After breaking up with my girlfriend, I became a Great Sage of the Demon Clan.

"No power?"

There's no power, and there's a human skeleton on the ground...

Little Yama had also heard Zhou Yan mention the worlds of "A Chinese Ghost Story" and "The Legend of the White Snake" that he had visited, but it seemed that as long as he didn't do anything reckless, there wouldn't be any danger in those two places.

However, this world made Xiao Yanjun feel that it seemed different from the world Zhou Yan had experienced before.

"Xiao Yan, keep a close watch up there. If there's any danger, come to my aid immediately."

"Ok."

Little Yama walked towards the skeleton, descending the stairs step by step until he reached the skeleton.

I kicked the skeleton with my toe, but it didn't react.

Little Yama knelt down again, looked down at the skeleton, and turned it over once more.

After a while, Little Yama got up and walked towards the other half of the passageway leading to the first floor.

Zhou Yan followed slowly.

The two went downstairs one after the other.

The first floor was a mess, with broken furniture pieces and sheets of white paper scattered on the ground, as if someone had come and vandalized the house.

The door on the first floor was wide open, and a biting cold wind blew in from outside, hitting Zhou Yan and Little Yama, who were both alive.

Zhou Yan felt so cold that he couldn't help but find a place to hide. Only Little Yama sniffed and asked in confusion.

"The concentration of yin energy in this place is abnormal."

Zhou Yan, who was hiding in a warmer spot, asked.

"What's wrong with it?"

Little Yama's expression was solemn.

"It's almost like a shallow abyss underworld. With this concentration of yin energy, it wouldn't be difficult for a person to become a ghost after death."

Zhou Yan tightened his clothes, and soon his stomach started growling.

Zhou Yan was hungry.

Little Yama looked back at Zhou Yan, who was hiding in the corner.

Zhou Yan shook his head.

"No need to look for food."

Zhou Yan walked over to a potted plant lying on the ground, reached out and grabbed a handful of soil. The soil slowly changed color in Zhou Yan's hand and then clumped together.

It took Zhou Yan a full ten minutes to transform a piece of fragment into a lump of meat—beef.

That's how "化生" is used.

Zhou Yan used his transformation technique to turn the soil into a head with regular facial features.

Little Yama praised.

"Great, we won't have to worry about food and drink for a while now."

Another gust of cold wind blew in, but this time it was stronger and carried with it a fishy smell that Little Yama disliked.

Following the stench, Xiao Yanjun turned his gaze. The source of the stench was not hard to find. As soon as Xiao Yanjun's gaze peeked out from the first-floor door, he saw a woman of unparalleled beauty, radiating light, strolling over from a corner of the street.

Zhou Yan, who was about to start a fire to roast meat, stared in astonishment at the woman walking towards him.

The woman walked in radiance, her entire being bathed in light, appearing like a movie heroine with backlighting, conveying a sense of holiness and purity.

Little Yama immediately turned around and said to Zhou Yan with a smile.

"Does it ever feel like you've just entered a game and suddenly a cute PC girl pops up and tells you about the game's premise and main storyline?"

Zhou Yan nodded.

"Hmm, if this beautiful PC dares to ask me what my wish is, I want this goddess!"

It's worth noting that even though a certain brain-dehydrated god had zero IQ, he still provided immense assistance to a certain underwear thief who transmigrated through time.

Little Yama nodded his chin toward the white bones on the stair landing.

"If you want to be like that guy, then go and get close to the woman outside the door."

Little Yama started to back away and went back up the stairs.

"Alright, enough with the nonsense. This place isn't safe. Let's go back."

Little Yama went up the stairs, and Zhou Yan followed with the meat in his hand.

The two went upstairs together and returned to the study they had come from earlier—or rather, the office.

Little Yama even went to the study window, pulled back the curtains a little, and peeked out the window from inside.

From this vantage point, you can see the radiant woman walking along the street for a while, seemingly finding nothing, before turning back.

Little Yama looked at the woman's body, then at the shadow around her.

A woman's shadow is different from her body; it is a writhing mass that constantly changes sex and occasionally opens its eyes from within the shadow.

Anglerfish...

On the seabed, anglerfish with a "lantern" on their head will lie in a corner, using their "three lanterns" to attract small fish from the surrounding area, and then eat them in one bite.

The glowing beauty we just saw was just a "lantern," while the twisting, writhing shadows on the ground were the true form of this monster.

As the Ghost Emperor, Little Yama could sense that the shadow's yin energy far surpassed that of the beautiful woman above, so this little trick couldn't fool him at all.

"what!"

There was a gasp, followed by Zhou Yan's voice.

"No! Brother Yan, the earliest it's possible now is 2310!"

Chapter Three: Reversal

Zhou Yan followed Xiao Yanjun back to his office after he woke up. Xiao Yanjun knew what the glowing woman who had just appeared was, so as soon as he came in, he hid behind the window to observe the "anglerfish".

Zhou Yan, seeing that there was a bookshelf nearby and not being able to leave, walked over to the bookshelf and began to browse through the books.

Zhou Yan and Xiao Yanjun had just woken up and didn't know where they were or what dangers lay ahead. So they decided to give up collecting information from the books for now and go outside for a walk to make sure the surroundings were safe before doing anything else.

As soon as Zhou Yan opened the book, he sensed something was wrong.

This is no ordinary book; it is a historical research book. In this book, it is written that the Eastern Xia United States split up 312 years after its founding, followed by internal strife in various states and the entry of foreign powers into the Eastern Xia United States.

The war and unrest lasted for fifty years. The search for the object was finally completed by a music student from Central State who had failed his college entrance exams.

