In Yin Tianzi City, the gods of the underworld wore black ghost robes and lined up in several rows to enter the Tianzi Palace. The bronze temple looked heavy and solemn, and the threshold was more than ten meters high. The gods could only fly in on the clouds to meet Yin Tianzi.
Son of Heaven Yin sat high on the imperial throne, with his left hand holding the Book of Life and Death, which controlled the cycle of heaven and earth and the life and death of all things, and in his right hand the Pen of Reincarnation. When the gods of the underworld entered, they felt a pressure representing the order of the cycle of heaven and earth pressing down on themselves.
If the Emperor of Heaven represents the great way of heaven and earth, then the Son of Heaven Yin represents the reincarnation of all things. The two completely different existences symbolize the two sides of yin and yang.
The emperors of the underworld stood on the left, the judges and hall masters of Yin Tianzi City stood on the right, and the rest of the lords of the palaces and the gods of the underworld stood behind them. After the gods of the underworld paid homage to Yin Tianzi, the almighty Yin Tianzi finally spoke.
"The underworld of the netherworld! The place where all things reincarnate!"
"In the past, the human world regained order when the heaven and earth were reopened. The heavenly court and the upper realm were reopened and the star gods and immortals were established. Among the three realms, only my netherworld lacked the foundation of the great way. Now the netherworld will also be completed and return to the prosperity of the ancient times. The gods in the underworld should also re-determine their godhood."
In one sentence, the cause of this major incident and what the underworld would do next were determined.
In an instant, he saw the Emperor of the Underworld, the judges of various departments, the gods of the palace, and so on, with ecstasy on their faces. As gods of the underworld, they and the Netherworld share the same fate. Now that the Netherworld is perfect and the laws of the Tao are complete, the path of these underworld gods will become even greater.
And what Emperor Yin said about re-determining the divine rank, under this situation, definitely did not mean to lower the divine rank, but definitely to raise the divine rank.
This means that the gods in the underworld, who were already countless levels inferior to the gods in heaven, may really be able to make a comeback this time. It can be said that everyone can make a leap forward, saving tens of millions of years of accumulating merits and practicing hard.
All the gods prostrated themselves on the ground once again. They might have been fearful and worried before, but now they were filled with joy. They felt that even if they were gods of the underworld, they would be no worse than the gods of heaven in the future.
"Congratulations to Emperor Yin! Congratulations to the Netherworld!"
"Congratulations to Emperor Yin..."
After a round of cheers from the many emperors, ghosts and gods, Your Highness, the judge of the Soul-Catching Department, the first department among all departments of the underworld, stepped forward and stood beside the emperor's throne. He received the divine decree and read out all the upcoming changes in the underworld.
God's will is divided into three aspects.
The first thing was to promote the original Emperor of the Underworld from a lower-grade immortal god to a higher-grade immortal god, equivalent to the star god of the upper realm. The judges of each department were promoted from the lowest-grade minor gods and fairies to lower-grade immortal gods.
The Lord of the Underworld, who was originally not of a high rank, was directly promoted to a lowest-rank immortal, enjoying the fruits of immortality, not entering the cycle of reincarnation, and in charge of an Underworld realm in the lower level of the Netherworld. He could be regarded as a frontier official of the Underworld, ruling the cycle of life and death of all living beings in that world, and could establish his own government.
Whether for the Lords of the Underworld or the Emperor, this can be regarded as a step to heaven. Only these immortals and gods know how big the difference is between immortal items.
Especially those Lords of the Netherworld, who were suddenly transformed from mortals into immortals, were so excited that they could not speak. When the judge of the Soul-Catching Department above read out their names and immortal ranks, every one of them immediately knelt down and kowtowed three times and nine times, expressing their gratitude profusely.
The second divine decree of Emperor Yin is the changes and modifications to the entire world of the underworld.
The original Netherworld was transformed into the upper Netherworld and the Underworld. The upper level was the Netherworld, the residence of all the gods and immortals in the Underworld, and the location of Yin Tianzi City. It governs the laws of the reincarnation of heaven and earth. Only here can one comprehend the reincarnation and be promoted from a ghost immortal to a real immortal of the underworld.
The lower level is divided into the Endless Underworld Lord Realm, which is in charge of the reincarnation of all realms under the Heavenly Court. It is ranked according to merit and can manage the reincarnation in an orderly manner. Those in the realm with prosperous creatures are on the higher levels. The closer the Underworld Lord Realm is to the top, the more power it can absorb from the great way of reincarnation of the netherworld. There is also an assessment every thousand years. The best ones can enter the Yintianzi City to be conferred again, while the inferior ones may be deprived of their status as gods.
The third divine decree is about the promulgation of new underworld laws and the emergence of a book of merits.
The underworld is complete, the gods in the underworld have their ranks re-determined, and a large number of underworld realms have been opened. Naturally, new underworld laws are needed to restrain the gods.
