Stepping on the demon door, the witch becomes the strongest

Chapter 771: Rebuilding the Underworld
"In my opinion, the underworld has four responsibilities."

"Extradition, trial, sentence, reincarnation."

"During the era of the extinction of the Dharma, the underworld collapsed. The trial and sentencing processes were completely abandoned. Countless wandering ghosts had no one to guide them, and could only go to the samsara platform to be reincarnated. Where they were reborn depended entirely on luck."

"What I have to do is to recover the lost functions of the underworld one by one, and eventually rebuild the entire underworld organization..."

Before Chen Lingyun could finish her words, she was interrupted by Yan Yu's sneer:

"Haha! What do you mean by rebuilding the underworld? You're just doing it for fun!"

"I can't deny that," Chen Lingyun said slowly. "But putting my personal motives aside, rebuilding the underworld will only benefit the entire Lu Kingdom. Isn't the reason some people dare to break the law so recklessly now because they have no respect for the law or morality? If those who commit crimes in life were tortured after death, crime would surely decrease significantly."

"If the underworld falls into your hands, that would be the biggest harm, wouldn't it?" Yan Yu said bluntly, "When the ghost officer brings him to court, he'll first receive ten lashes with the soul-beating whip. And then whether he's committed any crime or not, won't you have the final say?"

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Chen Lingyun looked at him with pity, as if she were looking at a fool. "Order must be established. If you don't do it, someone else will. By then, they will occupy the power of the underworld. When your parents and sister die of old age, they will sentence you to reincarnation as an animal. What will you do then?"

Yan Yu was speechless. Indeed, even if he, as a Jindan cultivator, had the ability to pursue immortality, what about his mortal relatives and friends?

Even if the underworld had to remain vacant, my parents and sister would be randomly reincarnated after their lifespans ended, and they might not even be human in their next life...

Yan Yu prides himself on being selfless and serving the country and the people, but this does not mean that he must coldly cut off all romantic ties. That would be too stupid.

"Let's not discuss motives and pros and cons for now." He continued to interrogate Chen Lingyun, "How do you plan to build the underworld? Do you have the ability to do it? For example, do you have a book of life and death that records all the information of all living beings in the world? Without a book of life and death, how can you judge people's good and evil? Are you going to judge them with your eyes?"

"We can connect it to the Public Security Bureau's criminal information database." Chen Lingyun said casually.

Yanyu:? ? ?
"Nation Lu has nearly 1000 million deaths every year," Chen Lingyun continued. "That's an average of to people dying every day. I could just recruit ghosts to serve as officials in the underworld. I could have them review resumes and files every day to determine the merits and karma of each wandering ghost. Wouldn't that be easy?"

Yan Yu:………………

"For every death certificate issued in the living world, the underworld extradites a ghost. Their personal records are readily available and can be used directly." Chen Lingyun said with a smile, "To give another example, if there's a secret murder and burial, or a missing person killed accidentally, even if we can hide it from the living world, and I suddenly have a wandering ghost here for no reason, can't I notify the living world to investigate? That way, there won't be any more unsolved cases in Lu State."

"That's the problem," Yan Yu couldn't help but complain. "We're already a highly intensive management organization. We control everything when people are alive. Now you're even controlling them after they die. Don't you think this is getting even more suffocating?"

"Hey, isn't this your favorite model?" Chen Lingyun asked in surprise. "Since you support bringing all civilian cultivators under management and prohibiting them from practicing privately, then why don't you support bringing ghosts under management and prohibiting their private reincarnation?"

"Are you looking for trouble?" Yan Yu's face suddenly turned dark.

The reason why I forbid civilian monks from practicing privately is because I have witnessed in my previous life how terrible the impact and catastrophe would be on the entire Lu Kingdom if the civilian monk class completely lost control! Can ghosts have that ability?
"I'm discussing this with you seriously," Chen Lingyun said calmly. "You can't just support strict control where you have control. In my opinion, the consequences of reincarnation, which affect one's family background in the next life, require even greater fairness and justice than the college entrance examination."

"You know that in order to ensure the greatest possible fairness and justice, every step of the college entrance examination is strictly controlled."

