binnovel Chapter 199 About the Underworld
Chapter 199 About the Underworld
Ye Chen was silent for a moment after listening to Lan Xing's words, "Those people are so smart and can calculate, don't they leave a way out for themselves?"
"Maybe there is a glimmer of hope, but the opportunity is not here." Lan Xing said.
"Where is this ray of hope?" Ye Chen asked.
Lan Xing shook his head. "We have to wait until Blue Star fully recovers before that glimmer of hope will appear."
"We'll talk about this later, let's focus on the present situation first."
Ye Chen nodded. He hadn’t even revived the ancient beast yet, so there was really nothing he could do.
However, since that glimmer of hope is not here, it means that even if the fallen gods and ghosts are resurrected, they will not appear in this world.
If that's the case, then what's the point of him creating the underworld? Without the Ten Kings of Hell and the ghost messengers, the underworld is just an empty shell.
Ye Chen thought so and said so to Lan Xing.
"There is also a Book of Life and Death in the underworld." Lan Xing said.
Ye Chen thought of a possibility when he heard this, and his eyes widened suddenly, "So, I will have to recruit workers for the underworld in the future?!"
"Thank you for your hard work." Lan Xing patted Ye Chen's shoulder like a capitalist.
Ye Chen wanted to say, "I refuse," and even a donkey pulling a mill wouldn't do that. But he saw the resentment gathered above the ruins and heard the painful howls coming from them.
Ye Chen swallowed his words of refusal and thought, "Whatever, he is a kind-hearted dragon."
"alright."
Ye Chen looked at the souls torn apart by resentment above the ruins, "Then can I summon the underworld now?"
Lan Xing nodded, "Let me protect you. I can barely summon a part of the underworld to temporarily accommodate these souls."
"Okay, I'll start summoning now."
Ye Chen turned around and pulled Lan Xing back into the aircraft, and took out the blank star card placed in the empty space button.
Fortunately, he always had this thing prepared.
Lan Xing was watching Ye Chen from the side, with golden light surrounding Ye Chen.
Ye Chen closed his eyes, used his mental power as a carving knife, and slowly put down a stroke on the blank star card.
Ye Chen originally wanted to summon the Yellow Springs Road. It was rumored that it was the only way for the dead to pass. It was full of Lycoris radiata and the place was large, so it should be suitable for temporarily storing the souls of the dead.
However, with one stroke, the carving knife in Ye Chen's hand turned a corner by itself.
The scene in Ye Chen's mind changed from the Yellow Springs Road covered with sand and blooming red spider lilies to a land temple.
At the same time, a piece of information automatically flooded into Ye Chen's mind.
It turns out that the first stop of the deceased's soul after death is the land temple. The deceased soul must erase its human origin and obtain a pass to enter the underworld.
Only after getting the pass can you enter the Ghost Gate, which is also the second stop for the dead souls, and then the Yellow Springs Road.
After walking along Huangquan Road, you will reach Wangxiangtai, where you can take one last look at your hometown. If you continue walking forward, you will pass by Sansheng Stone.
There is basically no danger in the places ahead. After passing the Three Lives Stone, you will reach the Evil Dog Ridge where vicious dogs bark incessantly, the Golden Rooster Mountain where golden roosters crow to announce the dawn, the Wild Ghost Village where you have to pay for the toll, and the Hall of Bewitching Souls where you drink the water of truth.
After reaching the bewitching place and drinking the water of truth, the dead souls will have to tell the truth and confess all the sins they committed in the world of the living.
The wicked will first go to Fengdu City and then to the underworld for trial. Finally, according to the severity of their crimes, they will be sent to the eighteen levels of hell to pay for their sins.
The good ones also enter the Fengdu City and are reviewed and approved by the underworld. Only those who are innocent can cross the Wangchuan River, walk across the Naihe Bridge, and wait for reincarnation in the Xinsheng Valley.
Of course, before reincarnation, one must drink Meng Po soup on the Cliff of Reincarnation, and all the past events will vanish into thin air.
However, it is not that easy to reincarnate. You have to wait. If it is not your turn, you can only wait in the underworld.
Therefore, there are two places in the underworld: the Offering Pavilion and the Ghost World Castle. The former is a unilateral express delivery unit in the underworld. For example, if you burn paper money at home, you can come here to collect it.
The latter is the temporary residence of ghosts who are waiting to be called to reincarnate.
After reading this information, Ye Chen felt that it would be most appropriate to summon the Ghost Realm Castle, but with his current mental strength, he could only choose the Land Temple.
Forget it, let’s just keep it as a land temple. It will be enough to give these dead souls a place to rest and stop them from being tortured and consumed by resentment.
