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Chapter 1206
chapter 0509 part 1
Chapter 495: Underworld
In the concept of many people, at least in human concept, in the Netherworld World, there should be a grim Ghost Gate Pass, with Ox-Head and Horse-Face standing guard before it.
The bottomless Yellow Springs River flows past the Ghost Gate Pass, its water pitch black. Countless wronged souls and vicious ghosts wail and drift within the river, as if they could drag people from the shore at any moment.
A Bridge of Helplessness must span the Yellow Springs. Ox-Head and Horse-Face, Black and White Impermanence, lead countless ghost soldiers, pressing the wronged souls across this Bridge of Helplessness.
On the bridge stands a kind-faced old woman, who daily brews the ever-inexhaustible Meng Po's Soup.
Those wronged souls who drink Meng Po's Soup are those who have just emerged from suffering in the Eighteen Levels of Hell, their sins purged. After drinking Meng Po's Soup to wash away their Karma and past memories, they can enter the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
The ghost soldiers hook these souls who have drunk the soup and send them into Reincarnation, determining whether they will become humans, plants and trees, or beasts.
In various Myths and Legends, whether it is the Underworld Government of The East or the Hell of the Western World, there are actually great similarities. One is punishment, rewarding good and punishing evil. Good people are reincarnated into wealth and nobility, and can even become Angels, Immortals! Evil people go to Hell after death to receive punishment. This seems to be the vision and expectation of every Ordinary Person!
And the flourishing Religions all utilize this point. Buddhism fabricated the theory of the Eighteen Levels of Hell, inventing various terrifying punishments that make people tremble at the mere mention. While guiding people towards goodness, it also heavily promotes Buddhist Teachings by leveraging this great Terror between life and death.
It is precisely because of concepts like the Eighteen Levels of Hell and Drop the Butcher's Knife and Immediately Become a Buddha that the Buddhist Sect can flourish in many Worlds.
The Western World also has various descriptions of Hell. Dante's *Divine Comedy* vividly depicts Hell.
To avoid falling into Hell as described in the Bible, Christianity also greatly flourished.
Of course, in the Ordinary Material World, the Religions fabricating these theories of Hell and reincarnation in the afterlife are merely to fool Ordinary People and intimidate them into believing in Buddha and Gods.
But in Supernatural Worlds where true Great Power belongs to oneself, such as the Jambudvīpa World, controlling Reincarnation is truly controlling the prosperity of a Religion or a Dao.
However, in this World, the Underworld here is quite interesting.
Standing before the Floor-to-ceiling Window on the top floor of a nine-hundred-and-ninety-nine-story Tall building, Tang Song overlooked the brightly lit, prosperous City below. That stretch of bustling streets filled with traffic and people coming and going. Here, there were no countless Ox-Head and Horse-Face shouting on the Bridge of Helplessness, no wronged souls wailing and screaming, and no eerie laughter of Black and White Impermanence or the clanging sound of Iron Chains being shaken!
It was hard to imagine that this was the legendary Netherworld Government! It was clearly a scene of a prosperous metropolis. "Boss! This Underworld is quite well-built. Everything is utilized effectively. The Ghosts here are also talented individuals. The iPhone released here is several generations faster than in our World! Should we go back and see if we can find Steve Jobs' soul in our World!"
On the Sofa, Frank leaned back lazily, his fingers nimbly sliding across the highly technological Mobile Phone, bringing up one Virtual Screen after another. The brand of the phone was evident from the bitten Apple LOGO.
Looking at the seductive, beautiful "female ghosts" on the Virtual Screen, Frank clicked his tongue in wonder.
Across from him, Kane sat upright, his back straight, wiping the cold light-gleaming bronze axe-halberd in his hand with a piece of unknown leather!
"Instead of looking for Steve Jobs, why not look for the souls of generals suitable for leading an Army? I think Bai Qi from the Qin Dynasty is quite good. I like his combat style—" Kane stopped what he was doing upon hearing Frank's words, looked up at Tang Song, and said very seriously.
"Forget about Bai Qi, he died over two thousand years ago, his soul has long since reincarnated hundreds of times. Hmm, I'll have the Company's Reincarnation Soldiers look for him later. If there's a World involving the Qin Dynasty, I'll have them bring that Lord Wu An back for you!"
Tang Song turned around and nodded towards Kane. "As for Steve Jobs, if you like him, Frank, then bring his soul back!"
He walked to the Chair beside the Coffee Table, picked up the Teapot, poured two cups of Cloud Mist Tea, and with a flick of his Finger, the two cups floated lightly in front of Frank and Kane.
"Come! Taste the tea I 'borrowed'!!"
Tang Song also poured himself a cup of Tea and savored the fragrance between his lips and teeth. For Ordinary People, a cup of this Cloud Mist Tea could be equivalent to decades of sitting Cultivation for an Ordinary Person.
Of course, for Tang Song, it was just a cup of clear tea.
He had cultivated for only a few decades, yet he had already reached the Bearing Limit that an Ordinary World could accommodate. According to the Marvel World's classification, this was Single Universe Level. If classified by the Jambudvīpa World, it was the Golden Immortal Dao Fruit!
