People in Conferred Gods: Rising from humble beginnings, I am the God of Wealth

Chapter 447 Internship in the Underworld, the Order of Reincarnation!
The underworld, the Ghost Palace of Fengdu.

After Yang Xuan finished dealing with the matter of the Xuanmen's conferment of gods, he returned to the underworld once again.

With the addition of this group of Xuanmen immortals, coupled with the numerous immortals and gods already existing in the Heavenly Court, the Heavenly Court has become even more powerful.

Even after the primordial world evolved into the Three Realms, the Heavenly Court's current manpower is more than enough to ensure its operation and maintain the most basic order in the primordial world.

The underworld is different.

Due to the unique environment of the Netherworld, not all living beings are suitable for cultivating and living there.

Therefore, the number of ghosts and gods in the underworld is already less than that in the heavenly court. In addition, since there are no immortals from the Xuanmen sect in the underworld, the difference in numbers is even greater.

More importantly, when the primordial world evolved into the Three Realms, countless beings in the primordial world died or were injured; this was an unavoidable event.

Nowadays, there are wandering spirits all over the prehistoric world, and the underworld is short of manpower. In order to stabilize the order of reincarnation, Yang Xuan needs to devote more attention to the underworld.

Fortunately, Yang Xuan made some contingency plans when he first established the Underworld.

Although he hadn't expected that the primordial world would expand to this extent after evolving into the Three Realms, nor had he expected that so many beings would die during the process of the primordial world evolving into the Three Realms.

However, he already knew about the Investiture of the Gods calamity and knew that countless lives would die under the calamity.

The ghosts and gods of the underworld alone are clearly insufficient to maintain the order of the primordial world. Solving this problem is not difficult; it simply requires increasing the number of ghosts and gods in the underworld.

Due to the unique environment of the Netherworld, filled with absolute yin and death energy, ordinary beings simply cannot cultivate normally in the Netherworld.

Even if one becomes a ghost or deity in the underworld and receives the protection of the earth, thus avoiding the influence of the deathly aura, one's cultivation will still be affected if one stays in the underworld for a long time.

Unless they possess a special bloodline, even physically powerful races like the Dragon Clan and the Witch Clan will be affected in the Netherworld.

It is precisely for this reason that even knowing there is an Earth Virtue Bank in the underworld, and that becoming a ghost or deity in the underworld can reliably obtain earthly merits,

Over the years, the number of beings applying for jobs in the underworld has been much smaller than in the heavenly court. They are mostly beings with special bloodlines who can refine the Yin Death Qi.

However, the number of such beings is far too small to fill the void in the underworld.

During the Investiture of the Gods, Yang Xuan sent out all the ghosts and gods from the eighth and ninth levels of the underworld to ensure that the Hundred Ghosts Parade would proceed without incident.

There are far more wandering spirits in the primordial world now than during the Night Parade of a Hundred Ghosts, and the primordial world is much larger in scale, making it more difficult to capture these spirits.

It is clearly impossible to fill the void in the underworld in the short term by simply recruiting beings with special bloodlines.

According to Yang Xuan's plan, there are two feasible options.

Firstly, it alters the bloodline.

Since the bloodlines of most creatures in the primordial world are difficult to live and cultivate in the Netherworld, we should find a way to change their bloodlines.

If the bloodlines of these beings could be altered, allowing them to refine the Yin Death Qi, they would be able to cultivate normally in the Netherworld, attracting a large number of beings to join the Underworld.

When Yang Xuan had the Dragon Clan manage the water veins of the River of Oblivion to help You Lian become the Dragon King of the River of Oblivion, he was already deducing the matter of bloodline transformation.

However, to achieve this, one needs to reverse Yin and Yang, and even with Youlian as the research subject, it is not easy to accomplish this.

So many years have passed, and in many places it is still in the theoretical stage. It is obviously impossible to solve the urgent problems of the underworld with this.

Secondly, materials were sourced locally.