Yan Yu was speechless again, and after a while he said:
"The question is how do you ensure fairness and justice in reincarnation?"

"Don't worry about that," Chen Lingyun said with a smile. "Reincarnation is a completely random process nowadays. A kind-hearted person who builds bridges and roads might be reincarnated as a pig, dog, or livestock, while a jerk who commits murder and arson might be reincarnated as a wealthy young master. As long as I intervene manually and use my subjective judgment of good and evil as a guide, even if I can't guarantee 100% accuracy, I can still ensure that kind people will have a better overall reincarnation outcome. Doesn't this promote the moral atmosphere of 'good people are rewarded, evil people are punished'?"

What she said does make sense. The main point is that random reincarnation is unreliable, just like your good deeds in your previous life are useless. Even subjective judgments with personal bias are better than pure randomness.

The problem is that the person who will be in charge of the judgment is Chen Lingyun! Her moral values... it's really hard for me to have confidence in her!
"Let's not talk about that anymore." Yan Yu waved his hand to interrupt her, "Just tell me what you plan to do. I really want to see where your 100,000 ghost civil servants are going to come from."

"Don't be anxious, follow me." Chen Lingyun said with a smile.

She continued forward with Yan Yu. As they went deeper into the palace, the chill grew increasingly biting. Though a cultivator's body was supposedly immune to cold and heat, Yan Yu felt a chill, like a thin steel needle piercing his body.

"The Netherworld's veins lie ahead, so the Nine Netherworld's Yin Qi is growing heavier." Chen Lingyun formed a hand seal, and a Yin Demonic Seal flew out from the Soul Summoning Banner, landing on Yan Yu's crown. He immediately noticed that the chill had vanished. "Without the protection of my secret technique, any mortal who even touches the Yin Qi will die of a sudden illness upon returning. As for cultivators, forcing themselves to endure before forming a pill will also pollute their bones and reduce their cultivation."

"When did you learn this secret technique?" Yan Yu asked with a frown.

"I can't possibly tell you everything I learn." Chen Lingyun smiled and changed the subject. "Besides, you didn't ask."

"I know this without asking. It must be a secret method he comprehended in the process of studying the Nine Heavens Yin Demon Seal." Yan Yu said.

"This Nine Heavens Yin Demon Divine Seal is truly extremely mysterious." Chen Lingyun sighed softly, her fingers gently stroking the wooden pole of the prison banner. "If I can collect all the seals, so that I can complete the practice of the 'Nine Heavens Yin Demon Mysterious Scripture', then I will have no difficulty in securing my position as the Lord of the Underworld."

"You have your father's help. As long as the Nine Heavens Yin Demon series of magic weapons come out, you will get them sooner or later." Yan Yu sighed.

I worked so hard to maintain the current order in the Kingdom of Lu, but I let Chen Lingyun, the only daughter of the prime minister, take advantage of her power and free ride. How despicable!
I'll have to ask her to charge more for the fare. "If you don't come out, there's nothing I can do." Chen Lingyun smiled again, "Let's do our best and leave the rest to fate."

The two finally arrived at the deep palace, only to see a crack on the ground, about one and a half meters wide and more than ten meters long. It was deep and quiet, pitch black without any light, and only endless Nine Nether Yin Qi was pouring out of it. Just by looking at it, one could feel the biting chill from the depths of the soul.

Chen Lingyun once again used a magic spell to protect the two from being eroded by the Nine Netherworld Yin Qi, and then took the lead and jumped down.

Yan Yu followed suit and jumped into the abyss. His body plummeted downwards, the roar of the wind fading into his ears... Strange, the gravity seemed to be decreasing?

After an unknown amount of time, the two finally landed on the ground.

Rather than calling it the ground, it is better to call it the conceptual "bottom", because gravity has completely disappeared here, and there is no strict distinction between up and down, front and back.

Yan Yu's mind changed slightly. If he wanted to move forward, his body would automatically float forward. If he wanted to move backward, with the same thought, his body would immediately and slowly retreat.

