Hell Emperor.

Chapter 330 Shura Jie - Filling the Gap
[Life and Death Records: Golden Wheel Palace]

[Population: 950 employees, 150 wandering souls in the palace]

"Yin Jie, aged 35, once stole because of jealousy of other people's wealth. After being caught, he had three fingers chopped off and spent ten years in prison. Apart from that, he did nothing wrong in his life. You have negative Yin De. You can stay in the palace to work and get paid, or you can go to a lower level of reincarnation."

In the hall used temporarily to judge wandering souls, Ye Jie stared at the seven stitched pages in his hand, on which appeared everything the wandering soul on trial had done in the past. Regardless of whether these things were known to people during their lifetime, they were all fully presented on the torn pages after their death.

The wandering soul breathed a sigh of relief, his face full of relief, and he bowed his head. Only then did the ghost officer beside him walk into the hall and take him away.

After reviewing countless files, Ye Jie looked a little tired and couldn't help asking, "How many wandering souls are waiting to be reviewed?"

"There are more than fifty." Shan Yao flipped through the records in his hand and answered immediately, "If the palace master doesn't judge them quickly, the ghost catcher will bring back new wandering souls."

Ye Jie was somewhat helpless. Even though he had been a ghost catcher for many years, he was exhausted from examining hundreds of wandering souls at a time and judging whether the ghosts could stay in the palace or be thrown into the oil pan. The fatigue was not reflected in his body, but in his spirit. He had to ensure absolute fairness in every judgment. If the judgment was wrong, it was definitely not what he wanted to see.

After recruiting a sufficient number of ghost catchers, Ye Jie taught them how to use the shrinking stone. Afterwards, more and more souls were caught from the human world, to the point that Ye Jie's speed of judging could not keep up.

"Perhaps I should recruit a few judges to help me judge the lives of wandering souls... But after so long, I haven't seen any wandering soul in the palace that has the potential to become a judge."

Ye Jie sighed. Without a judge to judge the wandering souls, he didn't want to put all the wandering souls into the hall or throw them into the frying pan, so he could only do these things himself.

"Who said there is no candidate for the judge? Didn't the Palace Master realize that there is one here?"

Just as Ye Jie was sighing, Shan Yao jumped out on his own initiative, put his hands on his hips, and said something meaningful.

"Where is it? Why can't I see it?" Ye Jie glanced at her and pretended not to know.

Shan Yao was anxious and couldn't help but snorted: "Of course it's me! Palace Master, just give me the task of judging the wandering souls, and I will definitely satisfy you!"

Ye Jie thought about it and asked tentatively: "Take the wandering soul just now for example, how would you judge him?"

Shan Yao pondered for a moment, made his own judgment, and replied: "Of course he should be thrown into the oil pan! If there is a reason, it would be fine, but he is healthy, but he stole because of jealousy of others' wealth, and deducted all his Yin De. He must be punished! But why let such a person enter the palace to work? Shouldn't he be thrown into the oil pan?"

In response, Ye Jie simply said: "You only saw that he did something wrong, but you didn't see that he had already paid the price for it before he died. Not only did he have his fingers chopped off, he was also thrown into prison, contracted a stubborn disease, and died in his prime."

Shan Yao opened his mouth but still refused to change his words: "But even so... he made mistakes when he was alive. It's okay to let him stay in the oil pan for a few years. We can't just let him be punished for nothing, right?"

Ye Jie said slowly: "He has already paid for his past mistakes, why are you so mean? Why don't you let him go even after his death?"

Shan Yao was stunned by what Ye Jie said. Ye Jie saw her expression and shook his head, a little disappointed: "If you want to be a judge, you can't just blame and punish people harshly. You must be fair. Those who did something wrong but escaped punishment are the ones who deserve the most attention, and those who paid the price for their mistakes during their lifetime deserve a second chance."

After listening to Ye Jie's words, Shan Yao suddenly realized a lot and couldn't help but said:
"Now I understand why the Palace Master doesn't allow me to be the judge... I don't have the knowledge of the Palace Master, and I can't make fair judgments on wandering souls. If I were really allowed to be the judge, I'm afraid it would only make a mess."

Ye Jie glanced at her and said, "Don't be discouraged. If you want to become a judge, you need enough experience. After becoming a ghost queen, as long as you don't enter reincarnation and have good deeds to protect you, you can exist for a long time. You have enough time to learn everything you need."

Shan Yao stared at Ye Jie and suddenly asked, "Palace Master, how long have you been a ghost?"

"What do you think?" Ye Jie asked instead of answering.

"Thousands of years, I guess." Yam replied immediately.

