The Lord of the Laws of Heaven

Chapter 290 Reincarnation, Purple Qi Palace

Xiao Jun destroyed the Black Mountain Old Demon in the City of the Dead, and continued to decipher the mysteries accumulated by the Black Mountain Old Demon for thousands of years. The structure of the inner soul, the operation of magic power, the gathering of vitality, all kinds of mysteries were constantly ground into pieces in Xiao Jun's hands, sitting as a source of nourishment.

He also studied the power of the City of the Dead. Xiao Jun split a crack in the City of the Dead with a sword. Countless Netherworld Soul Seals flew in his hands, grabbing countless materials from the underworld and interweaving them with each other. The broken City of the Dead was directly repaired by Xiao Jun!
"If the living world is in disorder, the underworld is also in disorder! I just don't know if it's because the greed and malice in the hearts of the people in the living world have given rise to countless evil spirits, causing disorder in the underworld, or if it's because the corruption in the underworld has spawned countless evil spirits that have reincarnated and disrupted the living world."

Xiao Jun was carefully comprehending countless data from the underworld, and he sensed a kind of reincarnation. Xiao Jun once met Hou Tu in the world of "Humanistic Paradise" and obtained the "Hou Tu Reincarnation Sutra", so Xiao Jun already had some understanding of the existence of reincarnation.

First of all, there is a law of conservation in the universe and nature. On the mathematical level, there is Poincare regression, and on the objective level, there is a grand law of reincarnation.

This grand cycle is naturally just the transformation of primordial matter, unifying time, space, matter, energy, information, and everything else... This cycle is the true cosmic cycle, a grand and almighty avenue encompassing everything. This grand avenue exists naturally, and Hou Tu is the embodiment of this avenue...

It can be said to be innately sacred, a naturally transcendent existence born with the Tao.

In fact, it is not Hou Tu turning into reincarnation, it is clearly reincarnation turning into Hou Tu.

Of course, there is no need to say much. With the existence of such a great way, we can naturally comprehend it, understand it, and finally utilize it. This is the foundation of Taoism.

By mastering this law, one's true spirit and soul can follow the law of reincarnation and continue to exist for generations. Although the spirit is dim upon entering the womb, struggling and enduring endless suffering in the endless world, it is essentially a disguised form of immortality.

In this world, if one's cultivation reaches a certain level, such as achieving the state of Arhat through Buddhist practice, one can naturally understand one's past life, gain memories of past lives, and acquire powerful innate wisdom!
In fact, in the most primitive reincarnation, the reincarnation of living beings is only the reincarnation of the most basic true spirit. When a living being dies, the spiritual consciousness is completely erased, leaving only the true spirit as the material for the next birth of spiritual consciousness.

For example, in the "Yang Shen" worldview, only cultivators who have reached the Ghost Immortal realm are eligible for reincarnation; otherwise, they are transformed into pure vital energy. And the existence of each Ghost Immortal consumes countless resources, luck, and destiny to achieve this.

But in the world of "A Chinese Ghost Story", even a pig, a dog, or an ant can easily reincarnate and live forever in the cycle of reincarnation in this world.

If by chance one can understand the great truth, one can escape from the mundane world and even not be bothered by the worldly troubles. One can live as long as the heavens and play freely.

All of this is because the laws of reincarnation here have been exploited, and the underlying mysteries of heaven and earth have been directly modified! The creatures directly in "A Chinese Ghost Story" may not care, but if this world is known to practitioners of the "Yang Shen" worldview, they will surely be jealous and crazy!

This is equivalent to even the most humble existence, the pig that is eaten by humans, the dog that is despised by humans, can have the power of ghost immortals in the "Yang Shen" worldview and achieve immortality!

In fact, even if Xiao Jun wiped out the souls of the thousand-year-old tree demon and the Black Mountain old demon, the true spirit imprints of their roots were still included in the reincarnation. From the objective level of the heavens and all worlds, they were not truly dead. Under chance, they cultivated the power of Taoism and became moral immortals, and they could also borrow the true spirit imprints to understand their past.

Sensing the power of the underworld and the living world, he discovered an incomparably vast cycle... This cycle was entirely natural, yet it seemed to be governed by a hidden will. This cycle, which permeated yin and yang... was the true Wheel of Samsara, an invisible entity that encompassed everything.

