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Chapter 513 It turns out I'm not human.

Chapter 513 It turns out I'm not human.
As Chen Xin gradually digested the information in his mind, he also gradually became silent.

After he had processed all the information, his gaze toward the book in front of him became somewhat complicated.

Just as he had initially guessed, "The Complete Book of Talismans" was indeed a ghost.

However, this ghost was even more powerful than the Chaotic God that Chen Xin had guessed it to be.

If we were to use a name to refer to him, he should be called the Domain Lord!
The so-called domain lord is the master of the ghost realm where Chen Xin's illusion was located before.

The location of the Domain Lord and the Ghost Realm is on the seventeenth level of the Netherworld. The information that the Xia family gave Chen Xin earlier was indeed correct.

The higher the floor, the more you can see.

From the sixth to the sixteenth floor, each floor has a partial entrance to the Ghost Realm.

Only on the seventeenth floor can one see the complete Ghost Realm.

As for the eighteenth floor, there is only one hole.

A cave leading to the underworld.

The large hole that Chen Xin saw above the Yin De Tree was not actually opened by the Domain Lord.

What the domain lord opened was merely the barrier between the seventeenth and eighteenth layers.

That hole itself exists on the eighteenth floor.

The underworld was not fabricated by the Lord of the Underworld, but it truly exists, located on the other side of the cave.

What the domain lord does is quite simple: he raises ghosts and spirits, allowing them to evolve step by step from the lowest level of wandering souls into turbid ghosts, and then enter the ghost realm.

The mortal world and the underworld are the two breeding grounds for all domain lords.

One raises humans, the other raises ghosts.

Humans can become ghosts, and ghosts can become humans.

However, the latter cannot be carried out in the mortal world or the underworld; it can only be carried out in the realm of ghosts.

When a corrupted ghost enters the ghost realm, it must survive there and earn money to accumulate merit.

These acts of good deeds can allow the evil spirits to be reborn in human form and enter the underworld.

What the domain master does is send these filthy ghosts, who have taken human form, into the underworld.

Why do you do this?

Naturally, it's for the sake of accumulating good karma!
The domain lord is, in the end, also a ghost, only the strongest ghost, the most intelligent ghost.

The domain lords could have already traveled through the eighteenth level cave to the underworld and started a new life there.

But the domain lords were not willing to let it go so easily.

If they simply let it pass by like that, they would just be ordinary members among those countless cities.

Therefore, they need to accumulate good karma before they can pass through the hole and strive for a higher status.

For example, the lord of that city.

If the mortal world and the underworld are the underworld's private domain, then the ghost realm managed by the domain lords is the underworld's free-range area.

The underworld needs ghosts, but it doesn't need ghosts without order.

Thus, the concept of a "farm owner" came into being, tacitly recognized by the underworld.

As long as the domain lord can provide the underworld with 'cultivated' ghosts, the underworld will reward the domain lord with a sum of merit.

This act of good karma is more than the good karma a domain lord would consume to cultivate a 'person'.

It's somewhat similar to the "nine out, thirteen back" pattern.

Therefore, the domain lord is dedicated to cultivating 'people' in order to accumulate his own merit.

When enough merit has been accumulated, the domain lord will leave and then choose a new domain lord from his domain, and so on.

However, there is a problem here: the underworld does not allow its rulers to govern people.

In other words, one cannot raise humans to create ghosts.

All the ghosts and spirits are gathered from various worlds by the Underworld and then uniformly thrown to all the domain lords for 'cultivation'.

Normally, after a person dies, their soul enters the underworld.

After going through the process of the underworld, the soul itself will be strengthened, directly reaching the level of a turbid ghost.

At this stage, the souls do not yet understand what order is, so they are thrown to the domain lord for 'cultivation'.

But the world where the Great Xia Dynasty is located is not like that.

The structure of the eighteen layers of the underworld, along with the outer enclosure of the ghost realm, prevented the underworld from discovering the truth that there was a human world inside this world.

Perhaps when the underworld looks at a certain world, nothing escapes its eyes, but it doesn't have the energy to watch every place.

Thus, the world of Great Xia became a human world that was not noticed by the underworld.

When people in this world die, their souls are not accepted by the underworld; they only become the lowest-level wandering souls.

They either wander in the mortal world or are sucked into the underworld to grow freely.

Although this method of cultivating turbid ghosts is slow, it is not a problem because of the large number of them and the large base.

Moreover, the tainted ghosts cultivated in this way are tainted ghosts that exist independently outside of the underworld.