Ye Jie was full of black lines on his head: "Are you serious? Didn't you say before that I look as old as your cousin Jiang?"

Shan Yao stuck out his tongue. He didn't expect Ye Jie to still remember what he said before. He said embarrassedly: "I didn't know about the things under the underworld before... Palace Master, just tell me."

Ye Jie sighed: "About sixty years... But that's all in the past. To be honest, I only became the master of the Golden Wheel Palace recently."

Shan Yao was surprised to see that Ye Jie's methods were mysterious and unpredictable. He subdued the Earth Dragon King with ease and had knowledge far beyond that of ordinary people. If Ye Jie hadn't said it, she would have thought that Ye Jie must have been a ghost for thousands of years to have such skills.

Ye Jie's answer was really beyond Shan Yao's expectations. The Earth Dragon King had grown for a thousand years to have such strength, but Ye Jie had only been a ghost for sixty years and had already achieved his current level of cultivation. For a moment, the look in Shan Yao's eyes when he looked at Ye Jie also became a little different.

"Palace Master, I have also started practicing recently, but the practice process is extremely difficult. I even failed to break through the middle stage of the first level of soul training. This is the case when I have innate supernatural powers. The practice progress of others is even worse than mine. At this rate, I am afraid that I will not be able to break through the second level in ten years. Palace Master has reached such a realm in sixty years. Could it be that you are a genius on the road of practice?" Shan Yao looked at him with admiration.

"Genius? Are you talking about me?"

The corner of Ye Jie's mouth twitched, and he didn't know what to say for a moment.

Once upon a time, Ye Jie knew nothing about the path of cultivation, and his aptitude was not even as good as that of Shan Yao in front of him. No matter how many years passed, he could not achieve success. He could only look at the geniuses and envy them secretly. But now, he has suddenly transformed himself and become the genius in Shan Yao's eyes, which really makes him feel a lot of emotion.

Ye Jie lowered his head and looked at the seven stitched pages in his hand. Thanks to the magical power of this thing, he was able to undergo a complete transformation. Even if his former companions saw him now, they would not believe that this majestic Lord of Yama was the same person as the downtrodden ghost messenger of the past.

The effect produced by the combined power of the seven main accounts of the Book of Life and Death is so amazing. If the number of main accounts is further increased, the power to modify the files will be even stronger.

[Insufficient authority, unable to modify rank files. ]

As Ye Jie's mind moved, new traces of ink appeared on the seven stitched pages, and that also meant one thing.

As long as the number of main accounts in the Book of Life and Death increases and the authority is further improved, even the rank files can be modified. The modification of the files is not limited to Ye Jie himself. Anyone who touches the stitching page can modify the files together.

As long as he has enough authority, Ye Jie can improve the realm of the weak or lower the realm of the strong enemies according to his own wishes, and he can be said to be invincible.

The contents presented in the Book of Life and Death, whether it is the rank or the skills learned, are just a string of cold words. Ordinary people can only review what they have learned through these words, but the seven stitched pages give Ye Jie the ability to modify the files. As long as the content in the files is modified, it will come true in reality. This is the power of the first-grade artifact in the past.

In addition to personal files, what amazed him even more was that the seven-sided stitching page could even directly modify the files of the Yama Hall. As long as the resources were sufficient, buildings could be added directly on it, thus saving the long construction time. It could be said to be extremely convenient.

"and many more……"

At this time, Ye Jie seemed to have thought of something, and his face showed a strange look: "Since the seven-sided stitching page can add buildings to the Yama Palace archives, then conversely, it can also directly demolish the buildings and return them to the corresponding resources..."

Thinking of this, Ye Jie suddenly had an idea and felt that he had grasped the key to the problem.

Ye Jie had never thought about demolishing the buildings before. The buildings in the Yama Palace were all built with great effort and there were only a few of them. If they were all demolished, wouldn't there be only a bare area left?
However, thinking from another perspective, if the building could be demolished directly, it would also mean that he could immediately gather the required steel bones to complete the development of the Yama Palace, without having to wait for the raging oil pan to slowly smelt the bone fragments.

Once this idea came into his mind, it was firmly entrenched in the depths of his mind and could not be shaken off no matter what. He would not be willing to give it up unless he gave it a try.

Under the leadership of Shan Yao, another wandering soul was brought into the hall, waiting for Ye Jie's judgment. But this time, Ye Jie was not in a hurry to start, and instead said:
"Wait here for a moment. I have something important to take care of."

The wandering soul was terrified and dared not complain. He thought that it was his own actions that displeased the Palace Master, who was too lazy to even judge him. He was so scared that he was about to cry.