Of course, having such a Cultivation Base was entirely due to his personal hard work and effort, and a tiny, insignificant bit of help from the Root Source Imprint deep within his Sea of Consciousness! Even in the Jambudvīpa World, in the ancient Primordial Era, those Innate God-Demons born as such did not possess such good fortune.
The essence of this World is not particularly strong. Even that Kunlun Ancient God, suspected to be a Counterpart of the Golden Mother, only had a Cultivation Base of half-step Golden Immortal.
This was also the source of his confidence in daring to use Sky Sealing and Earth Locking.
Although the Kunlun "Ancient God" Queen Mother of the West's Strength was not as great as Boss Tang's, she was an Innate Deity who had existed since the beginning of this World. Her Position/Status was slightly equivalent to the Five Great Cosmic Entities of the Marvel Multiverse.
Nevertheless, as an Innate Deity who had existed since the World's creation, this Kunlun Ancient God had accumulated a large number of good Things in her hands.
Just like this Cloud Mist Tea, which takes a thousand years to grow to a suitable tree age, and a single batch of tea buds requires five hundred years to pick. Even in the Jambudvīpa World, it could be called Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.
Tang Song possessed very few such good Things, even though he commanded an entire Universe and his Influence radiated across multiple dimensional Worlds.
This was the lack of time Foundation.
Of course, in terms of Strength, Boss Tang considered himself not weaker than anyone in this World. One must know that a Golden Immortal is, to some extent, the limit that a World can accommodate.
After Golden Immortal, comes the Great Principle Realm.
Great Principle Existences are unaffected by myriad tribulations, eternally free in all Space-Time, immortal and indestructible, unaging and unperishing, transcending the limits of postnatal Living Beings, their essence no less than Heaven and Earth.
This step of transcendence is extremely grand.
Equal to Heaven, immortal and indestructible, that is a Great Principle Existence!
Great Principle Existences also have different levels. In the Jambudvīpa World, Great Principle Existences are divided into Scattered Number, Profound Number, and Golden Number!
Scattered Number Existences have Longevity Equal to Heaven, billions, trillions of years are but a flick of a Finger, watching the vicissitudes of the Mortal Realm and the changes of Heaven and Earth.
Profound Number Existences are immortal and indestructible, their lifespan infinite. Universes are born and perish, yet they remain eternally unperishing, their lifespan surpassing Heaven and Earth. Golden Number Existences are unaging and unperishing, unaffected by Chaos. With a thought, they can open up Universe Star Seas, their own Dao penetrating myriad Daos.
Chapter 495: Underworld
In the concept of many people, at least in human concept, in the Netherworld World, there should be a grim Ghost Gate Pass, with Ox-Head and Horse-Face standing guard before it.
The bottomless Yellow Springs River flows past the Ghost Gate Pass, its water pitch black. Countless wronged souls and vicious ghosts wail and drift within the river, as if they could drag people from the shore at any moment.
A Bridge of Helplessness must span the Yellow Springs. Ox-Head and Horse-Face, Black and White Impermanence, lead countless ghost soldiers, pressing the wronged souls across this Bridge of Helplessness.
On the bridge stands a kind-faced old woman, who daily brews the ever-inexhaustible Meng Po's Soup.
Those wronged souls who drink Meng Po's Soup are those who have just emerged from suffering in the Eighteen Levels of Hell, their sins purged. After drinking Meng Po's Soup to wash away their Karma and past memories, they can enter the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
The ghost soldiers hook these souls who have drunk the soup and send them into Reincarnation, determining whether they will become humans, plants and trees, or beasts.
In various Myths and Legends, whether it is the Underworld Government of The East or the Hell of the Western World, there are actually great similarities. One is punishment, rewarding good and punishing evil. Good people are reincarnated into wealth and nobility, and can even become Angels, Immortals! Evil people go to Hell after death to receive punishment. This seems to be the vision and expectation of every Ordinary Person!
And the flourishing Religions all utilize this point. Buddhism fabricated the theory of the Eighteen Levels of Hell, inventing various terrifying punishments that make people tremble at the mere mention. While guiding people towards goodness, it also heavily promotes Buddhist Teachings by leveraging this great Terror between life and death.
It is precisely because of concepts like the Eighteen Levels of Hell and Drop the Butcher's Knife and Immediately Become a Buddha that the Buddhist Sect can flourish in many Worlds.
The Western World also has various descriptions of Hell. Dante's *Divine Comedy* vividly depicts Hell.
To avoid falling into Hell as described in the Bible, Christianity also greatly flourished.
Of course, in the Ordinary Material World, the Religions fabricating these theories of Hell and reincarnation in the afterlife are merely to fool Ordinary People and intimidate them into believing in Buddha and Gods.
But in Supernatural Worlds where true Great Power belongs to oneself, such as the Jambudvīpa World, controlling Reincarnation is truly controlling the prosperity of a Religion or a Dao.
However, in this World, the Underworld here is quite interesting.