After all, the number of turbid ghosts that the underworld gives to the domain lords each time is limited, and the time required to accumulate enough yin virtue is almost constant.

However, with the existence of the Great Xia world, the speed at which these domain lords accumulate merit will accelerate.

Therefore, concealing the existence of the Great Xia world is a consensus among all domain lords.

But in a large forest, there will always be special birds.

Even among domain lords, this is no exception.

The book "Complete Collection of Town-Suppressing Objects" was originally written by a domain lord, a special bird.

Let's call him the Lord of the Town for now.

While accumulating merit, the lord of the town observed everything in the underworld from the entrance of the eighteenth level cave.

Unlike other domain lords, he wouldn't check on people only once in a while when sending them over.

He spent all his time watching, except when he was bringing people over to rest.

The more he saw, the more the town's lord longed for everything in the underworld.

But he knew that even if he accumulated enough good karma and went there, he would at most be a city lord, and would never be able to climb that mountain or enter that palace.

Therefore, he decided not to go to the underworld.

He used up all the good karma he had accumulated to transform himself into a book.

A book simulating the hierarchical responsibilities of the underworld, titled "The Complete Book of Town Objects".

Then, he would immerse himself in the world of Great Xia, hoping to use his abilities to create an underworld in this world where he could not reach the netherworld.

But there's a problem that needs to be solved.

Once he enters the world of Great Xia, he will be unable to interfere much.

But in the world of Great Xia, no one knows anything about the Underworld.

So even if he were to be placed in the Great Xia Dynasty and obtained by some people, in the end, only a batch of guardian objects with the title of Underworld would appear, but the Underworld itself would not exist.

So he made another decision.

He captured a corrupt ghost that had been thrown into his domain by the underworld, and used his remaining merit to try to awaken the ghost's memories of the underworld.

Little did he know that his actions would be discovered by the underworld.

In order not to waste his efforts, he merged himself into the body of this turbid ghost, and then, with the turbid ghost, broke through the eighteen layers of the underworld and stuffed it into the body of a young man.

And because of this operation, his consciousness was erased, and he truly became a book.

The turbid ghost he brought into the Great Xia Dynasty, after two and a half years, reached the point where he could use this book.

In the end, the wicked ghost did not disappoint him, and made the underworld appear in the world of Great Xia.

The lord of the town created a new underworld.

"If he were still conscious, he would probably be very pleased with himself."

Chen Xin looked at the book, then looked at himself.

"So, I wasn't human after all."

Chen Xin sighed, somewhat helplessly.

Sure enough, whether human or ghost, everyone is afraid of madmen.

Looking around at the pitch blackness, Chen Xin reached out and grasped the "Complete Guide to Suppressing Objects".

So, what should I do now?

Chen Xin was stunned for a long time.

"Let's continue. We were originally planning to go back and take a look, but the city lord probably won't have enough."

Chen Xin inserted the "Complete Guide to Suppressing Objects" into his body, took a step, and arrived at another place.

There was a large hole in front of him.

Outside the cave was the underworld that Chen Xin had seen before.

So, just how much good karma is needed?

Chen Xin recalled and found the amount of good karma the Lord of the Town possessed when he was turning himself into a book from the Lord's scattered memories.

"Eight hundred million?" Chen Xin frowned, sensing something was amiss.

He soon realized that this 800 million was a special act of good karma!

If we convert that into Chen Xin's current amount of good karma, it would be... 80 billion!

This number is only close to the amount of merit required for the city lord. How much merit would be needed to surpass the city lord?
Eight hundred billion?
Chen Xin shook his head.

That shouldn't be enough. If it's only a tenfold difference, why don't the other domain lords take a gamble?

So, at least a hundred times?
Chen Xin remained silent for a while.

At least a hundred times, which means at least ten trillion?
With so much good karma, perhaps it would be enough to completely eradicate all the evil spirits in the mortal and underworld realms of the Great Xia.

But that would be equivalent to Chen Xin digging up the private plots of those domain lords.

But it’s okay.

As long as he doesn't enter the sixth level of the Netherworld, those domain lords can't do anything to him.

Because those domain lords deliberately cut off their path to the sixth level of the Netherworld in order to conceal the Great Xia world.

Only in this way can they evade the scrutiny of the underworld.

If you wish to go, you can, like the Lord of the Town, by burning your virtuous deeds.

But for these domain owners, it's not worth it.

Unless one of them is willing to sacrifice their own merits to help other domain lords achieve their goals.

But, it's impossible.

