Chapter 355

After Guo Zhanghai obtained the "panel" that was a three-in-one combination of the Lingbao Register Method, the Dharma Nature Chip, and Divine Nature.

He ultimately could not resist exploring the Dharma Realm himself; he played as if in a True Person game in the shallow layers of the Dharma Realm, slaughtering quite a few gnomes and orcs, and even refining a base, allowing him to begin controlling and collecting resources to spawn troops.

This strategy of sneaky development and frantic troop spawning gave him a sense of wielding power and commanding the situation.

However, occupying the shallow Dharma Realm for half a day could not be considered purification, so he descended into the depths of the Dharma Realm to continue raiding that white house; it took him three days, dying three times a day to force a logout, and after being unable to log into the Dharma Realm again to recuperate his soul, on the ninth attempt, he finally rescued the real child.

"Thank you, Uncle. If only every child could meet their own superhero. It's fortunate that I met you..." After saying this, the little blond boy dissipated with the wind, and that white house was purified, the evil spirits and obsessions within losing their ability to linger. A beam of holy light enveloped Guo Zhanghai.

Guo Zhanghai felt a sense of dreaminess before returning to his physical body, waking up in reality.

The Qi and Spirit attributes within his Essence, Qi, and Spirit increased by 0.1 each, and the previously F-rank Cursed Doll transformed into an E-rank "Little Angel Doll."

The little angel is an image that frequently appears in the murals of Western countries: clean, blond hair, a pair of wings, crowning people with crowns, and wearing holy robes. They are especially numerous around the Virgin Mary.

"Did I just purify a deep-layer Dharma Realm?"

Li Rentai helped record it: "We have already found the location of the child abuse white house you entered before. That was an incident from thirty years ago; a couple adopted the orphan of a distant cousin from an orphanage to inherit the estate, but they quickly squandered the inheritance, so they began to abuse him, even wanting to kill him for insurance money. When he was discovered, he had already starved into a dried corpse, curled up in a corner."

"Since you purified that place, we have already set about buying it and registered it in your name, Daoist friend. You can set up a Dao altar there as a base in America."

"By the way, the Five Prisons Ascension Ceremony is also about to begin. The Ancestor invites you to observe the ceremony and, incidentally, confer Registers upon the fellow Daoists."

Having said this, he led Guo Zhanghai away. Over at the plaza of Tongtian Temple, a three-legged large Incense Burner and a four-legged cauldron were both bright with Incense Fire, and several disciples who had already completed the Five Prisons trial were each holding blood and flesh organs, contained in rice cooker inner pots.

Inside, one could see hearts, tongues... a series of bloody materials, just like those Magic Tools of the Mizang Yu, requiring a set of wet intestines taken from a Spirit Child under three years old, a piece of human skin taken from a fourteen-year-old girl...

But these were taken from members of an Evil Sect, the evil karma of those with heavy sins.

To be honest, a disciple like Xu Jia who kills to refine the Dao also belongs to one of the Evil Sects in America.

Guo Zhanghai and the disciples of the Dongda Dao group looked at these organs in the rice cooker inner pots, which were even kept cool with ice, and with the surging bloody Qi, some could not help but vomit.

Their expressions toward this dried corpse of Xu Jia also gradually became fearful, though the many disciples about to be conferred the Ghost Immortal Register were fanatically excited.

These disciples included Chinese, Black people, White people, Yeh Teachings priests, and Buddhist monks; they had all betrayed their own classes and faiths to join Xu Jia's team.

"The Ghost Immortal is a body of pure spirit; with a mind that is not obscured, one also has the opportunity to ascend to the Southern Palace."

Xu Jia operated the Lushan Five Prisons Great Method, and suddenly various Hells manifested before him, the Dharma Realm and reality interacting; in that Mountain of Knives Hell, there were knife ladders and sword stones, ten thousand ghosts climbing the mountain, their hands and feet cut until they bled, their bellies slashed open, intestines hanging out, and at the mountain top were prison wardens, Judges, and Criminal Officials.

