Chapter 2

"By the order of Lord Cui, I am to escort the Ji brothers to the Yellow Spring Road."

In the high sky, a woman in purple held Ji Ning's hand and flew along the way.

Ji Ning looked around.

He had just been inside Lord Cui's residence, but in an instant, he was in mid-air.

"May I ask, who exactly is Lord Cui?" Ji Ning asked in confusion, "I heard that before reincarnation, one must see the judge, be reviewed for the past life, and judged for the next life, before being reincarnated, right?"

"Didn't you already see the judge?" The woman in purple smiled, "Lord Cui controls the Book of Life and Death and is the First Judge! Since he personally judged you, there's no need for an ordinary judge to make a decision."

In the underworld, the highest ruler is the Ten Kings of Hell, followed by the First Judge, Lord Cui 'Cui Jue'.

His fame has long spread throughout the three realms.

The human world is vast and boundless, with thirty thousand major worlds and countless minor worlds. Every soul's good and evil deeds in life must be judged by a judge, which is an enormous workload. Therefore, there are countless judges in the underworld, each responsible for judging the souls of the dead from their respective worlds. Lord Cui, as the head of all judges, is known as the First Judge, controlling the true Book of Life and Death. His power is so great that it almost equals that of the Ten Kings of Hell.

"Look, that's the Yellow Spring Road." The woman in purple pointed to a vast road ahead, where countless souls were slowly advancing, "Following the Yellow Spring Road, you will soon reach the Naihe Bridge. After crossing the Naihe Bridge and drinking the Mengpo Soup, you can be reincarnated."

"Go ahead."

The woman in purple waved her hand.

Ji Ning was enveloped in a golden light and flew down to the distant ground, joining the queue ahead, effectively 'cutting in line'.

The ox-headed and horse-faced guards by the side, seeing the woman in purple in the sky, dared not say a word. One of the ox-headed guards even followed Ji Ning, treating him very politely.

...

The Yellow Spring Road was shrouded in mist, with countless soul groups advancing side by side, and Ji Ning was among them.

"Hmm?" Ji Ning looked ahead.

The mist ahead was very thick, and any soul that entered would disappear.

"Go ahead, the Naihe Bridge is just ahead," the ox-headed guard said kindly.

Ji Ning nodded, without hesitation, and stepped into the thick mist.

He felt a change in space and time.

"Where is this?" Ji Ning looked ahead in confusion. Ahead was a narrow path, with few souls visible, only a dozen or so walking ahead. In front of the narrow path was a river with murky water.

"That must be the River of Forgetfulness," Ji Ning thought and walked forward.

"Strange."

"Clearly, there were countless groups, but why are there so few after entering the mist?" Ji Ning was very puzzled.

He didn't know that the flow of time at the Naihe Bridge was different from the outside world.

As the saying goes, one day in heaven is a year on earth.

The flow of time at the Naihe Bridge is even more exaggerated; one day in the underworld is equivalent to many years at the Naihe Bridge.

"Ah! Ah!"

"I regret it!"

Ji Ning walked on the Naihe Bridge and saw a blood pool at the bridgehead, filled with various venomous snakes, insects, and dog heads, tearing and biting wildly. Most souls walked over the blood pool, but some fell in, clearly burdened by their sins, unable to escape the torment of the blood pool.

"If I had known this, why did I do it back then?" Ji Ning shook his head and looked at the other side, "So beautiful."

By the River of Forgetfulness, beautiful flowers bloomed.

Not far from the bridgehead, there was a crystal stone, faintly shimmering with images, the legendary Three Lives Stone.

Near the Three Lives Stone was a stone platform, the Homeward Platform. Souls who passed the platform would come to Mengpo.

Mengpo was an ordinary-looking old woman, holding a bowl of soup, giving it to each passing soul. After drinking the soup, the souls became dazed and automatically jumped into one of the six paths of reincarnation behind Mengpo.

"Heavenly beings, Asuras, humans, animals, hungry ghosts, and hell." Ji Ning looked at the six deep and unfathomable abysses behind Mengpo.