Ye Chen calmed down and began to depict the land temple seriously.
This time, Ye Chen spent a full hour. It was not because he did not have enough mental strength. The difficulty of summoning the Land Temple was not as great as summoning the Yingzhao God. However, the Land Temple was a divine building, and it was Ye Chen's first time to summon one.
Lan Xing, who had been guarding Ye Chen, watched him put down the last stroke, and the star card lit up with a golden glow.
The shadow of a temple was projected into the sky, but that shadow only existed for a moment.
The next moment, a palm-sized mini temple fell into Ye Chen's hands.
Ye Chen took it carefully, looked it over from top to bottom and cast a puzzled look at Lan Xing.
"How do we use this land temple? Should we put it on the ground?"
Ye Chen said this and placed the mini land temple directly on the ground, but nothing happened.
Lan Xing took the mini land temple from Ye Chen, and a hint of golden light merged into it.
"Okay, use it to collect the souls in the ruins first. The land temple can isolate the resentment." Lan Xing returned the land temple that was integrated into the golden light spots.
Ye Chen took it and felt something different the moment he touched it, but he couldn't tell what it was.
It’s just that the power in the land temple is very kind and warm to him.
Ye Chen followed the method taught by Lan Xing and absorbed the souls of the dead in the ruins into the land temple.
However, there are not many truly complete souls, and most of them are soul fragments that cannot be pieced together or repaired.
Those soul fragments had been dead for too long and had long been torn apart and devoured by the resentment. Some of them even had no soul fragments left.
The souls that Ye Chen was able to retrieve were either those who had died not long ago or those who had enough willpower not to be eroded by resentment and had been fighting against it.
If there was any compromise between them, it would have been torn into pieces by now by resentment and foul air.
“Once I learn how to draw talismans, I will come to clear away these resentments.” Ye Chen said.
Rather than merging with resentful and foul air, those soul fragments would rather return to the universe.
After leaving the ruins, Ye Chen collected some dead souls in the land temple while searching for the mutant star beasts that were the target of his mission.
"Why does this land temple look like a magic weapon?" Ye Chen muttered to himself, then looked at Lan Xing and asked, "How many dead souls do I need to collect to revive the land temple?"
"We don't need the souls of the dead to revive the land temple." Lan Xing said.
Ye Chen was a little bit incredulous when he heard this, "Are you going to tell me that reviving the Land Temple also requires faith points?!"
Lan Xing looked at Ye Chen and smiled gently, "You guessed right, and it requires 10 million faith points."
Ye Chen: “…………”
No, the Earth God Temple is not an ancient beast that can run and jump, so how can it absorb faith points, and it is 10 million faith points at that!
Ye Chen looked at the small land temple in his hand, thought about it and asked in a low voice: "The land temple as the first stop requires 10 million faith points, what about the ones behind it?"
Lan Xing smiled back at Ye Chen. It would naturally become more difficult as time went on.
Ye Chen understood what he meant, and while feeling sorry for himself, he put the land temple back into the system space.
"Forget it, let's finish these bronze tasks first."
Ye Chen tapped the light computer on his wrist, and a small lucky butterfly flew out from it, happily circling around Ye Chen.
“Bring out the photos of the mutant star beasts needed for the bronze mission.” Ye Chen said.
"Okay, master." As Xiao Fudie finished speaking, more than fifty small light screens appeared around Ye Chen in an instant, and on each small light screen there was a mutant star beast.
"Let's start looking." Ye Chen said to Lan Xing beside him.
"Go south." Lan Xing didn't want to be a headless fly, so he naturally made a quick calculation.
"Okay." Ye Chen naturally listened to him.
In less than half an hour, Ye Chen successfully found eight mutant star beasts and killed all those he met along the way.
"It's okay, no different from going out for a picnic." Ye Chen stretched lazily.
Hunting these low-level mutant star beasts is so easy that Ye Chen is too lazy to start a live broadcast to summon the ancient beasts to play.
Because it's uninteresting and boring.
Lan Xing, who was standing next to Ye Chen, chuckled, "Let's finish it sooner so we can have a barbecue outdoors."
"Your idea is great!" Ye Chen agreed.
As the two were talking, they suddenly heard footsteps behind them, and it sounded like there were quite a few footsteps.
Ye Chen and Lan Xing acted as if they didn't hear it and didn't care at all.
It was not until the people behind them surrounded them that Ye Chen took a dull look at them.
"Boy, you are the ones who beat up my cousin!" The leading man looked decent, but his voice sounded like a dog barking when he opened his mouth.
"Who is your cousin?" Ye Chen replied lazily.
He has always been kind to others and really can't remember who he has offended.