It is the existence of this cycle that allows all living beings to reincarnate and live forever in heaven and earth!
Xiao Jun had just glimpsed this point, and only then did he truly realize the horror of it! Granting immortality to all living beings.

"Hou Tu's reincarnation... indeed, she possesses great magical powers, great wisdom, and great compassion!"

The great supernatural power is to modify the underlying operation between heaven and earth. The great compassion is to grant immortality to all sentient beings and give them countless opportunities to choose. The great wisdom makes Xiao Jun admire it even more.

Because the laws of heaven and earth are so complex, even the slightest change would be enough to cause the entire system of heaven and earth to collapse, but now it operates completely and self-consistently, with the utmost perfection. It can be said that Hou Tu is the best programmer, but she compiles the code of heaven and earth.

There are other explanations for Hou Tu's reincarnation. For example, the word "hua" can be interpreted as transformation.

Feeling the souls from the heaven, earth, yin and yang worlds constantly falling to the City of the Dead, these souls include those who died unjustly and those who caused others to die unjustly.

In fact, the original function of the City of Unjust Death was to directly imprison those who caused others to die unjustly and to take over the responsibility. After the unjustly killed people registered in the underworld and learned some taboos and things belonging to the Yin and Yang worlds, they would be released directly.

The City of the Dead is the manifestation of a law of the great cycle of reincarnation and a system between heaven and earth.

But any system will eventually develop loopholes, and personnel will erode the system. This is how the Black Mountain Demon took over the City of the Dead.

In the City of the Dead, one is very close to the great cycle of reincarnation, where one can comprehend a great deal of the mysteries of the yin and yang of heaven and earth and reincarnation.

Xiao Jun suddenly had an idea, and as soon as the thought came to his mind, he started to calculate with his fingers.

"So that's how it is, so that's how it is... I killed the Black Mountain Old Demon, and now I have the right to occupy the City of the Dead... No wonder I had a premonition that killing the Black Mountain Old Demon would be of great benefit to me. So this is what happened."

"This is an excellent place for retreat. The underworld is in chaos right now, but I can sort out the endless intricacies in the City of the Dead and turn the chaos into order. I can then sense reincarnation, gain infinite mysteries, and even comprehend the mysteries of the primordial spirit."

"With such resources, one can directly break the shackles of fate on the primordial spirit, obtain the liberation of the primordial spirit's power, completely comprehend the primordial spirit's power, and achieve the fruit of the celestial immortal!"

Xiao Jun directly produced such a spiritual light, and saw that the City of the Dead was directly repaired after Xiao Jun operated the infinite Netherworld Soul Dao and comprehended many mysteries of the laws of the Netherworld World, and saw that the Red Blood Sword in Xiao Jun's hand flew directly.

It fell straight down from above Xiao Jun's head and directly cut into his soul body.

Xiao Jun's Yang Soul fell directly from his soul body. Once Xiao Jun's Yang Soul appeared, the entire City of the Dead seemed to emit infinite Yang light. The souls inside the City of the Dead saw the vast light emitted by Xiao Jun's Yang Soul and hurriedly dodged and hid in places where the Yin energy was more concentrated.

However, the soul body refined by Xiao Jun's operation of the Netherworld Soul Dao shrank rapidly and became as tall as a person. It exuded a dark aura and had a black flame pattern between its eyebrows. However, this soul body slowly opened Xiao Jun's Yang God.

Xiao Jun's thoughts were stored inside the soul body, and soon his thoughts became flexible.

"I am a condensed clone of yours. My soul body is the body refined by you practicing the Netherworld Soul Dao, allowing you to use magic power in the underworld, but it is still too rough, so you need to help me polish it!" said the soul body clone.

"Indeed, it's a pity that my Yang Shen body can't stay in the underworld forever. The Yin energy of the underworld will eventually have some influence on my Yang Shen cultivation." Xiao Jun said, "I can refine you roughly, but after that, you have to rely on yourself."

"If this soul body was not refined at any time and did not have a complete energy circulation system, how could I let you refine it again?" said the soul body.

"That's right, let me lend you a hand!" Xiao Jun nodded, and activated his vast magic power to condense a pure white ball of true fire, which fell directly into Xiao Jun's soul body clone, burning a large amount of Netherworld Soul Seals. The data nebula began to calculate, and soon all the soul power on the soul body was condensed. The inner Netherworld Soul Seals changed endlessly and intertwined with each other, and finally merged together.

