I'm taking the imperial examinations in Liaozhai

"Hey, why is it you?" Qinglong looked at the people in the palace in surprise.

This person wears a corolla on his head, a bright red robe with wide sleeves, comfortable shoes on his feet, fine eyebrows and detailed eyes, very moving.

"Shenjun Mengzhang, don't come here unharmed." The man said with a smile.

"Bone, who is he?" Ji Zihe asked suspiciously.

Zhenjun Erlang is also confused, he has been in the underworld for a few years, and all the officials, big and small, recognize his face, why has he never seen such a person.

"He is the Son of Heaven, also known as Pluto." Qinglong said.

"Guanjiangkou Erlangshen, see His Majesty the Hades." Zhenjun Erlang saluted immediately, but Hades could not retire very early, no wonder he had never met.

Ji Zihe also bowed, "Xiaosheng Ji Zihe, see the King of Pluto."

"There's no need to be too polite." Pluto gave a little support, and the two of them stood up straight.

"Zhenjun Erlang, we meet old friends and have something to say, I wonder if you can avoid it for a while." Pluto asked.

"Of course, the little god will leave first." Erlang Shen said immediately.In front of these ancient beasts, he is just a junior.Although Pluto has not appeared in front of people for a long time, Zhenjun Erlang will not look down on him. Compared with Qinglong, this one is more famous.

"Thank you sir."

Erlangshen strode out of the palace, and the gate of the palace was closed.

Pluto raised his hand, and a scroll flew out of his sleeve. The scroll expanded and expanded, wrapping the palace tightly, and then disappeared.

"Even He Tu was sacrificed, what secrets are you going to tell us!" Qinglong said while leaning on Ji Zihe's shoulder.

"It's just that there are some words, it's not easy for them to hear them."

"Who is that?"

Pluto's face became a little more dignified, and he spit out the name: "Heavenly Way."

"We're just here to make a name, why are we talking about the way of heaven again. Mr. Pluto, don't you fear the heavens and become their accomplice?" Bone thought that Pluto didn't care about the affairs of the underworld long ago, could it be that he also participated in it? In this matter?

Pluto shook his head, "I didn't participate in this matter. When I entered the samadhi, I suddenly felt something and was forced to go out. When I arrived in the underworld, God Meng Zhang had already arrived in the underworld, so I went to the ghost world first." In the judgment hall, I am waiting for you two. It is indeed my underworld that is wrong this time, I am here to apologize to Mr. Ji, please forgive me."

Pluto is the lord of a world, and now such a big person lowered his posture and apologized to Ji Zihe. Ji Zihe was a little flattered, "Your Majesty Pluto doesn't have to be like this. This matter is not the fault of the underworld, but the disaster caused by the heavens. Please also, Your Majesty Pluto." Cross my name off the list of Yin officials."

"This, I hope you can think about it again." Pluto seemed to know their concerns, and then said, "Not only dead people can be yin officials, but living people can also be yin officials. Moreover, yin officials in the underworld have many benefits and treatment. Congyou, less work, high salary, and salary can be mortal money.”

"Uh, this, let's not do it." Although it sounds very tempting, Ji Zihe doesn't like being bought and sold by force.

"Have you heard that, hurry up and take out the roster of your underworld, my little Hezi doesn't want to be the city god." Qinglong urged.

"Okay, Mr. Ji, since you don't want to be a yin official, how about I accept you as an apprentice. I will go up the mountain with me, and I will guarantee you 20 years of foundation building, 40 years of golden core, and 500 years of ascending to immortality. From then on, you will jump out of the Three Realms. Feel free, how do you feel?"

"If he wanted to cultivate immortality, I would have taught him a long time ago, do I still need you?" Qinglong gave him a white look.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness. It's just that there are elders in Xiaosheng's family who want to serve him, so please forgive me if he can't leave." Ji Zihe said.

"What can I do?" Pluto shook his head.

"What on earth do you mean?" Qinglong dissatisfied, he will be a yin official for a while, and accept apprentices for a while, why is his little Hezi so popular.

"Hey, this matter still has to start with my encounter with the Nine-Colored Deer King a few years ago. Do you know that the power of reincarnation in the underworld can repair the matter of the soul?"

Ji Zihe nodded. He had heard it mentioned in many folklore.It is said that people become ghosts after death. If they lack arms or legs, even if they are reborn as adults in the next life, they will only become disabled.If the soul is lacking too much, you can't even be a human being, you can only reincarnate as an animal, and you can reincarnate as a human being after the soul is replenished.

"Nine is the extreme number. No matter how badly the soul is injured, nine times of reincarnation can be regarded as the completion of merit. Mr. Ji was originally a Buddha in the Buddhist world. He passed away because of saving the common people. People in the Buddhist world have found your soul Put into reincarnation, now it is the ninth life. As long as Ji Gongzi passes through this life, he can replenish his soul and return to the Buddha position."

