Da Zaojun

Chapter 206 Returning to the True Nature of Life: King of Reincarnation

Song Wuji spoke of the relatives he saw in his dream: his elder brother and sister-in-law, his aunt, and his adorable little nephew…

As the original soul listened, tears streamed down its face.

[Bitter Tears]
Legend has it that there are eight kinds of tears in the world, which originate from the eight kinds of suffering, and are the ingredients for refining elixirs to help people become immortals.

Song Wuji prepared some familiar home-style dishes and offered a stick of incense as a prayer for peace.

However, the original soul merely smelled the aroma before gradually dissipating.

"Live well for me."

Amidst the misty haze.

Another golden light descended, completing the full set of authority over food and sustenance.

Song Wuji has completed most of the banquet for ghosts and gods, and passed the five trials.

What remains are the causes and effects of good and evil, the complete duties of the underworld deities, and the authority to record good and evil deeds in the human realm.

The original soul was nothing more than a bundle of obsessions; when the obsessions dissipated, the soul garments collapsed.

Only one bead remained in place.

Something like a lost treasure from the underworld.

[Life Essence Bead]

The myriad worlds evolve endlessly; by severing the self, one finds the one true path, returns to the origin of life, and attains the ultimate Dao.

As soon as Song Wuji touched the Life Essence Pearl, he saw it enter his body. It seemed as if something else had appeared, but it was neither destiny, nor innate talent, nor enlightenment, nor the Three Treasures.

It's as if it has become more complete.

Song Wuji couldn't explain these changes, but according to the description of the Life Pearl, this thing was very advanced and could only be obtained by severing one's own self.

The other original soul of Song Wuji was undoubtedly also a part of the "self".

"congratulations!"

"congratulations!"

"congratulations!"

After Song Wuji picked up the Life Essence Pearl, the three skeletons congratulated him at the same time: "Now that you have broken through the five barriers, severed the shackles of the past, and broken through the self-imposed prison, you are on the verge of becoming an Earth Immortal. You only need to erase your name from the Book of Death to live a long life in this world. After getting rid of the three calamities and eight tribulations, you can live a carefree life."

Song Wuji wasn't particularly happy. He said, "Although I passed the five trials, it was only by taking a shortcut. I still need to go a step further into the Netherworld to see what changes are happening."

Song Wuji did not give up his idea of ​​going to the Hall of Reincarnation, even though he knew that various armies were fighting each other ahead, and that the various heroes and overlords who had been suppressed had gathered together and planned to attack the mortal world.

The three skeletons said, "The removal from the Book of Death is also in the Hall of Reincarnation. We three old guys still have some influence, so we will go with you."

After saying this, the three skeletons surrounded Song Wuji.

The bones interlocked and formed a large bone ball, made of gold, silver, and jade, which rushed straight into it!
Song Wuji was momentarily disoriented, only to see countless monsters ahead.

Army of skeletons!

Zombie army!

Army of demons!

Various evil creatures were wrapped in layers. If it weren't for the three skeletons forming a large sphere, even if Song Wuji had supernatural powers and used the Banana Leaf Fan to kill hundreds or thousands of them with a single fan, he would still have exhausted his strength.

And it wasn't just these skeletons, zombies, and evil spirits; what was visible even more was black mist.

The black fog was thin, but it wasn't absent.

Even so, the high-speed rotation, pressing down on the demons and ghosts of the underworld, still caused Song Wuji great confusion.

Left with no other choice, Song Wuji could only use his fire escape technique, transforming himself into a ball of flame, and then letting the bone ball roll around, just like Nezha's magic weapon, the embroidered ball.

This rolling ball, for who knows how long, rolled past the City of the Wrongfully Dead, rolled past Mount Luofeng, and rolled all the way up from the foot of the mountain, only to find a large formation blocking its way.

[Fengdu Northern Yin Six Paths Ten Directions Grand Formation]
The formation envelops the underworld system that has not yet fallen, with the Hall of Reincarnation at its core. After all, behind the Hall of Reincarnation lies the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

The power that this formation draws upon is the power of the Six Paths of Reincarnation, which can neutralize and diminish all kinds of strange powers, including lifespan and destiny.

"He who comes is stopped!"

The generals guarding the front gate were Zhu, Deng, Dian, Tao, Meng, and Zhang, six Grand Marshals of the army, who commanded the six divisions and six caves of the direct line of the Northern Yin Fengdu, as well as the Demon King, to protect this formation.

Furthermore, the spirits of Taoist priests, monks, and other practitioners also led armies.

The three skeletons then disintegrated: "We're here! We're here!" Song Wuji descended from his flame form into human form. Seeing this scene, he felt a sense of unease. This Luofeng Mountain was truly a "mountain of ghosts and seas of ghosts," filled with underworld demons, spirits, and soldiers.

The three skeletons, who held some sway in this place, were met with great respect by the six military marshals: "Are the three venerable ones well?"

“I’m not at ease, I’m not at ease,” the Jade Skull said. “The karmic position of the Corpse-Dissolving Immortal Ancestor has been knocked away and fallen into the Yellow Springs River, becoming a nail that suppresses the Yellow Springs Dragon Vein of the Underworld. This time, he has to hide in the mortal world to see if he can restore his karmic position.”

