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Chapter 358 The Origin of the Eighteen Levels of Torture Hell (Double votes at the beginning of the month, please vote!)

It is unknown how much time has passed. After Bai Ying once again experienced being burned to death and reconstituted her soul, she did not see the bronze pillar that terrified her to the extreme.

Before this, Bai Ying had always thought that once something was experienced a lot, one would become numb to it, such as when he repeatedly sold 'materials' at Guinuo Media.

But this time, he learned that not everything is like that.

In all the times he was burned by the copper pillar, he could feel the pain of his soul being burned away bit by bit.

Perhaps, if I had died and become an ordinary ghost, I wouldn't be experiencing this pain now.

Looking up at the surrounding darkness, Bai Ying seemed to understand something. She immediately knelt down in the empty darkness and kept shouting, "I'm willing to do anything."

The previously unresponsive dark space had changed; Bai Ying saw something being thrown at her from the darkness.

It was a small dog made of cloth, not very delicate, but Bai Ying didn't dare to move until he was hit by the cloth dog and disappeared into the underworld.

Only Bai Ying's true form remained motionless in the dark space.

When Bai Ying opened his eyes again, he found that the surroundings were no longer pitch black, but he was not at ease. Perhaps this was another place where no one could see him.

Looking around, Bai Ying saw the huge banyan tree and the figure standing under it wearing a sieve mask.

Just as Bai Ying was thinking that no matter whether it was right or wrong, kneeling first was the right thing to do.

Suddenly, he froze.

Looking down, he saw what he looked like now.

A dog, a small cloth dog!

It can move, but its short, jointless legs cannot bend at the knees.

Bai Ying was dumbfounded. Could it be that he had fallen into a ghost wall again and was shrouded in illusion again?

"White Cherry Blossom".

Suddenly, a voice came, making Bai Ying, who was in a daze, tremble.

This was the first sound he had heard in so long, and he was somewhat apprehensive, wanting to express his submission, but his body did not support it.

In the end, he could only lower his head, not daring to look at the other person.

"Here! I'm here!"

Bai Ying hurriedly replied at the top of her lungs, afraid that replying too late would anger the other party.

Do you know where this place is, and who we are?

Bai Ying was startled, and slowly looked up at the masked figure. Then he glanced at the swing in the tree canopy above, where an old man was swinging.

Her gaze shifted again, and Bai Ying saw the crow preening its feathers on the eaves.

Apart from the crow, he couldn't see anything that felt familiar to him.

He wasn't even sure if the crow was the one he was guessing.

Not daring to delay any longer, Bai Ying lowered her head again and asked, "But...the underworld?"

Chen Xin raised an eyebrow and looked at the cloth dog that Bai Ying belonged to.

"It seems you are very smart."

Upon hearing this, Bai Ying immediately wanted to slap herself.

Shouldn't we pretend we don't know and not be able to guess at this point?
Why say it out loud!

Bai Ying was terrified, attributing the reason to his own fear of being frightened by the previous methods.

Neither the endless darkness, nor the state of being invisible, nor the scorching heat of the bronze pillar at the end, were things he wanted to experience again.

So he couldn't help but speak his mind, not daring to hide it.

Chen Xin was unaware of Bai Ying's current thoughts; if he had known, he might have been even happier.

Because this is exactly the result he wanted.

Threatening someone like Bai Ying is useless, showing her favors is useless, and exchanging benefits is useless.

Aside from using a talisman to completely control her, the most suitable method Chen Xin could think of was the same method he had used on Bai Ying in the Netherworld.

Since the other party is not afraid of death, then bring him something more terrifying than death.

Chen Xin originally intended to let Bai Ying stay in the Netherworld for a longer period of time, allowing him to experience loneliness for a while longer.

However, the later appearance of the bronze pillar seal provided Chen Xin with a more perfect means, which naturally accelerated the process.

"Then do you know why you are in the underworld?"

Chen Xin asked.

