36: Chapter 36 The Ten Kings of Hell and Meng Po

"Little Brother!"

Hongyun was the first to sense his aura. He turned around in pleasant surprise and hurried to greet him, "You finally came! The Netherworld is in chaos right now, and the True Spirits and Primordial Spirits of the Witch and Demon races are piled up like Mount Buzhou. Zhenyuanzi and I are exhausted. You have many ideas, please help your elder brother find some people to help out."

Zhenyuanzi also split off a strand of his consciousness and looked at Shi Yan, "This Saint of the Earthly Dao is too exhausting, especially when encountering a calamity; the Reincarnation is completely packed."

Shi Yan nodded slightly, his gaze piercing directly into the depths of Fengdu, looking at the Ancestral Witch True Spirits curled up on the ground and slowly recovering amidst the power of the Earthly Dao, a smile curling at the corner of his mouth: "I came precisely for this matter."

He waved his hand, and the Dao of Time and Space unfolded, instantly gathering all ten strands of the Ancestral Witch True Spirits before him.

"Fellow Daoist Houtu." Shi Yan looked at Houtu, who was closing her eyes to regulate her breathing. His voice was calm yet carried a strange power, "The Luck of the Witch and Demon races has been exhausted. From now on, the Witch Race will live in the Netherworld."

"Look at these ten strands of True Spirits..."

Shi Yan guided them with his fingertips, and the True Spirits of the Ancestral Witches slowly emerged. Dijiang, Gong Gong, Zhurong, Xuanming... Ten True Spirits gathered in mid-air. Although they were faint, they still exuded the Dao rhythm of the Law.

"Eldest Brother." Shi Yan turned to look at the Saint, "You and Second Brother wish to increase manpower to share the pressure. In my opinion, these Twelve Ancestral Witches are the best candidates for the Ten Yama Kings!"

Zhenyuanzi's eyes brightened, and he was thoughtful: "Little brother, do you mean to let the Ancestral Witches enter the halls and govern one hall each? But the Ancestral Witches have fiery temperaments and do not Cultivate the Primordial Spirit..."

"That is not an issue." Shi Yan waved his hand and then explained: "Now that the Ancestral Witches only have their True Spirits left, as long as we trigger the Karma within them to reshape their Physical Bodies, the Evil Qi will be purified, and they can naturally give birth to a Primordial Spirit."

Hearing this, Hongyun was overjoyed and stepped forward: "Good! If we have the help of the Twelve Ancestral Witches, the pressure on our Netherworld will be greatly reduced!"

Beside them, Houtu slowly opened her eyes. Tears shimmered in them as she looked at the True Spirits of her elder brothers—Dijiang, Leiliang, Zhurong, and Xuanming—in mid-air. She said softly, "Fellow Daoist Shi Yan, can this method really allow my Witch Race to be reborn?"

"Naturally." Shi Yan answered Houtu's question affirmatively. After his voice fell, he looked at Zhenyuanzi.

"Eldest Brother, I'll leave it to you."

Zhenyuanzi gave a soft hum, then invoked the power of the Earthly Dao to awaken the True Spirits of the ten Ancestral Witches.

"I am... Dijiang?"

"I am... Zhurong?"

"I am... Ancestral Witch Zhu Jiuyin?"

"I am..."

Confusion flashed through the eyes of the Ancestral Witches. Then, seeing Shi Yan, Houtu, and Zhenyuanzi before them, their eyes were filled with doubt.

Dijiang asked in confusion: "Didn't we fall?"

Normally, since the Ancestral Witches have no Primordial Spirit, they should have entered the Sea of True Spirits.

Zhenyuanzi explained: "Hongjun intervened in this calamity, so little brother specifically asked me to collect the Witch Race's True Spirits beside Mount Buzhou."

Hearing this, Dijiang, Ju Mang, and the other Ancestral Witches bowed to Zhenyuanzi and Shi Yan: "Many thanks to you both for saving our Witch Race."

Subsequently, Shi Yan explained his idea of "using Karma to forge the Witch body."

"We understand." After the ten Ancestral Witches finished speaking, they invoked the Karma within their True Spirits—the Karma of Opening the Heavens and the Karma of the Netherworld.

Golden light surged around the ten Ancestral Witches. The power of Karma, like the most gentle Origin, wrapped around the ten faint True Spirits bit by bit.

The True Spirits of the Ancestral Witches, which were originally fierce, violent, and only cultivated the Physical Body without the Primordial Spirit, had their Evil Qi completely dissolved under the cleansing of Karma. Only their pure Pangu roots remained. Their True Spirits slowly stretched, forming human outlines, and their Physical Bodies condensed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In less than half an incense stick of time, all ten Ancestral Witch True Spirits had reshaped their bodies with Karma, and their Primordial Spirits were reborn.

