Chapter 551: Authority of reincarnation! Ancestor Minghe strikes!

After the true spirit reincarnates, one only needs to use some methods to recover their memories and retrieve the cultivation of their previous life.

Undoubtedly, the authority of reincarnation could greatly reduce the losses of major powers.

Compared to cultivating a powerhouse from scratch, the resources and time required to resurrect a powerhouse through reincarnation were much less.

In addition, there were not a few cultivators in major powers who fell during cultivation or treasure hunting, or whose cultivation foundation had flaws.

These all needed the authority of reincarnation.

The true authority of reincarnation was entirely in the hands of Mother Pingxin.

But this did not mean that major powers had no possibility of using backdoors.

For cultivators to reincarnate their true spirits and live another life, as long as it was not done in large quantities, it would not have much impact on the order of the entire reincarnation.

To allow the Wu Clan to have a sufficiently stable environment for recuperation, Mother Pingxin would periodically release a portion of the authority for autonomous reincarnation.

The quota for autonomous reincarnation was limited, and to obtain more quotas, one had to fight for them.

This authority was something no major power would give up.

Secondly, the Nine Nether Underworld was the easiest place to accumulate and obtain merit.

Merit is a good thing.

When heaven and earth were first opened, it was relatively easy to obtain merit.

With the continuous perfection of the Primordial World, the difficulty of obtaining merit gradually began to increase.

And the Nine Nether Underworld was one of the only two places in the Primordial World where merit could be stably obtained.

The other place where merit could be stably obtained was the Heavenly Court.

Compared to the Nine Nether Underworld, the Heavenly Court had more restrictions and the difficulty of obtaining merit was greater.

For any cultivator in the Three Realms, merit was never enough; even Saints were always lacking in merit.

Especially Saint Zhunti and Saint Jieyin, their need for merit was even more urgent.

Naturally, Saint Zhunti and Saint Jieyin were the most concerned among the six Saints about occupying the Nine Nether Underworld.

Finally, the Nine Nether Underworld was one of the realms in the Three Realms, and its importance and richness of resources were second only to the Thirty-Three Heavens.

Not to mention anything else, the resources born in the Nine Nether Underworld alone were worth fighting for by all powers in the Three Realms.

Merit, the authority of reincarnation, and territory were all things that major powers needed.

In addition, there were no prohibitions on fighting in the Nine Nether Underworld.

The Battle of the Investiture of the Gods did not affect the Nine Nether Underworld.

Therefore, after the Battle of the Investiture of the Gods ended, the Nine Nether Underworld could be said to be the liveliest realm in the Three Realms, and many great beings had fought over it.

As the largest power in the Three Realms, Buddhism occupied a considerable share in the Nine Nether Underworld, second only to the Wu Clan.

To hold onto such a share, one had to send true powerhouses.

As the leader of Buddhism in the Nine Nether Underworld, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva’s combat power could rank at least in the top ten, or even the top five, among the many great beings of Buddhism.

Being able to rank in the top five among the many great beings of Buddhism, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva was definitely not a simple character.

After all, thanks to the Battle of the Investiture of the Gods.

Buddhism, which was originally barren and lacked talent, had become one of the most hidden-dragon-and-crouching-tiger powers in the Three Realms by absorbing many disciples from the Chan Sect and the Jie Sect.

Not to mention anything else, just the Three-Age Buddhas of Buddhism, each one was not a simple character.

The Past Buddha, Dipankara, was the Vice Sect Master of the Chan Sect, one of the three thousand guests of Zixiao, with unfathomable combat power, at the very least at the limit of Quasi-Saint.

The Present Buddha, Tathagata Buddha, was one of the Three-Corpse bodies of the Jie Sect’s eldest disciple, Daoist Duobao; because his cultivation time was still short, he was not as good as Dipankara, but he also had the strength of a peak Quasi-Saint.

The Future Buddha, Maitreya Buddha, also known as the Fearless Buddha, was one of the twelve Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect and had already become famous during the Battle of the Investiture of the Gods.

In addition to these three, among the three thousand guests of the red dust that Saint Zhunti and Saint Jieyin plundered from the East to the West, there were several of the twelve Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect.

These were just the famous ones; there were also not a few powerhouses who were not very famous but whose strength was not weak.

To some extent, the reason Buddhism could become the largest power in the Three Realms was entirely because the East had bled too much for the West during the Battle of the Investiture of the Gods.

The strength of Buddhism, excluding the factors of Saint Zhunti and Saint Jieyin, was at least half due to the so-called three thousand guests of the red dust.

That Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva could still rank in the top five among these powerhouses was enough to show that he was not a simple character.

The Nine Nether Underworld was the foundation of the Earth Path and also the base of the Wu Clan.

Now that the Earth Path was about to revive, Mother Pingxin had also successfully broken through to the Hunyuan realm, and even the Twelve Ancestral Witches had been resurrected; it was time for the Wu Clan to appear in the world.

Therefore, taking advantage of the fall of Saint Zhunti and Saint Jieyin, Mother Pingxin and Ancestor Minghe did not go to Lingshan first, but chose to clear up the entire Nine Nether Underworld first.

Only by completely mastering the Nine Nether Underworld could they avoid any accidents that would affect the overall situation of the revival of the Earth Path.

Whoosh!

Not only Ancestor Minghe himself, but with the permission of Mother Pingxin, Ancestor Minghe even summoned a branch of the Nether Sea of Blood.

Under normal circumstances, Mother Pingxin would of course not allow Ancestor Minghe to summon a branch of the Nether Sea of Blood into the Nine Nether Underworld.

The corrosive ability of the Nether Sea of Blood was extremely strong; once a branch of the Nether Sea of Blood was allowed to enter the Nine Nether Underworld, it was hard to guarantee that the Nether Sea of Blood would not take the opportunity to erode the Nine Nether Underworld and leave its branch in the Nine Nether Underworld.

With the blessing of the Nine Nether Underworld, Ancestor Minghe’s combat power was definitely among the strongest under the Saints.

Even if Mother Pingxin personally intervened, she could only suppress Ancestor Minghe and could not expel him.

In the past, no matter what price Ancestor Minghe paid, Mother Pingxin would not allow Ancestor Minghe to summon a branch of the Nether Sea of Blood into the Nine Nether Underworld.

Now it was different.

First, Ancestor Minghe had already become Luo Fu’s puppet.

Luo Fu did not hide this from Mother Pingxin.

Secondly, Mother Pingxin’s Great Dao realm had broken through to the Hunyuan level.

With the blessing of Saint magic power, Mother Pingxin could be considered a true Da Luo Golden Immortal.

Even without the blessing of the Heavenly Dao, suppressing Ancestor Minghe was not a difficult task.

Finally, the Earth Path had been perfected, and the origin of the Nine Nether Underworld was unprecedentedly powerful; a mere Nether Sea of Blood could not possibly erode the Nine Nether Underworld.

Therefore, Mother Pingxin was very relieved about Ancestor Minghe summoning a branch of the Nether Sea of Blood in the Nine Nether Underworld.

The branch of the Nether Sea of Blood led Ancestor Minghe forward, and soon they arrived at a very famous place in the Nine Nether Underworld—the Eighteen Levels of Hell.

The reason Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva could become the leader of Buddhism in the Nine Nether Underworld also had to do with the great vows he had made.