Hell Emperor.

Chapter 312: Shura Jie - The Underworld Formation
Although he didn't know the true effect of the Golden Wheel, Ye Jie thought about it and decided not to dismantle them. He just left the Golden Wheel in the hall. The Yama Hall was so big that it didn't take up much space.

However, as for the function of turning the golden wheel to automatically send the soul to reincarnation, Ye Jie still plans to disable this effect.

The development and growth of Yama Palace requires ghosts, and a large number of them.

Without ghost messengers, even basic resources would be difficult to collect, let alone those rare resources. The development of the entire Yama Palace would stagnate.

In addition to the ghost messenger, the fiery oil pan also needs to throw evil ghosts into it to generate resentment. Not only the oil pan, but also the seven stitched pages show many buildings for punishing evil ghosts and collecting resources, such as the beast crushing fence unlocked on three sides, which is to crush the ghosts into powder over and over again to produce bone fragments. Regardless of good or evil, every ghost can find his own place in the Yama Palace.

Now, Ye Jie has served as the master of the Golden Wheel Palace. For the development of the Yama Palace, he needs to recruit ghost catchers for his own use. The candidates for ghost catchers are naturally the dead creatures in the world, no matter if they are humans or the souls of monsters. As long as they are willing to contribute to the Yama Palace, Ye Jie does not mind.

In order to lead the soul of the deceased to His Majesty Yama, Ye Jie first had to stop using the power of the Golden Wheel.

As Ye Jie's mind moved, new information soon appeared on the seven stitched pages.

[The Golden Wheel has been deactivated.]

[The current number of idle gold wheels: 15. ]

After reading the information, Ye Jie nodded with satisfaction: "Now, the souls of the dead in Dongsheng Shenzhou will be stranded in the human world. They must be led by ghost messengers before they can come to the underworld for reincarnation. However, before that, it seems that there is still a lack of an important medium connecting the human world and the underworld..."

Ye Jie lowered his head slightly, his eyes falling on the broken formation pattern under his feet.

In order to maintain the normal operation of the underworld, the underworld formation is undoubtedly crucial.

To the Yama Palace, the importance of the Hades Formation is even greater than that of the Documents Palace.

Without the power provided by the Underworld Array, the Shrinking Stone cannot be used. The human world and the underworld are separated, and even the ghost messengers find it difficult to travel back and forth normally, let alone summon souls.

Now, the Hades Formation in the Golden Wheel Hall was also damaged in the previous battle, and all its related functions were lost. Even Ye Jie, the master of the Golden Wheel Hall, had to use the precious teleportation talisman to move normally, and his movements were extremely inconvenient.

"It seems that we must first repair the Hades formation, and then consider sending ghost messengers to summon souls..."

Ye Jie pondered for a moment, and soon figured out the key to the matter. Then, a series of new information appeared on the seven stitched pages:

[The Hades Formation (damaged): The Hades Formation gathers the Yin and evil spirits from all directions to protect the Hades. The pure Yin spirit gathered in the Hades Formation can protect the ghosts in the hall from becoming ghosts. When the Hades Formation enters the defensive state, it can resist attacks from enemies in the fifth level of the Sealed Immortal Realm. Due to the special formation patterns, the Hades Formation can connect different spaces and open up channels that only souls can pass through. Within the jurisdiction of the Hades Palace, souls below the ghost fairy can move freely with the shrinking stone. After the Hades Formation is completed, it is expected to produce ten dark mists every day. It requires 10 million Yin virtues to repair. 】

"Ten million Yin De..."

Looking at the records on the seven stitched pages, Ye Jie's mouth twitched and he couldn't help but feel a pain in his flesh.

To repair the Hades formation, it would cost 10 million Yin De. That was a full 10 million Yin De! In the past, when Aunt Meng asked him to lead the soul to reincarnation, she only gave him 1 million Yin De. Now, just to repair the formation, he had to pay 10 million Yin De, which really gave him a headache.

"The expenses of this Lord of Yama Palace are far greater than I imagined..."

Ye Jie shook his head. As the most basic facility of the entire underworld, the Hades Formation would cost 10 million Yin Deeds to repair. Moreover, it was not built from scratch. It was just to repair the damage caused to the Hades Formation by the previous battle. If it was built from scratch, wouldn't the cost be sky-high?

Ye Jie held his forehead helplessly. It seemed that being the Lord of Yama Palace was not that easy.

If you want to be a good Lord of Yama Palace, the most important thing is to maintain a balance between income and expenditure.

According to Ye Jie's estimation, if he continued at this speed, all his good karma would be used up before he could even build a few buildings in the underworld.

