Du Lao sighed and said, "The drawback is that the ghosts' memories cannot be erased!"
Zi Linling was stunned, "This is also a drawback?"
Du Lao nodded, "Of course! Those ghosts have gone through battles. Although they were deterred by that couple, their ferocity has not been extinguished."
"Therefore, when they obtained physical bodies, the ferocity ingrained in their bones was exposed, and conflict was naturally unavoidable."
Zi Linling nodded, "Yes, there is no shortage of conflict at any time or place, but isn't that a normal thing?"
Du Lao smiled and said, "It is indeed very normal, but with conflict, death is inevitable."
"After these people die, their souls will return to Youdu. To leave again, they must reshape their physical bodies."
"Although that thing can reshape physical bodies, the energy consumed is also enormous. Therefore, those conflicts unknowingly accelerated the consumption of energy."
Zi Linling nodded, "That makes sense! How do we solve it then?"
Du Lao said, "That couple was also immensely powerful. They divided all the ghosts according to their degree of ferocity, and using the mortal world as a basis, created the Six Paths."
"They appointed the ten ghosts around them as the Underworld Lords, who would judge the good and evil of the ghosts and ultimately decide which path they would be cast into."
"Then, they invited Meng Po from somewhere and developed the Forgetfulness Soup, and gave Meng Po a divine artifact to maintain the operation of the Nine Paths of Reincarnation."
Zi Linling became even more confused upon hearing this.
She interrupted Du Lao, "That's not right, Du Lao! You said Meng Po was invited by that couple from somewhere, and then you said Meng Po is a goddess from the divine realm. Isn't that contradictory?"
Du Lao shook his head, "The matter of Meng Po being a goddess from the divine realm is what everyone speculated because she possessed divine abilities."
Zi Linling's pupils contracted sharply, as she was utterly shocked.
"Divine abilities? What are those?"
Du Lao shook his head again, "I don't know!"
Zi Linling was stunned.
Was Du Lao... playing with her?
He was the one who said he didn't know where Meng Po came from, and he was also the one who said Meng Po was from the divine realm!
He was the one who said Meng Po possessed divine abilities, and he was also the one who said he didn't know what divine abilities were!
How could Du Lao utter such contradictory statements?
Zi Linling seriously suspected that Du Lao had schizophrenia!
If Du Lao knew Zi Linling's diagnosis, he would surely jump up in anger!
In fact, it was precisely so.
Du Lao not only jumped up, but he also jumped up with his goat beard quivering!
"You little brat, you have schizophrenia! But, what is schizophrenia?"
Zi Linling's mouth twitched, "You old rascal, you don't even know what schizophrenia means, yet you use it to curse people?"
Of course, the words "schizophrenia" did not sound like compliments.
Du Lao twitched his goat beard and said, "Hmph! Girl, judge people by their hearts and listen to their words. Don't treat everyone like an idiot!"
Zi Linling pouted, unexpectedly finding this old rascal quite "clever."
Du Lao glared at her and continued, "With the Six Paths of Reincarnation, the Underworld became a realm of its own and was renamed the Netherworld."
"That couple crowned themselves the Nether King and refined the fortune of the Netherworld into a divine artifact, which was called the Nether King Seal."
Upon hearing Du Lao getting to the point, Zi Linling stopped joking around.
She frowned and said, "Another divine artifact! What is the origin of this couple, that everything they casually refine turns out to be a divine artifact?"
Du Lao shook his head, "Their origin is unknown."
"And the Nether King Seal, because it carries the fortune of the entire Netherworld, can suppress living souls. No matter how fierce a ghost is, under the Nether King Seal, it can only be suppressed."
Zi Linling's eyes lit up, "Then where is this Nether King Seal?"
Du Lao looked at her expression and knew she was eyeing the Nether King Seal.
However, he didn't object! It would be foolish not to take advantage of a good opportunity.
So, he continued, "This Nether King Seal is of great importance, so it has always been with that couple."
Zi Linling's eyes dimmed instantly upon hearing this.
Setting aside the fact that she didn't know where that couple was now, even if she did, given the couple's cultivation, she wouldn't be able to obtain the Nether King Seal.
Du Lao looked at Zi Linling's disappointed expression, and the resentment from being scolded earlier completely dissipated.
But he still wanted to tease Zi Linling a bit, so he drew out his words and said, "However..."
Zi Linling's eyes instantly brightened upon hearing there was more, "However, what?"
"However, later, that couple had a child. When the child grew up, they handed over the Nether King Seal to that child, and then the couple disappeared completely."
Zi Linling asked curiously, "Then what about that child?"
Du Lao waved his hand, "That child, I don't know!"
"There are rumors that a loophole appeared in the Six Paths of Reincarnation, and that child, unable to repair it, went to seek his parents for a method of repair."
"There are also rumors that the child personally entered the Six Paths of Reincarnation, attempting to find a method of repair by comprehending the laws of reincarnation."
"Regardless of the reason, before he left, he submerged the Nether King Seal into the origin place of ghosts – the Forgetfulness River, to suppress countless ghosts." Sudancdn.com
Forgetfulness River? Suppression? Ghosts? Light? Vortex?
Could it be such a coincidence?
Zi Linling unconsciously connected these clues.
Then, she arrived at a conclusion that made her dumbfounded – the light and vortex before her were caused by the Nether King Seal, weren't they?
Also, there was a trace of Ye Lingyuan's aura within this vortex. Could it be... Ye Lingyuan was the child of that couple – the Nether King of the Netherworld?
Although Zi Linling was startled by her own thought, she still felt that her guess was likely correct.
Furthermore, in the Tianqi Kingdom, Ye Lingyuan's title was also "Nether King!"
Not to mention how shocked Zi Linling was, the Ten Kings of Hell exchanged glances and then arrived at the White Bone Mountain.
The White Bone Mountain trembled!
The imperial aura emanating from these ten individuals made the bones extremely uncomfortable.
Therefore, it kept shaking.
Yuehua, who had already reached the mortal world, instantly sensed the situation of the White Bone Mountain.
Her brows furrowed, and then she closed her eyes, carefully sensing the information transmitted by the White Bone Mountain.
The Ten Underworld Lords? The Nether King Seal?
What a coincidence!
It seemed she had to return to the Netherworld first.
Zi Linling looked at the White Bone Mountain where ten people suddenly appeared. She was stunned at first, then frowned.
Looking at the imperial attire of these ten people and the aura they occasionally emitted, Zi Linling was certain that these ten people were indeed the Ten Kings of Hell.