Li was puzzled. He had been holding the Book of Life and Death, waiting for the Black and White Impermanence to take him there, but no one showed up.

“We don’t know where the underworld is either.”

“Who breached the underworld, an external force or an internal conflict?”

Xiaofang shook her head. “I don’t know. It was an immortal who took action, and the scene was so grand. We didn’t even have the qualifications to watch, so we were just trying to escape.”

Another ghost said, “I suspect it was the Ten Yama Kings fighting. Two or three Yama Kings have always felt that there are too many of us ghosts and that we are disrupting the order of the underworld, so they want to send the extra ghosts to other worlds and open up new underworlds.”

“But most Yama Kings disagree. They believe that there is only one underworld, and opening up a new one would undermine its majesty.”

“When I first came to the Jiuzhou world, I thought this was a newly established underworld. Later I found out that this is the world of the living.”

Xiaofang introduced, “This ghost has done great good deeds and should be reincarnated into a wealthy family. Unfortunately, there are fewer living people in today’s world, and even fewer wealthy people. He has been waiting in the underworld for more than a hundred years and has more experience than me.”

“I heard that a few Yamas felt that there were too many ghosts, so they might as well kill some of them, which led to conflicts among the Yamas. Is it possible that because of this, the conflicts among the Yamas intensified, and they started fighting, and affected us.”

“Nonsense, no matter what, the Yamas will not kill us. I think there are external forces attacking the underworld.”

“That’s ridiculous, the ghost messengers have all said that in all the heavens and worlds, all the dead will end up in the underworld. Only the fairy world is qualified to be compared with the underworld. Who will attack the underworld, the fairy world?”

“It’s not impossible. Maybe a close relative of a fairy boss died, and the fairy boss came to the underworld in grief and anger to snatch people.”

Several ghosts who were still conscious insisted on their own opinions and quarreled. No one could convince anyone else. The confused ghosts continued to be confused and had no reaction, as if they were used to it.

“I’ve been dead for a hundred and twenty years, you should listen to me.”

“Comparing seniority? I’ve been dead for a hundred and eighty years, what did I say?”

“Look at your arrogance. If someone didn’t know, they’d think you were going to reincarnate into the celestial realm.”

“Everyone’s going to reincarnate into the human realm, so why are you comparing who’s been dead the longest?”

Only Xiaofang stood aside quietly, silent.

She spoke what she knew and didn’t speculate about what she didn’t know.

“From the sound of it, you’re very familiar with the immortal world?” Ji Kongkong found this quarrel between ghosts very interesting and curious.

She had thought ghosts were scary, but to find out there were some so lively, her fear of ghosts immediately subsided.

But she still felt uneasy when she saw those confused ghosts.

Xiaofang rolled her eyes: “The underworld gave us Mengpo soup just to make us know less. We know very little. What they said about the fairyland and Yama, we just heard it from the ghost messengers when they were chatting, just for fun. We don’t even know who the Ten Yama Kings are.”

Ji Kongkong was speechless. It seemed that these ghosts were just bragging.

Jiang Li listened for a long time and suddenly asked: “Don’t you suspect that it was done by the extraterritorial demon?”

“Extraterritorial demon? I haven’t heard of it.” Several ghosts had never heard of the extraterritorial demon.

The Mahayana stage didn’t know, and the extraterritorial demon didn’t know either. Jiang Li no longer expected to get any useful information from these ghosts.

(End of this chapter)