Now Ye Jie understood why the former Lord of Guangwang Palace would allow his ghost messengers to extort and withhold merits from innocent wandering souls, but turned a blind eye to the matter.

All hidden virtues come from living things, and are obtained from the good deeds that living things did in accordance with the laws of nature during their lifetime. No matter what the ghosts in the underworld do, they cannot generate the slightest bit of hidden virtue. This is the ultimate truth of heaven and earth, and is also the basic rule that constitutes the underworld.

Ghosts cannot produce good karma. The only way to get more good karma is to obtain it from living things in the human world.

The ghost messenger guides the wandering souls to reincarnation, but the merits he gains are only one percent as small as a mosquito's leg. How can it be as fast as direct extortion?
Among them, Shura is the master of this art. As long as he eliminates other ghosts, he can obtain all of their good karma. Even if the ghost's good karma is negative, he can increase the good karma by the corresponding amount.

Thinking of the situation in Guangwang Palace in the past, Ye Jie's expression straightened up, and all distracting thoughts in his mind disappeared. The lessons learned in the past undoubtedly sounded a severe alarm for him.

In Guangwang Palace, monsters are in power and ghosts are rampant, all because of the palace master's indulgence and inaction. Now that Ye Jie has become the master of Yama Palace, he will naturally not repeat the same mistakes, allowing the souls of those who do good deeds to suffer injustice and the wronged souls to have no place to seek justice.

Compared to the mere good deeds, what Ye Jie cares more about is the fate of those ghosts. He wants good people to not suffer after death and their last wishes to be fulfilled. He wants evildoers to pay a heavy price. The laws of the world cannot punish those evildoers, but the laws of the underworld will make them regret their actions. This is the duty of the Lord of Yama!
In Ye Jie's opinion, the practice of turning the golden wheel without asking about merits and demerits or life experiences, and directly sending the souls of all the dead to reincarnation, is an irresponsible act.

There is no harsh punishment after death, no mountains of swords and boiling water of oil, which gives evildoers the confidence to act with impunity. After all, reincarnation only looks at good deeds, not what one did in life. It doesn't matter what one does while alive, and they will have no scruples when doing evil.

Similarly, after death, if there is no help from the ghost messenger, no appreciation from the judge, and even the small last wish cannot be fulfilled, then what is the meaning of all the good deeds done in life, other than the increase or decrease of the number of good deeds?

This world is full of injustice, Ye Jie only hopes that the world after death can be fairer. Using the Golden Wheel to send all the wandering souls away at once is not fair. Only when good is rewarded with good and evil is punished with evil can it be called fair.

Now, by chance, Ye Jie has become the Lord of Yama Palace. He certainly will not miss this opportunity to change the world. He wants to show his abilities in the position of Yama and change the world into what he wants it to be!
"One month... I only have one month until the Resurrection Festival begins." "According to His Highness Moro's order, I will assassinate the Lord of the Witch God Temple on the day of the Resurrection Festival. After the incident, what will happen and whether I can still sit firmly on the position of the Lord of the Temple, it is still uncertain."

"Speaking of which, I was able to become the master of the Golden Wheel Palace thanks to the appreciation of Her Highness Moro. Even the seven stitching pages were given to me by her. I must not let Her Highness Moro down. Only in this way can I secure my position as the Palace Master..."

"Let's see how far I can go as the Palace Master within this month."

"No matter what, this Hades formation must be repaired. Without it, the entire Hades will have difficulty functioning. In this case, there is no need to hesitate about using the 10 million Yin De. Just use it directly."

As Ye Jie's mind moved, a series of neat words soon appeared on the seven stitched pages:
[Bookkeeping of life and death:]

[In the autumn of the 639th year of the Moro calendar, Shura Jie spent 10 million Yin De to modify the architectural files of the Golden Wheel Palace.]

[The Hades Formation (Damaged) has been changed to the Hades Formation. 】

As the words fell, a faint purple glow lit up under Ye Jie's feet. The glow contained a mysterious color and was fascinating. If you were not careful, your eyes would sink into it and it would be difficult to extricate yourself.

The glow that lit up was a series of complex and complicated ritual patterns, which formed a powerful Hades formation together! The brightly colored formation contained a power that could transcend space.

As the Hades Formation was repaired, a series of newly added buildings appeared on the seven stitching pages:
[Yan Luo Banner: In the name of the Lord of Yan Luo Palace, a banner is erected to boost morale and unite the ghosts. When the Yan Luo Palace is attacked, as long as the banner is not down, the ghosts in the hall will not flee due to low morale. Improve the defense power of the Hades Formation. After entering the defense state, it can withstand the attack of the first-level ghost fairy. Construction requirements: Hades Formation. Construction requires 20 million Yin De and 1,000 Hell Mists. ]

[Teleportation array: Use the power of the Hades array to cross space and build a long-distance teleportation array that can connect to other Yama Palaces to promote trade and strengthen cultural exchanges. Construction requirements: Hades array. Construction requires 5 million Yin De and 1 million soul rhymes.]

