Chương 167: The Mortal World is Like a Prison

"I never expected the underworld to be like this. The path to enlightening all beings is long and arduous."

Chaotian Daojun couldn't bear to watch. If this were in the mortal realm, given his fiery temper, he would have already appeared to preach.

"There's nothing we can do about it."

Chaotian Daojun found the scene before him unbearable to look at, but Fang Yang viewed everything with an appreciative eye.

What does this mean?

Kan Yao Daojun is gentle and kind, with a sense of being as virtuous as water. When he speaks, his voice is warm and gentle, without any hint of harshness.

"Because they have no future. They spent their entire lives unable to fulfill their deepest desires. After death, they cannot see the road ahead. Their only choice is to indulge themselves and make up for the regrets of their lives."

Fang Yang is a dead man; no one understands the thoughts of the dead better than him.

They were bound by various rules and interpersonal relationships throughout their lives, only to discover on their deathbeds that everything else was empty except for their own feelings.

In life, they cared about what others thought and how others perceived them; now that they're dead, they don't care about anything anymore.

Although reincarnation exists, they are ghosts in this life and have no idea about their past lives. For them, reincarnation is essentially just a second death, and a true death at that.

In short, life is too short to enjoy it while you can.

After death, the dark side of all living beings is released. This is why the underworld is filled with resentment and malevolence.

After Fang Yang explained the reasoning, Qian Yao Daojun and the others suddenly understood.

They are all high-ranking immortals, and even more so, high-ranking immortals with powerful backers. Even if they enter the cycle of reincarnation, someone will surely come to guide them back to the path of immortality. Once they achieve immortality in their next life, they will be able to return to their true selves.

All beings are different.

All beings are subject to reincarnation, and whether they are reborn as humans, immortals, or ghosts is not their choice, nor is there anyone specifically to guide them. Thus, the moment they are reborn is the moment they completely perish in this life.

In their view, reincarnation is not about transcending the ghost realm, but about being completely killed.

Therefore, it is not difficult to understand why the ghosts behaved so dissolutely.

"Senior brother, how should we spread the teachings?"

Qianyao Daojun asked with a bitter face.

It's virtually impossible to reform a group of ghosts who have completely given up on themselves. They've already given up; no matter how reasonable your words are, they won't listen.

After all, even if they do as you say, they'll still die, they still won't live. Your words bring them no benefit whatsoever, so why should they listen to you?

"So, use your brain."

Fang Yang looked down expressionlessly at the unrestrained ghosts.

"They have no hope, so we will give them hope. With hope, they will naturally accept our teachings. However, preaching is not something that can be done overnight. Now, let's deal with the immediate problem first."

Before Qianyao Daojun could figure out what to do, Fang Yang opened his mouth and blew out a breath of magical power, which immediately transformed into countless leaves. These leaves slowly drifted down and landed on every ghost present.

The ghosts received the leaves and were all stunned. They looked at each other and found that all the ghosts had the same expression.

One of the middle-aged men, dressed in a dark gold robe, reacted the fastest. He sat cross-legged on the spot and began to cultivate according to the scriptures in his mind.

Whoohoo!

With this cultivation, the middle-aged man's originally illusory body became more solid. The other ghosts saw a faint blue light emanating from the middle-aged man's body, which was the aura of magical power.

"Magic power! Look! He has cultivated magic power!"

"Could it be that the voice in my mind is real? If we cultivate according to the techniques, we can escape the cycle of reincarnation, retain our true selves, and even attain immortality?"

Seeing the middle-aged man land steadily on the ground, hope shone on the faces of all the ghosts. They were no longer lost or confused; they saw the path ahead.

They are indeed dead, but their souls remain.

While in the mortal realm, they could not obtain the affinity for immortality and thus could not attain enlightenment and become immortals. However, after their death, they received the teachings of immortals. They too could achieve immortality, they too could attain enlightenment, and they too could become immortals!

"The immortals said that as long as we cultivate to become immortals, we can regain our memories even if we fall into reincarnation."

"Become an immortal! We must become an immortal! Even if we can't become an immortal, with cultivation, we still have hope of becoming underworld gods or ghost messengers."

A group of ghosts without physical bodies suddenly became passionate. Without saying a word, they sat down on the spot and began to cultivate the techniques that Fang Yang had taught them.

They obtained leaves from the World Tree, allowing them to absorb spiritual energy remotely even without any underworld veins. However, due to their low cultivation levels, the spiritual energy generated by their internal spiritual roots was limited.

This is a good thing.

If the spiritual root generates spiritual energy too quickly, they will be immediately overwhelmed by the spiritual energy and will not survive.

Seeing the ghosts behave themselves so quickly, Qian Yao Daojun and the others were greatly surprised.

Hearing is believing, seeing is believing; they truly believed Fang Yang's words. The ghosts were confused because they couldn't see any hope. But once hope returned, the ghosts regained their reason.

Preaching is definitely not just empty talk!

After enlightening the ghosts, Fang Yang led his fellow disciples straight to the Six Paths of Reincarnation Palace. That's right, they were heading to the Six Paths of Reincarnation Palace, not Fengdu City.

This time, it was the Goddess Houtu who sought help from the Xuanmen, not the Emperor of Fengdu. In other words, it was the Goddess Houtu who invited Fang Yang and the others into the Underworld.

Moreover, Houtu Niangniang is the true master of the underworld, and there are many things that even the Fengdu Emperor cannot decide.

The group transformed into streaks of light, flying straight towards the most central and sacred place in the underworld. Before long, a colossal palace, stretching across the heavens and earth and seemingly boundless, appeared before them.

The reason Fang Yang and the others were able to reach the Six Paths of Reincarnation Palace so quickly was not because they were fast, but because of the great power of the Goddess Houtu.

This was the situation when Grand Master Xuandu became a disciple.

Humanity was born at Buzhou Mountain, which is light-years away from Kunlun Mountain. Grand Master Xuandu was just a celestial being; even if he flew for 100, 000 years, he still wouldn't be able to reach Kunlun Mountain.

However, as long as Grand Master Xuandu's heart is set on Kunlun Mountain, then no matter how far away he is from Kunlun Mountain, when the opportunity comes, Kunlun Mountain will naturally appear in front of him.

As soon as Fang Yang and his party arrived in front of the hall, a female ghost in black floated out of the hall: "Esteemed immortals, the Dao Master invites you."

As the immortals entered the hall, a profound aura that encompassed all things and bore the weight of life and death washed over them.

There, a goddess, draped in an earth-yellow robe and with a gentle and compassionate face, sat on a throne of bones. Her eyes were slightly closed, yet she seemed to be able to see through life and death, past and future.

This person is the representative of the Earthly Path, the lord of the Six Paths of Reincarnation, the Goddess Houtu.

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