Chapter 246: Reincarnation, Rebirth

This world communication.

One of its messages was of great importance.

It was placed at the very end.

Jiang Jian slid his finger, pulling the second communication to the bottom.

His gaze trembled, his heart seized in shock!

“The Underworld exists within a dimensional space, as the reverse side of Earth.”

“Its realm rules are exceptionally unique, capable of drawing in the spirits already dead from the other three realms—Earth, Moon, and Sky.”

Seeing this was not surprising.

These facts were known to all.

After death, a spirit has a high chance of entering the Underworld and becoming a dead one.

But the message that followed.

Was what truly stunned Jiang Jian.

“The Lord of the Underworld, to show sincerity to the Earth Alliance.”

“Spent his Soul Platform’s primordial essence personally to cleanse the death aura from countless dead ones across thirty prefectures of the Underworld.”

“The once dazed dead regained partial awareness and could temporarily reunite with their families.”

“After this brief reunion.”

“These dead ones would vanish utterly, no longer suffering torment.”

The existence of the dead is inherently peculiar.

These dead ones cannot cultivate actively; they rely entirely on the Underworld’s death aura to avoid dissolving into nothingness.

“The Lord of Unjust Deaths also showed sincerity, fully infiltrating the Underworld’s rules.”

“Ensuring that any spirit who died fighting for Earth in the Moon Realm would inevitably appear in the Underworld.”

This world communication.

Had spread across all four realms of Earth and Moon in an extremely short time.

Even if dead, one would appear in the Underworld.

After reading the communication, Jiang Jian’s eyes narrowed in thought.

His expression was dark.

This wording was merely polished rhetoric.

In essence.

To “appear” in the Underworld meant nothing more than becoming a “dead one.”

Though the Lord of the Underworld, of the Soul Platform realm, had pledged to cleanse the death aura of all “dead ones.”

The dead still could not be revived.

In Jiang Jian’s view.

Those who reappeared in the Underworld after death.

Were merely corpses carrying fragments of their former memories—mindless, confused, hollow shells, nothing like the original living beings.

Like Shi Xuan’s mother.

She was, at her core, a mixture of memory and death aura.

Pretending to be “mother,” she ensnared Shi Xuan.

Causing his soul to be tainted by death aura, slowly sinking into the abyss.

Cleansing the death aura would indeed purify the memories, allowing the “person” to exist briefly in a “human” state.

But after some time, this “person” would vanish completely, turning to dust.

Yet.

For Earth’s living,

This method did hold considerable utility.

It allowed those who died suddenly ample time to settle their affairs.

It also permitted some to remain in the Underworld indefinitely in “dead one” form.

If one did not wish to die.

Even as a “dead one,” one could still use the Underworld’s rules to advance in cultivation.

Once reaching the Yin Lord realm, one could control one’s awareness for most of the time.

The Yin Lord realm is the Soul Palace realm.

In ordinary interactions, one differed little from a living person.

And if a dead one in the Underworld raised his rule-based cultivation to the Soul Platform realm.

He could achieve true resurrection!

For instance, the Lord of the Underworld.

For instance, the Lord of Unjust Deaths.

These two Soul Platform cultivators, after centuries of time, rose above countless dead ones in the Underworld.

Forcing their way to the Soul Platform realm through the Underworld’s rules.

Their life tier finally underwent transformation.

“The Underworld will no longer produce Soul Platform cultivators.”

A thought crossed Jiang Jian’s mind.

He had witnessed firsthand the strange, terrifying nature of the Underworld’s rules.

Each dead one’s advancement required countless others to be consumed as fuel.

But.

The Lord of the Underworld had personally cleansed ninety-nine percent of the dead ones.

The Underworld had been emptied.

Under its rules, without a vast base of dead ones.

Not to mention Soul Platform.

Even Yin Lord would be nearly impossible to attain again.

Jiang Jian deduced.

The greatest purpose of this world communication was only one.

To dispel Earth’s living from their ignorance and fear of death.

After the Lord of Unjust Deaths had acted personally.

All living beings across the four realms, upon death, would inevitably appear in the Underworld.

Every dead one now had ample time to bid farewell to their loved ones.

If their loved ones chose to cleanse their death aura.

They could even exist for a time on the surface realm in a “normal” state.

This method.

Had exploited the Underworld’s rules to their utmost.

Yet the Underworld’s rules now.

Remained chaotic, twisted, and grotesque.

Though the Lord of the Underworld and the Lord of Unjust Deaths, both Soul Platform beings,

Were willing to expend their primordial essence to slightly permeate the rules,

Their fundamental nature could never be changed.

Suddenly,

Jiang Jian recalled.

In Earth’s ancient myths, there existed reincarnation and rebirth.

But in the current four realms of Earth and Moon, such a thing did not exist.

Life, from birth to death, was a straight line.

To live longer, a being could only strive endlessly to extend this line.

Beyond this, there was no turning back.

“Yinshan.”

“Its authority governs the rebirth of living beings.”

Jiang Jian’s gaze grew solemn.

He brushed his moon-white robe, and black light bloomed silently.

A magnificent black wood staff appeared, shedding ten thousand rays of light.

“The Moon Realm is the largest existing wonder realm among the four realms of Earth and Moon.”

“The True Lord of the Moon caused it to descend.”

“Becoming the Moon Realm as it is now.”

Jiang Jian caressed the black wood staff, his expression calm.

“If I claim the position of Earth Store Bodhisattva.”

“And bring Yinshan down into the Underworld, merging it with its rules.”

Could the Four Realms of Earth and Moon give rise to reincarnation?

The thought passed through him in a flash.

Jiang Jian had no intention of self-sacrifice at this moment.

After all,

A complete wonderland was far too precious.

It offered immense aid to his own cultivation.

(End of Chapter)