In fact, there are native creatures in the Netherworld, but their numbers are too small to be significant compared to the vast territory of the Netherworld.

Furthermore, the situation of beings from the Blood Sea is special; after the Blood Sea flows into the Netherworld, these beings can also be considered beings of the Netherworld.
As long as you are near the Sea of ​​Blood, you will not experience any issues with adapting to the local environment and can continue your cultivation normally.

Although most of the creatures in the Blood Sea are not particularly powerful, even the combined Taiyi Golden Immortals among them seem insignificant to a powerful force like the Underworld, let alone the Daluo Golden Immortals.

However, as long as we recruit a large number of beings from the Blood Sea into the Underworld, it will be enough to fill many vacancies at the bottom of the Underworld, capture souls from all over the prehistoric world, maintain order in the prehistoric world, and barely solve the Underworld's urgent needs.

Now that the Lord of the Blood Sea, Daoist Styx, has joined the Underworld, it shouldn't be a problem for the creatures of the Blood Sea to apply for positions in the Underworld.

The only problem is that not all creatures in the Blood Sea can pass the application process.

The Underworld is a top-tier power comparable to the Heavenly Court, and even the lowest-ranking underworld officials are not qualified to join.

Just like when Yang Xuan first joined the Heavenly Court, no matter how short-handed the Underworld is now, it cannot afford to do anything substandard.

Compared to the Heavenly Court back then, the Underworld is in a much better state now. At least it's not just an empty shell, and it should be more rigorous in vetting the beings that join it.

Moreover, the situation in the underworld is not that critical.

No one has ever stipulated that only living beings can serve as ghosts and gods in the underworld; spirits and ghosts can do the same!
The underworld has no shortage of ghosts and spirits.

In fact, nowadays, the bodies of living beings who have been granted the titles of ghosts and gods are basically all employed within the underworld.
They are either responsible for maintaining order on the road to the underworld, or for the affairs of the underworld, or for managing the city god temples in the human world, or serving as mountain gods or local deities.

Of the ghostly messengers responsible for traveling between the human realm and the underworld to capture wandering spirits, over 70% are themselves wandering spirits.
Less than 30% of the underworld messengers will be high-level ghosts or deities who will lead the teams and resolve potential troubles.

Therefore, to solve the immediate crisis facing the underworld, the solution lies in granting amnesty and sealing away ghosts and spirits as underworld officials to fill the void in the underworld.

Now that the Investiture of the Gods has just ended, the Underworld has no shortage of yin spirits and ghosts, whose numbers are many times greater than those of the creatures in the Blood Sea.

Moreover, joining the underworld and becoming a ghost general can bring merits from the underworld, and at the very least, it can spare one some of the suffering in hell.

Unless someone is mentally unstable, no ghost would refuse such a good thing that comes knocking on their door. What Yang Xuan needs to do now is to devise a perfect plan for recruiting and capturing souls.

In fact, Houtu began working on this matter when she brought Yang Xuan back to the Netherworld from Zixiao Palace, and it is now in its final stages.

If Haotian hadn't taken him to Mount Tai for the investiture of gods, this plan could have been implemented much earlier.

To be on the safe side, after refining the plan, Yang Xuan did not implement it immediately, but instead allowed it to be refined over a century and piloted on a small scale.

Only after confirming there were no problems was it widely promoted in the underworld.

With the current influence of the Underworld, coupled with the existence of the Dide Money Shop, Yang Xuan doesn't need any publicity at all.

As long as notices are posted throughout the underworld, letting all living beings know that the underworld is recruiting ghost officers and generals, and that spirits and ghosts will enjoy support policies and be given priority in recruitment, the underworld will be able to recruit them.

This would create a huge commotion, attracting countless ghosts and spirits to volunteer.

In addition, the notice also outlined a new system, namely an internship system, with the entry requirements lowered by one level.

