Only at the Mahayana Stage Does the Reversal System Appear - Chapter 509

Chapter 507 A Little Black Spot

felt a strange sensation after taking the Tianyang Poison Pill. The pill dissolved from his dantian, emitting a surge of power that drew Jiang Li’s soul to the underworld.

However, this force was very weak; the force the system had used to drag Jiang Li’s soul to the Ella world to become a magician was even greater than this.

Jiang Li actively separated his soul from his body and floated towards the underworld, following the pill’s guidance.

The Human Emperor Palace, the Nine Provinces, the Nine Provinces world, the void… Jiang Li experienced death for the first time.

Jiang Li’s soul moved at a swift speed, arriving in the void in the blink of an eye.

“It’s faster than tearing through space, and Commander Liu is right next to me, but he can’t see me. Is this the most mysterious cycle of life and death that the immortal elder spoke of?”

Legend has it that the underworld constantly uses the cycle of life and death to draw the souls of the dead to the underworld.

Jiang Li shuttled through the infinite void, releasing his spiritual consciousness, observing everything.

On his journey to the underworld, Jiang Li was not alone. Elders from the Nine Provinces followed him, and the souls of other worlds caught in disaster accompanied him.

Every second, beings from all realms perished. Jiang Li didn’t know what life was like before, but he felt the death to be utterly overwhelming.

He saw pure, young souls swimming from the front, bound for various worlds. Compared to the departed, the newly born seemed pitifully few in number.

“This is the perspective of the soul. Truly different from what the living see,” Jiang Li marveled. “And even those in the Tribulation Crossing stage can’t remain in the void for long, yet fragile souls can travel freely.”

“Human Emperor, could it be that even you…” The old man from Jiuzhou burst into tears upon seeing Jiang Li, grief overflowing from his heart.

His family had previously wept bitterly over the old man’s death, but now, upon seeing Jiang Li’s soul, the old man wept even more bitterly.

Jiang Li felt a little embarrassed, and could only patiently explain that he wasn’t dead, but had simply traveled to the underworld and would return to Jiuzhou. Only

then did the old man cease his sobs.

“I can’t imagine what it would be like to leave your Jiuzhou.” The old man was only a mortal. He couldn’t believe that he hadn’t had the chance to meet the Human Emperor Jiang in life, only to see him in death.

Jiang Li was about to say something when his brows raised. He’d spotted something strange in the void.

A tiny black dot.

Jiang Li used his spiritual sense to see it clearly. A tiny black dot had suddenly appeared in the void, for no apparent reason.

Everything else would vanish into the void, but this tiny dot seemed to be a special case, unaffected by the void.

The dot shifted, becoming two, then four, and then suddenly vanished again, without any apparent reason.

“What is this?” Jiang Li had never encountered such a bizarre object before.

He went to investigate, but found nothing, no trace of its existence.

…

The underworld, the Netherworld.

“Everyone’s here. Let’s have a meeting now.”

“Can we please not have this routine? Meetings every day! Do you know how many souls come to the underworld every day? How many are waiting in line? I’m too busy to handle it all.”

“King Yama, watch your words. Meetings are a tradition. How did you turn them into ‘this routine’?”

“What words should I use? I’m just saying what I mean. King Qin Guang, please judge. Aren’t you tired of having meetings all day?”

King Qin Guang coughed and winked at King Yama. “Today’s meeting is quite important.”

He didn’t mention previous meetings.

King Yama followed King Qin Guang’s gaze and shuddered.

A gentle woman, dignified and graceful, sat at the end of the long table. She wore an inky immortal robe, her jet-black hair tied in a heavy, intricate bun. Her skin was like jade, her eyes were beautiful, and a faint smile lingered on her lips as she gazed at King Yama.

The Lord of the Underworld, its only Hunyuan Wuliang Immortal.

The Empress of the Underworld.

King Yama’s heart skipped a beat.

He was just complaining as usual, but he had never expected that the once elusive Hou Tu Huang would attend the meeting. Hou

Tu Huang said slowly, “Yan Luo, the underworld is overrun with demons these days, and everyone is working very hard. Please be understanding.”

“Of course, you have a point. Everyone is busy, and frequent meetings aren’t good. How about reducing the frequency of meetings to one-third of their original frequency? What do you think?”

King Yama dared not say no.

The Ten Yama Kings gathered in the Netherworld. Looking at Hou Tu Huang, they all realized that today’s meeting was likely to be unusual.

King Yama then diligently reviewed the agenda and found that it was indeed a matter that required the joint decision of the Ten Yama Kings and the Lord of the Underworld.

Prince Qin Guang presided over the meeting. “Billions of souls have been resurrected in the Fengmo world. The Black and White Impermanence have discovered the cause. Someone has obtained a fragment of the time fragment of the Immortal Ladder, causing the entire world’s time to rewind ten years, resurrecting countless people registered in the Underworld.”

“The fragment of the Immortal Ladder is related to the Immortal Realm again.” Everyone wanted to hear about the Immortal Realm right now. The emergence of intelligence in the Heavenly Dao brought them so much work. Destroying the worlds has overrun the Underworld with ghosts, and now they’re attacking it.

They haven’t had a long vacation

in ages. Being dead is more tiring than being alive.

“How should this be handled?”

“Life and death are determined by fate and cannot be reversed. I believe we should recapture all these souls,” said Prince Pingdeng.

“But this will create a tremendous amount of work for the Underworld,” frowned Prince Yama.

“That’s not the point. Managing the dead is the Underworld’s primary job. We can’t just quit because there’s too much work and let some slip through the net. If you think the workload is too much, King Yama, I can share some of it,” Prince Pingdeng said.

“King Pingdeng is right. This is the job of the Underworld, and we can’t shirk it. However, our job stems from the Law of Reincarnation. The resurrection of billions of souls is caused by the Law of Time. The Law of Reincarnation and the Law of Time are of the same rank, and there’s no distinction between superior and inferior.” “

Since this is a conflict between laws, it’s force majeure. We should respect the Law of Time and allow the undead to continue living in the Fengmo World.”

“Furthermore, we in the underworld shouldn’t interfere in the affairs of the living world. If we recall these souls, it would cause chaos on that planet.”

“I agree with King Qin Guang. Whether from the perspective of respecting the laws of time or maintaining order in the living world, we shouldn’t allow those people to die again.”

The Ten Yama Kings looked at Hou Tu Huangzhi, the one with the final say.

“No need to recall the souls,”

King Yama breathed a sigh of relief. Recalling the souls would require a new assessment of their merit, re-registration, and re-housing arrangements.

Over the years, some souls have performed good deeds, others evil, since they were resurrected. Their previous merit would not count, and they would need to rank again.

If that were the case, King Yama might even consider reincarnation.

“Now, let’s move on to the next topic. The Black and White Impermanence mentioned a living person named Jiang Li, who possessed immense merit. How should we treat this person after his death?”

“Yan Luo, bring out the Book of Life and Death so that everyone can see his life and merit.”

“Yes,”

King Yama tossed the actual Book of Life and Death into the air.

(End of Chapter)