nucmednet Chapter 472 - 1: Nine Prisons, Nine Springs, and Sixfold Reincarnation
Chapter 472 - 1: Nine Prisons, Nine Springs, and Sixfold Reincarnation
Netherworld, Fengdu Ghost City.
With the emergence of the Three Souls and Seven Spirits, the initial establishment of the Reincarnation System.
The number of ghosts drawn by the Yin Spirit to Fengdu Ghost City is increasing, even forming a fixed Ghost Gate at Mount Tai.
Every year on the fifteenth of the seventh lunar month, when the Yin Qi is most intense in the mortal world.
The Ghost Gate will open, and the ghosts of Fengdu Ghost City will return to the mortal world to see their living families once more.
This is a benefit that Emperor Fengdu specially granted to the ghosts, taking Shaohao’s situation as a reference.
On that day, apart from the Yin Messengers on duty, other Yin Spirits can also take a vacation to the mortal world.
This greatly reduces the resentment of the ghosts.
Even most of the ghosts and gods lingering in the mortal world gradually cease to resist going to the Underworld.
After all, under the strong authority of Emperor Fengdu, a chance to return to the mortal world once a year is an acceptable reality for the long-lived and time-conscious ghosts and gods.
However, the above benefits or treatments are only given to those ghosts and gods without much resentment and who haven’t committed sins.
The emergence of Fengdu Ghost City symbolizes a complete system and order.
In a complete system and order, rewards and punishments are a normal phenomenon.
When the mechanism of rewards and punishments falls into disorder, it will be the time when Fengdu Ghost City disappears.
Every ghost drawn into Fengdu Ghost City by a Yin Spirit knows that crossing the Ghost Gate, they will face the screening and judgment of the Palace of the Six Celestial Ghost Gods.
Only those without good or evil and who still harbor attachment to the mortal world will temporarily stay in this Fengdu Ghost City.
Indeed, Emperor Fengdu has a complete process for the departure of ghosts.
The so-called "talk of good and evil" is simply a summary of this process by the ghosts.
In reality, the Yin Spirits understand that the screening mechanism established by Emperor Fengdu is unrelated to good and evil, focusing on obsession and karma.
Those with shallow obsession and no attachments, after being screened by the Palace of the Six Celestial Ghost Gods, will directly proceed to the step of reincarnation and rebirth.
Those with deep obsession will remain in this Fengdu Ghost City until their attachment to the mortal world fades, before moving to the next process.
Besides, other ghosts will need to consider their karma and sins to enter reincarnation.
The karma and sins here are not something illusory but are actual phenomena manifesting on every ghost and ghost god.
If obsession is just an intrinsic quality of the soul,
something inevitable for those with spirituality and wisdom,
then karma and sins are the perceptions and influences other beings have on the soul after the ghost’s death.
Especially when these ghosts and gods’ actions disrupt the order and balance of the Yin and Yang Realms,
their souls will be eroded by malice and Evil Qi, becoming commonly hideous and ugly.
Thus, in response to this situation, the Nine Prisons and Nine Springs were created.
The Underworld has no concept of the four seas, only a Forgetfulness River running through the entire Netherworld land.
Legend has it, this Forgetfulness River was initially transformed from the blood vessels and meridians of the Lord of the Netherworld, a testament to His power in transforming天地.
The so-called "Nine Springs" are the nine key nodes of the Forgetfulness River.
To make a possibly inadequate analogy, they are roughly equivalent to the nine major acupuncture points running through the human body.
With the tacit approval of the Lord of the Netherworld, Emperor Fengdu established the current "Nine Prisons" at these nine key nodes of the Forgetfulness River.
Situated at Feng Spring is the Prison of Decree, commanding the souls of the Celestial God, punishing the extremely wicked, precisely the Six Celestial Ghost Gods Palace of Fengdu.
At Government Spring is the Prison of Decapitation, judging those who neglect temple duties or wrongful souls, with spring water originating from the tears of the deceased.
At Yellow Springs is the Pursuing Ghost Prison, housing ordinary souls and suppressing mountain spirits, also being the only Ghost Gate constantly open to the mortal world.
At Cold Spring is the Poisonous Prison, imprisoning water monsters and gods, with an extremely cold environment.
At Yin Spring is the Cold Night Prison, punishing the Evil God and blood food priests, with an eternal night in sight.
At Nether Spring is the Prison of Slaughter, imprisoning poisonous and evil mountain and forest ghost gods, with Evil Qi surging and thorns everywhere.
At Lower Springs is the Prison of Long Night, capturing ancient corpses, suppressing soulless and spiritless corpse puppets.
At Bitter Spring is the Slaughter Prison, torturing rebellious ghosts and witches, destined for those who die against heaven.
At Ling Spring is the Burning Prison, handling those who died untimely and those with persistent grievances.
Upon passing through these Nine Prisons and Nine Springs, washing away their malice and Evil Qi, ghosts without strong obsession will embrace true reincarnation and rebirth.
Within Fengdu City, behind the Six Celestial Ghost Gods Palace lies a flower forest directly leading to the Forgetfulness River.
There, Emperor Fengdu personally planted Beyond-the-World Flowers, possessing the power to charm the heart, causing ghosts clinging to obsession to barely pass through the flower forest.
From Fengdu to Yellow Springs, then to Forgetfulness River, until the final banks of the Sanzu River.
Moving along this field where the Beyond-the-World Flowers bloom, at the end of the riverbank, stands a bridge between reality and illusion.
With the bridge spanning over the Forgetfulness River, an endless line of ghosts waits.
They are either indifferent, sad, joyful, or helpless...
No matter whether they still hold attachment to the mortal world in their hearts, coming here means they have no way back.
In front of the Sanzu River, they glance at the Three-Life Divine Stone, resolving their remaining worldly ties, already the last mercy from Emperor Fengdu to these ghosts.
Afterward, these ghosts will step onto the Bridge of Helplessness, crossing the Sanzu River, heading to the other shore.
There, a benevolent-faced and sympathetic lady will have them drink a bowl of soup, washing away all memories and karma of their past and present lives.
"Go! Go!"
"Once you leave, don’t look back; the past holds nothing worth longing for anymore."
In the woman’s compassionate chant, one by one, the ghosts drink that bowl of bitter soup, then slowly move towards the edge of the other shore—the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
No distinction between good and evil, no blessing or sin...
Before the Six Paths of Reincarnation, the purest spirituality will follow the guidance of the Celestial Soul, reincarnating once more into the mortal world.
Birth from the womb, from eggs, moist birth, transformative birth...
Birds, beasts, shell-clad, scaled, hairless...
All living beings, myriad insects, and countless monsters, as long as they are born from beings, belong to within the Six Paths.
According to the strengths of the souls, these pure souls will be reborn into their most suitable bodies, merging with the flesh to generate Seven Spirits.
From then on, all creatures have Three Souls and Seven Spirits.
Born with the Celestial Soul guiding into life, dying with the Earth Soul drawing them back to the Netherworld...
While all living beings are alive, the Seven Spirits reunite, manifesting the Life Soul, which is also a shortcut to achieving the Primordial Spirit.
Or more precisely, after the Reincarnation System was formed, regathering the Life Soul and manifesting the Primordial Spirit becomes one of the most orthodox cultivation paths.
This road, while increasing the difficulty of manifesting the Primordial Spirit, also lowers the threshold for cultivating the Primordial Spirit.
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