Standing before the Floor-to-ceiling Window on the top floor of a nine-hundred-and-ninety-nine-story Tall building, Tang Song overlooked the brightly lit, prosperous City below. That stretch of bustling streets filled with traffic and people coming and going. Here, there were no countless Ox-Head and Horse-Face shouting on the Bridge of Helplessness, no wronged souls wailing and screaming, and no eerie laughter of Black and White Impermanence or the clanging sound of Iron Chains being shaken!
It was hard to imagine that this was the legendary Netherworld Government! It was clearly a scene of a prosperous metropolis. "Boss! This Underworld is quite well-built. Everything is utilized effectively. The Ghosts here are also talented individuals. The iPhone released here is several generations faster than in our World! Should we go back and see if we can find Steve Jobs' soul in our World!"
On the Sofa, Frank leaned back lazily, his fingers nimbly sliding across the highly technological Mobile Phone, bringing up one Virtual Screen after another. The brand of the phone was evident from the bitten Apple LOGO.
Looking at the seductive, beautiful "female ghosts" on the Virtual Screen, Frank clicked his tongue in wonder.
Across from him, Kane sat upright, his back straight, wiping the cold light-gleaming bronze axe-halberd in his hand with a piece of unknown leather!
"Instead of looking for Steve Jobs, why not look for the souls of generals suitable for leading an Army? I think Bai Qi from the Qin Dynasty is quite good. I like his combat style—" Kane stopped what he was doing upon hearing Frank's words, looked up at Tang Song, and said very seriously.
"Forget about Bai Qi, he died over two thousand years ago, his soul has long since reincarnated hundreds of times. Hmm, I'll have the Company's Reincarnation Soldiers look for him later. If there's a World involving the Qin Dynasty, I'll have them bring that Lord Wu An back for you!"
Tang Song turned around and nodded towards Kane. "As for Steve Jobs, if you like him, Frank, then bring his soul back!"
He walked to the Chair beside the Coffee Table, picked up the Teapot, poured two cups of Cloud Mist Tea, and with a flick of his Finger, the two cups floated lightly in front of Frank and Kane.
"Come! Taste the tea I 'borrowed'!!"
Tang Song also poured himself a cup of Tea and savored the fragrance between his lips and teeth. For Ordinary People, a cup of this Cloud Mist Tea could be equivalent to decades of sitting Cultivation for an Ordinary Person.
Of course, for Tang Song, it was just a cup of clear tea.
He had cultivated for only a few decades, yet he had already reached the Bearing Limit that an Ordinary World could accommodate. According to the Marvel World's classification, this was Single Universe Level. If classified by the Jambudvīpa World, it was the Golden Immortal Dao Fruit!
Of course, having such a Cultivation Base was entirely due to his personal hard work and effort, and a tiny, insignificant bit of help from the Root Source Imprint deep within his Sea of Consciousness! Even in the Jambudvīpa World, in the ancient Primordial Era, those Innate God-Demons born as such did not possess such good fortune.
The essence of this World is not particularly strong. Even that Kunlun Ancient God, suspected to be a Counterpart of the Golden Mother, only had a Cultivation Base of half-step Golden Immortal.
This was also the source of his confidence in daring to use Sky Sealing and Earth Locking.
Although the Kunlun "Ancient God" Queen Mother of the West's Strength was not as great as Boss Tang's, she was an Innate Deity who had existed since the beginning of this World. Her Position/Status was slightly equivalent to the Five Great Cosmic Entities of the Marvel Multiverse.
Nevertheless, as an Innate Deity who had existed since the World's creation, this Kunlun Ancient God had accumulated a large number of good Things in her hands.
Just like this Cloud Mist Tea, which takes a thousand years to grow to a suitable tree age, and a single batch of tea buds requires five hundred years to pick. Even in the Jambudvīpa World, it could be called Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.
Tang Song possessed very few such good Things, even though he commanded an entire Universe and his Influence radiated across multiple dimensional Worlds.
This was the lack of time Foundation.
Of course, in terms of Strength, Boss Tang considered himself not weaker than anyone in this World. One must know that a Golden Immortal is, to some extent, the limit that a World can accommodate.
After Golden Immortal, comes the Great Principle Realm.
Great Principle Existences are unaffected by myriad tribulations, eternally free in all Space-Time, immortal and indestructible, unaging and unperishing, transcending the limits of postnatal Living Beings, their essence no less than Heaven and Earth.
This step of transcendence is extremely grand.
Equal to Heaven, immortal and indestructible, that is a Great Principle Existence!
Great Principle Existences also have different levels. In the Jambudvīpa World, Great Principle Existences are divided into Scattered Number, Profound Number, and Golden Number!
Scattered Number Existences have Longevity Equal to Heaven, billions, trillions of years are but a flick of a Finger, watching the vicissitudes of the Mortal Realm and the changes of Heaven and Earth.
Profound Number Existences are immortal and indestructible, their lifespan infinite. Universes are born and perish, yet they remain eternally unperishing, their lifespan surpassing Heaven and Earth. Golden Number Existences are unaging and unperishing, unaffected by Chaos. With a thought, they can open up Universe Star Seas, their own Dao penetrating myriad Daos.
