Conferred God: Started from Swallowing the Heaven-Repairing Stone

Chapter 276 Book of Life and Death

At the same time, the merits and fortune generated by judging these ghosts are enough to greatly enhance the strength of the City God and his subordinates who judge them, and a few of them can even give birth to a few Daluo Jinxian.

Although there are many powerful people in the underworld, they are not gathered in one place, but are scattered in countless pure lands of all sizes.

Therefore, if you really think about it, the strength of many Pure Lands is not very strong, and most of them are not enough to compete with the City God Sect which has several Daluo Jinxians in charge.

This means that after judging the hundreds of billions of ghosts in the divine realm, the City God Dao, whose strength has skyrocketed, is fully capable of sweeping across all the pure lands around it.

The stronger the ghosts in the Pure Land, the longer they stay in the Netherworld and the heavier their karma becomes, which is unacceptable to the Heavenly Dao.

If they could all be captured and judged by the City God, the benefits gained would be much greater than judging tens of billions of ghosts.

Not only will it allow the newly established City God Sect to gain a firm foothold in the underworld, but it will also allow it to become a regional overlord and shock all nearby.

This move was not only to strengthen the Chenghuang Dao, but also to establish the Yinsi. The so-called Yinsi was actually the perfect product of the Chenghuang system. In other words, the Chenghuang system was the predecessor of the Yinsi system.

If the city god system spreads all over the human world and flattens all the pure lands, then the organization that controls all the city gods is the veritable underworld, controlling the order of the underworld and commanding hundreds of millions of ghosts.

"Starting from the City God Temple, we will gradually destroy all the pure lands that have taken root in the netherworld and affect the cycle of heaven and earth, and then we can establish the underworld that governs the netherworld."

"Is this my path to becoming the Ghost King of Fengdu?"

Suddenly, Ao Bing realized what to do next. The city god system had to be built, and the ghost hunting had to continue.

However, the scope of ghosts captured has expanded. It is no longer limited to ghosts that have just died, but also includes old ghosts who have stayed in the Pure Land and are reluctant to reincarnate.

They are the big guys. If you catch them and put them on trial, the merits and fortune you will gain will be countless times more than those of ordinary ghosts.

If one wants to establish the underworld and control the netherworld in a short period of time, then razing the Pure Land and capturing the old ghosts inside is undoubtedly the fastest way.

Just like Ao Bing had thought before, he would first build a city god system in the human world, and then surround the underworld. Although he could eventually establish the underworld, it would take longer and would also conflict with the Pure Land.

All the ghosts in the human world have been captured by the City God Temple. The pure land in the underworld has no income, and the number of ghosts in it will only decrease.

Over time, even if no one takes action against them, they will slowly die out over time.

Since this is a matter of life and death, these pure lands will certainly not sit idly by and wait for death, and will inevitably resist.

And their resistance could not be to cause chaos on earth and kill countless lives, because that would alarm the Heavenly Court and they would be surrounded and suppressed by countless heavenly soldiers and generals.

Therefore, it is more likely that they will take action against the City God Temple and take back the ghosts it has captured.

Since the confrontation is bound to happen sooner or later and the outcome cannot be changed, given Ao Bing's temperament, he must strike first and attack Pure Land first, weakening its strength while strengthening his own.

In this way, by the time those pure lands in the netherworld come to their senses and prepare to join forces against the enemy, perhaps the City God Dao has grown into a behemoth and will not be afraid of their joining forces.

"As the saying goes, store up food and wait until you claim the throne. It is not advisable to declare war on all the Pure Lands directly. For now, we should first wipe out all the Pure Lands in the Dragon Territory."

"Use a little to break the surface, quietly nibble away at the Netherworld, slowly accumulate strength, until you can contend with all the Pure Lands, then it won't be too late to reveal your purpose."

After deciding on the future development strategy in his mind, Ao Bing began to take action.

From the major divine realms, those with great merits are selected and canonized as City Gods. Then those with lesser merits are sought and canonized as officials under the City God, such as civil and military judges and so on.

Finally, find some powerful evil ghosts who are willing to reform and recruit them as ghost soldiers to capture and arrest ghosts.

The City God Temple was just being built, and it was the time to use people. Although the evil ghosts were hateful, they were really strong. They only needed a simple training, and they would be put to use immediately, which would save a lot of trouble.

Therefore, Ao Bing decided to give these evil ghosts a chance to reform and let them become ghost soldiers to fight for the great cause of establishing the underworld.

But don’t think this is a good thing. The strength of the Pure Land is not weak, on the contrary it is very strong. The weakest Pure Land has immortals in charge, so you can imagine how powerful it is.

