Chapter 8: The Demons and Gods of the Shinto Branch 2
The next level is the Soul Envoy and the Soul Envoy.
At this level, the requirements for one's own strength are much higher, the lowest level of fierce ghosts, in fact, some of the old qualifications of soul hookers and soul detaining envoys have ghost levels.
Soul seducers generally only hook the souls of those who have suffered misery and have grievances to stay in the world, and the souls who die normally will be pulled by the power of reincarnation in the underworld and automatically go to the underworld. Because he often goes to the front line in person, he receives a lot of various rebates, and he generally gets into drinking and making money. The folk saying that there are ghosts that can make ghosts push and grind refers to the soul seducer messenger, it may be that the soul seducer collects too much money and forms a habitual action! You can use them as police officers to deal with general civil crimes!
The Soul Emissary's standard weapon is the Ghost Lock, which binds spirits so that they cannot escape.
Uncle Nine also told him that because of some special reasons, the soul envoys also had some inconvenient things to do in the human world, and after they reported to the king of Yama, the king of Yama agreed to recruit outsourced personnel in the human world, which is commonly known as the living ghost cha.
The sign of this kind of living ghost is that there is a word "death" on the hand!
"殁" means that death comes from "no". The ancients used sinking as a metaphor for death, and "no" is a euphemism for death.
This also implies that the living and the ghosts will bring death!
This word "death" can also be called a work certificate for living people and ghosts, and it is usually necessary to hook the soul or something, and it is by relying on this thing that it is an extension of divine power.
That's why the living ghost is also called the dead!
The Soul Envoy will choose to die in the world, as long as you are chosen, you will not be able to escape! And it is passed down from generation to generation, one person is chosen as a mourner, and the descendants have to become a mourner from generation to generation!
Like the ancient officials, this position is hereditary, and the father dies and the son succeeds him!
There are pros and cons to this!
There will be benefits after death, after all, it has a relationship with the system, and after you die, your superior boss will cover you, and it is generally easy to find a bite to eat in the underworld, or reincarnate into a good family.
The disadvantage, after all, is to do the soul hook thing, and unlike the underworld soul messengers, these have the organization, there is merit in the underworld, so the general life is not long, the descendants are not prosperous, this kind of ghost family has been passed down from generation to generation, and if you are not careful, the incense will be cut off, and there will be no children and grandchildren!
Therefore, many people from the ghost family also love and hate this identity!
Another kind of soul envoy is responsible for escorting all kinds of ghosts. For festivals like the Midyear Festival, the Netherworld has a policy that will allow the soul envoy to escort some ghosts that are waiting for reincarnation, return to the yang world, and enjoy the offerings. At the beginning of Renjia Town, Qiusheng and Wencai used tricks to fascinate the ghost messenger of the soul.
The standard weapon of the Soul Bringer is the Soul Trap.
The ghost difference is further up is the history of the You Fang Dian, and the worst of this level is the strength of the ghost level, that is, the strength of the Daomen Jindan, and the responsibility is mainly to assist the black and white impermanence in managing the entire ghost difference system.
Huang Sheng's master, the ancestor invited by the four-eyed Taoist, was the one who served as the history of the tour in the underworld.
Black and white impermanence is the highest level of the ghost hook system, and the minimum strength requires the ghost king level.
At this level, you can be called a god, receive the gods, face the incense, and enjoy the power of wishes, unlike the ghosts of the soul envoy and the soul envoy, the incense power obtained is given by others!
Folklore has it that black and white impermanence is the messenger who hooks the soul of the living when a person dies, and it is the yin who comes to pick up the dead in the yang world!
Folklore is right and it's not!
The duty of black and white impermanence is indeed to hook the soul and lead reincarnation, but not all souls are worthy of black and white impermanence in person!
If it is a great good person, it is either a great evil person, or it is a strong mana.
As recorded in "Journey to the West", Sun Wukong, who was not recruited and ranked in front of the immortal class, is black and white impermanence and personally seduces the soul!
Black and white impermanence holds shackles and handcuffs, full-time arrest ghosts, assist in rewarding good and punishing evil, so the ghosts and gods of the Ten Palaces of Yama, the Emperor of Dongyue, and the gods of the city god all like to set up the position of black and white impermanence.
In the city god system of the earth, the status is second only to the civil and military judges, bull heads and horse faces, flail masters, lock masters, so it is also named "seven masters" and "eight masters".
And in the underworld system, black and white impermanence is also one of the top ten yin handsomeness of the underworld!
Every Yin Shuai is a god who is codified by the gods! There is an organized "God Staff"!
The top ten yin handsomes are ghost king, day tour, night tour, impermanence, bull head, horse face, leopard tail, bird's beak, fish gills, and wasps.
These ten Yin Marshals will do their best, lead their own soldiers, punish their evils, and repay their merits, assisting the Ten Hall Hades to manage the order of the underworld, and even, confronting the underworld of other races in the earth realm!
Among them, the leopard's tail, bird's beak, fish gills, and wasps in the ten yin handsomes respectively manage various undead who have cultivated into essence, such as beasts on the road, birds in the sky, fish in the water, and insects on the ground.
Day and night tours are responsible for monitoring the good and evil in the world, and they belong to the intelligence agency and are directly under the management of the king of Yama.
The bull head and horse face are also ghosts, but they are another patrol ghost system.
If the soul envoy is a police and criminal policeman, then Niutou Road is an armed police and a violent organ! Their duties are to patrol and hunt for escaped criminals, as well as to guard judges of all ranks.
The ghosts in this vein are not as different as the ghosts with so many different names, there are only two kinds, bull head and horse face!
The only difference is strength! The strength of the topmost bull head horse face is stronger than black and white impermanence, and the bottom bull head road is not as good as a roving ghost man!
Sure enough, violent organs are not allowed to have their own thoughts!
The traditional weapons of the bull-headed horse face are steel forks and double grooves.
However, I once heard Uncle Nine say that the world is changing, and the underworld is also changing, and the money in the former underworld has become a bank, as if there is gossip that the underworld has considered changing all kinds of ghost uniform weapons to adapt to the trend of the development of the times!
But it's just gossip, and the underworld has never confirmed it!
As for the ghost kings among the top ten yin marshals, they are those who have reached the level of ghost kings in strength, but they are unwilling to take the path of the gods and suffer from the gods!
Although Shinto is "good to practice in the public gate", "political achievements" are enough, you can always be promoted, I don't know how much better than the hard work of monks in the world, but the restrictions are too great, once you receive the god and become a god, you can only go down the path of Shinto.
God is there, God is there, God is lost, God is destroyed!
For thousands of years, there are still a lot of these ghost kings, and they are inextricably linked to many gods and officials in the underworld, and they haven't done much in themselves, so it's not easy for the underworld to move them.
Therefore, the underworld is allowed to use them to open the government and build teeth, train ghost pawns, appoint officials, and be independent, but when the underworld is in need, these ghost kings must send troops to assist!
These are all the knowledge of the underworld ghost and god system that Uncle Nine explained to Huang Sheng.
In fact, the system of ghosts and gods in the underworld is far from that simple!