"Isn't it amazing?" Chen Lingyun said with a smile, "The Nine Netherworld should be a different plane of existence from Earth. Many of the physical laws here are completely different from those on Earth."

"Fortunately, we can still fly the sword. Let's go."

The two men released their flying swords, which turned into dazzling sword beams, wrapped around their bodies, and flew forward.

Yan Yu swept his spiritual sense downwards, and saw that above the boundless land, there were many lonely ghosts from time to time, or groups of three or five, floating aimlessly in all directions.

"Without the guiding ghost messengers, these deceased souls can only rely on luck to reach the reincarnation platform." Chen Lingyun sighed, "Fortunately, there is no concept of time in this plane, otherwise it would be the most brutal torture for them."

Yan Yu didn't know what "no concept of time" meant, but he knew that if he asked questions, he would be bowing his head and asking Chen Lingyun for advice, which would make him inferior to his wife, so he chose to keep silent.

As they flew, they saw endless ruins appearing below them, which looked a bit like the ancient Great Wall.

"This is the ruins of Ghost Gate," Chen Lingyun explained. "The gatehouse is connected to the wall, with no end in sight. Once the souls of the dead reach the wall, they will spontaneously move towards the entrance, serving as a guiding landmark. Another important function of Ghost Gate is to prevent the living, whether mortals or cultivators, from continuing to penetrate the underworld."

"So this place must be heavily guarded." Yan Yu nodded.

"It's easy to get ghost soldiers and generals, but that's just a small matter. The key is to set up a large-scale space compression formation, so that no matter which direction the cultivators approach the wall from, they will eventually converge at the entrance." Chen Lingyun said seriously, "I know nothing about formations, so I plan to ask Teacher Mei for help."

"Teacher Mei has been studying a large-scale national defense barrier recently, and almost all the small formation needs have been left to Ye Jun." Yan Yu said casually at first, and then quickly reacted.

But his reaction was still a little slow, because Chen Lingyun immediately took advantage of the situation and said with a smile:
"Then please, dear, please talk to Ye Jun. We are sisters after all, sharing the same husband. Ye Jun should be able to help me with this, right?"

Yan Yu pondered for a moment, and suddenly a light bulb went off in his head, as if he understood something in an instant.

Wait, let's assume Ye Jun is my wife, and Chen Lingyun is also my wife, so she can use this relationship to get Ye Jun to do things for her. Even if Ye Jun is unhappy with her, she has to give me face, so Chen Lingyun just needs to deal with me.

After all, Chen Lingyun always wore a perfect, delicate smile, and her presence exuded the aura of a superior young lady, so few cultivators were willing to make close acquaintances with her. Yunjin and Ningning were familiar with each other, and Sister Zhao and Ruoxi were good friends. Only Lingyun was accustomed to acting alone within the team, which was the best proof of this.

She now had to rebuild the Yinsi, which required countless manpower and material resources. Material resources were easy to come by, but where would she get the manpower, especially high-level Jindan cultivators?
From my harem, of course!

The more wives I have, the more people Chen Lingyun can command. She doesn't need to lower herself to please everyone, she just needs to serve me wholeheartedly, and then use me to get my wives to do things for her... This is why she proposed the idea of me opening a harem a long time ago!

You're such a jerk, Chen Lingyun! Your schemes are so grand, your foreshadowings so profound, that even I, in my two lifetimes, didn't even notice a thing. And this time, I've fallen for your treacherous scheme!
Now that the harem is complete, Yan Yu knows that he can't tell everyone, "Let's go, it's all Chen Lingyun's evil scheme." He can only say in a very unhappy mood:

"If you want Ye Jun's help, go and tell her yourself, don't you have a mouth?"

"My mouth can't speak." Chen Lingyun said with a smile.

"Why can't you speak?"

"Of course it's because..." Before she could finish her words, Yan Yu, who had slept with her in two lives, immediately guessed what lewd words she was about to say and quickly shouted:
"Stop it, don't say anymore!"

"You don't have to tell me." Chen Lingyun rushed over and hugged him, smiling sweetly, "Why don't you just tell me with your actions?"

"Come on, let's land there."

(End of this chapter)