Hell Emperor.

Chapter 319: Shura Jie - Ghost Messenger Training
"Pay attention to my movements. You only need to find the remains of the deceased, place your hands on the heads of the deceased, and chant 'Soul return' to draw out their souls."

After giving Shan Yao the shrinking stone needed to be a ghost catcher, Ye Jie was still a little worried. He didn't know whether she could be qualified for the job of a ghost catcher, so he had to demonstrate it to her personally.

Ye Jie swept his mind and found the remains of several people who had just died in the ruins of a remote house.

Arriving outside the ruins, Ye Jie activated the Dragon Catching Hand and casually swept away the rubble and debris weighing thousands of pounds, revealing the remains buried underneath. He stretched out his hand and placed it on the forehead of one of the corpses to demonstrate for Shan Yao.

"The soul is back."

As Ye Jie's emotionless whisper fell, a little white and transparent light appeared in his palm. Ye Jie stretched out his hand and pulled, and a cold wind blew, and a soul was pulled out by him.

The man's soul, which had just awakened, didn't understand what was happening. He only felt an endless chill and stood there shivering.

"Now it's your turn."

There was a hint of curiosity in Shan Yao's eyes. In her eyes, who had not practiced martial arts, Ye Jie's methods were no different from those of an immortal.

Her dark eyes rolled around. Now that she had become a ghost messenger, she no longer had to abide by the rules that prohibited her from practicing in the past. She then stretched out her hand, placed it on the forehead of a corpse covered in dust, and whispered, "Soul, come back..."

Nothing happened.

Shan Yao bit her lip, looked at her hands, and said with some discouragement: "This is too difficult. Maybe I can't be a ghost messenger..."

Ye Jie glanced at her and said, "You have a talent for spiritual affinity. You can sense the flow of spiritual energy and the location of souls. Logically speaking, seducing souls should not be difficult for you."

Ye Jie shook his head slightly. "Even if you only have one talent, you are better than 80% of the ghosts in the world. Even ghosts without talent can be good ghost messengers as long as they work hard. There is no reason why you can't do it. Everyone has their own destiny. If you really want to give up, I won't force you. I'd better choose someone else for the position of ghost messenger. I think the soul that just awakened is not bad."

Hearing what Ye Jie said, Shan Yao pouted in anger. Ye Jie looked younger than her, but he spoke in an old-fashioned manner, looking down on her.

"The soul is back!"

Shan Yao let out a soft cry, and a bright light appeared in her eyes. Provoked by Ye Jie's words, she was serious this time.

Her hard work was soon rewarded. The spiritual light in her palm surged, and she imitated Ye Jie and pulled hard, and another soul appeared beside them.

"Yes... Should we say it is the effect of innate magical power?"

Ye Jie nodded, thinking back to the first time he tried to seduce a soul, he failed dozens of times before he finally succeeded. Now looking at Shan Yao's performance, he was very satisfied.

Shan Yao raised the corner of his mouth: "I told you I can do it... Wait, he's going to run away!"

Halfway through his words, Shan Yao suddenly opened his mouth wide, and saw that the soul of the man who was initially lured out by Ye Jie took advantage of the two of them not paying attention and ran away. When Shan Yao found him, he had already run dozens of steps away, with only his back left.

Ye Jie was not in a hurry. He stretched out his hand and a pitch-black noose appeared in his palm. He threw it along, and the noose seemed to have eyes, firmly encircling the soul of the escaping man. Ye Jie exerted a little force and the soul was pulled back by him.

Yam's eyes lit up, "What is this? It looks amazing."

"This is a skill that every ghost catcher must learn, called the Soul Binding Rope. As a ghost catcher, if you can't even suppress the soul, even if you learn how to summon the soul, you can only let the soul escape."

Ye Jie shook his head. This Soul Binding Rope was a mid-level human-level skill. Once upon a time, it was one of the only two skills he knew. In his past career as a ghost messenger, it helped him a lot many times. Shan Yao quickly reacted: "Now that I am also a ghost messenger, can I learn this Soul Binding Rope?"

Ye Jie thought about it and came up with an idea.

"You are very lucky. For ordinary ghost messengers, if they want to learn the Soul Binding Rope, they need at least decades of hard work and experience repeated failures and setbacks before they can master this technique. Now, things are much simpler..."

As Ye Jie's mind moved, new words appeared on the seven stitched pages in his hand:

[Bookkeeping of life and death:]

[In the autumn of the 639th year of the Moruo calendar, Shura Jie spent a thousand Yin De to modify the skills file of the ghost messenger Shan Yao.]

[The Soul Binding Rope (Beginner) has been added to the list of skills learned by the ghost messenger Shan Yao. 】

As the records on the torn pages of the Book of Life and Death emerged, Shan Yao suddenly stood there in a daze, unable to utter a word for a long time.

Just now, it seemed that there was some extra knowledge in her mind that did not belong to her.

After carefully examining this knowledge, it was clear that the content was the Soul-Binding Rope that Ye Jie had just used.

Shan Yao opened her mouth wide with a look of disbelief. Somehow, she seemed to have an epiphany and learned the trick in the blink of an eye.

"How did you do that?" Yam exclaimed, "I've never seen anything like this..."

Ye Jie said slowly: "Don't be too happy yet, let's settle the accounts."

Shan Yao was slightly stunned, and a bad premonition flashed through his mind, and then he heard Ye Jie say:
"For this Soul Binding Rope technique, I will give you 10,000 Yin De. If you learn it, I will give you another 1,000 Yin De. You now owe me a total of 11,000 Yin De."

"What? Why do I owe so much merit?"

After hearing Ye Jie's words, Shan Yao jumped up on the spot. Although she didn't know the true value of Yin De, considering that she only had 300 Yin De in her life, it should be a very precious thing.

Now he suddenly owes 11,000 merits. How can Shan Yao accept this?

In response, Ye Jie just shrugged and didn't take her complaint to heart:
"Now that you have mastered the method of seducing souls and learned the soul-binding rope, it shouldn't be a problem for you to deal with ordinary wandering souls. Go to work quickly. If you don't pay back these good deeds within a year, I will charge you an extra 10% interest."

Shan Yao puffed up his lips and glared at Ye Jie: "You can't do this! I didn't know that the Soul Binding Rope would require so much good karma..."

Ye Jie laughed: "In fact, of course I can do this. Have you forgotten? I am the Lord of Yama Palace. I set the rules of Yama Palace."

Ye Jie omitted the latter sentence, which was when the Document Hall was completed.

Without the written records in the Document Hall, even the words of the Lord of Yama Hall are just empty talk and cannot really change the rules of Yama Hall. However, it is enough to scare Shan Yao.

Seeing that Shan Yao still looked unhappy, Ye Jie shook his head helplessly: "Believe me, with just this little bit of good karma, you can enter the Soul Binding Rope and save yourself many years of hard training. This is worth it. There are so many people who want to do this but don't have the chance..."

(End of this chapter)