Chapter 144: Reincarnation
As the evil spirit of the Black Law's origin dissipated, everything around became clear.
Although it looked grand, this battle was actually not very noisy.
After all, the whole process took place in the backyard of Wangyou Pavilion.
The Zhenwu Zhengqi and Shenxiao Thunder that Jiang Lin had arranged in advance saved a lot of trouble and no one escaped.
Looking at the mostly headless corpses on the ground, Jiang Lin nodded slowly.
Very good, annihilate.
Under Jiang Lin's Fengdu Dharma Eye, dark and strange souls appeared on the corpses.
The fetal blood beauty method can cultivate unparalleled beauty, but at the same time, it will also pollute a person's soul.
None of the souls present are clean.
Jiang Lin took a glance and took off the Fengdu Jiuquan Order from his arm.
Although Jiang Lin is still under criminal detention and the Fengdu Jiuquan Order is still banned, some basic functions can still be used.
"Respectfully invite the messengers of the underworld, the Black and White Impermanence."
Jiang Lin used the energy of Fengdu Jiuquan's command as a bridge to communicate with the underworld, opened a portal to the underworld, and summoned the Black and White Impermanence.
This was not summoned by the command from Fengdu Jiuquan, but only the aura of the command was used.
In other words, there is nothing compulsory, but Jiang Lin is confident that the seven masters and eight masters will "accept the order".
Sure enough, after the eerie and cold portal to the underworld opened, a figure emerged from inside not long after.
This made Jiang Lin stunned for a moment. The Black and White Impermanence have always been inseparable from Jiao and Meng Meng, so why is there only one of them now?
However, the next moment, the person who came out from the portal of the underworld was not any of the Black and White Impermanence.
After Jiang Lin saw the figure clearly, he hurried forward, bowed and said, "Greetings, Master Zhong."
The man who came was a burly man with a leopard head, round eyes, a beard, and wearing a red robe.
It was none other than Zhong Kui, the True Lord Zhong, and not the Black and White Impermanence summoned by Jiang Lin.
"My little friend, you're fine."
Zhong Kui smiled slightly, and although it was a friendly smile, it also had the effect of stopping children from crying at night.
Jiang Lin nodded and asked in confusion: "Master, I summoned the two messengers Black and White Impermanence, why is it you who came?"
"Give me a ride."
Zhong Kui smiled and said, "I have something to tell you, my friend. It just so happened that you opened this door to the underworld, so I came here."
"It just so happens that I have something to say to you, Master."
Jiang Lin didn't care. In fact, this time he summoned the Black and White Impermanence for some other things besides dealing with the souls present.
Although it was Zhong Kui who came, it was not a big problem. After all, this gentleman's status in the underworld was one level higher than that of the Black and White Impermanence.
"Young friend, please speak first. Now that I have met you, I am not in a hurry."
Zhong Kui smiled and nodded.
"The first thing is these ghosts present."
Jiang Lin pointed at those gloomy and dark souls and explained the whole story. Then he sighed, "I thought that only the mastermind was in Kyoto, but I didn't expect that this evil magic would also come to Kyoto."
In other words, Kyoto is the "origin" of this evil practice.
Jiang Lin had overlooked a detail before.
There are many ghost fetuses in Hangzhou Prefecture, but not much fetal blood is seen from pregnant women.
I thought there was no need for a connection between the two, but now it seems that most of the fetal blood of pregnant women is sent to Kyoto.
This Forget-Sorrow Pavilion was sent here.
"Evil methods, sins that cannot be forgiven."
Zhong Kui frowned, raised his hand and released a large scarlet umbrella to collect all the ghosts present. These ghosts had been completely infiltrated by evil magic, and if left unattended, there was no telling what evil things would be brought out.
But now it is in Zhong Kui's hands. Even if you are the ghost king for thousands of years, you can't cause any trouble.
"This second thing..."
Jiang Lin took two steps forward and said, "I killed Zhou Mei two days ago, but I still feel a little uncomfortable. The scene was too chaotic and I didn't see Zhou Mei's soul."
"So, I would like to trouble you, Master, to see if there is any way for the underworld to confirm whether Zhou Mei is really dead."
This is what Jiang Lin has been most concerned about in the past two days.
He was very sure that the person he killed in the Golden Palace was Zhou Mei himself. Under the wielding of the Zhenwu sword, Zhou Mei, a demon who practiced Ashura's charm technique, would have no chance of survival.
Zhou Mei must have died under Jiang Lin's sword.
But then, Jiang Lin was besieged by eight royal priests and was forced to flee the Golden Palace without seeing Zhou Mei's soul.
This made Jiang Lin feel something was wrong.
Thinking in his heart, Jiang Lin looked at Zhong Kui, but found that this True Lord had a strange look on his face, so he couldn't help but ask: "True Lord? What's the problem?"
"Of course there is no difficulty."
Zhong Kui shook his head and said, "What you are asking for is not difficult. I just want Judge Cui to check the Book of Life and Death."
