96: Chapter 96 Six Paths of Reincarnation

At the end of the Winners' Passage lay a giant ring-shaped structure suspended in the void.

It was the rest area for the winners bracket, approximately three kilometers in diameter and constructed entirely of silver-white metal. The interior was divided into three hundred independent lounges, each equipped with a world core monitor, a faith power conversion device, and a space-time flow regulator.

Su Bai was guided to Lounge No. 019.

The moment the door opened, he saw a familiar figure.

Chu Kuangren.

No, to be precise, it was a holographic projection of Chu Kuangren. His image hovered in the center of the lounge, the expression on his face looking as if he had just won the lottery jackpot.

“Brother!!!” Chu Kuangren's voice exploded from the projection. “Did you see it?! Did you see Shen Zhao's face?! If you're trash, practice more! Hahahahaha! That mouth shape of yours—the entire Great Xia Kingdom saw it!”

Su Bai walked into the lounge and sat down on the sofa.

“Why are you here?”

“The Chu family spent three million federal credits to buy temporary communication rights, and it only lasts for three minutes!” Chu Kuangren's voice trembled with excitement. “My old man told me to tell you.”

His expression suddenly became serious. He cleared his throat and said in a deliberately lowered voice:

“Su Bai, the Chu family keeps its word. You won the first round, so one hundred million has already been transferred to your card.”

Su Bai raised an eyebrow.

He glanced down at his communication terminal and indeed saw a bank arrival notification.

[Received: 100,000,000 federal credits]

Nine zeros.

One hundred million.

Chu Kuangren's projection continued, “Also, my dad said that one hundred million is nothing; the real thank-you gift is this.”

He took out a palm-sized wooden box from his robe.

The wooden box was pitch black with no patterns on its surface, but Su Bai could feel that its material was not any known substance. It emitted an extremely faint but purely heart-palpitating aura.

That aura felt remarkably like Power Of Faith.

But it was older than Power Of Faith, deeper, and more...

Primordial.

“What is this?” Su Bai asked.

Chu Kuangren's expression became extremely serious—so serious that Su Bai almost didn't recognize him.

“This is something passed down from my Chu family ancestors called the ‘seal of destiny’,” he said. “It's said that before the first Fifteenth-Order Creator of the Great Xia Kingdom fell, he condensed it using the last sliver of power from his world core.”

“Our Chu family obtained it by chance. This thing is absolutely our family's heirloom.”

“What can it do?”

“It can't ‘do’ anything,” Chu Kuangren said. “It has only one function: when you integrate the seal of destiny into your world core, it will cause your world to give birth to its first Rule. Furthermore, this Rule will be highly compatible with your world.”

Su Bai's pupils constricted slightly.

Rules.

He knew what that meant.

In the legends of the Netherworld, it was called the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

That was more central than Ghost Gate Pass, Yellow Spring Road, River of Oblivion, and the Eighteen Levels of Hell combined. It was the foundation of the Netherworld, the source of the cycle of life and death, and the starting point of all order.

“The Chu family...” Su Bai's voice was a bit raspy. “Why give this to me?”

Chu Kuangren was silent for two seconds.

“Because my dad said the Chu family has guarded this thing for three hundred years, and no one could use it.” His voice was soft. “Because no one could carry its power. What it needs isn't a powerful world, but a *correct* world.”

He looked at Su Bai.

“Your Netherworld might just be that correct world.”

The projection began to flicker; the three minutes were almost up.

“Brother,” Chu Kuangren said finally, “fight hard in the second round. My dad said if you can make it into the top ten, the Chu family will give you another—”

The projection cut off.

Su Bai looked at the empty lounge and remained silent for a long time.

He knew the Chu family was going all-in on him; the importance of this item was absolutely through the roof.

It wouldn't even be an exaggeration to say it was the best thing in the entire Qinglin Province.

He hadn't expected that after winning just one match, the head of the Chu family would so decisively give him this item.

What incredible boldness.

He looked down at the wooden box in his hand.

The seal of destiny.

It could give birth to a Rule within a world.

The Six Paths of Reincarnation.

He took a deep breath and put the wooden box away.

He closed his eyes, and his consciousness sank into the Netherworld World.

Grayish-white Yin Qi surged like a sea.

Before Ghost Gate Pass, the Ghost King hovered in mid-air, his golden vertical pupils watching him.

“My Lord.”

Su Bai nodded, saying nothing more.

His consciousness avatar stood at the world core and raised a hand.

[Used faith crystals × 1,000]

[Obtained Power Of Faith: 100,000 points]

[Current Power Of Faith: 108,111 points]

One hundred and eight thousand, one hundred and eleven points of Power Of Faith.

Su Bai looked at the number, the corners of his mouth curling up slightly.

It was enough.

Enough for him to elevate the Netherworld World by another level.

He didn't rush to use that huge sum of money, but instead fixed his gaze on the wooden box in his hand.

The seal of destiny.

He took a deep breath and opened the wooden box.

Inside the box, a thumb-sized seal lay quietly. The seal was transparent, like a solidified water droplet, but inside, countless tiny points of light could be vaguely seen flowing. Those points of light moved in an extremely complex trajectory, as if performing some eternal and unchanging law.

Su Bai reached out and gently grasped the seal.

The moment the seal touched his palm, it melted.

It wasn't melting in a physical sense, but rather transforming into countless points of light that surged into his body through his palm, passing through his consciousness avatar, through the barrier of the world core, and reaching the deepest part of the Netherworld World.

At that moment, the entire Netherworld World trembled.

It wasn't a physical tremor, but a tremor at the level of Rules.

On the doors of Ghost Gate Pass, those runes erupted with blinding light. The waters of the River of Oblivion began to boil, and the lonely ghosts who could not be reincarnated in the river all quieted down, looking up at the sky. Deep within the Tongue-Pulling Hell, countless sinful souls stopped their wailing because they felt it.

Something was being born.

It was something that transcended power.

It was a Rule.

It was Reincarnation.

The seal of destiny was condensing into the prototype of the first Rule within Su Bai's world core.

A prompt appeared before Su Bai.

[Detected 'seal of destiny' integration in progress...]

[Generating Rule: Six Paths of Reincarnation (Prototype)]

[Estimated generation time: ??? (Depends on World Grade and Power Of Faith investment)]

[Current World Grade: Sixth-Order]

[Current Power Of Faith: 108,111 points]

[Suggestion: Elevate the World Grade to Seventh-Order and invest at least 50,000 points of Power Of Faith to complete the preliminary construction of the Six Paths of Reincarnation.]

Su Bai looked at the line of text and was silent for two seconds.

Seventh-Order.

He needed Seventh-Order.

His current World Grade was Sixth-Order, and his highest unit was the Ghost King at the peak of Sixth-Order. To advance to Seventh-Order, he needed:

First, a Seventh-Order Hero Unit.

Second, enough Power Of Faith to support the leap in World Grade.

Third, to devour enough worlds to expand the scope of the Netherworld.

He took a deep breath.

No rush.

Step by step.

He first spent 50,000 Power Of Faith to accelerate the integration process of the seal of destiny to the maximum.

[Invested Power Of Faith: 50,000 points]

[Six Paths of Reincarnation (Prototype) generating... Estimated completion time: 7 days]

Seven days.

In seven days, the first Rule will be born in the Netherworld World.

Six Paths of Reincarnation.