In that Huohai Diyu, there was scorched earth everywhere, countless flames, and magma covering the ground, but a cool Oasis seemed to be not far away; ten thousand ghosts stepped onto the sea of fire, the flames burning the ghosts from the soles of their feet into charcoal, and then the entire ghost would burn up, becoming a scorched lump, but not long after drying out, they would be transformed and born from somewhere else, constantly being burned to death, burned until oil seeped out, burned into withered wood, burned into charcoal ash.

That Earth Pit Hell was a mine; the ghosts were mining in the earth pit, the surroundings were extremely deep and dangerous, there was no food, no water, and no way out; when they mined large stones, they had to turn them into small stones, and small stones had to be smashed into even smaller stones; they had no tools and could only rely on their hands and feet to throw and smash them, and those who smashed their hands or broke their legs were not few; then these small stones piled into a mountain were laid into layers of stairs, wanting to escape the pit, but at a certain point, this staircase would landslide, burying all the ghosts, and then they would continue to be transformed and born.

That Thorny Iron Tree Hell was full of thorns, with spikes everywhere; if you didn't move, the thorns would enter your body and suck you to death; if you moved, the thorns would slash your flesh and belly, and the flesh and blood would flow away bit by bit... finally hanging on the thorns to become a dried corpse. Afterward, the dried corpse would disappear after a while, resurrect, and the cycle would repeat.

That Cold Ice Hell was covered in ice and was extremely freezing; without fur to cover the body, one had to move constantly to keep warm; if one stopped moving for a moment, one would freeze stiff and freeze to death, then start over, and then continue jumping just to keep warm and active.

These five great Hells were somewhat the same as before, and some were not quite the same, only because last time Xu Jia used Divine Nature to summon them, but this time he truly found human owl sacrifices, so the summoned Hells were real Hells.

One could see these sacrifices each emitting evil Qi, and the souls of the owners of those organs were summoned into Hell, while at the same time, the souls of many disciples and grand-disciples also entered along with them.

These souls included Voodoo, Cannibal Demon Sect, White and Black, but they were treated equally and all descended into Hell together.

At this moment, the Dharma nature of the Five Prisons Judge suddenly became lively, as the main official's will had descended; he jumped out of the Hell illusion, landed in reality, and arrived beside Xu Jia.

Xu Jia recognized this Judge; his surname was Qin, and Xu Jia had had some slight acquaintance with him when he was in the Underworld, though not very deep.

There are many monks and Daoists before the gates of Hell; at that time, Xu Jia was responsible for receiving some monks and Daoists who were half-baked in their cultivation, all of them being types like Yin Masters; they would not go to Shigong Shan, Lushan, and could not go to mountain peaks like Yin Mountain, nor did they want to become Cold Altar Wandering Masters, drifting everywhere, so they wanted to be reincarnated or find a temporary job in the Underworld.

But most of them had dirty hands, either cheating people out of money, practicing evil arts to harm others, or slandering the Underworld; in short, it was inevitable that they would take a trip through Hell, so one needed to deal with the Judge in charge of the small Hell where the souls from Blue Star went; there were many such Judges, and the Xiaodifu managed five hundred small worlds, so there were five hundred Judges, either Ninth Rank or Eighth Rank, and their ranks were not considered high.

Qin Pan performed a bow, respecting Xu Jia's status as a Lingbao Heavenly Master and the Lingbao Great Dao behind him.

After the bow, the Judge's tone became ordinary, and he asked: "Daoist friend Xu, you cannot bypass the Underworld's judgment or the mortal world's judgment and deal with human owls on your own; ancient methods of transmitting the Dharma involved bringing them to justice and subjecting them to proper punishment; this kind of behavior belongs to walking the edge."

Xu Jia pointed at this illusion: "Qin Pan, look at where this is."

Qin Pan recognized it: "Is this the San Francisco you govern?" His tone immediately softened quite a bit: "Didn't you return to soul and reincarnate to re-cultivate? Why have you returned to this place again?" Xu Jia smiled and said to the Judge: "Back then, I was only obsessed with cultivation, but I also took a wrong turn; now I am single-mindedly pioneering, wanting to build a City God Temple here in America, to act as a Xiaodifu office, to promote Taoism, and to believe in the True Gods of Heaven and Earth. With my status as a Lingbao Heavenly Master, can I confer titles upon gods, and can I open a government office and establish a base?"

