Counterattack System appeared when I'm already At The Mahayana Realm

Chapter 510: Chapter 509: The Ancestor’s Meaning Might Not Be This

“Am I that famous?” Jiang Li didn’t think he had done anything major.

Initially, when the Yama King heard about Jiang Li, he did not associate him with the person mentioned by the Heavenly Dao. Even when he checked his life details in the Book of Life and Death, he was still half skeptical. But today, when he used his Divine Sense to probe Jiang Li further, he could feel the profound and powerful soul within him.

The Yama King had only ever felt something similar from Heavenly Dao and Hou Tu, but neither was as profound as the essence he felt from Jiang Li.

As the Yama King sized up Jiang Li, Jiang Li observed the Yama King in return. It was his first time coming face to face with a Golden Immortal, though it was only in soul form.

The experience didn’t feel very different from interacting with a Heavenly Immortal – he probably wasn’t much of a fighter, either.

“Judge me then,” Jiang Li prepared himself for the judgment. He was curious about his accumulated karma.

With purely black eyes, the Yama King rolled his eyeballs in disbelief: “You… You’re not dead, so I can’t judge you.”

The Yama King reflexively rolled his eyes, thinking to himself, what a ridiculous idea to judge a man not yet dead.

But just as he was about to vocalize his thoughts, he saw the Judge wildly gesturing warning signs at him.

Then it clicked for the Yama King – the man standing in front of him was not his coworker but a figure of higher authority even than the Heavenly Dao.

“To familiarize myself with the process for when I inevitably do die, why not give it a try?” Jiang Li said with a grin.

The Yama King wanted to say if you’re eager to die, I can arrange that for you and deduct your remaining life span.

But then he realized he can’t casually utter such words.

Seeing the Yama King’s reaction, the Judge knew exactly what his boss was thinking. He thought the King would one day get into big trouble because of his sharp tongue.

He had heard that the Yama King was once a significant figure in the Immortal Realm when he was living. He offended the Immortal Emperor by uttering the wrong words and ended up being sentenced to the Immortal Execution Platform, where he was torn apart.

“Your accumulated karma is abundant enough for you to reincarnate as a Heavenly Being for a hundred lifetimes, enjoying wealth and prosperity. If you wish to stay in the Underworld, you could become the Eleventh Yama King, the leader of all Yama Kings, second only to Hou Tu. There is even a possibility that Hou Tu could cede his position to you, making you the new Lord of the Underworld.”

“What’s the best outcome if I choose to reincarnate as a Heavenly Being?”

“You could reincarnate as an Immortal, born with divine talents and favored by the heavens.”

“Can I go to the Immortal Realm by reincarnating?”

“Yes. Generally speaking, those choosing the Heavenly Being path reincarnate in the Immortal Realm, as there are many opportunities to encounter high-level immortals and cultivation techniques, which are beneficial for cultivation. However, the Immortal Realm has not seen any new life for nine thousand years, so even if you choose to reincarnate into the Immortal Realm, it would be an indefinitely delayed result.”

Unable to hold back his curiosity, the Yama King asked, “Do you have any plans to stay in the Underworld?”

Given the current staff shortage in the Underworld and Hou Tu’s lackadaisical attitude towards his duties, the Yama King hoped for someone else who could share the workload.

Jiang Li answered crisply, “No.”

Seeing the Yama King toiling relentlessly, he knew staying in the Underworld wasn’t going to be a good option.

“If you can’t decide what to do in your next life, you might as well follow the standard process. Over there is the direction for reincarnation as a Heavenly Being.” Seeing that Jiang Li looked torn, the Yama King mistook him for someone struggling to make a decision on how to reincarnate.

You’re talking about reincarnation, but with your longevity, no one else could beat you to the reincarnation cycle!

While Ox-Head and Horse-Face were leading Jiang Li, a female ghost envoy suddenly appeared to guide him first.

“Please follow me. This way is towards the reincarnation route for Heavenly Beings.”

The female Ghost Envoy led the way while explaining the structure of the Underworld to Jiang Li.