Having said this, Zhong Kui paused for a moment, and then his expression became more and more strange.
"But, what I want to tell you is also related to Zhou Mei..."
"what?"
Jiang Lin suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.
Zhong Kui scratched his stiff beard and said thoughtfully, "The timing is right, it was right after you killed Zhou Mei."
Hearing this, Jiang Lin was a little confused and asked, "Master, what does this mean?"
Zhong Kui explained, “In fact, after I returned to the underworld last time, I asked Cui Pan to check the Book of Life and Death and marked Zhou Mei’s name in red.”
"In this way, as soon as Zhou Mei dies, the messenger from the underworld will go to retrieve her soul immediately to ensure that nothing goes wrong."
"After all, Zhou Mei is related to the Yin soldiers who appeared in Hangzhou."
Jiang Lin nodded upon hearing this. Zhong Kui was very thoughtful in preparing for a rainy day.
"But the problem is that just two days ago, Zhou Mei's name disappeared from the Book of Life and Death..."
Zhong Kui said with a frown.
Disappear from the Book of Life and Death?
Jiang Lin was stunned for a moment. The name on the Book of Life and Death would not disappear.
The Book of Life and Death, even after you die, your name will be in it.
For example, Zhang San, a native of a certain county in a certain place, should die at the age of 85.
Then, after Zhang San dies, his name will also appear in the Book of Life and Death, but there will be a cross under his name to prove that this person's soul has gone to the underworld.
This name will only disappear from the moment Zhang San crosses the Naihe Bridge, drinks the Mengpo soup, and is reincarnated.
In other words, before reincarnation, the name in the Book of Life and Death will not be "updated".
But, Zhou Mei had just been killed by Jiang Lin, so her name was no longer on the Book of Life and Death?
There seems to be only one explanation.
"Someone was faster than the Soul Catcher and took away Zhou Mei's soul, and then..."
Jiang Lin said, looking at Zhong Kui, and said in a deep voice: "Thrown into the six reincarnations!"
This was the only possibility Jiang Lin could think of.
The Book of Life and Death is one of the foundations of the underworld, so there is no way it could go wrong. Even the person at the time only sketched the names instead of tearing up the Book of Life and Death.
If you want to remove a name from the Book of Life and Death from a "process" perspective, there is no other way except reincarnation. "But the problem is that the Six Paths of Reincarnation is also the foundation of the underworld, and is even more important than the Book of Life and Death. It is even less likely to have a problem."
Jiang Lin immediately found another loophole in his own reasoning.
There will be no problem with the Book of Life and Death, so isn't the Six Paths of Reincarnation equally impossible?
"My friend is wrong."
Zhong Kui smiled bitterly and said, "Your inference is correct."
Under Jiang Lin's surprised gaze, Zhong Kui said: "Zhou Mei's name disappeared from the Book of Life and Death because someone took the lead, crossed the Naihe Bridge, passed Meng Po, and directly threw Zhou Mei's soul into the six reincarnations."
"Thus, she was able to reincarnate directly and retain her memories of her past life."
As he spoke, Zhong Kui looked at Jiang Lin and sighed, "My friend, you did kill Zhou Mei, but you only killed Zhou Mei..."
"How can this be?"
Jiang Lin was a little bit unbelievable. How could there be such a loophole in the Six Paths of Reincarnation...
and many more!
Jiang Lin suddenly thought of something, raised his head abruptly, and asked, "Zhou Mei's soul was reincarnated through corpse transformation?!"
The so-called corpse-reincarnation path is actually not a name finalized by the underworld, but a name given by practitioners in the human world.
Strictly speaking, there is no such road in the underworld, it is just a "process".
An alternative process, different from the reincarnation of mortals.
The so-called corpse transformation will not be elaborated here.
In fact, the path of corpse transformation is for those practitioners who have achieved success in their practice but have no hope of becoming immortals. They are unwilling to sink into depravity, so they transform themselves into corpses, throw themselves into reincarnation, and start a new life.
Such an existence is only one step away from becoming an immortal.
If you respect the will of heaven, follow the will of nature, and do not commit evil deeds or cause bad consequences during your practice, heaven will naturally give you a glimmer of hope.
This is what is called corpse transformation and reconstruction.
Such beings, when they go to the underworld, will not cross the Naihe Bridge or drink Mengpo soup, but will be reborn directly into the human world to cultivate for another life.
Of course, in the cycle of reincarnation, it is inevitable that the true soul will be obscured by dust, and it is not easy to rebuild it. If there is no opportunity to embark on the path of cultivation, then this second life will be no different from that of an ordinary person.
Therefore, most corpse dissections are performed only after all preparations have been made.
Either entrust it to a close friend, or ask for help from the seniors in the sect. In short, it is to make sure that there is a guide in the second life who can lead him to practice again.
Only when one has cultivated to a certain level can one sweep away the dust of the true spirit and regain the memories of the past life.
Of course, there are only memories.
Various records about corpse reincarnation and reconstruction flashed through Jiang Lin’s mind.
Then, he saw Zhong Kui in front of him nodding.
