Chapter 401 Look at You, Say That
Lin Du couldn't tell what he was feeling at the moment. "It's fine if my senior brother came, but why are you here?"
Hou Cang's icy face that had never changed for thousands of years showed a crack, "What do you mean by that?"
"What I mean is that I don't need to worry about someone as powerful as my senior brother." Lin Du replied with a smile.
Hou Cang was speechless and turned to say, "Do you think I want to come? They insisted on coming. If it weren't for the two Yang Lei and Yang Huo who were really hard to cover, I would have to support from the outside. I would have been the only one who could fight here."
Lin Du let out a long "oh" and decided to maintain his dignity.
The judge came back to his senses at this moment, "No, I said, are you a group here to cause trouble? No matter how good you are at fighting, we still have the Five Ghost Emperors and the Ten Hells of Hell above us, I am warning you."
Several people looked at the judge with a smile at the same time, "Look at you, saying that."
It was obvious that except for Ice Face, they were all just kids. No matter their age or cultivation level, they shouldn't be so disrespectful. But the judge couldn't get angry at all.
It was this group of people before us who found the hundreds of thousands of people who had disappeared from the Book of Life and Death out of thin air.
When a large number of souls are lost in a world, even if it is due to someone's misconduct, it is the fault of the underworld and someone has to take the blame.
There are plenty of ghost cultivators in the underworld who are waiting to eat public food without entering the cycle of reincarnation, and he doesn't want to lose the position of judge that he has obtained after practicing for a thousand years.
That was a big deal. The judge once woke up in the middle of the night and kept talking about the tens of thousands of people who disappeared. Even when the first wave of souls were sent back, he almost wanted to kowtow to the people who sent these ghosts to the underworld.
But it's better not to get close to him. For a cultivator who doesn't want to ascend to heaven, falling into the underworld is really not a good thing.
Now the person has come, but his approach is a bit unrighteous, and we still have to look at his book of life and death.
Lin Du wants to see the Book of Life and Death, and he will be punished for keeping the Book of Life and Death.
"I have an idea. The five of us will beat you up and take away your Book of Life and Death. Then you won't be considered derelict in your duty, but we are too strong. What do you think?"
Lin Du seemed to see the judge's struggle. Of course, workers have their own sufferings, and she certainly understood.
"It can be a minor injury, or it can be a more serious injury. It's up to you." Lin Du looked at the judge, "We respect the victim's wishes."
If Hou Cang hadn't come, she might have tried to influence the judge, but now that Hou Cang had come, she didn't mind the group beating.
The judge was confused by this group of people who played without saying a word and according to the rules. Before he could react, the group of people had already pounced on him.
"Oh no! You guys!!!"
"I got it!!!" Ni Jinxuan excitedly took out a book and threw it to Lin Du.
Yan Qing and Yuan Ye each held down one of the judges. He seemed to be struggling fiercely, but in fact he was quietly holding his joints in the hands of the two men, making it very easy to control him. He also had a long sword that he inexplicably took out.
How did the spirit sword get brought to this underworld? Aren’t they spirits that have left their bodies?
Hou Cang held the long sword in his hand and looked down at the judge, "Don't move."
Lin Du lowered her head and flipped through the book quickly. She moved very quickly. This divine book looked very thin and simulated, but it actually had an absurd number of pages.
But at this moment, inside the black hall, candles were lit on both sides, and the golden pages of the book were flashing rapidly, comparable to the rushing of rivers and seas, without stopping for a moment. Not only the judge, but even Yan Qing, who had always been crushed by Lin Du, felt that it was a bit too outrageous.
"How can she see like this?" The judge almost forgot that he was being held.
Yan Qing was numb. "I don't know about others, but what Junior Master said is normal."
Lin Du was born with a fast reading speed, and after his consciousness was strengthened to this level, it has even exceeded the speed that ordinary people can receive.
"Don't tell me, this is faster than the wind." Yuan Ye sighed, "This afterimage makes me dizzy."
But after three hours, Lin Du stopped and took out a chart, which showed the intensity changes of the power of rules. She had a new discovery.
When I was in the demon world before, I never noticed this zigzag line. It needs to be divided into several nodes.
“There are a few interesting points.”
"The population of Dongming Realm has been in a relatively stable state since ancient times, but since six thousand years ago, the appearance of blank pages has begun to increase."
The blank space represents that this soul cannot be recalled and has fallen outside the rules of Heaven, being destroyed and devoured by something outside the control of Heaven.
In the Dongming Realm, most of them were devoured by evil demons, but six thousand years later their number increased, not because the evil demons became stronger, but because the fragments of fallen angels appeared.
"Six thousand years ago, that was exactly the time when the fallen angel fragments were first exposed in Dongming."
"And starting from about 6,000 years ago, the power of the Heavenly Dao rules has been declining relatively steadily. If we ignore the upward curve caused by the monks who devoted themselves to the Heavenly Dao for a thousand years to supplement the Heavenly Dao rules, I can almost draw a straight line with a certain slope. After 6,000 years, the twists and turns began to increase, and the Heavenly Dao declined faster."
As Lin Du spoke, Yan Qing took notes. The judge, who was forcibly tied to a stool, also pricked up his ears.