The Netherworld Soul Seal merged into the soul power, becoming indistinguishable from each other and blending with each other. It seemed to be a soul body formed naturally.

But Xiao Jun's soul clone at this time was wearing a black robe with a large number of dark patterns of Netherworld Soul Seals interwoven on it. His face was that of a smiling young man, and there were dark flame patterns on his forehead between his eyebrows.

He raised his hand and found that his soul power had begun to circulate in his body.

"Not bad, not bad... My soul body has been improved. Although it is only a very rudimentary energy circulation system, I can rely on the Netherworld Soul Dao to create a technique for cultivation."

"What name are you going to use?" Xiao Jun retracted the Pure Yang True Fire and said with his soul and body.

"Then I will call it Taiyou?" The soul body replied in this way, and Xiao Jun nodded. Then Xiao Jun also replied:
"The reason I killed your incarnation this time is naturally to let you enter the City of the Dead on my behalf and help me sort out the endless cause and effect in the City of the Dead." Xiao Jun said so. In fact, many criminals in the City of the Dead need to be sentenced and punished, but people die unjustly all the time. Xiao Jun wants to create a system here to restore the City of the Dead and return it to its original function of the reincarnation cycle.

And in this process, one can comprehend the law of reincarnation.

"Don't worry, I will definitely handle it!" Taiyou's incarnation said to Xiao Jun.

"Well then!" Xiao Jun's Yang Shen body disappeared into the Scarlet Blood Sword. The Yang Shen's radiance disappeared, and the pressure on many souls was relieved. Only to see the Scarlet Blood Sword directly draw a bloody mark in the underworld.

Taiyou's incarnation watched Xiao Jun leave, and his eyes suddenly turned cold.

"I am Taiyou. I will destroy the Black Mountain Old Demon. From today on, I will reside in the City of the Dead!" With these words, his soul body emanated boundless might. The Dark Moon Divine Thunder and the Dark Nether Sky Divine Thunder exploded in the void, turning the sky into a mysterious, interwoven blood-red and gloomy appearance...

……

Xiao Jun's Red Blood Sword followed the fluctuations of space and escaped directly from it.

Landing directly in Lanruo Temple, Xiao Jun walked out of the Red Blood Sword, holding the Red Blood Sword thoughtfully.

The Scarlet Blood Sword, refined by Xiao Jun's ingenious method, mimics the meridians of the human body, and is already like a superior human body. However, upon entering the underworld, Xiao Jun had a realization and prepared to re-refine the Scarlet Blood Sword, allowing him to enter and exit the underworld.

Xiao Jun had an epiphany. He realized that the matter had come to an end for the time being. He needed to work on it and start refining the impurities in his soul and comprehend the mystery of the soul's power.

……

Yangshen World, Jiuyuan Divine Realm, Cambrian Abyss.

At this time, above the Cambrian Abyss, there was a huge palace dominating. The palace emitted endless purple clouds. Every wisp of cloud contained the infinite mysteries of the universe. A wisp of cloud seemed to directly give birth to a small world.

Moreover, it possesses extremely strong divine power, suppressing everything. It seems that the infinite true energy of the Cambrian Abyss is directly suppressed and stagnated!

Some monks dressed in Taoist attire were full of energy and thinking, with all kinds of strange visions around them. They came here directly with flying swords under their feet.

When I saw this huge palace, I was stunned.

These monks looked at the palace, as if they were in another world, neither this side, nor the other side, nor in the middle. It broke the boundary between existence and non-existence, and a wonderful sense of transcendence spanned everything.

Some cultivators tried to measure its size, but their calculations suggested it was as large as the vast heavens, and as small as a speck of dust. This distorted perception left the cultivators feeling dizzy and dazed, their hearts awestruck, and a sense of unfathomable depth.

"What is this? It's even more majestic than the Three Dao Ancestors' Ancestral God Mountains."

"You're wrong. Zushen Mountain is just a thatched hut, but this palace contains infinite mysteries. It's like the palace of the Emperor of Heaven or the palace of the God King..."

"No, no, no... This palace doesn't have the overwhelming dominance of the Heavenly Emperor's Divine King's palace. Instead, it embodies a profound moral truth... It's like the palace where the Dao Ancestor resides!"

