I became Superman

Chapter 219 This is definitely not a case of "courtesy before force" at all.

General Fan immediately waved his command flag and shouted, "Men, seize this little deity!"

Suddenly, dark clouds rolled across the sky, and countless ghostly soldiers roared as they rushed towards Zhou Ming.

The malevolent energy brewing within the dark clouds erupted instantly.

The entire Shangning County seemed to suddenly turn into night, and countless wandering ghosts began to openly appear.

This is a special ability of a Ghost King-level vengeful ghost.

The ghost realm manifests.

This level of vengeful ghost possesses such a dense aura that it can reverse yin and yang within a small area, turning the human world into the underworld. At this moment, the people of Shangning County suddenly become humans living in the underworld.

Their souls were drawn by the ghostly energy and began to unconsciously leave their bodies. Before long, everyone in the county would become ghosts.

Inside the City God Temple, the underworld officials instantly paled, knowing that their annihilation was imminent.

Even if the main responsibility for such a catastrophic disaster lies with the City God, his subordinates cannot escape being held accountable.

General Fan looked down at the City God from his high vantage point and said, "A mere City God dares to overestimate himself. Even the Great Emperor of Fengdu..."

Therefore, you should at least give me some face.

Zhou Ming raised his eyelids slightly and said, "Violent resistance to law enforcement is an even more serious crime."

As he spoke, he flipped his palm over.

In an instant, it was as if the world had turned upside down.

General Fan felt that all his powerful magic and supernatural abilities had lost their effectiveness. The 100,000 ghost soldiers were like kites with broken strings, falling from the clouds and rolling onto the grass below, turning into goats.

One of the goats was particularly large and aggressive, leaping and howling on the grassland, and occasionally jumping up to butt other goats.

Zhou Ming ignored them and said to the stunned Judge Lu Sheng, "Take them all back to the City God Temple for trial."

Lu Sheng had just been escorted by the blue-faced ghost general when suddenly all the ghost soldiers, including General Fan, turned into goats, which left him momentarily speechless.

Hearing Zhou Ming's instructions, he finally came to his senses, landed on the ground, transformed into an old man herding sheep, and waved his whip to drive the flock of sheep toward the county town.

A vast herd of 100,000 sheep surged toward the county town like a flood.

Fortunately, the people were so frightened by the strange phenomenon that they all stayed indoors, afraid to go out and look around; otherwise, they would have been terrified to death by the sight.

Zhou Ming found it very interesting to watch Lu Sheng herd the sheep.

In terms of power level, this world is nothing.

His daily increase in strength may exceed the total amount of power in the entire world.

But the way power manifests in this world is quite interesting.

This is what he has learned from his research over this period of time.

The material structure of this world is completely different from that of the universe; it is not composed of basic particles such as molecules, atoms, and electrons, but rather is based on "gasification".

All things are transformed from one Qi.

Or more specifically, it can be said that the movement of Qi generates Yang, the extreme of movement leads to stillness, stillness generates Yin, Yang transforms into Yin and combines with it to generate water, fire, wood, metal and earth, the five elements are distributed in harmony, and all things are born.

Because the foundation is just one Qi (vital energy), there is the concept of Qi transformation.

All supernatural powers and spells are simply the realization of qi transformation.

Humans can transform into sheep, or into plants, insects, and fish.

The cultivation of immortals is an effort to return to the original state of the flow of vital energy.

If one can return to the original primordial energy, one can then transform all things from that original primordial energy.

Zhou Ming has been researching this lately, and now he can almost freely transform the form of matter.

It doesn't really mean much, but it's quite fun.

The 100,000 ghost soldiers suddenly transformed into a flock of sheep, trembling at the sound of a whip cracking in their ears.

After spending half a day, Lu Sheng finally managed to drive the flock of sheep to the City God Temple.

Zhang Da and the other underworld officials stared in disbelief as the goats entered through the door, suddenly transforming into ghostly soldiers. They all stood frozen in place.

Zhou Ming sat back down in the hall and said, "What are you all standing there for? Lock all these ghost soldiers up in the prison and wait for trial."

Only then did everyone realize what had happened, and they immediately stepped forward to escort the goat, which had turned back into a ghost soldier, to the prison.

The last to be restored was General Fan.

Looking at the City God sitting high in the hall, his eyes were filled with both surprise and fear.

Could this be the City God?

With such extraordinary abilities, even the position of the Lord of Mount Tai is too large for him, so how could he possibly be a mere City God?

Could it be that some ridiculous Heavenly Venerable Emperor was bored out of his mind and transformed into human form to enter the mortal world, and that's when he encountered him?

General Fan, his neck stiff with arrogance, shouted, "You may be all-powerful, but don't think you can make me submit! Even if you send me to the eighteenth level of hell, I'm not afraid!"

Zhou Ming waved his hand, signaling Ma Mian to take him away.

After imprisoning all the ghost soldiers, the ghost messengers were exhausted. When they looked at the City God again, their eyes were full of respect.

