The primordial era began with the Upper Cave Man.

Chapter 381 The Lesser Cycle of Reincarnation, Ascending the Divine Stairs

"Can this thing only be opened after the primordial cycle of reincarnation is opened?" Luo Zu sensed the unopened cycle of reincarnation in the Nine Netherworlds and naturally had this thought in his mind.

The primordial world was far too strict.

However, the cycle of semi-finished products is sufficient.

As for whether this semi-finished product can function, it certainly can, but it requires Luo Zu to use multiple supernatural powers to achieve anything.

However, the Great Dao of Reincarnation was not completed as a result. Luo Zu still needed to evolve it through the Great Dao of Death in order to thoroughly implement Reincarnation throughout the entire Heavens of the Heart Sea.

However, Luo Zu was naturally not satisfied with the half-finished reincarnation. Therefore, he intended to realize reincarnation in his own primordial spirit cave first, and then apply it to the Nine Netherworlds.

Unfortunately, the Great Dao of Reincarnation has been firmly restricted, and Luo Zu does not have the ability to create a Great Dao in a short period of time, so this is basically impossible to achieve.

If Luo Zu wanted to achieve reincarnation in the myriad heavens of the mind, he could only cleverly set up a small reincarnation path.

"The Great Dao of Reincarnation is comparable to the Heavenly Dao, and it cannot be born except at crucial moments." Luo Zu already understood the key to this.

The primordial world has its own rules, or rather, in certain major events, the "script" has already been established. The timing can be earlier or later, but it can't be this early. And you can't take what others haven't permitted.

The Cycle of Reincarnation has an owner in the future, and this future is definitely fixed. Even if the owner of the Cycle of Reincarnation has great love in their heart, they will not arbitrarily divide it among others.

Therefore, it is basically impossible for Luo Zu to create the Cycle of Reincarnation first.

In that case, he had no choice but to resort to trickery.

He had cultivated the "skin" of both the Death Avenue and the Creation Avenue (opening a Dao flower), which was just right for this substitute for the Reincarnation Avenue. In addition, there were many other Avenues that he would use.

Since that's the case, Luo Zu could only follow the legends of the underworld from his previous life, creating departments one by one in the Nine Netherworlds and piecing them together to form the Nine Netherworld Reincarnation City.

The high-ranking officials of the celestial realm who were sent here to oversee the Nine Netherworlds in the past have all been given new positions.

The Five Organs, Lonely, Green, Seven Emotions, Four Leaves, Angry River, and Eight Olds—these seven celestial officials, once appointed by the Ancestor of Luo, were each granted their own fiefdoms and the authority of the Seven Kings of the Nine Netherworlds.

The six cities were: Dead Man's City, Dead Barbarian City, Dead Demon City, Celestial City, Dead Spirit City, and Dead Sea City. Among them, Four Leaves and Eight Old were originally of the same race, so they jointly established Dead Spirit City.

However, although these cities have different names, they do not each collect the dead and transform them into their own family members, and then put them into the human world or other worlds. Rather, it is a process.

Starting from the City of the Dead, the dead must pass through the six cities of the Nine Netherworlds before finally arriving at the City of the Nine Netherworlds, the former lord of the Nine Netherworlds. There, they undergo purification of the mind, memory, spirit, magic power, and spiritual energy, and finally, the soul. Only then can they be transformed into an extremely pure and simple soul and enter the City of the Nine Netherworlds, where they are cast into the small cycle of reincarnation where death and the Great Dao of Creation coexist. After that, they are transferred to the human world or the immortal realm.

One advantage of such reincarnation is that it can increase the number of sentient beings in the world, so that newborns in the world are no longer born naturally from the heavens and earth.

Moreover, in this way, many beings can have a chance to start over. Although they are like blank sheets of paper after experiencing the Six Cities of Death, the essence of their true spirit has not changed. If they achieve success in their cultivation one day, they can still discover traces of their past life in their true spirit and then awaken their past life memories.

After Luo Zu arranged the Lesser Cycle, the Heavens of the Heart Sea seemed to have gained an added layer of mystery and unpredictability. However, Luo Zu understood that this feeling was ultimately like a rootless duckweed, and the Heavens of the Heart Sea could only get on the right track after the true Great Dao of Reincarnation was established.

However, this did not prevent Luo Zu from investing the lingering remnants of the eight Golden Immortals into this place, extracting their Daoist teachings from the endless cycle of reincarnation.

Luo Zu's idea was quickly realized. After the thirty-eighth reincarnation, which he personally oversaw, the three hundred and sixty-one strands of a Golden Immortal's remnant spirit finally turned into a blank sheet of paper, and many memories were extracted.

Luo Zu suddenly became incredibly wealthy.

This Golden Immortal is from the Witch Clan, transformed into the Golden Stone Great Dao. The fourth-order immortal technique he wields is... This has been concealed by the Witch Clan's Heavenly Witch true form, and even if Ancestor Luo uses methods to extract memories, he cannot retrieve it.

Although fourth-order immortal techniques were unattainable, he still possessed numerous third-order and second-order immortal techniques, enough to make Luo Zu a fortune.