Subsequently, Hongyun used the authority of the Great Emperor of Fengdu to appoint the ten Ancestral Witches as the Ten Yama Kings. With the help of the Earthly Dao's Luck, the Ancestral Witches' cultivation quickly recovered, and soon both their Physical Body cultivation and Primordial Spirit cultivation reached the Early Stage of the Hunyuan Golden Immortal.

Their auras perfectly matched the Dao of Reincarnation in the Netherworld, and there was no longer any of the fierce Evil Qi from the Witch Race's past. In its place was the solemnity and justice of Yama deities.

Dijiang took the lead, bowing to Shi Yan, Hongyun, and Zhenyuanzi. His voice was steady and deep: "Many thanks for the grace of our rebirth, Fellow Daoist. From now on, our Witch Race will take root in the Netherworld, govern the Ten Yama Kings, guard the Reincarnation for eternity, and never dare to be slack again!"

The other Ancestral Witches bowed in unison. The position of Yama was automatically bestowed upon them. The phantoms of the Ten Yama Kings appeared over the Netherworld, and the sound of the Earthly Dao roared. The Netherworld's Reincarnation became instantly unobstructed, and the mountain-like pile of Witch and Demon True Spirits and Primordial Spirits entered the Reincarnation channel in an orderly manner under the governance of the ten Ancestral Witch Yama Kings.

Hongyun and Zhenyuanzi looked at each other and smiled, breathing a sigh of relief: "With the ten Ancestral Witches guarding the ten halls, we can finally sleep soundly!"

Subsequently, Hongyun looked at Houtu, "Fellow Daoist Houtu, would you like to come to our Netherworld to serve as Meng Po?"

Houtu looked at her brothers, who were now governing the Reincarnation, tears shimmering in her eyes. Without the slightest hesitation, she nodded gently.

"Since my brothers have become Yama Kings and guard the order of Yin and Yang, I will go to that Naihe Bridge."

The moment Houtu nodded, the authority of the Earthly Dao as Meng Po was bestowed upon her.

Just as Houtu was about to head to the Naihe Bridge, Shi Yan asked: "Fellow Daoist Houtu, where is Fellow Daoist Gong Gong now?"

Pangu Hall isolates Heavenly secrets, so even Shi Yan could not calculate it.

Hearing Shi Yan's words, Houtu remembered this brother of hers who had been knocked unconscious.

She then looked at Shi Yan, "Fellow Daoist, Brother Gong Gong refused to believe that the other Ancestral Witches had died and intended to knock down Mount Buzhou. I knocked him unconscious and placed him in the blood pool of Pangu Hall to recuperate."

"Do you have something to ask of him, Fellow Daoist?"

"Nothing, I just didn't see Gong Gong and was slightly puzzled."

Shi Yan breathed a sigh of relief, giving Houtu a big thumbs up in his heart.

It's good that he was knocked unconscious. If he hadn't been, and the same thing as the original timeline had happened, wouldn't my help have been in vain?

Seeing the joyous expression on Shi Yan's face, Houtu was somewhat puzzled, but she did not linger and went to the Naihe Bridge to become Meng Po.

After conversing with Hongyun and Zhenyuanzi for a thousand years, Shi Yan returned to the Coast of the East Sea to continue to Cultivate.

Three thousand years passed since the Witch-Demon Calamity.

The Witch-Demon Calamity officially came to an end.

The myriad spirits of the Great Desolation were once again active on the land of the Great Desolation, and the vitality of the Great Desolation had already recovered by this time.

Because Mount Buzhou had not collapsed and was still helping the Great Desolation convert Chaos Qi into Innate Spiritual Qi, the Innate Spiritual Qi of the Great Desolation had not degraded.

The Great Desolation was blooming with a hundred flowers, but because the Witch and Demon races had perished together, the fighting had also intensified.

Even the Human Race, which possessed three Quasi-Saints, suffered significant impact as a result, with over one hundred million people dying, though they were soon reincarnated into the Human Race.

This led to an urgent need for a nominal ruler to govern the Great Desolation.

Therefore, the Dao Ancestor Hongjun sent a message to the Six Saints of the Heavenly Dao, asking them to come to Zixiao Palace to discuss matters.

He did not inform the Earthly Dao, because the Heavenly Court is the authority of the Heavenly Dao.

The Heavenly Emperor of the Heavenly Dao, the Great Emperor of Fengdu of the Earthly Dao, and the Human Sovereign of the Human Dao.