Secular world: My destiny has no taboos

Chapter 220 219: Netherworld

"Destiny...?"

Lin Beixuan looked at a twinkling star in the sky and had a special impression of the people in this world.

In addition to worshipping God, they also have great faith in fate.

Everyone has his own destiny. Some become generals or prime ministers, while others work hard in the fields. They will confine their thoughts to a fixed track, and finally explain it with the word "fate".

In feudal society, ordinary people struggled to get enough food and clothing. In times of chaos, even that became a problem and people often went hungry.

They attributed this to their own fate, which had been determined by God, and whether they would live or die had already been decided.

"Heh!" Lin Beixuan shook his head and chuckled.

He did not believe in fate, nor did he think he was the Lu Chengjiang that Goupi Taoist described.

He had seen the other person in one of Lu Chengjiang's memories, and he clearly didn't look like him at all.

While he was thinking, the dog-skin Taoist had already stood up with the help of a cane.

He walked weakly up a higher earthen slope and opened his arms. The night wind blew on him, blowing up the yellowed and rotten dog skin.

Following his movement, all the strange people from Qingyun Village around him turned their eyes to the Taoist Gou Pi.

Then, the dog-skin Taoist sang a difficult and incomprehensible ballad. Lin Beixuan, who grew up in the modern world, had never heard such a strange accent.

This ballad seems to come from ancient times. Its words are obscure, its melody is long, and it carries a mysterious and solemn atmosphere.

The sound echoed in the silent night. The candlelight that was swaying in the wind in front of the mounds of earth suddenly became eerily quiet. The white flags on the willow branches hung low, and only the scattered corners of the flags seemed to be being fiddled with by something.

The pain on the faces of the strange people in Qingyun Village eased a little. They closed their eyes and listened to the song quietly.

Suddenly, Lin Beixuan discovered that transparent shadows gradually walked out from the mounds of earth with names written on them.

These phantoms are all people who died in Qingyun Village due to various reasons during this period. Accompanied by the singing, they slowly walked to their relatives and stroked their faces with their hands.

Some are just lonely graves where all the family members have died and the graves stand there quietly with their heads bowed, as if sighing.

Except for Lin Beixuan, no one seemed to see this scene, not even the dog-skin Taoist who was singing the elegy.

“Why can’t they see it?”

Normally, ghosts in the secular world can be seen, but the ones summoned by the Taoist Dog Skin with his singing seemed to be an exception.

Suddenly, he felt movement on his shoulder. He turned his head and found that the baby spirit had crawled out at some point and was sitting on his shoulder, wiping its eyes with its chubby little hands.

"Ah..."

At this time, the baby spirit's voice was not as cheerful as before, but was filled with heavy sadness.

Lin Beixuan noticed the small piece of red rouge held in the infant spirit's hand.

It is missing Madam Li.

In the silent night, the Taoist Goupi sang for a long time until his voice became hoarse.

As his voice stopped, the shadows standing beside the mound became confused and their bodies slowly disappeared.

Lin Beixuan remembered that Li Tianqing had told him that the road to the underworld in this secular world was cut off and the gates of the underworld were closed, so where would the souls of these dead people go?

"It will disappear!" Li Tianqing's voice suddenly appeared in his ears, and he seemed to have guessed the doubts in Lin Beixuan's heart.

"Except for those who have a lot of Yin energy or who died with great injustice, it is difficult for ordinary people to survive for a long time in the Yang world."

"In the past, there would be ghost messengers coming to pick them up, but now, even if these people don't disappear, as soon as the sun comes out tomorrow, they will be instantly dispersed by the yang energy."

"..."

Lin Beixuan's eyes became heavy and his five fingers clenched tightly.

In his opinion, these people should not die innocently and disappear quietly from this world.

"There should be a solution!" Lin Beixuan's brain was working frantically.

Li Tianqing said: "If you have a soul-nourishing tree that is big enough, or something that gathers yin, you can collect them in, so that their yin bodies will not disperse."

Li Tianqing's words gave Lin Beixuan a reminder.

"How could I have forgotten this!"

Lin Beixuan's eyes lit up, and then he spread out his right palm, revealing the array pattern on it.

The forbidden area where souls are sealed.

During this period of time, he has been using this forbidden area to imprison those disobedient evil spirits, and almost forgot that this forbidden area has another use.

Looking at the formation pattern on Lin Beixuan's palm, Li Tianqing's eyes showed a hint of nostalgia, but he did not show it and just smiled softly.

"Then what are you waiting for? Please invite our Yincha to the stage!"

