Lou Xiaoyi chuckled. "Maybe they think that monsters like to bully mortals?"
Daoist Cen snorted. "Bully mortals? Then wouldn't it be worse for humans to bully mortal beasts?
That's not the point. Humans have always thought of themselves as the highest level of living beings!
Because they have words, because they have inheritances, because they no longer act on instinct!
That's why humans think that it's normal for humans to eat beasts, because beasts aren't living beings in their eyes, but food!
Of course, beasts can't eat humans, because humans are of a higher level, they're masters!
Oh, I'm getting off track. Where was I? "
Lou Xiaoyi held back his laughter. This Daoist Cen might be an old man of the Immortal Court. Even after becoming an Immortal, he still had such independent thoughts. Just based on this point alone, he was worthy of being friends with.
"You just said that some destitute human literati rely on making up stories about immortals to earn a living!"
Daoist Cen continued, "Yes, I'm talking about them! But there's no shortage of such people in every realm. No matter where in the universe, no matter what nook or cranny, as long as there are people, there will be such writers!
Don't underestimate the power of these people. I don't know how they do it, but their lousy stories and preposterous nonsense can actually break through the barriers of the void and spread certain legends to the entire universe! "
Lou Xiaoyi smiled. "That might mean that there's a commonality in human imagination! Is the conscious and unconscious transmission of mortal culture also part of it? "
Daoist Cen sighed. "Among these nonsense, the most popular, most widespread, and most deeply rooted legend is the Netherworld Kingdom!
Could it be that this originates from humans' fear of death? Their desire for reincarnation? Their pursuit of truth, kindness, and beauty? Their rejection of falsehoods?
In any case, this legend is so widespread that it's even more widespread than the true legends of the cultivation world! "
Lou Xiaoyi was a little surprised. "Could it be?"
Daoist Cen snorted. "Yes! Can you believe it? The wild imaginations of mortals can actually affect the thinking of Golden Immortals! Even those lousy pens could outline the future of the universe!
Tens of thousands of years ago, for some unknown reason, a Golden Immortal proposed such an idea in Qingwei Heaven. The excuse was nothing more than to share joy with the people. If the human cultivation ecology was described as a closed loop, then Golden Immortals should be the group closest to mortals, and so on.
Since the Netherworld was so popular in the mortal world, and there was such a market for it, why not go with the flow and do as they wished? It was to truly establish such a place, to continue the system of those lousy pen holders, and to create the Netherworld!
The benefit is that it can free the hearts of ordinary mortals. They will no longer be filled with fear of death, and they will turn to good and evil. It will promote the karma of good and evil, and it will make the human world more harmonious and beautiful … "
Lou Xiaoyi was speechless. "As expected of a Golden Immortal. His thinking is so high!"
Daoist Cen was disdainful. "Superior? Tall …
Later on, I understood that it was not the feelings of Golden Immortals and Saints! It was that some people were worried about the future order of cultivation. Now it seems that they were worried that they would lose their privileges in the new era!
Because cultivators have reincarnation, they can comprehend their previous lives, but mortals can't. They live a mediocre life and don't know what their previous lives were! They can only guess whether it was a horse or a cow, a pig or a dog, good or evil?
Such a system has loopholes, because it is not equal! It will affect the cornerstone of the entire Great Dao of Reincarnation! In order to change, in order to make up for the loopholes, the Immortals figured out such a way to let mortals experience the pain and joy of reincarnation! In this way, the Heavenly Dao can't find fault with reincarnation, and the cultivators' reincarnation cultivation can continue like this, and finally form a cultivation class!
In the attempt to reincarnate in the mortal world, the Netherworld appeared! "
Lou Xiaoyi was dumbfounded. There was actually such a thing. The Underworld did not exist in the first place, but was simply a fabrication made up by mortals. In the end, the immortals used it for other purposes to consolidate their own reincarnation order!
Was this a precautionary measure against the changing of the epoch? It might be, and it might not be! Because the Reincarnation Dao was the Dao that was most affected by human factors among the existing Innate Dao! It was also the Dao that was most likely to be taken advantage of!
The rules of reincarnation were not naturally formed, but the product of millions of years of constant consideration, compromise, and compromise by the Golden Immortals, especially the Reincarnation Dao Master!
It should be said that the Immortals still had a sense of crisis. They had been vigilant about the existence of the Reincarnation Dao since hundreds of thousands of years ago. Although the Reincarnation Dao was insignificant in battle, it played an extremely important role in maintaining the order of cultivation.
Lou Xiaoyi was somewhat incredulous. "As you said, such a Netherworld, under the control of the Immortal Court, is still not perfect after hundreds of thousands of years?"
Daoist Cen smiled bitterly. "This is not a realm! It is the entire universe of humans! Think about it, with such a massive scale, how are we going to establish a systematic underworld? Can it accommodate so many people, and it has to be similar to what those damned writers described?
The key is, who is to be sent to manage such a Netherworld? "
Lou Xiaoyi understood. "Fellow Daoist, you are unwilling …"
Daoist Cen's face was full of disgust. "No one is willing! We were doing well in the Immortal Court, but we were demoted to that ghastly and dark place to manage some souls that should not exist in the world!
Therefore, for hundreds of thousands of years, the managers of the Netherworld were appointed by the Immortal Court, and they took turns to serve for ten thousand years. You can imagine how the Immortals who were sent here felt. How could they do their best?
The last batch was just in time for the change of era. Seeing that the Immortal Court was about to change, who would come to this nondescript place to waste time? When the new era came, it was hard to say whether the Netherworld would still exist or not. Would we just stay here and wait for death?
That's why I didn't want to come, so I was demoted to the lower realm. The story is unbearable to recall … "
This was the first time Lou Xiaoyi had heard of this secret of the Immortal Court. Indeed, he couldn't blame Daoist Cen for rebelling against the Immortal Court. If it were anyone else, they probably wouldn't have come. They might as well have been demoted to the lower realm. At the very least, they would still have eyes and ears, and they could still come in contact with the cultivation world of the universe. There was still a chance for them to make a comeback!
He was a little curious. What was the situation with this half-completed Underworld? Although it was inappropriate to be curious about such a messy thing at this point in time, he could guess that Daoist Cen had asked him to help with nothing more than this.
It was hard to imagine that the Immortal Court had copied something that came from the imaginations of mortals just like that.
However, he still had a lot of questions. "Then, what kind of souls are in the netherworld? Are they ordinary people? Or do they include cultivators? Would all the dead go in and take a walk? Or do they have a choice? "
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