Luo Zu quickened his pace, and in the time it took to think, he transformed more remnants of Golden Immortals into blank paper souls, which were then cast into the mortal realm, the immortal realm, the artifact realm, and the dragon realm.

The heavens should also have their own way of being heavens. The matter of reincarnation needs to benefit all the heavens, so the Ancestor of Luo will bestow his blessings equally upon everyone, ensuring that no one is left out.

Unfortunately, the Golden Immortals are very vigilant. It seems that there have been incidents in the prehistoric world where their remnants of their spirits were abducted by others. Therefore, everyone is very strict in protecting their foundation. Fundamental techniques such as fourth-order immortal arts are absolutely guarded against, and remnants of spirits cannot be understood.

Luo Zu already understood this. Battles are often a war of information, and only when you have a crushing advantage can you ignore these things.

As for whether Luo Zu's actions at this moment will be discovered by the officials of the Nine Netherworlds, that is absolutely impossible.

Luo Zu has countless ways to prevent them from discovering that he is using Samsara, leaving them with no trace whatsoever.

In addition, they are now paying close attention to the situation in the celestial realm and the mortal world.

That great battle had far-reaching consequences. The great sages of the mortal realm even sent people to contact them, wanting to join forces, storm the celestial realm, kill the Heavenly Emperor, and seize his throne.

But this idea seems unreliable. If it were really possible, they would have done it already. Besides, there are "spies" of the Heavenly Emperor among the Seven Kings of the Nine Netherworlds.

The Heavenly Emperor of today is no longer the lord of the Nine Netherworlds who hated other races and only allowed humans to be his subjects. He is full of love and even happy to spread his divine image and name to other races. So before this incident, there were many beings in the human world who loved and respected the Heavenly Emperor.

But now that the Heavenly Emperor has done this, he has also offended many people. Many races in the human world have toppled the statues of the Heavenly Emperor, defaced his divine name, and become extremely jealous of him.

Of course, there are also beings who still have a fanatical faith in the Heavenly Emperor. They go against the tide and worship the Heavenly Emperor in their own way, offering their beliefs to the Heavenly Emperor. And the Heavenly Emperor still responds, and more generously and frequently than before. Six out of ten prayers will be answered, whereas in the past, even a hundred prayers might not receive a single response.

Such behavior naturally made those who were already devout believers in the Heavenly Emperor even more fanatical.

However, not many people knew about this; apart from the Heavenly Emperor, only Luo Zu was aware of it.

As for why the Heavenly Emperor would act in this way, it's quite simple: he too had discovered the poison of faith.

The faith and offerings of sentient beings have both advantages and disadvantages. If not handled properly, they may cause one to fall into a state of mental madness, with one's mind being polluted by the distracting thoughts of sentient beings.

This is an extremely undesirable thing to do, but for the past 90,000 years, the Heavenly Emperor has spared no effort in spreading his faith to the mortal realm, the Nine Netherworlds, and even the newly discovered Dragon Realm and the Artifact Realm which cooperates with the Immortal Realm. He has followers in all of these places.

He was in a hurry; reality forced him to be anxious. He considered himself the successor of the Immortal Elder, so naturally he had to inherit the glory of the Immortal Elder, and even surpass him. Only in this way could he truly inherit the position of the Immortal Elder.

Therefore, he wanted to become a god as soon as possible, so that he could rule over all the heavens, suppress all those who refused to submit, and even completely wipe out the Heavenly Demon Realm.

But no matter how anxious he was, it was no use. Godhood was not so easy to achieve. He also realized that no matter how many believers he gained, they could not elevate him to godhood. Although his rules were deeply rooted in people's hearts, they had not been completely transformed into the great principles of heaven and earth, and it was impossible for him to become a god.

Moreover, the downsides of people having too many and too complicated beliefs are slowly becoming apparent, and he is falling into a state of paranoia.

Fortunately, it was discovered early, allowing for early treatment.

But this obsession still influenced him, leading him to issue the current order.

They wiped out the celestial realms and caves, making an example of them to intimidate the celestial deities.

If the Celestial Venerables are not satisfied, he will also raze the thirty-six celestial grottoes of the Immortal Realm to the ground.

Luo Zu naturally saw these changes in him and understood that Yang wanted to "purify the believers." But the more important reason was that Yang had obtained his method of becoming a god, but only knew how to cultivate it and did not know how to make it his own.

This is what Luo Zu wants, and this is what Yang should do.

After all, the original method of becoming a god was deduced by Luo Zu. Although it was successfully tested in the Fire Cloud Cave, it was ultimately only applicable to Luo Zu.

Furthermore, other people's methods of cultivating immortality and witchcraft are all different and wonderful in their own way. Unlike Yang, who just blindly follows the original version and practices without caring about anything else, he at least developed his own methods, such as developing a method for becoming a god through incense offerings.

It can only be said that the central government's thinking has become rigid, especially after it became the Heavenly Emperor.

However, his experience did inspire Luo Zu.

Since you are all so unambitious, then he will create a method for lazy people to become gods.

—Ascend the divine steps!

(End of this chapter)