The man became even more angry when he heard Ye Chen's words, "You beat my cousin severely at the entrance of the Mercenary Guild, and now you dare not admit it!"
After saying that, the man couldn't help but look at Lan Xing who was standing next to Ye Chen, with a hint of surprise and obsession in his eyes.
Ye Chen is also very handsome, but there is something very strange about Lan Xing that makes him inexplicably attractive.
"With her looks like this, no wonder my cousin likes her."
Ye Chen stood sideways in front of Lan Xing. He was very dissatisfied with the man who was staring at Lan Xing. At the same time, he also remembered who this man's cousin was.
He said that he had always been kind to others and it was impossible for him to offend anyone, but it turned out that they were just a bunch of bugs.
It really makes sense that a bedbug's cousin is also a bedbug.
I wonder if anyone would care if I killed a few bedbugs outside the city.
Oh, he can pretend to be killed by a mutant star beast.
There was already a cold look in Ye Chen's eyes, but his cousin Bug was still shouting.
"Beauty, as long as you are willing to come with us, admit your mistakes to my cousin and serve him well, we can forgive what happened before." The bug cousin said proudly.
After saying that, cousin Bug's gaze fell on Ye Chen's face again, and surprise flashed in his eyes again.
What good luck he had! He was forced by his family to come to the border star to prove his strength, but he didn't expect to meet two peerless beauties.
Instead of these two beauties staying on the border planet and suffering, it would be better for them to follow him back to the central planet to enjoy themselves. It would be considered a good deed for him.
As for the background of these two people, he naturally checked it before coming to surround them, and found out that they were a bronze mercenary team of only seven people.
It was because of his useless cousin that he was injured by the Bronze Mercenaries.
Even so, he still cautiously brought more than 30 people, all of whom were members of the Golden Mercenary Group.
When the bug cousin was secretly feeling proud of himself, he suddenly felt his vision shift, and he felt a sharp pain in his waist and abdomen, and then he flew backwards.
"Oh!"
This is the sound of cousin Bug hitting the tree and bouncing back to the ground.
Ye Chen still calmly withdrew his foot and glanced over there, his expression as calm as if he was not the one who kicked someone.
“Puff!” The bug cousin suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, raised his trembling fingers, pointed at Ye Chen and Lan Xing and said angrily: “Hit them, hit them!”
Cousin Bug felt severe pain all over his body, surely some bones were broken. At the same time, endless anger rose in his heart, and he stared at Ye Chen and Lan Xing viciously with his eyes.
Unfortunately, he could only rage helplessly.
There was no need for Lan Xing to take action against the thirty people led by Cousin Bug. Ye Chen simply kicked them all out one by one, and all of them landed accurately on Cousin Bug.
By the time Ye Chen had dealt with the 30th person, his cousin Bug had been knocked unconscious under the huge pile of people.
Ye Chen walked over to take a look, then turned to Lan Xing and said with a little regret: "People nowadays are much more physically fit than they were ten thousand years ago. I'm surprised they didn't crush them to death."
Ten thousand years ago, if a person with injured bones was pinned down by thirty big men, he would have been crushed to death long ago.
Pity.
"If you want to cause trouble for me, bring more people next time." Ye Chen left with Lan Xing after saying this. They still had to continue looking for mutant star beasts.
As for asking the other side to bring more people, it is naturally just a try. If thirty people cannot defeat them, maybe sixty people can do it.
When Ye Chen and Lan Xing's figures completely disappeared, the big men who were piled up like a human mountain finally dared to move.
The one at the top turned over and rolled down from the top, also rolling himself farther away to avoid being hit later.
"Bah, what an idiot, he even dared to provoke others when he came to the border star, causing our brothers to get beaten." Someone took the opportunity to kick the bug cousin.
The people around him didn't stop him when they saw this, but just asked in a low voice, "Our brothers are all fine."
"It's okay. We didn't really use any strength, and that gentleman also showed some mercy, otherwise he would have broken our bones with one kick."
"Who would work so hard for his family just for a temporary job? What a joke."
"Alright, stop talking, send the man back quickly, and Lao San will kick him again to prevent him from waking up."
While they were chatting and laughing as they dragged their cousin Bug away like a dead dog, Ye Chen and Lan Xing dealt with two more mutant star beasts.
Ye Chen put the corpse of the mutant star beast into the space button, suddenly remembered something and turned to look at Lan Xing.
"By the way, we already have a land temple, do we also need to put a land god in it?"
But now there is not even a ghost messenger, so where can we get the land god?
Lan Xing nodded, "After the land temple is revived, find some souls for it to choose from."
Of course, even if you are chosen by the land temple, you will not become a land god overnight. You can only be considered a temporary official. You still need to practice on your own to accumulate merits and achievements.