Qin Pan thought about it and said: "As long as these red-haired ghosts and yellow-haired ghosts can enter the Xiaodifu reincarnation process, that is a great good. They believe in foreign gods, such as the one in Tian Tang, who is actually not of our pantheon, but belongs to a subsidiary realm of a Great Thousand World that was hunted down by our Heavenly Court in the past, and has not yet been assimilated. If you can provide education and harmonize the different races, that counts as merit; what are a few mere Ghost Immortals?"

Xu Jia thought of the Dragon Nest, which could become a Water Clan Reincarnation Vessel, and a desire also arose in his heart to grasp a portion of the authority of reincarnation, wanting to establish a tiny Underworld beneath the Xiaodifu to assist the Xiaodifu in managing reincarnation matters.

So he inquired: "Is Huang Zhenren still in the Underworld? What about the Fengdu Emperor? Can I pay a visit through this?"

"Huang Zhenren is still patrolling the various realms and went with that person from Mount Tai; he is not a person of our Underworld, but was sent down to us by the Heavenly Court. As for the Emperor, the Emperor is naturally on the throne; do you and the Emperor actually have a relationship?"

"Why say it like that? Can't we talk if there's no relationship?"

"Your return to soul was handled by Huang Zhenren; if we really discuss it, it counts as Reversing Yin and Yang and causing chaos in the human world. The Emperor has already turned a blind eye to you; don't look for trouble too much. If it's not a very serious matter, you can find us to handle it just the same."

Qin Pan asked tentatively: "Is it the problem of the Dharma Realm order in America?"

"It is exactly this matter."

Xu Jia ignored those disciples in the Lushan Five Prisons; they did not cultivate their minds, and if there were human owls, they felt they could be used as an achievement to become Ghost Immortals; it was better to suffer a bit and know the consequences of doing evil; as long as this prison punishment did not harm the foundation, it also had the effect of increasing the strength of the soul.

He then summoned the street Earth Deity: "This is the Earth Deity I am attempting to confer in America; I always feel something is missing."

Qin Pan saw the problem at a glance: "It is that the Divine Nature has not been refined; this is no wonder. Generally, only divine cultivators who possess the ability to pioneer worlds know these things; this also counts as a historical legacy problem. The Heavenly Court has conquered too many worlds, and many are managed casually, making it difficult to be precise. This Squid God is an evil god; although Divine Nature can nourish gods or be used to draw Godly Talismans, it won't work if it hasn't been refined by the 'Creation God Furnace' to remove the original will and only refine the Quanshen."

"The Divine Nature required by an Earth Deity needs to have Yin spirits, land, and even the peace of the six domestic animals, monitoring the daily duty, agriculture, reproduction, death... the sparrow may be small, but it has all the internal organs; only then can one become an Earth Deity. You are using a kind of evil god Divine Nature to confer a title, and without communicating with the Heavenly Net, not entering the Divine Path system, it can only be said that you have turned one evil god into another evil god."

"Your few Ghost Immortal disciples are the same; the remnants in their bodies are Demon God Divine Nature, right? Although it changed their aptitude and bone structure and they obtained the Ghost Immortal Register, it is difficult to practice the righteous method; instead, it is a heterodox technique, and they will gradually become like a fish in water."

"Then where is this Creation God Furnace? Can it refine the Divine Nature of these Demon Gods and evil gods for the Heavenly Court to use? And how does one communicate with the Heavenly Net to install the Earth Deity?"

"Don't even think about the Creation God Furnace; it's not something you can think about, but the Underworld has places for exchange. The Heavenly Net is the layout of laws and is not ready-made, but doesn't the Underworld have a Merit Stele? That thing can sacrifice the Divine Nature of these evil gods and Demon Gods to exchange for Merit, and Merit can be exchanged for corresponding Divine Nature pills; roughly three evil god Divine Natures can be exchanged for one refined Divine Nature."