The six Grand Marshals sighed, “Now there are rebellions everywhere, the gods are not showing their divine power, the compassionate saviors of the ten directions are not responding, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva has entered Nirvana, strange black mist is corrupting ghosts and spirits, causing them to lose their minds, and there are also powerful demons from who-knows-where…”

"Have you found the source of the black energy?" the Golden Skull asked.

The marshals shook their heads: "I'm afraid it's even deeper than the nineteenth level of the underworld. When people die, they become ghosts; when ghosts die, they become 'X'; when 'X' die, they become 'Y'; when 'Y' die, they become 'Wei'... I'm afraid the problem lies in a deeper level of the netherworld, the true edge of the bottom of the world. Even the Goddess Houtu went there to find the cause, but she didn't return."

"This black mist seems to be deliberately going against the divine way, polluting the vital energy and the laws. The Goddess Houtu once said that it might be related to the demons and evil gods outside the chaos."

The three skeletons groaned, "If even the Goddess Houtu doesn't know, then this is truly troublesome."

"This is the Heavenly Chef from the Heavenly Kitchen Academy. He has come to the Underworld to feast the ghosts and gods. If you need any cooking or supplies, you can entrust them to him. Then, you can use the passage through the human realm of the Six Paths of Reincarnation to return to the mortal world."

"I see." The six marshals said, "We are fine, but the troops are still lacking incense and food."

“Take him to see King Chakravartin,” said the Jade Skull. “I’ll also have a word with him.”

Song Wuji couldn't get a word in edgewise and had no idea how to deal with these ghosts and spirits. He just thought to himself, "With so many ghosts here, how am I supposed to cook all this food?"

but……

Song Wuji thought, "If there are some suitable talismans, I can build a stove in the underworld. If the original divine nature polluted by the black mist, that is, the strange creatures, are few in number, they can be purified by the stove fire."

After a while, the three skeletons subdued the Wheel King, who then summoned Song Wuji.

King Lunzhuan, depicted as a middle-aged, majestic emperor dressed in black, asked, "Have you met Meng Po?"

Song Wuji nodded: "The Goddess Meng Po is planting flowers by the Yellow Springs River."

King Yama nodded and said, "Meng Po said she wanted to cultivate a kind of flower that could purify the black mist, but that will probably take time. That's the biggest problem we have right now."

"Since Meng Po approves of you, and the three Corpse-Dissolving Immortal Ancestors also think highly of you and are willing to go to the mortal world with you, it is clear that you have some luck. I'm afraid it's not just because you have the Fire Virtue Stove Destiny, but also because you have some other opportunity."

Song Wuji held his breath, wondering what the Wheel-Turning King meant by those words.

"You wish to have your name removed from the register of the dead? I can do that, and I can even help you perfect the Kitchen God's authority and regain your divine position. But what can you do?"

Song Wuji didn't dare to say anything about building a stove in the underworld, as that would be a drop in the ocean. After thinking for a moment, he said, "I am in the human world, currently serving as the Lord of the Human Dao Taichang Realm, and I am working hard to restore order to the human world."

"I think that whatever the purpose of this gray fog, it must be related to disrupting order, and the Heavenly Court, the Underworld, and even the Human Realm all desire a stable order."

"All I can do is try my best to restore order. At the same time, the people of Taichang are willing to cooperate with the underworld to restore the order of reincarnation."

"What happens in your mortal realm is of little concern to my underworld," said King Yama. "However... I can tell you definitively that the formation of this secret realm is also related to the black mist."

"Some of those secret realms were bubbles in the river of time, separated by the black mist; others were originally part of the Three Realms and Six Paths, the Heavenly Court and the Underworld, but were also swallowed up by the black mist and lost..."

"The order you have established with the secret realm at its core may not be the same as the order that existed before."

"There's no other way. This is the only way to rebuild order at this stage. So if there are secret realms in the Netherworld... we should try to subdue them and restore order to the Netherworld."

King Yama sighed, "How do you know? Isn't the entire Netherworld already transforming into a vast secret realm?"

"Those black mists are already dividing us up."

Unable to think it through, Song Wuji finally voiced his idea: build a stove temple here, and once the temple is built, Song Wuji will be able to travel between temples.

“We are of higher rank than you, yet we still cannot solve the problem. What use would it be if you built a temple here?”

King Yama said this, but he still gave Song Wuji five protective items, allowing Song Wuji to leave behind a [Temple of the Seven Officials] in the underworld.

These five protective objects were left behind by the ghosts and gods of the underworld who died in battle, and they represent the five elements: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.

However, they are all Yin-related items in the Five Elements, not Yang-related items.

Therefore, Song Wuji changed the method of building the stove, and even the fire in the stove could not be yang fire, but had to be changed to yin fire.

After several experiments, Song Wuji discovered that burning firewood was sufficient in the mortal realm, but burning bones was more convenient in the underworld.

The stove fire in the mortal world can be used to cook food, and it smells delicious.

In the underworld, with the black mist permeating the air, it's quite difficult to cultivate fertile land and plant yin rice. After all, the King of Reincarnation said that the Yellow Springs River is also polluted by the black mist, but the Yellow Springs has a strong self-purification ability.

Thinking about it, Song Wuji could only adapt to the situation. In the mortal realm, cooking the flesh and blood of demons could eliminate the demon poison, but in the underworld, cooking ghosts and spirits that had been transformed by the black mist could not be enough for them to eat.
King Zhuanlun fully supported Song Wuji's research, believing that regardless of its success or failure, or its effects, it was still a way out.

(End of this chapter)