Chapter 1, Taibai
The 17th month of the 300th year of the Difu calendar.
Today is a big day, Taibai Yan Jun has been transferred, and he has returned to the Heavenly Realm to be his Star Monarch. Colleagues are very reluctant to him, there are too few pistachios and good people like him.
The eight Yan Jun all gathered around Taibai and said goodbye to him one by one. I'm also inside, in the outermost circle of the crowd, and I also want to squeeze inside, but I'm the smallest, there are a total of nine Yan Jun in the underworld, and I happen to be ranked ninth, and Taibai is the third.
Five hundred years before the calendar was set by the underworld, Taibai was transferred to the underworld to experience life because of the bottleneck of his cultivation, and in a blink of an eye, three thousand five hundred years passed, and he finally broke through himself and achieved the Golden Immortal, so he was transferred back.
Taibai was not as sad as we thought, but he smiled happily, and even looked a little cheap.
"Brothers, I'm finally free! I don't have to face the smelly weather that hasn't changed for thousands of years!"
Taibai's voice was as loud as Lei Gong, I saw the boss roll up his sleeves, his fists clenched, and Lao Qi also hid him in his sleeve and moved manually. Lao Wu took advantage of the fact that everyone didn't pay much attention and pressed the hands of the two of them.
The sky of the underworld is said to have not changed since the day it was born, and it is always gloomy, like it is going to rain for several days. But this rain just didn't fall, I waited for 2,300 years, Taibai waited for 3,500 years, and the boss waited for 4,200 years, but I didn't wait for this rain to fall.
The seventh child hates this weather the most, followed by the eldest and the third child Taibai, and as for the rest of the others, including me, they have been tortured by this weather enough to get used to and adapt.
Taibai laughed for a long time, about a quarter of an hour, and then his laughter stopped abruptly, and the whole person fell to the ground and cried.
We were all confused, and we couldn't understand why he was crying like this.
I heard him crying and shouting: "Three thousand five hundred years! Three thousand five hundred years! It took three thousand five hundred years to cultivate to the Golden Immortal, how long will it take to cultivate to the Great Luo Golden Immortal? Thirty-five thousand years?
At this time, we all understand that Taibai is a genius, before he achieved the Golden Immortal, it took him less than one-tenth of the time for others to cultivate into a Heavenly Immortal, and then it took ten times as long to boil himself into a Golden Immortal.
This kind of suffering, we all understand, cultivating immortals is originally a painful road, asking for longevity, and what you get is a long loneliness. The second child was also crying, it only took him eight hundred years to cultivate into a golden immortal, but it took him three thousand six hundred years to cultivate into a heavenly immortal. The fourth to eighth children are also crying, their cultivation path is not very smooth, and they still can't see the gate of the Golden Immortal.
Only the boss was expressionless, and the boss was Da Luo Jinxian a long time ago. As for me, I will not shed tears in the 80th year of my spiritual path. That year I sent the soul of my last friend to the underworld to be reincarnated, and before that I had sent away my parents, my brother. After that day, there was no one in the world who was related to me, and I did not leave any blood in the world. I stood in front of the reincarnation of the underworld for thirty-three years, and in the thirty-third year, I met the boss.
The boss is a little chubby, with a round face, he asked me what I plan to do in the future, I said I don't plan, he said why don't you stay in the underworld, the underworld is short of manpower.
So I became the ninth Yan Jun of the underworld, and I was also the ninth clerk of the underworld. I have to say that Yan Jun at that time had no status, and he had to run around every day to catch the ghosts left in the world, then pour immortal water, and then send them to reincarnation. Well, fairy water is the previous name, and now it is called Meng Po soup, in order to keep Meng Po working in the underworld, we gave her the recipe, so this old lady Meng who loves to cook became Meng Po, and also developed a lot of strange soups, um... The water in the underworld is also quite strange, the water from different rivers is mixed together and boiled, and the taste is strange!
Taibai cried and cried, the second child restrained a lot, just silently wiped his tears, and the fourth to eighth children were still wailing.
The boss stepped forward and helped Taibai up.
"Third child, don't forget your brothers after you return to Heavenly Court, the third child of Yan Jun will always be you, and you often come and go around when you are free!"
"Boss!" Taibai called out movingly, and looked at us around him again.
And then..."Phew!"
The boss covered the foot that had just leaned out with a long robe, and the boss's skill was much higher, and this kick was enough to send Taibai back to the heavenly realm.