“So the power of Heaven declined in the beginning because of that evil spirit…” Yan Qing paused with his hand holding the pen and looked at Lin Du in the hall.
"The origin of demonic energy." Lin Du confirmed his conclusion.
"Since 600 years ago, this downward trend has slowed down."
"The Book of Life and Death has been filled with gaps since more than 500 years ago, and the number of survivors has been decreasing rapidly."
"I think this is the reason why the rules of heaven have temporarily relieved the pressure."
"Then... Wenfu..." Hou Cang was a little confused, "He couldn't have done something good, right?"
Lin Du shook his head, "No, it's not."
Then he let out an "oh", and he felt relieved.
Losers are losers.
Lin Du still had his eyes downcast, and he slowly exerted force on the hands holding the two booklets.
There are fewer people in the spiritual world than in the mortal world, so hundreds of thousands of people are naturally not a large number. In the mortal world, a war may kill nearly hundreds of thousands of people, but those people can still enter reincarnation.
Wen Fu's actions caused the souls of the past six hundred years to decrease. Even with Lin Du's rescue efforts, large gaps could not be filled, and most records were already incomplete.
He was blinded by one thing and failed to see that the real enemy was the remnants of the Fallen Angel and the laws of nature in the outside world, which led him astray.
Lin Du held back his emotions, "If I don't save those souls, maybe he can indeed slow down the decline of Heavenly Dao."
“But we saved him.”
"These returning souls will allow Dongming Realm to accumulate a large number of cultivators within 500 years. Those who are reincarnated as plants and unintelligent beasts are secondary. There are also a large number of souls who are reincarnated in Zhongzhou and the demon clan to become spiritual cultivators."
However, in the books of life and death of these people, the time scheduled for cultivation after reincarnation has become very long, proving that the spiritual energy is indeed unable to keep up with the supply.
Lin Du paused. "Unless the situation is unstable in the next five hundred years, wars are frequent, deaths are more frequent, and reincarnation is delayed after death, this is simply impossible, let's put it aside for now."
"Or someone will devote themselves to the Way of Heaven to maintain the balance. Otherwise, the Way of Heaven will lose its spiritual energy within 500 years and become increasingly weak, thus causing natural disasters. If resources cannot be regenerated in time, it will also cause human disasters."
"I took apart the chessboard and blocked his chess moves." Lin Du seemed to be a little regretful. "But those useless pieces ruined the game. Maybe I shouldn't have saved him."
"But you are not the one who did something wrong." The judge couldn't help but speak, "What you did is the light of righteousness. If the population is too large, resources will be consumed and there will be no time to replenish them. If there are too few people, the progress of your world will slow down, and even the entire world will collapse."
"If you hadn't found the souls of these people, your Dongming Realm would have been noticed by the people of the Thirty-Three Heavens. If you can't solve that problem, and they take action, Dongming Realm will really be left with nothing."
The gloom on Lin Du's face suddenly disappeared, and he raised his eyes to look at the judge. His eyes, which were not simulated and therefore gray, were like snow falling on a cold mountain, which was blown away by the wind, revealing the crystal clearness that had long been frozen.
The judge then realized that he had been tricked by the kid into being soft-hearted and said too much.
Lin Du smiled and said, "Thank you, Judge."
"We can naturally solve the matter of Dongming Realm." Lin Du returned the Book of Life and Death. "If a god enters Dongming Realm, we can naturally kill him."
The judge felt nervous when he was looked at by those eyes.
Long before Lin Du came, he had been wondering what could have caused such a large world to lose so many souls without a sound.
As expected, the big problem in Dongming Realm now is due to the loss of the upper realm. Today, when Lin Du came to snatch the Book of Life and Death, he actually gave him the whole story.
It wouldn't be considered a leak if he hinted back like that.
Lin Du got the answer, but his heart became heavier.
The fundamental reason for the decline of Heavenly Dao is the origin of the evil spirit. Later, the fragments of Fallen Angel appeared, which aggravated the decline. Wen Fu became the sharpest knife of the Fallen Angel.
It's like playing a game of chess with someone that goes on sharp and incisive at the beginning but becomes a terrible game at the end. When she gets closer, she realizes that her opponent has changed, and the terrible moves made by the previous player become sharp knives stabbing her.
Her opponent is not Wen Fu, not the Demon Lord, but the Fallen Angel.
A "dead thing" that seems to have no soul and can always hide behind living people.
Even though the fragments were fed to Han Yueling and Tiandao by Lin Du, the influence of this thing still continued.
She really doesn't have much time left.
"You can go or go, but your life will still be deducted." The judge looked at Lin Du as he was about to leave, "Just do as you say?"
Hou Cang looked at Lin Du with a cold face, "What else? Lin Du still has a life to deduct? If I deduct it, will I take your soul away now?"
The judge held the Book of Life and Death in his arms and said, "Look at you, you're saying that. I'm not the one who's seducing the souls. I'm just the account book."
"Put it all on my account. I'm old enough to share it with a kid. I don't mind a hundred years."
After saying this, Hou Cang turned and left.
When the judge saw them leaving, he tore his clothes even more fiercely, and after half an hour, he ran to the main hall holding the Book of Life and Death.
“My Lord!!! Damn it!!”