Moreover, many pure lands exist for extremely long periods of time, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of years.

After so many years, their background is no joke. As the main fighting force of the City God Dao, the Yin soldiers must rush to the front when fighting with the Pure Land.

This means that the casualty rate of the Yin soldiers is the highest.

Ao Bing made the evil ghosts become ghost soldiers, saying that he was giving them a chance to reform, but in fact he was making them cannon fodder. After a big battle, it is estimated that few evil ghosts would survive.

Even if you're lucky enough to survive, it won't mean anything.

Because the dispute between Chenghuang Dao and Pure Land cannot be ended by one or two battles. It will inevitably be an extremely long war, lasting tens of thousands of years, with countless battles.

No matter how lucky the evil ghosts are, how long can they last in this endless war? Ten times, a hundred times, or a thousand times? Sooner or later, they will die, it's just a matter of sooner or later.

Of course, if there really is an evil ghost who can hold on to the end, Ao Bing can only call him awesome and give him a bright future.

He went through countless brutal battles and was able to survive in the end. He was definitely very lucky and was favored by heaven.

Even the Heavenly Dao was optimistic about him, so what reason did Ao Bing have to make things difficult for him? It was just a future, so he had the qualifications.

Recruiting evil ghosts as ghost soldiers and letting them become cannon fodder is also a way to make use of waste. In this way, when most of the cannon fodder is dead, regular ghost soldiers should be trained and can be sent to the battlefield.

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The conditions for enthroning the City God are not only to have good deeds, but also to have a very high reputation in the local area. Because only in this way can the local people be supported from the bottom of their hearts and gather the power of incense and vows.

He has no name or reputation in the local area. Even if he is canonized as the City God, how many people would believe it?

During the development of Dragon Domain, many heroic figures emerged, so there are many people with good karma. Even if they are highly respected locally, there is no worry about not being able to select enough City Gods.

On the contrary, even if all the City God Temples were closed, there would still be a large number of ghosts with good karma who had not been resettled.

There are too many ghosts with good deeds. The netherworld god position that Ao Bing currently controls is not enough. Even if one god position is used to confer two gods, it is not enough. But it doesn't matter. Ao Bing has other places to place them. One is to use them as alternatives for the city god, so that they can continue to practice in the divine domain.

The second is that after the City God has judged all the ghosts, Ao Bing will take them to pay homage to the Queen Mother Hou Tu and make arrangements at that time.

Don't think that just because Ao Bing appoints them as city gods now, they will always be city gods in the future. There is a probation period. If they don't perform well during the probation period, they will still be removed and replaced by someone else.

In addition, every once in a while, Ao Bing would send people to inspect the City God Temples in various places to see whether these City Gods were fulfilling their duties conscientiously and whether they were corrupt or committing crimes.

If there is no such thing, then it will be recorded as a merit and used as a reference for promotion. If there is such thing, then punishment will be given according to the severity of the consequence. At the least, it will be a reprimand, and at the most, it will be sent to hell and never be able to be reborn.

The people sent to inspect the city god temples in various places could not be ordinary people, but must be gods. In this way, there would be many more god seats to accommodate the remaining ghosts.

If these god positions are not enough, Ao Bing still has a way. After the trial of these 10 billion ghosts is completed, Ao Bing will definitely escort them to the place of reincarnation in person.

The first was to prevent anyone from robbing these ghosts along the way, and the second was to take the opportunity to visit the Queen Mother Hou Tu and hand over to her the blood of the ancestor witch left by Gong Gong.

In addition, sending ghosts into reincarnation also requires gods. Without gods to maintain order, how can those ghosts obediently follow the judge's judgment and go to the reincarnation channel they should go to?

If there were no gods watching over them, those ghosts would surely rush to the highest level of heavenly realm rather than to the human realm, animal realm, or anything like that.

In addition, Ao Bing also wants to create eighteen levels of hell in the netherworld. Without the eighteen levels of hell, how can those evil ghosts be punished?
Therefore, the Eighteen Layers of Hell must be built. If not, it will not be enough to eliminate the resentment of all living beings. After the Eighteen Layers of Hell are built, they also need to be watched over by gods to prevent evil spirits from escaping.

All these things added together make for quite a few shrines, which should be enough to accommodate the remaining ghosts.

If all else fails, Ao Bing will pass down the method of ghost immortality, allowing some ghosts with great merit to follow the path of becoming saints, without being burdened by incense and worship, and instead seek a free life.

Anyway, no matter what, as long as they have done good deeds, Ao Bing will not treat them unfairly and will definitely arrange a good future for them.