"I don't know what the Underworld needs me to do, so I will do it. I, Bai Ying, will forever be loyal to the Underworld!"

Bai Ying said quickly.

"Oh? The loyalty you're referring to is the kind of loyalty you showed to the Ghost Slave?"

A simple question made Bai Ying hesitate.

But he soon figured it out.

"No, my role in Ghost Slave was merely to gather intelligence on Ghost Slave for the Divine Messenger Organization. But my loyalty to the Underworld will never be the same as before. In this life, I will only be loyal to the Underworld!"

Hearing Bai Ying's honest words, Chen Xin was satisfied.

Immediately, he threw the ghostly entity that had been inside the insect wielder, the red insect, in front of Bai Ying.

"Do you know what this is?"

Bai Ying had never seen that insect before, but it felt very familiar.

"I don't know."

"This is the demon inside the insect messenger's body."

With a buzzing sound, Bai Ying felt her head spinning, and at the same time, she couldn't help but tremble.

The insect messenger's true form is here, but where is the insect messenger?
Looking at the insect, Bai Ying understood what the other party meant.

What would have happened if I hadn't told the truth?
Bai Ying dared not think about it, and at the same time felt fortunate for her choice.

"Since you've put it that way, the underworld is willing to give you a chance."

Chen Xin retrieved the insect, waved his hand, and the cloth dog where Bai Ying was located transformed into a large black dog.

Bai Ying, now transformed into a large dog, tried moving around and found that, apart from being a little unfamiliar with it, it was quite agile.

He was immediately stunned by the methods of the underworld once again.

"Tell me everything you know about the ghost slaves."

Chen Xin got straight to the point and asked the question directly.

Chen Xin had seen some information about the Ghost Slave Organization from the Bureau of Investigation, but it wasn't comprehensive. However, he could still make some judgments about what Bai Ying said and see if it was true.

This can be considered an obedience test conducted before using Bai Ying.

Upon hearing Chen Xin's question, Bai Ying quickly reviewed the information about ghost slaves in her mind.

He didn't hold a high position among the Ghost Slaves, but he joined them to gather information, so over the years he got to know many of them and learned a lot about them indirectly.

Ghost Slave isn't like the Bureau of Public Opinion; it doesn't have any authority or rules.

As long as they get along well, Bai Ying can get a lot of information from those ghost slave members.

Immediately, Bai Ying revealed all the information she had gathered over the years.

The Ghost Slave Organization is a hodgepodge; although it's called an organization, it actually gathers many independent practitioners of Yin cultivation from the common people.

For these wandering cultivators, as long as they clearly understand the concept of becoming servants of ghosts and gods and obey the orders of the nine lineages of the Ghost Slave Organization, they are considered members of the Ghost Slave Organization.

As for the Nine Ghost Slave Lineages, they refer to the nine Yin Cultivation branches that survived the Bureau of Investigation's sweep fifty years ago. For example, the Ghost Scorpion Lineage was the core branch of the Ghost Slave Organization.

These nine lineages are all passed down in an orderly manner in a special way.

Just like the scorpion pattern inheritance of the Ghost Scorpion, even the Bureau of Investigation couldn't master this method.

Bai Ying heard that this ability was bestowed upon them by a deity worshipped by the Ghost Slave Organization.

The nine branches of the Ghost Slave sect were divided into two factions. One faction consisted of the Body Faction, which was composed of five lineages: Ghost Heart, Ghost Skin, Ghost Body, Ghost Bone, and Ghost Eye.

These five lineages believe that for ghosts and spirits to descend to the mortal world, they need a sufficiently powerful body, and they are responsible for creating the most powerful body for the ghosts and spirits to command.

The other four lineages are relatively conservative, believing that if ghosts and spirits want to descend upon the world, they will naturally have their own methods, and they don't need to make decisions for them, so they just need to wait.

The differing ideologies led the two factions to make their own preparations without interfering with each other.

The body's structure can be understood from the names of the five meridians.