If a ghost or spirit participating in the interview for the underworld's officials does not meet the underworld's recruitment requirements, they can voluntarily choose whether or not to become an intern in the underworld.

After becoming an intern, you can participate in the grassroots affairs of the underworld and enter the review stage.

Each intern in the underworld has two thousand years to complete, and if they perform well enough during this period, they also have a chance to become a full-fledged intern.

The better the performance, the greater the chance of being promoted, and the shorter the time required. If the performance over the past two thousand years fails to meet the underworld's hiring requirements, it means that the ghost is not competent for the position and must leave voluntarily.

This internship system immediately made the countless ghosts and spirits of the underworld extremely grateful.

In the past, when they applied for jobs in the underworld, if they didn't pass, they didn't pass; there was no room for negotiation.

But now, with the system promulgated by Yang Xuan, they have an opportunity to perform and learn, and they have an extra hope—a hope to join the underworld and become ghost generals.

Even if it's just hope, it's an unimaginable opportunity for ordinary ghosts. As long as they can become ghost generals in the underworld, they can change their fate.

Leaving aside top-tier spiritual items like the merit of the underworld, just joining the underworld and becoming a ghost general can reduce punishments in the eighteen levels of hell, which is enough to make all ghosts envious.

As for the two-thousand-year internship period, no ghost felt it was too long. In fact, many ghosts, after learning about the internship system, even took the initiative to suggest extending the internship period.

Although interns are not official ghosts or gods of the underworld, they are still considered members of the underworld during their internship, and their status as interns is related to whether they can become official ghosts or gods of the underworld.

If the internship period can be extended, there will be more opportunities to learn and demonstrate one's abilities, and the chances of officially joining the Underworld will be greater.

Moreover, Yang Xuan was not the kind of unscrupulous and heartless capitalist of later generations.
Even interns in the underworld receive a salary during their work period and can acquire spiritual items, including underworld coins produced by the Earth Virtue Bank, which contain the power of the earth.

However, this salary is much lower than that of regular employees.

Even so, these wages are enough to attract all the ghosts and spirits. Even if they are eventually eliminated, these wages are a sure thing.

If one performs exceptionally well and is admitted to the underworld through a special exception, that would be an even greater opportunity to change one's destiny.

That's why these notices caused a huge uproar in the Netherworld as soon as they were posted.

Countless ghosts, spirits from the sea of ​​blood, and other beings from the underworld spontaneously headed to the nearest registration point.

In just over a thousand years, the number of underworld messengers and ghost generals has swelled to a frightening degree.

Although these underworld messengers and ghost generals are only low-level ghosts and gods, there are still many vacancies in the underworld, and more Taiyi Golden Immortals and Daluo Golden Immortals need to be recruited.

With these underworld messengers and ghost generals, the underworld at least solved the problem of manpower shortage, so it was not too stretched and could maintain the primordial cycle of reincarnation.

After about a thousand years of segmented training, countless underworld messengers travel along the Yellow Springs Road, passing through the four gates of hell, to collect souls and spirits from all over the primordial world every day.

Although these ghostly messengers were of low cultivation level, most of them didn't even have the cultivation of an Earth Immortal.
However, after the incident of the Hundred Ghosts Parade, all living beings in the prehistoric world had some respect for the underworld. Unless a close relative died, they would not obstruct the underworld officials from capturing souls.

The influence of the underworld is undeniable, and the fact that living beings can prevent the underworld officials from capturing souls is ultimately an isolated case. Even if some manage to escape, it won't have much impact on the overall situation.

Furthermore, with the evolution of the primordial world into the Three Realms, the influence of the underworld greatly increased, and the ghosts and gods of the underworld gained more authority.

Even if they are just interns, as long as they are underworld messengers, they have a strong ability to restrain ghosts and spirits, and it is not a problem for them to capture ghosts that are a whole realm higher than themselves.

A thousand years later, with the availability of magical treasures such as the Soul-Binding Rope and the Soul-Slaying Staff, the task of capturing souls in the prehistoric world became much smoother.