They were also starting to realize that their new master seemed to be a bit unusual.

Zhang Da asked, "What should we do with those ghost soldiers?"

Zhou Ming said, "Just handle it normally. Look through the Book of Life and Death to see what their merits and demerits were in their lives, and then sentence them. We won't let any vengeful ghost go, but we can't wrong them either."

"In short, there is only one goal: fairness, fairness, and fairness again!"

The underworld officials looked at each other in bewilderment.

Zhang Da said, "Sir, most of these ghost soldiers are not registered residents of this county, and there is no information about them in our Book of Life and Death."

"That's easy."

Zhou Ming said, "Horse-face, take my genealogy to Mount Tai and have them bring you a copy of the Book of Life and Death in the Underworld."

The underworld officials were all numb.

My new master's words and actions are truly terrifying.

He actually wanted to ask Mount Tai for the complete Book of Life and Death, a book that records the fate of all living beings in the world. Even in the underworld, only a few great gods, such as the Great Emperor of the Eastern Peak and the Ten Kings of Hell, have the right to read it.

This new master of the house didn't just want to browse through it; he wanted to make a copy and bring it with him.

In principle, with this copy, he could establish his own underworld.

There's no way the Great Emperor of the Eastern Peak would agree to that!

Despite their thoughts, the underworld officials no longer dared to easily doubt this master.

They wanted to see just how far their master could go.

What if he actually manages to get the copy?

Just thinking about it is exciting enough. By then, the Shangning County City God Temple could be renamed the Shangning Branch of Taishan Prefecture.

Horse-faced immediately took Zhou Ming's genealogy and headed to Mount Tai.

He crossed the boundary between Yin and Yang, and traveled through a thick fog in the Netherworld for a while before a large city appeared ahead.

Horses are naturally very familiar with the underworld.

His duty is to escort ghosts to the underworld.

So he easily passed through the checkpoint and arrived outside the Taishan Prefecture Office.

Although he was excited, he couldn't help but feel fear when he actually arrived outside the Taishan Prefecture Office.

After lingering outside for a while, he finally steeled himself and went inside.

Deep within the government office, the Great Emperor of the Eastern Peak was playing chess with Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva. As they played, they also discussed the man from Shangning County.

These two great gods in the Netherworld have been closely monitoring the situation in Shangning County ever since the last time.

They were already aware of General Fan's uprising and its subsequent suppression.

The two marveled at the man's extraordinary abilities and became even more convinced that he must be a deity who had manifested in human form.

Moreover, it wouldn't be an ordinary deity; it would have to be at least one of the Four Emperors, or even a higher-ranking deity.

As for who it was, they couldn't determine it at the moment.

Just as they were discussing all the possible candidates, they suddenly heard a report from an official of the Eastern Peak Emperor that the City God of Shangning County had sent someone.

The two great deities exchanged a glance, and the Great Emperor of the Eastern Peak laughed, "We were just talking about him. I wonder what he wants by sending someone here?"

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva said, "Summon someone in and ask them, and you will know."

The Great Emperor of the Eastern Peak then introduced the horse-faced demon.

When Horse-Face entered the Eastern Peak Emperor's residence, he immediately saw the radiant Eastern Peak Emperor and Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, and his legs went weak.

He had never seen a master of this caliber before.

This is the ruler of the entire Netherworld, a supreme deity who governs the life, death, fortune, and misfortune of all living beings.

He is also the top boss in the underworld system.

Who wouldn't be intimidated by this?

Horse-face felt as if his mouth was glued shut, and he couldn't speak.

The Great Emperor of the Eastern Peak asked, "What did that person send you here for?"

Horse-faced, struggling to keep his legs from trembling, forced a smile and said, "Our master has just captured General Fan and his band of ghost soldiers who guard the mountain, and is planning to put them on trial one by one. However, the Book of Life and Death does not record their information, so he sent me here to request the underworld to..."

Return to the Book of Life and Death.

Both the Great Emperor of the Eastern Peak and the Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha were astonished and asked in disbelief, "He wants the complete Book of Life and Death?"

Horse-faced said, "A secondary dungeon will suffice."

What's the difference between a copy and the original? The important thing is the information inside.

The Great Emperor of the Eastern Peak frowned.

This is no small matter.

Even if that person were truly a supreme deity of the Four Emperors or above, he could not agree.

The Book of Life and Death can only be kept in the underworld. If it falls into the wrong hands and something goes wrong, even he cannot bear the responsibility.

The Great Emperor of the Eastern Peak said, "Go back and tell your master that those 100,000 Yin soldiers can be escorted to the Underworld for unified trial."

This means they refuse to lend out the Book of Life and Death.

While feeling somewhat disappointed, Horse-Face also breathed a sigh of relief and immediately prepared to bid farewell to the two revered deities.

Suddenly, the two deities' expressions turned solemn, and they vanished from the room in a flash.