Heart, skin, body, bones, and eyes—each meridian is responsible for a part. When the five meridians have created their strongest parts, they combine to form a complete and powerful body.

When the will of the spirits descends, the first spirit in the mortal world will be born!
The "strongest" in the eyes of these five factions naturally refers to the Black Abyss level ghosts!
In other words, the five factions of the Ghost Slave Organization wanted to piece together a God of Chaos using five Black Abysses!

After listening, Chen Xin felt that it wasn't impossible.

If the five Black Abyss heads could be combined without any resistance, and then combined with the will of the Chaotic World God, it might actually allow this Chaotic World God to possess a portion of his own strength.

Chen Xin had never seen these records in the Bureau of Investigation's archives, but when he heard Bai Ying say them, they felt somewhat familiar.

It seems that the path to godhood for the leader of the Skull God Cult is very similar to that of the Ghost Slave!

The only difference is that the leader of the Skull God Cult regarded himself as the shell of a god, while the Ghost Slave Organization used five parts to piece together a shell.

Of course, there are still differences between the two. The five Black Abysses alone are not something the leader of the Skull God Cult can withstand.

"Are you familiar with the Cult of the Skull God?"

When Chen Xin thought of this, he suddenly asked a question.

Bai Ying nodded after hearing this.

"I know, it's a small foreign religion. Their leader spent some time among the ghost slaves after arriving in Great Xia."

As if she had thought of something, Bai Ying's tone was somewhat teasing.

"After arriving in Great Xia, the leader of the Skull God Cult went around learning about the local forces in Great Xia, hoping to join the organization of Great Xia and gain knowledge from the cultivators of Great Xia."

"In the end, the Ghost Slave Five Lineages found out about it, and the Ghost Heart Lineage planted a seed of 'becoming a god' in his heart. After that, the leader of the Skull God Cult has been perfecting his path to godhood."

"Little did they know, his so-called path to godhood was actually just a method to become a special kind of Black Abyss."

"The five Ghost Slave factions want to make the leader of the Skull God Cult the head of the 'shell,' thus increasing the number of parts to be pieced together from five to six. This is not a bad thing for the Ghost Slave organization."

"Unfortunately, the leader of the Skull God Cult seems to be a bit out of his mind, and actually went to the Bureau of Investigation to cause trouble."

After hearing Bai Ying's words, Chen Xin fell silent.

So all those theories about becoming a god that the leader of the Skull God Cult possessed were deliberately left to him by the Ghost Slave Organization?

No wonder Chen Xin thought the leader of the Skull God Cult was being reckless. After all, the leader of the Skull God Cult didn't know if he would really become a god after merging the 'three bodies', because no one had ever done it before.

The leader of the Skull God Cult firmly believed that he would become a god!
Ultimately, the reason didn't lie with the leader of the Skull God Cult, but with the Ghost Slave!
Indeed, one should not underestimate any organization that has survived under the nose of the Bureau of Investigation for fifty years.

The ghost slaves seem to have no presence at all, like rats living underground. Who knows if they have built a palace underground all these years?

Afterwards, Chen Xin learned more about the specific details of the Five Ghost Slave Clan from Bai Ying's account.

The abilities of the so-called five meridians—Ghost Heart, Ghost Skin, Ghost Body, Ghost Bones, and Ghost Eyes—are all different, and Bai Ying doesn't know much about them.

He only knew that the Ghost Heart could manipulate people's hearts, and the Ghost Skin could transform into various human forms, hiding in the crowd and not being discovered.

The fact that the Ghost Slave Organization has managed to avoid being found by the Bureau of Investigation for so many years is largely due to the efforts of the Ghost Heart and Ghost Skin factions.

As for the three lineages of Ghost Body, Ghost Bone, and Ghost Eye, Bai Ying didn't know the specifics, only that these three lineages were very strong and strange in combat.

Chen Xin learned a lot from the information Bai Ying provided.