Ultimately, after only 100,000 years, the primordial cycle of reincarnation stabilized, and the wandering spirits and ghosts in the human realm became almost impossible to find.

Even those beings belonging to the underworld, guided by the ghosts and gods of the underworld, either voluntarily or involuntarily migrated to their ancestral lands to settle in the netherworld, arranging for people to be interviewed by the underworld.

With the Styx Daoist, a Quasi-Saint of the Three Corpses, in charge, and with the Earth Immortal Sect's spies throughout the prehistoric world providing clues, the process went very smoothly, without encountering any resistance.

In this way, after 100,000 years of effort by all the people in the underworld, the primordial world has finally achieved a preliminary separation between the living and the dead.

All the underworld spirits and deities involved in this matter received their due rewards.

Some obtained the coveted underworld currency and became ghosts or deities with merits.

Some successfully completed their internships and became official members of the underworld.

Some were successfully selected and either reincarnated, settled in the underworld, became unofficial members of the underworld, or returned to the eighteen levels of hell to continue their punishment.

In short, everyone is happy!

The underworld, and indeed the entire primordial world, appeared to be thriving.

"Only one question remains..."

Yang Xuan sat on the throne in the Ghost Palace of Fengdu, tapping the armrest lightly with his fingers, a thoughtful expression on his face.

Over these 100,000 years of development, countless ghosts and spirits became interns in the underworld, and then were promoted to full-time employees.
The underworld is not short of manpower at the lower levels for the time being. As long as no new great calamity descends, there will be no major accidents in the soul-binding matter, and the manpower is basically sufficient.

However, there are still many vacancies in the high-ranking positions of ghosts and gods in the underworld.

There's no other way; the number of Yin-attribute beings in the primordial world is simply too small.
Moreover, their cultivation levels and moral character varied greatly, making them even more chaotic than the original Jie Sect.

It is clearly unlikely that enough ghosts and gods could be pardoned among these beings to fill the void in the underworld.

"Ultimately, it still comes down to transforming bloodlines..."

Yang Xuan's eyes flickered, and he sighed.

If, like the Heavenly Court, the recruitment scope could be expanded to all living beings in the primordial world, then filling the high-ranking positions in the Underworld would be much simpler.

However, the high-ranking ghosts and gods currently vacant in the underworld must be at least Golden Immortals, and many even require Taiyi Golden Immortals and Daluo Golden Immortals.

If one's cultivation level reaches this point, and one cannot resolve the issue that the Netherworld is unsuitable for cultivation, then even the allure of the underworld's fortune and Netherworld currency will not be enough to attract beings of this cultivation level.

But even if Yang Xuan raises the entry requirements several levels after solving the problem, a large number of living beings will still arrive.

After all, there are only two reliable ways to gain merit these days.

One is the Heavenly Court, where one can obtain Heavenly Merit.

One is the underworld, where one can obtain merit from the underworld.

The Heavenly Court doesn't have the problem of a suitable cultivation environment; recruiting immortals and gods is inherently easier than in the Underworld, especially after the Xuanmen's conferment of titles upon gods.
The Heavenly Court is now basically saturated with immortals and gods. Unless a similar force emerges in the human realm, the only way to reliably gain merit is through the Underworld.

As for how to solve the problem of bloodline transformation, Yang Xuan has never relaxed his efforts and already has a reliable idea.

However, due to insufficient cultivation, it is still impossible to determine whether this method is truly feasible.

Moreover, this is not something that can be done by converting the bloodline of one or two people. To accomplish this, we would need the help of a sage, and not just one!
Before he was absolutely certain, Yang Xuan had no intention of disturbing the Sage. In any case, with him watching over the Underworld, there would be no trouble. He just couldn't be a half-hands-off manager like in the Heavenly Court.

"Ok?"

Just then, Yang Xuan suddenly sensed something and looked up towards the west...

(End of this chapter)