The dragon's entry into the sea brought tremendous changes to the entire primordial planet.
"I don't know if it's just my imagination, but I feel like the rules of the Primordial Star are more complete than before?" Ye Chen thought to himself. He couldn't explain what was going on, but he felt that the whole planet was more like a world than before.
"Forget it, I don't want to think about it anymore. Let them develop on their own!" Ye Chen shook his head and turned back to the lord's mansion.
Actually, Ye Chen's current level is still too low. Once he reaches the seventh rank, he will find that if he wants to continue to grow stronger, the rules of the territory must be improved so that the territory can become a true world.
Sunrise and sunset, birth, aging, sickness and death, the cycle of yin and yang, the reincarnation of all things... From the birth of the Silver Leaf Laurel Tree, the primordial bloodline has been helping him to perfect the rules of the entire planet, but he is not yet able to discover it.
With the Dragon Palace descending into the sea, Fengdu City also ushered in its first advancement. Unexpectedly, the one who ultimately ascended to the position of Judge was none other than Mike, who had died earlier, a soul of an outsider named Enni.
In fact, once you enter the Primordial Star and die, you become a Primordial Human or Primordial Soul, whether you like it or not. However, it is still quite surprising that Aini became the Judge of Fengdu City. Ye Chen always thought that it would be a recruited soul to take on this role.
But considering Mike's resentment and helplessness before his death, it seems somewhat understandable. Perhaps being judged would be the best ending for him?
The advancement of Fengdu City has brought about tremendous changes. Although the Yama Palace has not been fully repaired and does not yet have the function of reincarnation, a long river with blood-yellow water has already flowed through Fengdu City.
The Naihe River, also known as the River of Oblivion or the River of Three Crossings, flows between the Yellow Springs Road and the Underworld, serving as the dividing line between the two. Crossing the Naihe River signifies officially entering the underworld.
The river water was blood-yellow, filled with wandering ghosts who could not be reincarnated or enter the underworld. The river surface was covered with insects and snakes, and a foul smell permeated the air.
On both banks of the Naihe River, red spider lilies bloom in abundance, looking quite alluring. The flowers and leaves never meet, symbolizing the eternal separation of life and death. The Naihe River is the final hurdle for the deceased to cross into the underworld.
The river flows on, but at the end of the road lies a narrow and treacherous bridge, the only road leading to the underworld and across the Naihe River.
The bridge has three levels, a bluestone surface, and five steps on each level... Legend has it that the virtuous walk on the bridge, the average person walks on the middle bridge, and the wicked person walks on the bottom bridge.
The bridge is constantly battered by murky waves, and copper snakes and iron dogs roam above it. Anyone who crosses it will be bitten and pulled, and most will fall into the Naihe River, where they will suffer for thousands of lifetimes to wash away their sins before they can come ashore again.
Ye Chen didn't know if his Naihe Bridge had the same function, but the appearance of the Naihe River and the Naihe Bridge did make the ghosts in Fengdu City much more docile.
With so many souls gathered together, Oros and a few night wanderers simply couldn't manage them all. There were no means of punishing evildoers in Fengdu City, and he could only turn a blind eye to the bullying behavior among many evil spirits. For these ghosts who had already died once, death was really not scary at all.
However, with the appearance of Naihe, Oros and others finally had a means to punish evil spirits.
The foul-smelling Naihe River is shrouded in powerful rules; those who enter will never be able to leave the river if they cannot cleanse themselves of their sins. For those evil spirits, this is undoubtedly more painful than death.
“Death is not scary! What’s scary is wanting to die but not being able to!” Ye Chen said to Oros, Mike, and the other underworld officials of Fengdu.
Becoming a ghost and dying again is nothing more than the soul being scattered, but to suffer eternal torment in the River of Forgetfulness, no one would be willing to do that.
"By the way! After Fengdu City advanced, although the main hall has not yet recovered, our strength has been improved to a certain extent, and the main hall has also gained an additional function!" Oros suddenly said. As the underworld, as Fengdu City became stronger, their lower limit of strength would naturally rise as well.
This improvement might not be of much use to Oros now, but it would be of great benefit to the low-level ghosts who have just become officials in the underworld. Even the lowest-level ghosts like wasps and gills can reach around level 2 strength the moment they acquire the position of an underworld official.
Although it may not seem like much, it raises the lower limit for everyone. A ghost messenger who was originally at the second rank might even directly step into the third rank after raising the lower limit.
Moreover, this improvement was not limited to this. All the ghost messengers' aptitudes were also greatly enhanced. They discovered that in the subsequent cultivation process, many things that were previously incomprehensible could be directly understood, and their cultivation speed naturally increased significantly.
Unlike their kindred spirits like Yue'e, ghosts cannot grow rapidly through advancement conditions. Their only way of cultivation is to absorb ghost energy and condense their ghost bodies. However, the efficiency of this absorption and transformation is determined by their individual aptitudes.
As Oros finished speaking, a large amount of ghostly energy began to gather in front of him, and then an ancient token with a ghostly aura appeared in front of Ye Chen.
"This thing is called a 'Road Pass,' it's a credential for entering Fengdu City!" Oros explained. "It seems it was originally for those wandering ghosts, so they could enter Fengdu City to be reincarnated. But now there aren't many ghosts in Fengdu City, so you can have this. Living people who hold a Road Pass can also enter Fengdu City without having to cross the Bridge of Helplessness or be harmed by ghostly energy!"
"A travel permit?" Ye Chen touched the cold, antique token in his hand, which looked like both gold and wood. He turned it over and saw a special, ancient symbol engraved on it. But he seemed to know in an instant that it was the character "ghost".
"The travel permit for Fengdu City is a priceless treasure in later generations!" Ye Chen said with a light laugh.
Currently, there aren't many ghosts in Fengdu City, so the restrictions on entry aren't strict. However, all life has an end, and there will eventually come a time when Fengdu City can no longer accommodate so many ghosts. When that time comes, it won't be so easy for the deceased to enter Fengdu City again.
Even the entire city of Fengdu will be divided in two: one part will be the area where the ghosts of Fengdu live, and the other part will be the place where these dead will be reincarnated.
After death, ordinary people go directly to the underworld for judgment and sentencing, and then decide whether to be punished or enter the cycle of reincarnation. They cannot enter the real Fengdu City at all. Only those ghosts who have a travel permit can settle in the real Fengdu City and temporarily escape the suffering of reincarnation.
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