The second child was already full of smiles: "The boss is mighty! The third guy is so sensational, it makes people cry!"
The fourth, fifth, and eighth children also echoed loudly! The sixth and seventh children gave a thumbs up in the back! As for me, I was silently applauding!
They are all old men who have lived for thousands of years, and crying once is enough to be laughed at by their colleagues for hundreds of years. It's not easy to practice, and it's not the first day to know.
Compared with two thousand years, the affairs of the underworld are simply many times more, at that time, it was enough for nine Yan Jun to run a few hundred times a day, but not now, now the countless ghost pawns in the underworld are still a little insufficient to run non-stop every day. After Taibai left, it seemed that it was even more insufficient.
Among us, Taibai's eloquence is the best, six and a half of the ten clerks in the current underworld are Taibai who flickered with one mouth, one and a half were picked up by the boss, and the remaining two have one of our seven Yan Jun tried their best to deceive them, and the last one is disheartened and unwilling to reincarnate and wants to stay in the underworld.
Now that Taibai is gone, there are fewer new ghost pawns all of a sudden. And the number of people in the human world is constantly growing, and there are more and more new spirits formed in the heavens and the earth. These spirits will enter the human realm, or they will be led by the heavenly realm after their cultivation, or they will be born, old, sick and die, and their souls will return to the Yellow Spring of the underworld, and then they will be reincarnated, or they will stay in the underworld to do things and practice.
At present, the people in the heavenly realm are the least, followed by the earth, and the most people are in the human world. The Emperor of Heaven originally planned to transfer all the Heavenly Immortals and above from the Difu to the Heavenly Realm for use, but after calculating it, the Heavenly Immortals and above added up to only nine Yan Jun and three judges, all of whom were the backbone of the work of the Difu, and they were all transferred to the Heavenly Realm, and the Difu was empty, and in the end, only Taibai, who had cultivated into a Golden Immortal, was transferred. Originally, he planned to transfer the second child away, but the second child said that he wanted to stay for another five hundred years and see his reincarnated teacher. As for the boss, the underworld needs him, a big Luo Jin Immortal, to come to the town.
It is much easier for the underworld to fill in the personnel than in the heavenly realm, and without the cultivation of the heavenly immortals, it is impossible to enter the heavenly palace, compared to it, the underworld simply has no threshold. Those who are willing to stay, those who are obsessed, can submit an application, stay in the prefecture to run errands, and those who do not practice will be an ordinary ghost pawn, and those who have practiced will be a judge or team leader.
Although the personnel of the underworld are easy to replenish, they still can't keep up with the growth rate of the human world. The boss has already turned several hairs gray because of this.
"Well, let's make a booklet, record all the ghost's actions in the human world, and when the ghost dies, decide who to retain according to the quality of his behavior before death?"
The second child shook his head: "Isn't this a supplementary version of the book of life and death, the bad ones go to hell, the good ones go to reincarnation, this is the avenue of heaven and earth, of course, we can keep it, but without the mouth of the third child, I'm afraid we can't keep it."
The fourth and sixth both nodded.
Lao Qi held his head with both hands, and said with a shake: "If you don't submit an application again, get the third child back!"
The old five and eight nodded in agreement!
The boss pulled down a piece of white hair, and his expression was a little painful: "The Emperor of Heaven will not agree, there are too few people in the Heavenly Realm now, not to mention the third child who has left, that is, the second child, will also be transferred after five hundred years." ”
The second child nodded silently in agreement.
I knocked on the table and said, "The booklet still needs to be done, first, it is more convenient for the judgment of good and evil in the future, and second, you can also choose people who have moral character and ability before they are born, and fool them into saying that it is a reward given to them by the underworld, allowing them to run errands in the underworld, and they can participate in the cultivation method and march towards the heavenly immortals!"
The boss's eyes lit up, and he clapped his hands and said, "This is good, I'm not afraid that they won't come, everyone wants to be a fairy!"
Lao Qi added evilly: "You can also get those bad ghosts to build houses, and now there are not enough houses in the underworld!"
Lao Wu narrowed his eyes and said, "This method is good, but cultivation itself is a hard work, and only a few people can attain the Tao, what if they participate in the cultivation method and regret it?"
"Then sign a contract with them first, and they will not be reincarnated for two hundred years, if they want to live and eat in the underworld, they have to work!"
