Chapter 55: The Netherworld
After about half an hour, Cheng Siping mastered the mantra of the Dongyue Emperor's Sermon on Resurrection. Compared to the simple scriptures, this mantra is really not so easy to memorize. At this time, the food over there was also ready. Everyone cut off the leg of the southern black bear, roasted or stewed, and then came over to invite Cheng Siping to come over for dinner. The current Cheng Siping is no longer the weak person who was discriminated against by all the villagers before, in this world where the strong are respected, the attitude of the villagers towards him has completely changed. It can be said that if Cheng Siping didn't eat first, they didn't dare to put their mouths down.
"You guys eat first, I still have some business. Cheng Siping waved his hand to let people leave, and then walked to the place where the black bear in the south died just now, closed his eyes and silently said the mantra. After running the mantra twice, he confirmed that he was quite familiar with it, and suddenly opened his eyes, and the scripture in his mouth Shi Shiran came out: "Heaven and earth are selfless, and the gods inspect them." Do not bring blessings for the sake of sacrifices, and do not bring disaster for disrespect. Mortals are powerless......"
Not long after Cheng Siping recited the scriptures, a white light suddenly flashed in front of his eyes, and then four soul bodies appeared in front of him very clearly. And he also saw that as he recited the scriptures, golden light flew out and projected onto the four soul bodies in front of him. On the soul body, a faint black qi immediately rose, drifting into the void, and finally turning into nothingness.
After having half a burnt incense, Cheng Siping recited the Dongyue Emperor's Resurrection Sermon three times according to the rules. Just as he had finished reciting the scripture for the third time, he saw a black vortex appear in the void, and in the blink of an eye, four soul bodies had been sucked in......
"System, where did they suck it?" Cheng Siping hurriedly asked when he saw this.
"Netherworld. The system said with a touch of sadness: "After the original Heavenly Dao completely destroyed the underworld, all the creatures in the underworld disappeared, and finally formed this netherworld. The underworld once had most of its functions, and this netherworld no longer possessed it. It's dark and gloomy, and there's no difference between day and night. Once a ghost enters there, it can only leave until it is reincarnated. However, it retains one of the most basic functions of the underworld, which is the power of reincarnation. It's just that this force is already extremely weak, and it can only randomly send people out to reincarnate according to the amount of bad karma. ”
"However, there are no ghosts in this netherworld, how can you bring back the dead ghosts, and how can you send them out for reincarnation?" Cheng Siping said with some puzzlement.
"All dead souls, as long as they are not killed for no reason, will be directly absorbed by the Netherworld. In addition, if the murderer who killed them is also killed, they will also attract the Netherworld. Just like that. As for reincarnation, it's two very simple words: random. Send the qualified ghosts directly, and it all depends on luck as to where they are reincarnated and what treatment they will get. The system Shi Ran said.
"How can a ghost meet the criteria for reincarnation?" Cheng Siping asked casually.
"Looking at the value of bad karma, after the good and evil are offset, after the bad karma is low to a certain limit, it will automatically enter the reincarnation ranking. As for other ghosts whose negative karma has exceeded them, they will continue to be trapped in the netherworld, spending time to offset their negative karma. The Netherworld is incarnated by the Infernal Hell, the darkest place in the underworld, so staying there is a punishment to counteract the bad karma. The system Shi Ran said.
The system then went on a more detailed explanation, after all, Cheng Siping turned around to reopen the underworld, and it was necessary to have an understanding of the current situation of the soul body. According to the system, the ghosts of the current Metaverse can be divided into two parts: the yang world and the netherworld. Some of the ghosts in the yang world died in vain and the wronged owner did not receive retribution, just like the four ghosts that Cheng Siping had just exceeded. The other part is those who cultivate to be advanced in life and turn into ghosts after death, and do not want to enter reincarnation, but can resist the attraction of the netherworld.
The number of these ghosts in the underworld is extremely large, roughly the same number as the netherworld. And the entire group of ghosts, when they still existed in the Underworld, the number actually skyrocketed. The reason is that reincarnation without human intervention is quite inefficient. And this directly led to a sharp decline in the number of births of the two races of the Yang and shemale races in the Guiyuan Realm. According to the system, at present, the annual birth population of the two worlds is only about 20% before the collapse of the underworld. The birth rate of the population has plummeted, which in turn has led to a decrease in the number of shemales and shemales year by year.
Although the two clans of the shemales are still the dominant ones in the Guiyuan Realm, the sum of the two has dropped to about fifty percent before the collapse of the underworld. If this continues, even if the Guiyuan Realm will not collapse due to the collapse of the Heavenly Dao, it will eventually become a world dominated by alien beasts. Because the birth of alien beasts does not require complete souls, the number of their births, except for a few high-level alien beasts, has not been greatly affected by the destruction of the underworld. And this is also the one thing that the system is most worried about, it is obvious that the Guiyuan Realm dominated by beasts is a great regression compared to the Guiyuan Realm dominated by shemales.
After listening to the system's narration, Cheng Siping felt more and more depressed. In the immediate situation, it is obvious that the burden on his body is heavier. For Cheng Siping, who just wants to spend his days leisurely and be a leisurely person, this is by no means good news.
Subsequently, Cheng Siping immediately called up his personal information and took a look. The main reason for tossing for so long is not to verify whether this excess can be exchanged for merit points. If you can't change it, you won't be busy in vain. Fortunately, the merit points have really increased, reaching 592, which means that it has increased by 122 points, which is more than he earned when he killed the black bear in the south. It's just that the last mantissa is not calculated by me. But in any case, this path is definitely the right one.
"Hey, little doctor, you don't eat, what are you doing there? Mu Hanying saw Cheng Siping standing aside, his expression was very strange, and he still had words in his mouth, so he couldn't help but ask curiously.
"Oh, here we are. Cheng Siping put away his mind, turned his head, took a large piece of roast bear meat and gnawed it.
After a while, several catties of bear meat had already entered Cheng Siping's stomach. He was not satisfied with this, and had the other bear leg roasted and divided among the people. The rest of the food was not finished, so he wrapped it directly, found a basket to put it on, put it on his back, and put it on the road to eat. Seeing that Cheng Siping could eat so much, Mu Hanying was very taken aback and said, "I didn't see it, your small body is a big stomach." ”
Cheng Siping smiled and didn't answer, packed up and prepared to continue on the road. At this time, He An came over and asked him, "Ah weak, we should focus on the first-level alien beasts later." ”
"Ah, no, continue to look for second-level alien beasts, as long as they are below the intermediate level. Cheng Siping waved his hand and said. He naturally understood what He An was thinking, a beast hunting activity like this, the consumption of physical strength and true qi was extremely great. Often, after hunting a foreign beast of the same level, it takes a day or two to recover its peak state. Not to mention Cheng Siping, a cross-level beast hunter, most of them have a rest. But He An didn't know that Cheng Siping was different from other cultivators......