After reading the information on the seven stitched pages, Ye Jie gained a better understanding.

Some special underworld buildings will not be directly displayed on the seven-sided stitching page even if the prerequisite of the number of main accounts is met. The corresponding prerequisite buildings must be built in the underworld before the subsequent building options can be unlocked.

Among them, the dark fog needed to build the Yama Flag made Ye Jie take a closer look.

Ye Jie remembered that the Hades Formation could produce Hades Mist on its own, and there were 30,000 Hades Mist stored in the Golden Wheel Palace, which was enough to meet the construction needs of the Yama Banner. However, the construction of the Yama Furnace required one million Hades Mist, and it was unknown how long it would take to produce the Hades Mist from the Hades Formation alone.

Ye Jie's intuition told him that behind the Yama flag, there must be more advanced underworld buildings to strengthen the defense of the underworld formation so that it could withstand stronger enemies.

In the past, I heard from other ghost messengers that the power of the Underworld Array of the Demon Palace, just the power of the array itself, is far beyond the ability of ordinary ghost immortals to contend with. Even immortals of the sixth or seventh turn are helpless against the Underworld Array of the Demon Palace. That extraordinary defensive power is truly enviable.

If the Lord of the Golden Wheel Palace had built the Yama Flag or even more advanced special buildings in advance, it might have been quite difficult for Ye Jie to defeat him in the Golden Wheel Palace. Unfortunately, the Lord of the Golden Wheel Palace did not do so. He used all his resources to build the Golden Wheel, which really made Ye Jie at a loss as to what to say.

Seeing that the seven stitching pages could directly repair the damaged Hades Array and make it as intact as new, Ye Jie couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Before seeing this with his own eyes, Ye Jie was still quite worried. If the seven stitching pages could not repair the damaged building, the situation would undoubtedly be very troublesome.

If one wants to repair the Hades Formation through normal means, one must ask a practitioner who is proficient in the art of formations to come. Moreover, it cannot be an ordinary formation master, but a formation grandmaster.

What made Ye Jie scratching his head was that it was not so easy to find a formation master. He didn't know any formation master. The only person, or ghost, who was good at formations he knew was Xie Xinyu, whom he had met before. It seemed that she was following Xia Wei, so Ye Jie couldn't ask her for help.

Fortunately, the power of the seven stitching pages saved Ye Jie a lot of tedious time. In just a blink of an eye, the Hades formation was restored to its original state.

This scene made Ye Jie once again marvel at the magic of the seven-sided stitched pages. This powerful ability to modify files and interfere with reality was no wonder that His Highness Moro was determined to take the ten main accounts for himself.

Ye Jie, who had anticipated the result of the repair of the Hades Formation, was not surprised, but Shi Zuo and Shi You, who were standing by, were so frightened that they were speechless at this moment.

With their knowledge, they could not understand why the Hades Formation, which had been damaged just a moment ago, had been restored to its original state in an instant without even the slightest trace of damage remaining.

"Did you see it..." Shi Zuo asked in surprise.

"I saw it." Shi You nodded repeatedly, "The Palace Master must have done something to repair the Hades Formation."

"What did he do? Why did it seem to me that the Palace Master did nothing? He was clearly just standing there, and the Hades Formation repaired itself..." Shi Zuo was puzzled, with deep confusion in his eyes. He could not understand what was happening in front of him no matter what.

If Shi Zuo had not seen the restoration of the Hades Formation with his own eyes, he would never have believed it. Any explanation other than a miracle would be pale and powerless. No one would believe that the Hades Formation was restored to its original state without the help of the formation master and the ghost messenger re-arranging the formation.

Unlike Shi Zuo who was full of doubts, Shi You raised his head and looked at Ye Jie with deep admiration in his eyes: "What do you know? The restoration of the Hades Formation is all due to the Palace Master's efforts. The Palace Master must have done something to restore the Hades Formation. As the stone lions guarding the Palace, it is better for us not to ask too many questions."

Shi Zuo didn't ask any more questions, but his eyes were still filled with confusion.

The repair of the Hades formation has been completed, which also means that the development of the entire Hades is about to get on the right track.

Of course, the prerequisite for getting on the right track is that Ye Jie must recruit some ghost messengers to complete the task of guiding souls. Otherwise, the souls of the dead will not come to the underworld on their own.

"Who did you say was looking for me?" Ye Jie asked.

(End of this chapter)