Ye Jie passed by everyone and soon arrived in front of an idle building in the hall.

If you look closely, you can see huge prayer wheels that are motionless but still exude a mysterious atmosphere. The lifelike paintings and carvings on them make people feel as if they are in a peaceful and joyful place.

These huge prayer wheels are the golden wheels left behind by the old master of the Golden Wheel Palace.

For the Golden Wheel Palace, the Turning Golden Wheel has a special meaning. Even Ye Jie cannot be sure whether the Turning Golden Wheel came first and the Golden Wheel Palace came later, or the Golden Wheel Palace came first and the Turning Golden Wheel came later. This object can be said to be the symbol of the Golden Wheel Palace.

However, the extraordinary power of the turning of the golden wheel only applies to the Golden Wheel Palace in the past. Even though it symbolizes the former glory of the Golden Wheel Palace, that is a thing of the past.

After the Document Hall is built, the first thing Ye Jie will do is to completely change the name of the Golden Wheel Hall to another name that he likes. He does not want to continue using the name of the previous master of the Golden Wheel Hall, so why would he care about the rotating golden wheel in the hall?
However, thinking of the special features of the Golden Wheel, Ye Jie still showed some hesitation.

"This golden wheel can replace the ghost messenger and send wandering souls to the afterlife, thus saving a lot of tedious procedures. But the price is that those ghosts will not even come to the Yama Palace, and will not receive the judgment and punishment they deserve for their deeds in life."

Ye Jie thought about it for a while and quickly made up his mind.

"Now, the development of the Golden Wheel Hall is about to get on track. There are already many ghost messengers on duty, who will continuously collect wandering souls from the human world. This time, the Golden Wheel may not have a chance to open. Even if it will be opened in the future, it will only happen when there are not enough ghost messengers in the hall and the souls of the dead in the human world do not have time to enter the underworld."

"It seems that I should keep one of the golden wheels in case of emergency. There is no need to keep the other fourteen golden wheels. I don't know how much steel bones I can get by dismantling these fourteen golden wheels..."

Ye Jie rubbed his hands, and his sight also fell on the outer shell of the prayer wheel made of gold and iron. There was no doubt that the golden wheel was made of steel bones, and it occupied a huge area. Just by dismantling one golden wheel, he didn't know how much steel bones he could get. Now there were a total of fourteen golden wheels that needed to be dismantled. When he thought of the number of steel bones he might get, Ye Jie was very excited.

Soon, as Ye Jie's mind moved, a series of new words appeared again on the seven stitched pages.

[Bookkeeping of life and death:]

[In the autumn of the 639th year of the Moro calendar, Shura Jie spent 14 million Yin De to modify the architectural files of the Golden Wheel Palace.]

[The turning golden wheel has been erased from the column of the Golden Wheel Palace building.]

[Resource storage has been increased to 10,000 jin of steel bones, 10,000 strands of soul essence, 10,000 strands of spiritual essence, and 1,000 wisdom consciousnesses.]

[The turning golden wheel has been erased from the column of the Golden Wheel Palace building.]

[Resource storage has been increased to 10,000 jin of steel bones, 10,000 strands of soul essence, 10,000 strands of spiritual essence, and 1,000 wisdom consciousnesses.]

【………】

A series of records made Ye Jie dizzy. After dismantling fourteen golden wheels, the resource storage in the Golden Wheel Palace increased by a total of 140,000 kilograms of steel bones, 140,000 strands of soul essence, 140,000 strands of spiritual essence, and 14,000 wisdom consciousnesses!

Looking at the new resources on the seven stitched pages, Ye Jie couldn't help but laugh.

Since he became the Lord of Yama Palace, there has never been a time when the resources in the palace are so abundant! The resources obtained from dismantling the Golden Wheel are enough to resolve the current urgent needs.

To build the Hall of Documents, a total of 200,000 kilograms of steel bones are needed. These 140,000 steel bones are still not enough, but they are enough to build the Bone Casting Hall.

The Bone Casting Hall only requires 50,000 kilograms of steel bones to build. Once completed, the efficiency of smelting steel bones will be increased by a hundred times!
It takes 10,000 kilograms of bone fragments to produce one kilogram of steel bones through the fiery oil pan. However, in the Bone Casting Hall, only 100 kilograms of bone fragments are needed to produce one kilogram of steel bones. The efficiency is simply incomparable.

With the initial 50,000 kilograms of steel bones, the shortage of steel bones will be alleviated after the Bone Casting Hall is built. It is conceivable that there will be no shortage of steel bones in the Golden Wheel Hall in the future. The continuous output in the Bone Casting Hall is enough to meet many of today's needs.

(End of this chapter)