Therefore, this method works. Chen Xin only needs to hide in the Great Xia, deal with all the ghosts and spirits in the mortal world and the underworld of the Great Xia, and with a virtue a hundred times greater than those domain lords, head straight for that big hole.

Having made a plan in mind, Chen Xin looked at the large hole again and memorized its appearance.

The next time you come, it will be the time to enter.

In the blink of an eye, Chen Xin disappeared from the eighteenth floor.

At this moment, apart from one domain lord who was still searching everywhere for which domain lord had caused trouble in his domain, the other domain lords had no idea that the former eccentric domain lord actually had a successor.

And this successor is even more bizarre than the previous one.

……

When Chen Xin returned to the underworld this time, he brought back an illusory form.

Having figured out the situation in the Ghost Realm, the illusory body was naturally no longer needed.

It's a bit of a pity, though, that's over ten thousand taels of silver.

Just then, Chen Xin thought of the Xia family.

This silver is useless to Chen Xin, but it should still be very valuable to the Xia family.

After all, the Xia family is working to infiltrate what they call the divine realm, and wants to establish what they call the divine kingdom.

What they didn't know was that the first step to achieving their goal was death, becoming a ghost.

"But what exactly is the Yin Spirit of the Xia family?"

"Even the memories from the Domain Lord contain no record of Yin Gods."

"So the Xia family might actually be able to do something."

After thinking about it, Chen Xin decided to help the Xia family.

If the Xia family can cause some trouble for those domain lords, it will only benefit Chen Xin, and not harm him.

After all, what Chen Xin did must have put him on the opposite side of those domain lords.

Thinking this, Chen Xin once again transformed into Yama, put on the mask, and headed to the ancestral land of the Great Xia.

……

"Ancestor, the people from the underworld have arrived!"

Xia Wuyou opened her closed eyes, and the furrowed brows that had been tightly closed for days relaxed a little.

"So you finally couldn't resist anymore, huh?"

"Let him come."

Xia Wuyou said.

Not long after, Yama, the messenger, entered the Great Sun.

"Hehe, it's been a long time. I wonder how things are in the underworld?"

Xia Wuyou asked.

"Very good, what about the Xia family?"

"Hehe, same."

After a brief exchange, the two fell silent.

Chen Xin smiled as he looked at Xia Wuyou's affected manner.

Since the other party was offering help, Chen Xin decided to 'give in' first.

"The Underworld wants to establish a Ghost Gate in the Great Xia Dynasty. Does the Xia family have any conditions?"

Xia Wuyou smiled. So this was the condition after all.

"If the underworld wants to intervene, we will naturally not refuse, after all, we are partners."

"How about this, the fifty-four ghost gates that have already been installed, my Xia family will consider them as a gift to the underworld."

"After that, one door can be exchanged for an entrance to the Divine Realm. What do you think, is that feasible?"

Xia Wuyou looked at the Yama Walker in front of him and felt that the condition was quite reasonable, after all, he had also given away fifty-four doors to the underworld.

But to everyone's surprise, the Yama Walker in front of them shook his head.

"The gates to the divine realm will not be opened by the underworld again."

Xia Wuyou's expression changed.

"Why?"

"The opening of the gates to the underworld is not unlimited; some need to be reserved for future considerations."

Xia Wuyou frowned. Just as he was about to offer some advice, he suddenly remembered that this time it was the other party who had taken the initiative.

Since the other party rejected this deal, it means that they have other deal options.

Why don't we take a look first?

See what else the other party has to offer in exchange.

"It's better than this."

As Chen Xin spoke, he reached out and took something out.

Xia Wuyou raised an eyebrow as she looked at the silver bar in the other person's hand.

"What does 'walking' mean?"

Chen Xin smiled and said, "The Xia family should know that money is needed in the Divine Realm."

"How about this, one hundred taels of silver per door?"

Xia Wuyou smiled and shook her head.

"It's true that the Divine Realm needs money, but it needs money from within, not from outside. No matter how much money you have, you can't bring it in..."

Xia Wuyou was suddenly startled.

"Do you have a way to get us the silver inside?"

Chen Xin shook his head.

"No, it's this silver."

"Our silver can be directly taken into that world."

With that, Chen Xin threw the ten taels of silver over.

"Why don't you give it a try?"

Xia Wuyou touched the silver bar in his hand, his heart filled with turbulent emotions.

He immediately summoned Xia Chuanshan and sent him with the silver.

Soon, Xia Chuanshan returned.

"Ancestor, the silver has been taken in and given to Chuanren."

Upon hearing this, Xia Wuyou laughed heartily and said, "Good!"