In addition, the appearance of the Book of Merit represents the future promotion paths of many Yin gods, ghosts, and even immortal gods in the underworld, all of which are judged based on merit. Unlike the Heavenly Court, which is divided into two factions: gods and immortals. The gods take the path of merit to prove their ways, and the immortals comprehend the laws of heaven and earth. In the underworld, there is only one path for Yin gods to prove their ways through merit, and everything is judged based on merit.
More importantly, the divine decree issued by Emperor Yin directly stated that the throne of the Lord of the Six Paths of Reincarnation will also appear. Whoever has perfect immortal merits will inherit the position of the Lord of the Six Paths of Reincarnation. These are the six dignified golden immortal positions.
Even the Soul-Catching Judge who was holding the God's Decree of the Underworld was reciting it with shock in his heart and his hands trembling a little, not to mention the gods of the Underworld below. Everyone of them looked at the God's Decree of the Underworld with fanaticism in their eyes.
"I am determined to get the position of one of the six masters of the cycle of reincarnation!" Several emperors had already made up their minds, even the judges of Yintianzi City felt the same way.
"The Lord of the Underworld will be a god in the future. How should I manage the world of the Lord?" The many Lords of the Underworld who were ranked last had various thoughts.
"Everything will be judged according to merit. Perhaps I can also become a judge or an emperor?"
When the gods of the underworld walked out of Yintianzi City, they didn't even say much to each other. They quickly passed through the gates of hell and headed downwards. When such a big event started, everyone had their own plans, and everyone was a competitor.
When many gods of the underworld arrived at the Ghost Gate, the reconstruction of the entire underworld below had been completed. The upper underworld looked vast and boundless, and the endless underworld realm below was floating like bubbles, waiting for the underworld lord to open up and perfect it one by one. Between the upper and lower parts, there was a world barrier that separated them, and one had to pass through numerous space folds in the middle, which was like a natural chasm even for immortals and gods.
Emperors from all sides flew to the Netherworld to restore order.
The Lords of the Underworld from all sides held the divine orders and went directly from the Ghost Gate to their own realm of the Underworld.
At the same time, the news of the great changes in the underworld also began to spread to the upper realm and the human world. However, many ghosts and immortals in the human world, as well as the practitioners from various major sects who were about to achieve enlightenment and ascend to heaven, were ready to make a move, while most of the immortals and gods in the upper realm just paid attention and said no more.
These immortals and gods in heaven seem to have a natural contempt for the God of the Underworld. No matter how great the changes in the Underworld are, and the immortals have risen to a higher level, they are still nothing special in their eyes and do not look down on them.
The central heaven of heaven.
The Emperor of Heaven, who originally controlled all the origins of a big world and integrated them into the underworld, finally stopped his actions. The World Tree, which was originally filled with the light of the origin, finally gradually dimmed.
The entire Eternal Serpent Spacetime became empty at this moment. The main plane in the distance, the wreckage of the world underfoot, and all kinds of floating and scattered matter were all swept away, leaving only the lonely World Tree standing in the center of spacetime.
The World Tree Jianmu, which runs through time and space, has now completely drained the original power of the entire Eternal Snake Space and Time. Several large worlds have also been integrated into the Three Realms one by one. Even all living beings have been reincarnated into the Three Realms to add bricks and tiles to the Three Realms.
"The Three Realms are complete! We have finally succeeded!" The Emperor of Heaven, who was sitting at the highest point of the Lingxiao Palace, nodded with satisfaction.
This is equivalent to the Three Realms being the main planes and the big world where the three laws are perfect and complete.
It is enough to accommodate at least thirty Golden Immortals who follow the path of the gods. As for those who do not follow the order of the gods, comprehend the perfect laws on their own, and prove themselves to be Golden Immortals, of course they are not included in this quota.
But it ends here. When the Heaven was reopened and the Star Gods were deified, it was still worthy of Fang Xiu's attention. Now that the whole world is on the right track, the perfection of the underworld can only be regarded as icing on the cake. Everything can be run by the underworld on its own.
As for whether there are more high-quality gods and immortals in the underworld, or even a few more golden immortals in the future, it is not important to it, just let it be.
The Emperor of Heaven then focused his attention on moving Jianmu away from this space and time.
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The road to heaven.
The God Lord Changde rode on a chariot pulled by the divine beast Chenghuang through the only road in the heaven. From time to time on the road, he could see immortals and gods passing by as well as priests from various prefectures traveling together.
After passing through the road to immortality and arriving at the Heavenly Gate, he went straight to the palace of the Earth Emperor.
On the immortal chariot sat not only the God Lord Changde, but also his Taoist partner the True Lord Tude Tuming. The two of them entered the immortal world together. Along the way, some lower-rank and lower-rank gods and immortals gave way and saluted them.
The two of them did not come here to reminisce about the past with the Earth Emperor Jia Yi.
Instead, the God Lord Changde thought over it again and again, and finally made up his mind and chose where to open the overseas Taoist temple and when to start entering.
Changde decided to return to the Houtufu realm now and begin planning for the establishment of a Taoist temple outside the domain.