Thirty years passed after unification, but contrary to what most people expected, there was no development of flesh and blood suffering, mechanical advancement, or star destroyers traveling to different planets to collect resources.

Rather, it means that human civilization has begun to regress.

The reason for the regression was that another world war broke out between countries. During this war, nuclear weapons were used indiscriminately and bombs were carried out in various places. After enough people died on all sides, a unified Earth government emerged.

But this government did not rule for long before it split up.

The reason for the division is not that the contradictions between the various ethnic groups are irreconcilable, but that before dawn, the dead have risen from their graves.

Man-eating monsters and murderous evil spirits began to roam between the big cities.

The history in this book extends to 2289.

Zhou Yan then flipped through other books. One book, titled "Survival Manual for Ghosts and Monsters," contained some annotations. At the very end of the last page, there was a line that read, "It's already 2315, and we still can't see any hope..."

Little Yama looked back at Zhou Yan and said in surprise.

"2315...300 years from now?"

Zhou Yan tossed the "Survival Manual Against Ghosts and Monsters" to Little Yama, who took it, flipped through it, and immediately his face darkened.

This book, "The Ghost Survival Handbook," details how, a hundred years ago, the dead were resurrected from their graves, shocking the world. Subsequently, various ghosts and evil spirits roamed the earth.

As eternal night descends, the sky is filled with only darkness and night, and no sunlight shines directly on the ground.

Humanity suffered mass extinction under this calamity, with the population reduced from 30 billion to 10 billion. Large numbers of countries perished, and even the most powerful nations were unable to communicate due to the obstruction of eternal night and evil spirits.

Human living areas were divided up, with each region essentially having its own human settlement.

This "Survival Handbook Against Ghosts" is a book that lists the methods and speculations that humans can use to survive when they encounter evil spirits.

After reading "The Survival Manual Against Ghosts and Monsters," Little Yama placed it on the desk beside him, his expression slightly shifting.

Zhou Yan said bitterly.

“We were all wrong. I had been laying the foundation for people in the past, but I didn’t expect this time to be different. We are not coming from the past, but from the future.”

The future, three hundred years from now.

Little Yama asked in confusion.

"Three hundred years from now...the future..."

After a few seconds of silence, Little Yama suddenly clapped his hands and asked Zhou Yan.

"Xiao Yan, I remember you told me that in the attribute panel of the Fengdu Emperor, there is a skill called 'Three Thousand Years'?"

The Emperor of Fengdu is replaced every three thousand years, but when Zhou Yan resurrected Little Yama, he saw that the Emperor of Fengdu still had three hundred years left to serve.

Zhou Yan understood somewhat.

"Brother Yan, do you mean something happened during the change of emperors in Fengdu?"

Little Yama opened the "Survival Manual for Ghosts and Monsters" again.

"Hmm... This anomaly seems to have started a hundred years ago. However, at the beginning, the human world was quite normal. There weren't so many dead people, and there were still connections between different places. But by 2315, the calamity had developed to the point of human annihilation."

"I suspect it wasn't just a problem with the leadership transition; it's possible that the Emperor of Fengdu was facing a leadership transition, coupled with his poor health, and then..."

Little Yama couldn't bring himself to say what was next.

Zhou Yan responded.

"The Emperor of Fengdu has fallen?"

Little Yama nodded without saying a word.

Did the Emperor of Fengdu in this timeline die?

So that's why the eternal night and the resurrection of the dead occurred? (This is a reference to a specific event or situation.)

"It might be more than that."

Little Yama walked up to a dusty chair. He initially wanted to sit down, but seeing the thick layer of dust on it, he changed his mind.

"Actually, in the Abyss Underworld, both the Ten Kings of Hell and the Five Ghost Emperors are dead. Only the Emperor of Fengdu is still alive. But the Six Paths of Reincarnation are still cycling. I tried it out of curiosity and found that the Six Paths of Reincarnation system is a program. Even if the Emperor of Fengdu dies, it can continue on its own. Do you understand?"

Zhou Yan nodded. This wasn't hard to understand. The Six Paths of Reincarnation was a system, and the Emperor of Fengdu was the administrator with the highest authority. The other underworld gods each had different levels of authority.

The Emperor of Fengdu wields such power that he can not only rebirth you as a dog or a pig, but also arbitrarily delegate divine authority to other ghosts and spirits, directly granting these beings, who were mortals in their previous lives, divine status.

The Little Yama King's position as one of the Five Ghost Emperors was granted to him with the consent of the Great Emperor of Fengdu. (Three)

"That's why... I understand very well..." Ling

Little Yama said in a deep voice.

"And this matter of the dead coming back to life is not within the process of the Six Paths of Reincarnation at all."

The program for the Six Paths of Reincarnation doesn't contain any code for resurrecting the dead. Accidents caused by occasional program bugs are understandable. There are special positions for underworld officials and soldiers to capture ghosts and spirits that escaped due to bugs.

But now it's no longer a random bug causing heroic spirits to escape; instead, large numbers of the dead are being resurrected, and evil spirits and vengeful ghosts are running rampant in the human world.

The bug is so large that it's beyond what's expected.

Zhou Yan blurted it out.

"Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva!"

Little Yama nodded in satisfaction.

"Heroes see the same thing."

What were the great vows and oaths that Ksitigarbha made after entering hell?

I vow not to become a Buddha until hell is emptied!

Normally, the phrase "I will not become a Buddha until hell is empty" means that Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva will not go to Mount Sumeru to become a Buddha until he has liberated all sentient beings from the sea of ​​suffering.

Conversely, it can also be understood that as long as no one in the underworld is alive, the vow has been fulfilled.