"Ghost messenger?" Lin Beixuan was stunned at first, then he set his gaze on the baby spirit that had just wiped its eyes.

The baby spirit opened its eyes wide and looked back at Lin Beixuan with some confusion.

An infant spirit with the fate of being a constant evil spirit in this life... this is indeed the best candidate.

It's not that the ghost soldiers in the forbidden area can't be used to do the work of ghost messengers, but the evil spirit in those ghost soldiers is more than the yin energy, and letting them do it may be counterproductive.

Infant spirits are different. They are born from a Yin womb and have an endless supply of Yin energy in their bodies, which is far greater than the evil energy. They can even absorb the evil energy and convert it into Yin power. It is obviously more suitable for them to be Yin messengers to guide the souls of the dead.

"Then I'll leave it to you, Li Ping'an!" Lin Beixuan rubbed the soft hair on the baby spirit's head, with a smile on his lips.

"When you see it, you will get wealth, and the world will be at peace."

"what?"

The infant spirit tilted its head, somewhat not understanding what Lin Beixuan meant.

Immediately afterwards, it saw Lin Beixuan take out the Soul-Hooking Chain and the Scissors of Joy and Sorrow and hand them to it.

"Bring all those souls here." Lin Beixuan said, pointing at the shadows that were about to disappear.

The infant spirit nodded as if it understood, put the soul-catching chain on its body, carried the scissors of sorrow and joy on its shoulders, a serious expression on its little face, and an astonishing yin energy lingering all over its body. It rushed towards the dead souls with great momentum.

The strange people from Qingyun Village who had just opened their eyes had not yet figured out what was going on when they saw a baby ghost holding a pair of large scissors rushing towards them. They were so scared that they took a step back.

Only Taoist Goupi seemed to see Lin Beixuan's deep meaning and told everyone not to make any extreme actions but to stay where they were.

In Lin Beixuan’s eyes, he saw the infant spirit rushing to a dazed dead soul, pulling at the other’s gradually transparent body, muttering “ah ah ah” non-stop, and pointing his finger in his direction.

The ghost seemed to understand what the infant spirit said, and looked towards Lin Beixuan. The ghost looked at Lin Beixuan, moved his lips, as if calling the commander-in-chief, and then came over obediently.

"Ping'an should be able to be promoted to a fierce ghost soon!" Lin Beixuan thought about it as he looked at the infant spirit becoming more and more excited.

The promotion system of ghosts is vengeful spirits-evil ghosts-ghosts-evil spirits, and evil ghosts are equivalent to masters in the realm of Kaifu.

Before this, the infant spirit was only considered a stronger vengeful spirit and not a fierce ghost. It has grown a lot during this period of time following Lin Beixuan, and now has reached the threshold of a fierce ghost.

As one of the twelve common ghosts in the mortal world, the infant spirit itself has a terrifying talent for growth. Moreover, Li Ping'an is different from other infant spirits. He is conceived in the Yin fetus. Once he is promoted to a fierce ghost and opens the underworld, his strength will be much stronger than that of the same level of fierce ghosts.

Thinking of this, Lin Beixuan wondered whether he should also make some preparations to set up a residence for the infant spirit.

As his subordinate, the infant spirit has a name on the panel just like the Five Rats, and he can interfere with the growth of the infant spirit to a certain extent.

If you give the infant spirit more help when it is establishing its mansion, you can greatly improve the infant spirit's potential.

While he was thinking, the infant spirit had already driven all the dead souls over.

It walked behind with a menacing look on its face. If anyone dared to fall behind, it would bare its teeth and wave its scissors at the opponent, looking like a bully taking advantage of the power of its master.

Seeing that the ghosts had come over, Lin Beixuan did not hesitate and immediately opened the forbidden area. The array pattern lit up, and an illusory door slowly rose beside Lin Beixuan.

Soon after, two burly ghost soldiers walked out from inside, responsible for helping the infant spirit to guide these dead souls.

When the Taoist Dog Skin saw this scene, a faint light flashed in his eyes.

"Come one by one, line up!"

Ma Han walked at the front of the team of dead souls and entered the forbidden area through the illusory door.

As soon as they entered the forbidden area, the ghosts felt that their bodies became inexplicably fuller. They were no longer as light as before and would fall down if blown by the wind.

The yin energy that permeated the entire space nourished their yin bodies that were about to dissipate.

"What on earth is this place?" A ghost couldn't help but ask as he looked at the unique scenery in the forbidden area.

Ma Han turned his head and looked at the dead soul, thinking in his heart.

The general seemed to have never given this place a name, so it was a bit inappropriate to keep calling it the forbidden area.

