The Chaos Green Lotus and the Great Dao Divine Embryo are immortal, and Jiang Chen will not die. In this way, it is the future. When he is about to succeed in reshaping the ancient world, if he is killed, it doesn't matter, he can be resurrected at any time to make a comeback.
Allies and so on are just a cover. The main purpose is not to hold back those great supernatural power users who are preparing to take action against Jiang Chen, but to attract their attention and give Jiang Chen a chance to make plans.
This plan was inspired by Jiang Chen from Xing Tian.
Preparing a life in advance to hide in the dark for the future can indeed play a surprising role.
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Jiang Chen moved forward, preparing to leave the Nether World, but he did not go to the Gate of Hell, but went in another direction.
After traveling in the void for an unknown amount of time, a huge city suddenly appeared in front of Jiang Chen's eyes. It was larger than any other city in the world. It had clear streets, numerous shops, and countless pedestrians walking through it. It was extremely lively.
"Fengdu City!"
"No, it is not called Fengdu City now, but should be called Fusi City!"
Staring at the city in front of him, Jiang Chen said its name. The city was in vain!
Jiang Chen is very familiar with this city, because this is the city he built with his own hands, a city specially built for people who died in vain. Therefore, this city is called the City of Void Death. However, Jiang Chen prefers to call this city Fengdu.
city.
Fengdu City, which is the residence of Emperor Fengdu, is also the holy land of ghosts. It is the place where the Underworld Division is located and where Emperor Fengdu rules over all ghosts.
Jiang Chen named this city Fengdu City, and his purpose was obvious.
Fengdu City is the residence of Emperor Fengdu. If he didn't want to become Emperor Fengdu, why did he name his city Fengdu City?
However, Jiang Chen is not the Great Emperor of Fengdu yet, so this city can only be called the City of Wasted Death, and cannot be named after Fengdu for the time being.
A wasted death means that someone who dies unjustly due to suicide, disaster, war, accident, murder, victimization, etc. is called a wasted death. To put it simply, it means that when you die, your life span has not yet come to an end.
That would be a wasted death.
The city of vain death is where the ghosts of those who died in vain reside in the underworld.
According to normal prehistoric history, the City of Wasted Death is a city created by Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva in hell for the ghosts who died of unparalleled disasters. It is located adjacent to the Naihe Bridge in the bloody world of suffering. The one in charge of the City of Wasted Death is the Ten Halls.
The sixth palace in Yama is King Bian Cheng, King of Yama.
Unfortunately, that was normal prehistoric history. Now, with the emergence of Jiang Chen, the current of history has long gone astray. Ksitigarbha and Bodhisattva have been deposed by Queen Houtu for hundreds of years, so naturally they have no chance to create again and die in vain.
City.
However, the City of Wasted Death is extremely important to the Netherworld and must appear. Therefore, the heavy responsibility of building the City of Wasted Death fell on Jiang Chen.
After all, the reason why Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva was deposed by Empress Houtu was all due to Jiang Chen. If you killed him, the destiny that he should have fulfilled naturally fell on Jiang Chen.
Of course, building the City of Wasted Death for people who died in vain is not a bad thing. On the contrary, it is a good thing. After completion, you will gain a lot of merit, and there will be an endless stream of merit.
People who die in vain are those who have not yet exhausted their Yang life span. However, before their Yang life span is exhausted, they cannot enter reincarnation and can only wander in the netherworld until their Yang life span is exhausted before they can be reincarnated again.
But it is not a problem to let the souls of these people who died in vain wander in the Netherworld. Therefore, the emergence of the City of In vain has become inevitable. This is the embodiment of the order in the Netherworld. The wandering souls who cannot be reincarnated are included in it and managed centrally.
, so as not to cause trouble.
After the people who died in vain die, they will all gather in the city of vain death to live until the end of their originally destined life span.
For example, if a person is destined to end his life at the age of ninety, but accidentally dies early at the age of forty, he will be concentrated in the City of Wasted Death after his death, and he will not be able to leave the City of Wasted Death until he is ninety years old, and be reincarnated again.
During this period, the soul of the dead in the city can live like a person in the Yang world, and can go to the city to watch and see whether the person who murdered him has received the retribution he deserves.
However, their personal freedom will be strictly controlled. They will not be able to receive ghost paper and paper offerings burned by relatives and friends in the upper world for the dead souls, nor will they be able to return to the upper world to accept offerings from relatives in the upper world during the Ghost Festival like other dead souls.