"Little Hezi is so kind-hearted, it's not a bad thing to be a Buddha who is indifferent to the world." Bone said.

"Things are not that simple." Pluto said again, "Nine-Colored Deer King has a Star Picking Tower in his hand, which can be used for divination and knowledge of the past and the present. He told me that it is not a good thing that Ji Gongzi's soul is completed."

"Why is that?" Ji Zihe asked puzzled, "We have also met the Nine-Colored Deer King, but he didn't say anything at that time."

Pluto paused for a moment, and couldn't help complaining in his heart. The magic stick just likes to say half and half, this kind of behavior is really annoying.

But he still had a smile on his face, "Probably the Nine-Colored Deer King counted on our meeting today. Mr. Ji didn't know something. Back then, Jinyun Buddha sacrificed himself to the heavens, but Jinyun Buddha himself was not sanctified, which left a hole in the way of heaven." Loophole. If the Dao of Heaven wants to fill this loophole, it must wait for Jinyun Buddha to complete his soul and return to his place, and then let him sit on the ground to be sanctified and perform a real union."

"You mean, as long as Xiaohezi dies, he will become Jinyun Buddha. Then the Heavenly Dao will forcibly elevate his realm and force him to join the Dao?" Qinglong raised his voice, "If Xiaohezi doesn't want to, it will always You can't force him to agree."

"Although Ji Gongzi's soul is almost complete now, he was just a strand of soul, and the original Jinyun Buddha has long been swallowed by the heavens and has become a part of the heavens. When Ji Gongzi completes his soul and returns to the god position, what do you think? Will he be Ji Gongzi, or a puppet of Heaven?"

Qinglong spit out a big puff of air from his nostrils, and was furious, "The little Hezi's soul was also left on purpose by him!"

"I don't know, but besides the matter of harmony, I have another guess."

"What is it?"

"When Jinyun Buddha returns to his place and becomes the carrier of the way of heaven in the world, it will be a catastrophe. Now in this world, among the three thousand ways, the way of heaven only supports the Buddha and the way. Slowly expelled from this side of the world. If the heavenly world and the Buddhist world are dominant, the heavenly way begins to support the mortal Confucianism. When Jinyun Buddha becomes the hands of the heavenly way, there will be no need for the heavenly world and the Buddhist world to exist, and it will inevitably The two and other monks will do it. In the end, there will be no monks left in this world, only mortals. A mortal can only live for a hundred years, and after a few hundred years, no one in the world will believe in our existence."

"The Dao of Heaven is really good at calculating." Qinglong snorted coldly.

"Even so, it is not incomprehensible. To put it bluntly, the way of heaven is not human, nor does it have human thinking. It will not adapt to changes, and will only follow its plans. As long as Ji Gongzi does not die for a day, the reincarnation of the nine generations will not be complete. , even though it seems to have no effect, the soul is missing a little bit. The power of reincarnation can only act on the soul itself. If it is controlled by the heaven, there is no way to make up the soul. Therefore, as long as Ji Gongzi is alive, the heaven will not control him. He is a puppet. And Jinyun Buddha is a part of the Heavenly Dao, so even if Ji Gongzi is alive, the Heavenly Dao will not create murderous intentions to attack Ji Gongzi, it is so rigid."

"Are you the only one who knows about this?"

"I don't know, but I think that the Nine-color Deer King will definitely not tell me alone. However, if you leave the Nine-color Deer King's Zhaxing Building, if you mention this matter in other places, you will definitely be noticed by the heavens, unless you have Luo Shuhetu is an artifact that can conceal the way of heaven, so not many people know about it, but they will definitely not sit idly by. But Mr. Ji is now in my underworld, so it is definitely a game between the Buddha world and the heaven world. "

Although Ji Zihe could not die and return to the god position, his aptitude in this life was very good. If he re-cultivated Buddhism, he would still be able to become a Buddha in a few hundred years.Heaven naturally doesn't want the opponent to become more powerful, and will definitely try to stop it.

Of course, it is impossible for the bosses to tell their subordinates the secret of Ji Zihe's inability to die. The more people who know, the easier it is to reveal the secret. They don't want to be put on by Tiandao.

Under the premise that Ji Zihe cannot die, the battle between the Buddhist world and the heavenly world has not ended.Even if the main premise cannot be said, the reasons are all ready-made.

As far as the Buddhist world is concerned, Jinyun Buddha is originally a person from the Buddhist world, and it is a matter of course for his reincarnation to practice Buddhism.As for whether to return to the position or not, alas, Buddhists all pay attention to fate, just follow the fate, why do you have to die.And the heavens also have a reason. If Ji Zihe cultivates Buddhism, there will be one more Buddha in the Buddha world, and this Buddha has something to do with the heavens. What if he harms the heavens?No, Erlang Zhenjun, hurry up and stop him from practicing Buddhism, and send him to the underworld, so as not to cause trouble in the Buddhist world.Be careful not to kill people. If you die, you will become a Buddha directly, and all previous efforts will be wasted.