Xu Jia twitched, feeling that the Underworld was too dark, but he also felt that being formal was more important than profit; he had already tried hard to pull in support from Dongda, and the Xiaodifu was his second home, so he should also pull in some support; it wasn't that just because he became a Lingbao Heavenly Master, he was truly a direct descendant of the Lingbao line; they were at the center, while he was still just a village official.

"Fine!"

Xu Jia directly scrapped the Godly Talisman of this Earth Deity, and took out the Divine Nature of the previous four disciples, as well as the Divine Nature of these Demon Gods and evil gods he had in storage, and handed them to Qin Pan.

Qin Pan, however, took out a Godhead: "This thing has already been refined and is worth one thousand two hundred evil god Divine Natures; in the Form Realm, it is called a Divine Path seed. Although it is not ranked, it automatically upgrades its origin when it reaches the Desire Realm, making it extremely precious. I will let you use it first; the Divine Nature inside is enough to confer titles upon ten such small Earth Deities. You can continue to collect Divine Nature in America, or send souls into the Underworld; one hundred can be worth one Divine Nature."

Xu Jia was also someone who had seen the world and knew that his own merits could not be shared with others for small gains; this Qin Pan was very shrewd, wanting to exchange a Divine Path seed for Xu Jia's credit; it was too sinister. Xu Jia didn't even covet the treasure of the Yellow Heaven Sect, and they even claimed to be descendants of the Heavenly Emperor.

"No, please help me exchange it for Merit Stele Divine Nature, Judge; it is inconvenient for me to go down to the Xiaodifu."

As Xu Jia said this, Qin Pan knew he was too impatient and had been seen through, but he didn't turn hostile; after all, Xu Jia had the status of a Lingbao Heavenly Master here, and although a Desire Realm Heavenly Master wasn't worth much, he was still an official, and even if the return to soul was a small handle, this matter was done by Huang Zhenren, unless he wanted to take down Huang Zhenren.

"How about this, Daoist friend, this Divine Path seed will be a gift for you."

"Then I want it even less; the free ones are the most expensive."

Qin Pan said helplessly: "Fellow Daoist, I want to advance so much; this is an opportunity, let me join in."

Xu Jia laughed heartily: "Then you just played these petty tricks on me. We have worked together before, and this Ghost Immortal demon trial and the execution of the human owl were also left behind by the Ancestor. If the Ancestor could do it, why can't I? The laws of the small world have changed, but do the laws of the Heavenly Court and the Underworld have to change along with the small world?"

He then said: "As for the matter of the evil god's Divine Nature, you, Judge, pointed that out correctly, but don't take me for a fool, alright? We have worked together once, after all. I am currently holding a post at the Wuyue Office with the treatment of a Fifth Rank in the Desire Realm. Speaking of which, it is about the same as you, a small Underworld Hell Judge of the Eighth Rank in the Form Realm. Now that I have achieved the fruit of a God Immortal, after ascending to a Heavenly Immortal, once I reach the Form Realm, it will be a Seventh Rank fruit, serving in the Heavenly Court, not the Underworld... Do you think it is appropriate to sell the Merit of this Heavenly Immortal fruit for a single Divine Path seed?"

"It is not appropriate, it is very inappropriate." Qin Pan was still smiling: "I was confused and forgot how to calculate. Thanks to the Heavenly Master for the reminder."

Upon hearing that Xu Jia held a post at the Wuyue Office, Qin Pan shut his mouth. As for achieving Heavenly Immortal, aren't you not there yet?

He thought for a moment and said: "Then Heavenly Master, please bring out a plan. If you are doing things above, you will always need someone to cooperate below; only then will it be perfect. Otherwise, a single palm cannot clap, and a lone tree is hard to support."

Xu Jia thought: "Neither of our powers is enough. To establish legitimacy, we must find the Emperor. It is not appropriate for me to go, but it is appropriate for you. As long as you are willing to persuade the Emperor, I will govern the America Dharma Realm with you. After ascending in the future, I can even let you receive the Incense Fire offerings from my Tongtian Temple disciples."

(End of this chapter)