All money and items burned to these dead souls will be temporarily stored with the Shangqing Palace disciples and others who assisted Jiang Chen, until these dead souls see with their own eyes that the people who murdered him get the retribution they deserve, their resentment is relieved, and they no longer have any resentment in their hearts.
, only then will these items be returned to them after they have the idea of reincarnation.
The reason for doing this is for stability. The worship of relatives in the world is the source of power for these deceased souls. The more pious the relatives are, the faster their strength will increase. It can be said that this is the prototype of Incense Shinto.
People who died in vain originally harbored resentment. If they received the help of telekinesis, their strength would definitely improve by leaps and bounds and transform into vicious ghosts. At that time, affected by resentment, their temperament would change drastically and they would become extremely irritable and hate everything.
At least, they cause chaos everywhere and disturb the peace of the underworld. At worst, they cause disaster to one party and make all living beings miserable. Therefore, they must be centralized and managed.
In short, everything is for the sake of stability, and there can be no chaos in the Netherworld.
Of course, not everyone can enter the City of Wasted Death, even if they die in vain.
If you have committed too many sins during your lifetime, you will not have died in vain, but you will have deserved your death. After death, your soul will be sent directly to hell, and you will not be used to die in vain.
However, because there was no one to supervise the Netherworld, there were some small changes in Jiang Chen's City of Wasted Death.
Yes, since there was no one to supervise him, Jiang Chen simply expanded the authority of the City of Wasted Death. Originally, it could only accommodate people who died in vain, but now, as long as they are wandering souls, they will be admitted to the City of Wasted Death.
The fact that Jiang Chen dared to do this is the biggest manifestation of the lack of order in the Netherworld. If there was complete order in the Netherworld, how could Jiang Chen's behavior be allowed?
The greater the power of Fusi City, the closer Jiang Chen will be to the position of Emperor Fengdu.
If one day, all the ghosts who cannot reincarnate in the Netherworld come to Fengdu City, it will not be far from the time when Jiang Chen will be crowned emperor.
Although breaking the rules is hateful, Jiang Chen's purpose of breaking the rules is to rebuild a new order in the Netherworld. In this way, his behavior can be understood.
If he is truly crowned emperor in the future, his actions today will be a feat praised by countless people. The same purpose, but because the results are different, will produce two different effects.
People are blind and follow the crowd. As long as you are great enough, you don't have to worry if you make a mistake, let alone explain anything, because the people below will take the initiative to find good excuses for you.
They will think that you have some unspeakable secret in doing this, but the purpose must be for everyone's good.
This can also be said to be individualism and blind worship. It is easy for people to get lost in the cheers of everyone and thus not realize their own mistakes.
It’s no wonder that the great man of later generations resolutely opposed individualism and blind worship. Unfortunately, contrary to expectations, he was put on a altar after his death. In his name, countless things were done, which were completely contrary to other people’s opinions.
original intention.
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Different situations, different choices. In a situation like the Netherworld, Jiang Chen doesn't have to worry too much. He just needs to cultivate a personality cult. After all, he really intends to become a god. If he doesn't engage in a personality cult, how can he promote himself?
Go to the altar?
As long as all the ghosts in the Netherworld believe from the bottom of their hearts that Jiang Chen is the Great Emperor of Fengdu, then he must be the emperor. This is what everyone expects.
The power of one person is limited, but the power of all living beings is infinite. With the establishment of the divine way, even a mortal, with the blessing of the power of all living beings, can ascend to the altar in one step and possess boundless power.
Emerging from the void, Jiang Chen stepped into the City of Wasted Death. He wanted to leave the nether world, but instead of going through the gate of hell, he came to the City of Wasted Death. There was naturally a reason.
The City of Death is extremely special. It does not entirely belong to the Nether World, but is half in the Nether World and half in the human world. In other words, it is built in a place where the two worlds overlap.
On weekdays, the City of Wasted Death is indeed in the Nether World, but when the Zhongyuan Festival comes every year, the space where the City of Wasted Death is located changes and descends from the Netherworld to the human world.
The underworld and the human world are too close. Every once in a while, the edge areas of the two worlds will overlap. Then, new passages will appear between the two worlds that were originally connected only by the gate of hell.
And this is a catastrophe for the human world. Countless ghosts will escape from this area to the underworld and enter the human world to plunder the life of the living.