"I won't drink, I won't drink, I don't want to forget, don't want to forget..."

Many souls struggled.

But no matter how they struggled, an invisible force pushed them forward, and when they reached Mengpo, they were bound by an invisible force to drink the Mengpo Soup. Even if they screamed in pain, they still drank it... After drinking, even the deepest emotions and memories would be forgotten, and at that moment, you would no longer be yourself.

"I will enter the Heavenly Realm, and at the age of sixteen, I can awaken my past life's memories. But by then, will the memories of my sixteen years in the Heavenly Realm dominate, or will the memories of my past life dominate? Will I still be myself by then?" Ji Ning's eyes were filled with sorrow.

He understood.

In this life, he had only lived for eighteen years, but after sixteen years in the Heavenly Realm, his self in the Heavenly Realm would be much stronger, and the memories of his past life would likely be just an appendage.

"What can I do?" Ji Ning was bound and moved forward step by step, unable to control himself.

One by one, the souls ahead drank the Mengpo Soup, and there were only six more souls before it was his turn.

"Mengpo Soup!" Ji Ning looked at Mengpo ahead.

Mengpo suddenly looked up.

This was the first time Ji Ning saw Mengpo look up. Mengpo looked at the distant sky and shouted in an aged, angry voice, "Impudent!"

Boom!

The sky split, and countless cracks appeared. The distant mist collapsed and dissipated, revealing countless souls queuing up outside. The space around the cracks caused many souls to vanish like bursting bubbles, screaming in pain.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" In the sky, countless black dragons roamed, each as vast as a mountain range. Ji Ning could even see the chilling dragon scales. The black dragons roamed and played in the sky, each spitting out black lightning, causing a storm of lightning that split the heavens and earth, creating a scene of destruction.

"Two-Worlds Dragon Birth and Death Array? How dare you attack the Six Paths of Reincarnation! This is a great sin!" Mengpo shouted in anger, transforming into a beam of light and flying toward the thousands of black dragons in the sky. Immediately, many black dragons surrounded Mengpo.

Rumble~~~

The earth cracked, the murky waters of the River of Forgetfulness surged, and any soul touched by the water screamed and vanished. The Naihe Bridge broke and collapsed, and the souls on it fell into the River of Forgetfulness. The six bottomless abysses of the Six Paths of Reincarnation began to tremble, emitting rays of light.

"Oh no." Ji Ning looked at the apocalyptic scene in horror, and at the same time, he felt the invisible bindings disappear.

"Go for it!" The moment the bindings disappeared, Ji Ning was both surprised and delighted, and he ran and leaped directly into the nearest path of reincarnation, the Human Path. The six paths of reincarnation were in different positions, and since the Human Path was the most common, it was closest to where Mengpo stood, and Ji Ning naturally chose the nearest one to jump into.

A few surrounding souls also hurriedly jumped into the paths of reincarnation.

One soul even tried to run to the farthest path, the Heavenly Path.

Whoosh~~~

A black lightning bolt swept over, and the souls that hadn't jumped in time, including the one running to the Heavenly Path, were instantly obliterated.

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What exactly happened in the underworld? The countless black dragons roaming in the sky and the terrifying scene of countless black lightning bolts wreaking havoc left Ji Ning in shock. However, he also understood that as a mere human soul, thinking too much about it was useless. Moreover, he had no time to worry about those things now because his head was hurting!

Ji Ning felt a severe pain in his head, as if something was pulling it, pulling hard.

His neck hurt, and his body felt heavily pressed.

Whoosh!

Suddenly, he felt a sense of relief, followed by a bone-chilling cold, and at the same time, a breath of air rushed into his body. For the first time since his previous life, Ji Ning 'breathed'.

"Ah!" The air rushed into his mouth, and he let out a cry.

It was the cry of a newborn.

"It's a boy, it's a boy," a slightly awkward but still understandable voice said.

"Ah, I've been reincarnated." Ji Ning immediately understood.

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