“The Underworld can generally be divided into six parts. The Yama King judges, fixes karma values, and then there are three reincarnation holding zones for Heavenly Beings, Humans, and Beasts. There was originally no need to demarcate these three zones, but with the Immortal Realm’s unrest causing the destruction of the Ten Thousand Realms and an increasing influx of souls descending to the Underworld, these zones were created for ease of management.”

“Next is the Endless Hell, where some beings with huge amounts of negative karma need to suffer to dissolve their karma before they can reincarnate as beasts.”

“If the karma is too great to dissolve, they continue to reincarnate as beasts in their next life.”

“The final area is the Reincarnation Area, where the River of Three Crossings and the Wishing Tower from folklores are located.”

“Has there been any immortals from the Immortal Realm reincarnating recently?” Jiang Li thought of the Honghu Messenger who had just died.

The female ghost envoy shook her head: “No immortal has arrived in the Underworld. When the Heavenly Dao became sentient and chaos emerged in the Immortal Realm, aside from the Heavenly Dao, the souls of Immortals and mortals from the Immortal Realm have not come here. The Heavenly Dao said it was because he interfered, dispersing all their souls.”

“Perhaps, the Immortal Realm wanted to avoid strengthening the Underworld. After that, when any Immortal died, their soul would automatically dissipate, eliminating the possibility of reincarnation.”

“We were puzzled as to why the Immortal Realm was so wary of us growing stronger, as the Underworld never interferes with the mortal world. Later, we understood that while the Underworld does not oppose the Immortal Realm, the Immortal Realm wants to seize control of the Underworld to prevent the reincarnation cycle.”

“Is the Heavenly Dao in the Underworld?” Jiang Li always wanted to meet this oldest primordial and limitless immortal.

“No, he isn’t here anymore. The Heavenly Dao was the first primordial and limitless immortal to reincarnate. Generally, anyone’s soul would have to be cleansed and turned into a completely new soul before reincarnating. However, the Heavenly Dao was too powerful. We in the Underworld used the Six Paths Reincarnation Tablet to try to erode the part of the soul that represented the Heavenly Dao. Unfortunately, we failed – even when the Six Paths Reincarnation Tablet cracked in the end, the Heavenly Dao’s soul remained unchanged.”

“We had no choice but to send the Heavenly Dao to reincarnate in such a state.”

A thought struck Jiang Li; this description was too similar to someone he had met before.

“Where did the Heavenly Dao reincarnate to? Who did he become?”

The female ghost envoy thought for a moment, recalling something the Heavenly Dao had once said: “He wanted to reincarnate in the path of Heavenly Beings. Since there is no suitable place in the Immortal Realm, he wanted to reincarnate in Nine Provinces, which he deemed as similar to the way of Heavenly Beings. He said he wanted to reincarnate in the body of someone with the best talent for cultivation.”

“We checked all the newborns in the Nine Provinces and found a child with a cultivation talent that was rarely seen throughout history, particularly in Buddhist cultivation. We asked him whether cultivating Buddhism or Dao was more important to him. He said the Buddha attended his lectures and achieved enlightenment under the Bodhi Tree. However, Buddhism is just a part of the Dao, so there’s no difference between cultivating Buddhism or Dao. We were enlightened by his explanation and let him reincarnate in that child. The child’s name was Wen Da.”

“We were concerned about the child’s future. We heard that he joined Buddhism, got the Dharma name Wu Zhi, and probably was quite satisfied with this identity.”

“…”

Jiang Li suspected the Heavenly Dao back then was just trying to brag about his ancient pedigree and had no real intention of reincarnating as a Buddhist monk.

“Here we are: the Heavenly Beings Area.”

In the holding area for the reincarnation of the Heavenly Beings, Jiang Li saw many souls looking tense, eyeing each other warily.

They were also wary of Jiang Li.

Jiang Li found this strange. Those eligible for reincarnation as Heavenly Beings should be benevolent individuals. Why did they all seem like people with sinister intentions?

The female ghost envoy sneered, “A bunch of hopeless souls, waiting for the Immortal Realm to restore normalcy so they can reincarnate there. Pitiful souls. Seeing you, they think they have another competitor.”

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