Zhou Mei was indeed killed by Jiang Lin, but a certain existence took away Zhou Mei's soul before the soul-catcher, and used the method of corpse transformation to allow Zhou Mei to reincarnate and be reborn as a human being.
In this way, Zhou Mei is still active in the world, but the name "Zhou Mei" no longer appears in the Book of Life and Death.
Because Zhou Mei was indeed dead.
After figuring this out, Jiang Lin was not angry, nor did he have any other emotions. He just took a deep breath.
"At worst, I can just kill her once more and scare her to pieces."
Jiang Lin muttered to himself.
Now that things have come to this, there is no use reflecting on it. We can only learn from the lesson and head straight for death next time.
The question now is...
"Does the True Lord have any clues?"
Jiang Lin looked at Zhong Kui and asked softly.
Who took Zhou Mei's soul away in advance?
Who else has such great power that can carry the soul of a demon cultivator directly to the path of corpse transformation?
The threshold for corpse transformation and re-cultivation is not low. It can even be said that among ten practitioners who are stuck at the stage of achieving immortality and are unable to do anything, there is unlikely to be one who is qualified for corpse transformation.
The first step is to face the supervision of the Retribution Department of the Underworld to make sure that you did not commit any evil deeds during your lifetime. Only then are you qualified to undergo the path of corpse transformation.
This step can get a lot of people stuck.
There's no way Zhou Mei could get through here.
In other words, someone bypassed the Department of Retribution and even the supervision of every subsequent step on the path to corpse reincarnation.
It sounds easy, but it is difficult to do.
Who is it?
Zhong Kui shook his head slightly in Jiang Lin's expectant eyes and said, "Anyone who can do this must be in a high position in the underworld."
"At least, I believe that it is not difficult to do this kind of thing without any mistakes or to conceal it from the world. The difficult part is to do it in a short time."
In other words, even with Zhong Kui's status and authority in the underworld, he could not have done things as perfectly as he did this time.
And how many people in the underworld have status, authority and power greater than Zhong Kui?
Ten Kings of Hell? Five Ghost Kings?
Or is it a righteous god from Fengdu?
If you pick any one of these beings and investigate it, it will be a major event that will alarm the underworld.
Check who?
How to check?
What if the check is inaccurate?
These are all questions.
The advantage of having a high position is that if you want to make a move, a lot of things will be involved.
We know that only someone among those beings can do such a thing, but the problem is that if we want to find such a being, we must first produce certain evidence.
But now, if you want evidence, you have to investigate first.
Endless loop.
There seems to be no solution, so we can only drag it out, or trace the source bit by bit, using the most stupid method, and groping our way through bit by bit.
But this takes time, a lot of time.
Jiang Lin can't wait, and Zhong Kui doesn't want to wait either, which is why Zhong Kui comes to find Jiang Lin.
The two looked at each other and understood each other's thoughts.
"Please ask the True Lord to protect you."
Jiang Lin said in a deep voice.
Then, he raised his hand and took out a small gourd. With a thought, an altar appeared on the ground.
Thanks to the old Dragon King of West Lake, this storage magic weapon has saved Jiang Lin trouble several times.
Zhong Kui silently took a few steps back, and a strong evil-filled positive energy dissipated, covering the surroundings.
On the altar.
Jiang Lin stepped on the ground, put down the Zhenwu sword, held the Fengdu Jiuquan Command between his hands, and bowed nine times towards the north.
Then, he took out three sticks of agarwood, which ignited on their own without fire. The incense smoke floated up. At the same time, Jiang Lin began to recite.
"I bow my head with all my heart. I am in the Northern Palace, in charge of the Western Palace. I lead all the officials and generals of the entire palace, and I am in charge of the black laws of Fengdu. I combine yin and yang, and I sit on the nine pythons to issue orders. I command thunder and lightning, and I command the eight evil spirits to conduct trials and summons. I write iron characters and black seals, and I record the three realms. I monitor the ten directions with bronze snakes and golden eagles. I subdue evil and control evil spirits. I am a great saint, fair and just. I am the Northern Yin Fengdu, the censor of the Western Palace. I inspect the law and execute the punishment, and I visit the ambassadors. I preside over the ghosts and gods of the three realms, and I dominate the nine lands."
As the precious edict was recited, Zhong Kui's expression became more and more serious.
Jiang Lin opened his eyes, and the agarwood in his hand suddenly burned most of the time. The green smoke curled up, but it did not dissipate. Instead, it gathered in the air and vaguely formed a door.
Seeing this, Jiang Lin was shocked and inserted the one-fifth of the agarwood left in his hand into the incense burner.
Then, he picked up the Fengdu Jiuquan Command again, held it in both hands, placed it on the top of his forehead, and worshiped towards the north.
"Jiang Xuanying, the black law mage from the lower world, looks up to the palace and kowtows to the North Pole Ziwei."
"Please come! The Great Censor of the North Pole Exorcism Institute, Wei Tianjun, will come down!"
(End of this chapter)