Even if Bai Ying doesn't cooperate later, just this information alone makes Chen Xin feel that it was worthwhile for him to bring Bai Ying back.

However, Chen Xin did not believe it entirely. He did not know whether the Five Veins God Creation story was true or not, and it needed further verification.

Chen Xin will also try to obtain higher authority from the Bureau of Investigation to learn about other information.

Looking at Bai Ying, Chen Xin asked again, "Do you know anything about the divine messenger?"

Bai Ying immediately lowered her head.

"My lord, although I was instructed by the insect envoy before, I did not actually join the divine envoy and do not know much about the divine envoy."

"Tell me what you know."

"Yes!"

The information Bai Ying knew about the divine messengers was actually obtained from the Ghost Slave organization.

As for the Divine Messenger, who was at odds with the Ghost Slave Organization, the Ghost Slave naturally collected a lot of information about him.

However, because the connections between the divine messenger organizations were not close, the materials collected by the ghost slaves were very scattered.

However, Chen Xin still obtained some information from this information that he had not seen in the Bureau of Public Opinion Survey.

Among them was one thing that Chen Xin cared about very much.

That was the ghost slave's description of the gods that could be guided within the organization of divine messengers.

Records show that in the numerous conflicts between the demon servants and the divine messengers, the divine messengers organized two ways to guide the gods.

One method is to allow the god to enter a certain vessel, such as a cat.

This approach is similar to the idea of ​​the Five Ghost Slaves, but the Five Ghost Slaves look down on it because it is too low-level.

Another type of guidance involves guiding only the power of the gods, not their will. This ability is effective not only against ghosts but also against humans.

For example, the copper pillars and iron trees in Mubei City before.

According to the records of the Ghost Slave, the divine messenger had guided not only the bronze pillar and the iron tree, but also many other forces.

For example, there's a type of terrain where you'd fall into a mountainside covered in knives and suffer countless cuts.

For example, a high-temperature gas might rise in a certain area, causing all the people and ghosts in it to be vaporized.

For example, a method that can bypass the body's surface defenses and attack the internal organs, crushing them.

The Ghost Slave Organization has experienced no fewer than ten of these!

This is also why, although the Ghost Slave Organization dislikes the Divine Messenger, it has never actively provoked him.

These methods used by the divine messenger were truly too bizarre and difficult to describe.

Those ghost slaves who survived these methods never wanted to go through them again.

This information is what Chen Xin is focusing on.

After hearing this, some words that he hadn't thought of before suddenly flashed through Chen Xin's mind.

Copper pillars, iron trees, mountains of knives, steamers, mortars and pestles!
Aren't these all ancient forms of torture?

How exactly did the Divine Messenger organization connect with the turbid ghosts in the underworld who correspond to these cruel tortures?
It seems that the divine messengers must have mastered a fixed method that allows them to find and connect with the same kind of turbid ghosts in the netherworld through a certain pattern.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain how the divine messenger could contact so many turbid ghosts that resembled bronze pillars and iron trees!

Of course, Chen Xin wasn't concerned with the rule that the divine messenger had mastered.

He was concerned about something else.

The divine messenger merely borrowed the power of these turbid spirits, and he could transform these turbid spirits into a suppressing seal.

Bai Ying's compliance also allowed Chen Xin to see the effect of the copper pillar seal.

In that case, could the copper pillar seal and the subsequent seals be regarded as unique to the underworld, a means that terrifies both humans and ghosts?

We already have the underworld, so adding an eighteen-level hell of torture isn't too much to ask, is it?
The only limitation to the eighteen levels of hell is whether the divine messenger has contacted eighteen such turbid ghosts.

If that's not enough, Chen Xin has to supplement it himself.

"It seems I'll have to have a good chat with the guides of the divine messengers in the future. It would be even better if I could find a guiding ambassador."

Chen Xin murmured.

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P.S.: I fell asleep while writing until 2:30 AM, it felt like dozing off in class back in the day. There will be more updates tonight~
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