"Like the Bodhisattva we met just now?"

"Yes, even if Jinyun Buddha in the Buddhist world is a person from the Buddhist world, the Buddhist world naturally does not want his reincarnation to be a person from the underworld. But I did not give him the list, I hope that Mr. Ji can choose by himself." Hades said, Handed Ji Zihe the list of officials selected for the underworld imperial examination.

There is only Ji Zihe's name on this list, and the others are blank. After all, he is the only exception, and Erlang God wrote it in advance.As for the others, the imperial examinations in the underworld have not yet ended, and the papers have not been finished yet, so how can they determine the personnel.

"Erlang Zhenjun did not do this properly. I have already learned what happened from Qin Guangwang. The imperial examination in the underworld is a good thing, but the candidates who participate in the scientific examination know the whole story, so it is right to participate voluntarily. It's just The servant who went to meet Young Master Ji was coerced by Zhenjun Erlang's Roaring Sky Dog, and he didn't explain to Young Master Ji, which surprised Young Master Ji. There is indeed a responsibility of the underworld for this, and the underworld will naturally not shirk it."

Ji Zihe tightly held the list in his hand, "Actually, I can't blame the underworld, but I can only blame me for being a mortal now."

It is precisely because he is a useless mortal that he is weak and can be deceived. It is precisely because he is a useless mortal that the guards dare to deceive him; it is precisely because he is a mortal that Zhenjun Erlang chooses to ignore his wishes and write his name on the on the list of Yin officials; just because he is a useless mortal, he can't even decide his own life or death.After all, it's not because he is a mortal.Weakness is the original sin.

However, it is said that mortals are like ants, but in Ji Zihe's view, immortals are not without desires.

"Xiao Hezi..." Xiao Qinglong rubbed his head against his chin, worried.

"It's nothing." Ji Zihe touched Xiao Qinglong's head and curled his lips. At least someone was with him.

"Your Majesty Pluto, I want to know, what benefits can I get from the underworld for offering me such a good condition?" Ji Zihe looked at Pluto. There are reasons for both the heaven and the Buddhist world, but in the underworld, even an official as big as Pluto can't help it. Why did they all appear in front of him to keep him in person?

Qinglong's eyes immediately changed when he looked at Pluto, yes, just now he only heard about the heaven and the Buddha world, what about the underworld?

Pluto smiled, "Actually, it's not a big deal, but I'm the king of the underworld after all. Although I don't care much, I hope that the underworld can survive forever. Mr. Ji is a person of great luck. I hope to use Mr. Ji's luck , so that the underworld will not be truly emptied by the Buddha world and the heaven world."

"Yes, but I have one condition." Ji Zihe said.

"What conditions?"

"I hope you can give me the power to not be at the mercy of anyone."

Pluto thought for a while, "You really don't want to worship me as a teacher?"

Ji Zihe shook his head.

Pluto sighed, raised his hand to take back the river map in the house, and handed it to Ji Zihe, "This is the river map scroll, which is an artifact of the saints in ancient times. It has powerful power. Although your strength is limited, you can't use it to its full potential." Power, but enough. Besides, now I give it a new meaning."

Pluto straightened his expression, and his voice suddenly became ethereal, "From today onwards, the one who holds the scroll of the river will be my young master of the underworld."

The voice seemed to come from ancient times, and it didn't sound very loud, but all the monks in the world heard the announcement and knew it. Suddenly there was a young master in the underworld.

"Thank you, Your Majesty Hades." Ji Zihe took the Hetu scroll and returned the list of Yin officials to him.

The young master Ji Zihe really has no pressure at all, it's just an umbrella, and he doesn't need to fulfill any obligations.After all, life is longer than Pluto, so I'm afraid I'm tired of living.

Qinglong's face was very ugly, he stared at Pluto, and a big gust of air spewed out of his nostrils.What young master, wouldn't this just make his Xiao Hezi a generation shorter and take advantage of him.

Bid farewell to Pluto, walked out of the Hall of Ghost Judgment, the little green dragon turned into a big green dragon, and Ji Zihe sat on the dragon head again.

"Bone, can we not go back yet?" Ji Zihe said.

Qinglong was puzzled, "Is there any place you want to go?"

Ji Zihe touched the river map in his hand, and said with a smile, "Let's go set fire, go to Guanjiangkou, go to heaven!"

Qinglong laughed, "Of course, I'll call Xuanwu... Cough, Xiao Hei, he's the most venomous, it must be fun to find him."

"Okay, but we have to do it secretly so that no one will find out." Ji Zihe smiled, like a little troublemaker about to do something bad.