So Ma Han thought about it and said directly: "This is the underworld. If you walk this road, you will reach the gate of hell in front of you."

"Ghost...Gate of Hell!?"

The dead soul was horrified, but when he thought that he was already dead, he slowly felt relieved.

Yes, it was already dead and should have entered the underworld, but no one expected the commander-in-chief to have such great power that he could call upon the legendary underworld messenger.

"But... isn't it rumored that the Yellow Springs Road has been cut off?"

Suddenly, the ghost of an old man jumped out. It was about the same age as the Dog-skin Taoist, so it knew a lot of things. Or maybe it just heard about the blocked Yellow Spring Road and the closed gates of Hades from the Dog-skin Taoist.

"Humph!" Ma Han snorted coldly, staring at the unruly ghost, and said in a muffled voice: "So what if the Yellow Springs Road is broken? Can't we just build a new one?"

"Build, build one?" The old man's ghost nodded in a daze, thinking that what Ma Han said made sense.

Yes, if it’s gone, you can just build another one.

Then it lowered its head and looked at the dark road beneath its feet. A river with no end in sight passed by and disappeared into the endless fog.

In the distance, a corner of a magnificent building complex appeared from the fog. From a distance, it looked glowing red and gave the ghost a very majestic feeling.

Now the old man's ghost is certain that this is the legendary underworld. The group of buildings in front must be the underworld where the sins of life are judged.

Not long after the group of ghosts walked, they arrived at what Ma Han called the Gate of Hell.

The road in front of the ghost gate is a bit rugged, with unknown flowers growing on both sides. The air has an intoxicating fragrance, which is completely different from the smell of rotten sulfur when you first enter.

Ma Han glared and shouted, "Hold your breath. This flower is the red spider lily planted by the general. It can confuse people's minds. Once you get close, it will devour your ghost body completely."

The old man's ghost wondered: "If it is so dangerous, why do you plant these red spider lilies?"

"You talk too much, old man." The ghost fire in Ma Han's eyes flickered, and he was a little impatient, but he still calmed himself down and explained to these new ghosts who had just entered the forbidden area.

"You think these red spider lilies are dangerous, but you don't know that the Yin energy in the netherworld is entirely generated by the Yin energy exhaled by these red spider lilies."

Ma Han still remembers that when the Yin soldiers first entered the forbidden area, their Yin power was suppressed and the Yin energy inside was pitifully thin. They didn't even dare to march and do drills every day. It was not until Lin Beixuan obtained the red spider lily and planted it that they lived a much more comfortable life.

Moreover, as soon as the red spider lily came into contact with the forbidden land, it showed its terrifying reproductive ability, and soon it covered the entire forbidden area.

It can be said that the red spider lily accounts for most of the credit for the abundant yin energy in the forbidden area today.

Seeing that Ma Han didn't want to pay attention to him, the old man's ghost dared not say anything more.

Finally, the group arrived at the Ghost Gate. Looking at the towering Ghost Gate standing in front of them, they inexplicably felt a fear and wanted to escape from here.

It was because the huge bronze door was shrouded in fog, and it was engraved with strange symbols and patterns, with burnt red rust scattered everywhere. The slightly opened gap in the door was dark and deep, and there were sharp and piercing cries wrapped in the gloomy wind.

On both sides of the giant gate, there were two white candles emitting a faint green light. Two tall stone beasts with ghost faces below seemed to come alive, staring at everyone who approached.

All the dead souls were frightened at this moment, and they stood still and dared not move.

Ma Han ignored the frightened ghosts and walked to a shrine near the giant gate and bowed to it.

"Master Eleven, I am here under the general's order to help guide these dead souls."

What was enshrined in the shrine was not a statue of a deity, but a transparent hand bone that glowed faintly, and a slightly weak voice came from inside.

"Understood!"

"Since it is the general's order, and these are not evil spirits, let them find a place to live in the city. They are also the first batch of ghosts in this forbidden area. If the underworld is to be improved in the future, their help will be needed."

"Thank you for your advice, sir,"

Ma Han bowed towards the transparent hand bones in the shrine, then turned his head to look at the silent souls behind him, waved and shouted.

“Go into the city!!!”

As the words fell, the huge bronze door slowly opened with a low friction sound, as if an extremely huge and ferocious beast opened its mouth.

"call……"

A biting cold wind blew out, carrying a strong smell of death, and rushed towards the outside world. Under the shock of this fierce wind, the bodies of the dead souls, which had been gradually becoming fuller, became transparent and illusory again.

Inside the deep and dark door, there seemed to be countless eyes peering, waiting for these new souls to arrive.

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