The sixth added: "What if they see that there is a problem with the contract and don't sign it?"
I rubbed my hands together and said with a smile: "Then to put it another way, in view of his good performance in the human world, he is hereby rewarded with two hundred years of practicing ghost missions in the underworld." After two hundred years are over, if you choose the people with the worst cultivation to be reincarnated, you will say that they have no chance of immortal path, and the underworld will not be able to accept them!"
The boss was very satisfied: "That's it! There are more cultivators in the underworld, and I can't say that I can really produce a few heavenly immortals, and I can also enrich the heavenly realm." Sixth, you are the best at writing official documents, so I will leave it to you, remember to write a little miserable, and we are very considerate of the future development of the heavenly realm!"
The sixth child has already taken a big turtle shell and carved it around!
The turtle shell seems to have been given by the Dragon King of the South China Sea, and I heard that it was left after the thousand-year-old turtle was repaired to a human form. After use, rub it twice casually, and the nicks will disappear, so you can save it for next time.
I don't know if there are many thousand-year-old turtles in the four seas, but they have to be cultivated, so next time I will ask the Dragon King of the East China Sea!
After the sixth child finished carving the turtle shell, he slapped his hands, and a fire rose up, burning the turtle shell evenly before extinguishing the fire.
"Alright, let's wait for a reply!"
So we all sat down and waited for a reply.
After about half an hour, the boss patted his head and shouted, "The time calculation of the heavenly realm is different from that of the earthly realm!"
We all suddenly realized that the time of the human world and the underworld has always been synchronized, because it is necessary to calculate the lifespan of people and the length of time the ghost stays in the underworld. But the time in the celestial realm is not the same. A day in the heavenly realm is a year on earth and on earth. A day in the heavenly realm is extremely long, far more difficult than the years on earth and on earth.
The Emperor of Heaven reads some official documents every day, and for the underworld and the world, it is to read once a year. Now the underworld and the world are looking at the moon, which means that it will take half a year at the earliest to get the approval of the emperor.
And we... A group of Yan Jun...... I waited stupidly for half an hour...... , after Taibai left, it seems that the overall IQ has decreased a lot!
The boss ran away quickly, he had cooked rice at home before, and it should be almost cooked at this time!
The second child also ran away quickly, and the game and meat he went to the world to hunt should be peeled and roasted at this time!
Lao Wu ran faster, Du Kang gave him two jars of wine before, and he was in a hurry to drink!
The fourth, sixth, and seventh children went to find Meng Po together, and Meng Po developed two new sweet soups, and I heard that they were also paired with a few fruits.
The eighth is not gone, the eighth god is here. I didn't leave either, and I glanced at the eighth child.
Lao Ba nodded, took out a piece of wood, carved it with a knife, and burned it. I'm pretty much the same, but I use animal skin, take a wooden root and burn it, and draw "Lao Ba treats, come quickly!" with charcoal, and then burn it too.
I went home with the eighth child slowly, the place where Yan Jun lived was called Yan Jun Village, the village was not small, but the house was not big, just two rows of houses staggered to the east, east was 13579, west was 2468, although the third Taibai was gone, the house still had to be kept for him.
The thatched house is all the same, except for the bedroom is the kitchen, the table is placed in the yard, anyway, the weather in the dungeon will not change, except for gloomy, it is not raining or windy, and there is no distinction between hot and cold ghosts. But as far as my personal feelings are concerned, the temperature in the underworld is still a little cold, but fortunately, I am also a god, and it doesn't matter whether it is cold or hot.
As soon as I walked into the courtyard of the eighth child, we saw that the table in the courtyard was full of people. The table is large, boxy, and can make up to twelve people, the eldest and the sixth together, one holding a pot of rice, and the other holding a pile of fruit. There was a pile of roasted meat in front of the second child, the fourth and seventh children each held a can of soup, and the third child carried two cans of wine and leaned on the second child.
They stared at me and the eighth child, and the eighth child walked into the house in a hurry, took out a few large bowls, and I followed him, holding eight pairs of chopsticks.
Well... The eldest child's rice is sweet and fragrant! The second child's game is delicious! The fourth child's soup has a refreshing sweetness! The seventh child's soup is a little bitter! The fifth child's wine is really a good wine! The sixth child's fruit is also very appetizing!
In the end, the bowl I took out was very good-looking! I took no more chopsticks, no less, just right!