Otherwise, it is not enough to be good.

Only if people know that those who do good can really benefit after death, will they try their best to do good in their lifetime, hoping that their life after death will be a little better, or that they will be reborn into a better body in the next life.

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Although Ao Bing was only one person, he divided his divine thoughts and manifested thousands of incarnations, which appeared in all the major divine realms at the same time to perform the act of deification.

Therefore, in just one day, the city gods of thousands of cities large and small in Dragon Territory had all been enthroned.

Next, these city gods will recruit their own officials and ghost soldiers to set up government offices.

Naturally, Ao Bing does not need to do these small matters himself. He only needs to pass down the rules and regulations, and the rest will naturally be handled by the City God himself.

Therefore, in the following period of time, the newly appointed City God began to busy himself with the establishment of the government office.

During this period, Ao Bing was not idle either. He discovered the most fatal flaw in the City God system and is now trying to find a solution to the problem.

If this problem cannot be solved, then his so-called City God system will be a joke and useless.

The biggest shortcoming of the Chenghuang system is that there is no Book of Life and Death and Judge's Pen. Without the Book of Life and Death, it is impossible to check the origin of a person's life; without the Judge's Pen, it is impossible to check the life and death of a person.

The standard equipment of the City God, in addition to his own authority, is a copy of the Book of Life and Death and a clone of the Judge's Pen.

Holding the Book of Life and Death, he watched the life and death of people. Holding the Judge's Pen, he took people's lives.

Without the Book of Life and Death, even the City God would not know when the people within his jurisdiction should die and when they should not die.

Normally, the natural life span of a mortal is 120 years, but most people do not live to this age. The main reason is that the Book of Life and Death stipulates how many years each person can live.

This age is not set randomly, but is calculated based on a person's contribution to the world. The more contribution one makes, the longer one's life span will be, and vice versa.

The Book of Life and Death stipulates how many years you will live, and that is the age you can live. If you don't die by then, the underworld will come and capture your soul.

This is the role of the Book of Life and Death for the City God. Only by mastering the Book of Life and Death can the City God send ghost messengers to capture people's souls. If there is no Book of Life and Death, the City God can only wait until the person's life span is exhausted and he dies of old age before sending ghost messengers to capture the soul.

But waiting for them to die of old age is inefficient. Looking at the entire world, how many mortals can live for a hundred years? If the life span is shortened from 120 years to 100 years, or even lower, the number of souls detained will inevitably increase.

For the City God, this is achievement. If he captures one more ghost, he will gain more merit and fortune. Who wouldn’t like that?
At the same time, both the Book of Life and Death and the Judge's Pen have the ability to restrain souls, which can greatly protect the safety of the City God, which is another benefit.

In short, without the Book of Life and Death, the Judge's Pen, and the City God, Ao Bing had to find them no matter what.

But how to get it out is a problem. Like other prehistoric novels, just swear an oath and wait for the heaven to grant it, but it obviously doesn't work here.

If the Heavenly Dao was willing to bestow the Book of Life and Death and the Judge's Pen, He would have already given them when Ao Bing offered sacrifices to the Heavenly Dao and explained the idea of ​​the underworld to Him. Why wait until now without any action?

Obviously, either Heaven is unwilling to give them, or these two treasures are not innate treasures that even Heaven does not have, but are acquired through refinement.

"It was refined the day after tomorrow..."

Muttering something in a low voice, Ao Bing seemed to have thought of something. He suddenly took out the Dragon Domain register and placed it in front of him.

If the Book of Life and Death is really something that is created after birth, then if we were to say who in this world is most likely to become the Book of Life and Death, it would definitely be someone other than Register.

As the register continues to advance, its function becomes no different from that of the Book of Life and Death. It can observe the origins, life spans, blessings and disasters of all spirits...

"It is said that the Book of Life and Death is the Book of Humans among the three books of heaven, earth and man, and it records the birth and death of all living things, misfortunes and blessings. But since it is the Book of Humans and records the birth and death of all living things, how can it be a pre-natal thing?"

Ao Bing suddenly realized that he had fallen into a misunderstanding. Who said that the Book of Life and Death must be an innate spiritual treasure? It couldn’t be an acquired treasure or a treasure of luck?

Innate creatures are born with infinite lifespans. Since the Book of Life and Death records the deaths of living beings, innate creatures are obviously not on it.

Therefore, the Book of Life and Death does not record innate things, but only acquired things. And how can a magic weapon that records acquired things be an innate magic treasure? It must be an acquired treasure that inherits the destiny of humanity.

(End of this chapter)