Horse-face was both surprised and suspicious. Since the two great gods had disappeared, he naturally couldn't stay inside alone, so he also set off to leave the Taishan Prefecture Office.

As soon as he stepped outside, he looked up at the sky in astonishment.

The sky in the underworld is always dark, like a night that never sees the dawn.

But now, as if someone had torn the pitch-black night sky apart, a giant hand, carved from white jade, reached down from the sky towards the Hall of the King of Hell.

The giant hand shone with divine light, illuminating the dark underworld as if it were daytime.

From the City of the Wrongfully Dead to the deepest part of the Eighteen Levels of Hell, every corner was illuminated by divine light.

Under the divine light, all the ghosts in the underworld seemed to be freed from their endless suffering and deep sins.

On the Bridge of Helplessness, the bewildered souls who had drunk the Meng Po soup turned around in a daze and looked at the giant hand.

In the River of Oblivion, the lonely souls that were gradually sinking to the bottom were guided by divine light to slowly rise to the surface, finally emerging from the water and leaving behind that world of eternal oblivion and loss.

The Great Emperor of the Eastern Peak and the Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha flew solemnly in mid-air, watching the giant white jade hand pass by them.

The Great Emperor of the Eastern Peak called out, "Which venerable deity are you? Please state your name!"

"I am the City God of Shangning County. In order to deal with the wandering souls, I borrow the General Register of Life and Death."

As they spoke, the giant hand lifted the Yama Palace and toppled it in mid-air.

The underworld deities who worked in the Yama's Palace, along with many ritual implements, including the Book of Life and Death, all fell from mid-air.

Zhou Ming grabbed the Book of Life and Death and made a copy in the blink of an eye.

He will return the original to the King of Hell's palace, and then take the copy back to the human world.

The crack in the sky slowly healed, and the underworld returned to its dark and melancholic state.

The Great Emperor of the Eastern Peak and the Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha stood frozen in mid-air, their hearts filled with astonishment and uncertainty.

They pondered carefully in their hearts, and all felt that none of the gods they knew had acted in a manner similar to the one they had just encountered.

In front of the Taishan Prefecture Lord's Office, Horse-Face had completely lost the ability to think.

The scene he had just witnessed completely overturned his understanding.

What he saw was that the City God, right in front of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and the Great Emperor of the Eastern Peak, forcibly snatched away the Book of Life and Death.

He found the thought of those words absurd, and he felt ashamed if he were to say them aloud.

But this kind of thing actually happened right in front of him.

However, to be fair, this City God has quite an eccentric personality.

He seems to particularly like to use diplomacy first and then resort to force.

The so-called "courtesy before force" means to first propose a condition that the other party will absolutely not accept, and then, after the other party refuses, to immediately and forcefully take advantage of them.

He could have easily given the other person a good beating, but he just pretended to.

What a respectable and kind person!

Horse-faced figured that the Eastern Peak Emperor and Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva wouldn't be in a good mood, so he certainly didn't want to wait for them to return and risk offending them.

So he quietly left the underworld and returned to the human world.

When Horse-Face returned to the City God Temple, everyone was engrossed in examining the Book of Life and Death.

The book records the good and evil deeds, merits and demerits, and past and present lives of all sentient beings. As long as one has not transcended the six realms, one cannot be removed from the Book of Life and Death.

This can be considered the most comprehensive bioinformatics big data.

Zhou Ming and his several underworld officials spent a long time flipping through the book, marveling at its contents, before finally remembering the matter at hand.

Zhang Da said with a headache, "There are currently 100,000 ghost soldiers in the prison. Just looking through the Book of Life and Death will take an unknown amount of time. Add to that the deliberation and trial, and I'm afraid it will take several years to finish dealing with them."

Zhou Ming laughed and said, "That's easy. Just bring them here, in groups of ten."

Zhang Da accepted the order and went with Ma Qian to interrogate the ghost.

Zhou Ming, on the other hand, was trying to grasp the Heavenly Dao rules in the Book of Life and Death.

Ultimately, the Book of Life and Death is merely a manifestation of the natural order and rules of this world.

For Zhou Ming, it was a port.

He can use the Book of Life and Death to access the Yin State system, which governs the life, death, fortune, and misfortune of all living beings within the Heavenly Dao system of this world.

In an instant, the system began to operate in Zhou Ming's consciousness.

The entire world, countless lands, day and night wandering gods, kitchen gods, and so on, updated the information they monitored into this system and entered Zhou Ming's consciousness.

The life, death, fortune, misfortune, and rebirth of all beings, and the cycle of reincarnation in the six realms, all played out in Zhou Ming's mind.

Only a consciousness as vast as his could process this level of data.

In the blink of an eye, Horse-Face brought ten ghost soldiers.

The City God's authority prevented ghosts from lying or deceiving, forcing them to honestly state their names, hometowns, and other personal information. The system in Zhou Ming's mind then automatically retrieved this information and generated the judgment in an instant.

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