"Could it be... that the real Taoist ancestor lives in this palace?" a female fairy said in surprise.

The Daozu the female fairy was talking about was not the Daozu who pretended to be Daozu on Zushen Mountain. He was the Daozu who was really teaching the Dao!

"Did you hear any sound?" a ghost fairy suddenly said.

"what happened?"

"I just carefully comprehended this palace. This palace seems to be the origin of all Taoist magic. So I performed a simple visualization, but I heard a voice from the dark, which seemed to be the melody of the Tao. I just heard it, and I felt my thoughts surge." The ghost immortal said so.

When the immortals saw the true meaning of this ghost immortal emanating from his body, their thoughts seemed to become more abundant, and their accumulation seemed to have increased significantly, as if they could survive the thunder tribulation by entering the world.

This startled all the ghost immortals. They were preparing to visualize, but the more they visualized, the more angry they became. They did not hear the so-called sound of Tao, but instead felt extremely irritated.

"Hey, Master of the Fajian Sect, you are not lying to us, are you?" said a sect leader.

"Of course not. After I heard the Dao sound just now, I wanted to listen to it again, but it disappeared immediately... I couldn't find it with my own thoughts. But I found that if I let go of all obsessions and concentrate my mind, I can hear the Dao sound." Fa Jianzong said: "It seems to have a state of mind where the Dao follows nature, and only by not knowing can one attain the Dao."

After hearing everyone say this, I immediately held my breath, put aside all distracting thoughts, let go of my attachments, and engaged in simple visualization. A mysterious voice of Tao had indeed appeared.

"The way is right..."

The incomparably wonderful scripture made the immortals feel extremely happy and their thoughts became clear. They immediately became greedy and wanted to hear more, but the sound of the Tao immediately dissipated completely. They had no choice but to calm their minds again, but greed was born again in an instant.

This back and forth made the immortals feel extremely uncomfortable, but they also indeed benefited from it and their thoughts were strengthened.

"Who is this person...playing tricks!" a Taoist priest roared.

"The people here are ready to discuss the Hundred Sects of Dao directly. Do they really think they are the ancestors of Dao?"

"...Does this person think that his Dao can suppress all the Daoist sects?"

'...'

"boom……"

The void was shattered directly, and a person emerged from the void. It was Meng Shenji.

Meng Shenji first glanced at all the Taoist sect leaders, then looked at the palace emitting purple clouds, his expression changed slightly.

"What a great atmosphere! What a spirit!" Meng Shenji exclaimed loudly.

The moment Meng Shenji appeared, all the practitioners were immediately convinced, because after Meng Shenji knocked on each Taoist sect of the Eternal Kingdom with his hand, the pressure of the Supreme Dao fell upon these ninety-nine sects again.

"Master of the Supreme Dao!"

Among the ninety-nine gates, Tai Shang Dao Meng Shen Ji is vaguely considered the leader, but the emergence of this palace at this moment has caused many people to change their minds.

Someone called out to Meng Shenji, but Meng Shenji didn't care at all.

Soon, Meng Shenji approached the palace and bowed respectfully, saying, "Meng Shenji is here, please see me, to fulfill the agreement of discussing the Dao with fellow Taoists."

The palace gate opened directly, and an invisible, colorless and intangible chaotic aura burst out from inside, mixing darkness and light, and blurring the boundaries between above and below.

Meng Shenji walked in slowly and saw a high platform inside. Xiao Jun, wearing feathered clothes and a star crown, was sitting on it. He slowly opened his eyes.

Meng Shenji was startled, but he saw himself in Xiao Jun's eyes. It was his complete self, the self who fell in love, the self who was crazy and persistent, the self who became a hero and upheld justice, the self who was an emperor... and the self who was the Supreme Ruthless...

Each one of them is the real self, as if it is the infinite possible derivatives of Meng Shenji in the past, appearing in the present, and then appearing in front of Xiao Jun at the same time... It seems that Xiao Jun can directly see through all the cause and effect laws of the past and future!
'How could this person be so terrifying? Could it be that he really wants to suppress my Supreme Dao and truly ascend to the position of the true and authentic Dao Ancestor!'

"If this person really has the destiny of Daozu, I'm afraid he will become a Yang God! Terrible, terrible!"

Meng Shenji suddenly felt that something had gone wrong in his plan, as if he had shot himself in the foot.

(End of this chapter)