Although the chaos in Shu was caused by the changes in the Netherworld, it was more because this place was where the human world and the Netherworld overlapped. The space was the most fragile. It would be broken by a slight impact, thus allowing the passage between the two worlds to be connected.
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Otherwise, if the human world is so vast, why would ghost trouble break out in Shu?
Jiang Chen built the City of Wasted Death here, and another purpose was to block the passage between the two realms. As long as the City of Wasted Death is not lost, the ghosts from the Netherworld will not be able to enter the human world.
When he left the Palace of Reincarnation, Jiang Chen calculated the time and found that there were only a few days before the Ghost Festival. Therefore, he did not go to the Gate of Hell, but turned around and came to the City of Fusi.
He planned to leave the Netherworld from here and take a look at the situation in Wusi City.
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Because the Ghost Festival is approaching, Waishi City is extremely lively. There is even a night market. There are countless pedestrians coming and going in the middle of the street, and both sides are lined with various shops.
How is this situation different from the human world? If Jiang Chen hadn't known that he was in the Netherworld and saw this extremely lively scene in front of him, he would have thought that he was in the imperial capital of Luoyang.
"It's so lively. It seems that the disciples of Shangqing Palace manage this place well."
After walking around for a while, Jiang Chen nodded with satisfaction. He didn't care whether the city was hot or bustling. What he cared about was whether the disciples who managed the city were doing their duty.
Now it seems that they are still very conscientious. The quality of a city cannot be said, but seen.
Look at the people inside. If they are indifferent and lack any vitality, or their faces are full of food, or their faces are full of misery, or even if their children cannot enjoy education, ordinary people cannot afford to live in houses, enjoy medical care, and have basic living standards.
Not guaranteed...
It is obvious that the officials who manage this city are extremely incompetent and should be killed.
On the contrary, if the people here have something to support them in their old age, have little support, and do not close their homes at night, then the officials here are undoubtedly extremely competent and should be rewarded.
Although the situation in Waishi City is special and very different from the human world, the principles of running a country are the same. Looking at their smiles from the bottom of their hearts, you can tell that they must be living a good life in Waishi City. Otherwise, they would not be in the mood to visit the night market.
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Jiang Chen was not surprised that the disciples of Shangqing Palace were able to manage Waishi City well. Because managing Waishi City well was their merit. Naturally, they would not be surprised if they could enter a higher realm in the future.
Dare to take it lightly.
In this world, saints are in the minority after all. It is obviously unrealistic to demand the disciples of Shangqing Palace with the morality of saints. Jiang Chen also knows this. He can't do it himself, and it is even less possible for the disciples of Shangqing Palace to do it.
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Therefore, using morality to restrain others is completely nonsense.
Under such circumstances, how can we make the disciples of Shangqing Palace manage the City of Wasted Death with due diligence?
In this regard, Jiang Chen thought of a way, that is, let them take care of the city for themselves, not for others.
Everyone is self-interested, and this is especially obvious among monks. After all, the philosophy of many monks is to save themselves first and then save others, and even Jiang Chen is no exception.
Of course, monks save themselves first and then save others, which is not like what some people say. Not only does getting rich first not lead to getting rich later, but it turns around and exploits the people who made them rich.
Thanks to the Taoist ancestor and his efforts, the Xuanmen monks have very upright values and always keep their word. After saving themselves, they will really save the people who come after them. Even some immortals do not save themselves while saving themselves.
Forget to save others.
Otherwise, do you think that immortals only established sects when they had nothing to do? In other words, why do some seniors leave their inheritance in deep mountains and forests, waiting for others to pick it up? Is it because they are sick?
No, it's not the case. The predecessors left the inheritance just to save others. I have already embarked on the path of immortality, so I will leave the inheritance to help others to follow the path of immortality.
To put it simply, I got rich first, but I didn’t forget my original intention, so I deliberately left part of my property behind to help others get rich together.
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Jiang Chen's method is to target the characteristics of monks to save themselves. The meaning of the existence of the City of Wasted Death is to maintain the order of the Netherworld. Therefore, as long as the City of Wasted Death is managed well, corresponding merits will be obtained.
Jiang Chen doesn't want this merit at all. He will give it to whoever manages the city of Fusi. Under the temptation of merit, are he still afraid that the disciples of the Shangqing Palace will not try their best to manage the city of Fusi?
Just for these merits, they will do their best!
This chapter has been completed!