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The Black and White Impermanence in the underworld found Judge Cui with an anxious look on their faces.

"My lord, my lord, this is terrible! Someone has tampered with the Book of Life and Death."

The pen in Judge Cui's hand trembled.
I am the one who approves the Book of Life and Death. If there is any mistake, my salary will be deducted... bah... my merits will be deducted.

"What did you say? Who is so bold as to tamper with the Book of Life and Death? Show it to me."

Judge Cui picked up the pen and opened the book of life and death in his hand.

The Book of Life and Death is the foundation of the underworld. It is the register that controls the life span of all living beings in the underworld.

Myths say that this thing is held by the deputy judge of the famous ghost king Yama. It records the names of all people and animals in the world, including the lifespan of each person and other creatures. It is mainly used to control life and death, and all life information from birth to death is included in it.

But how could such an important thing be given to a mere judge?

Therefore, there are quite a lot of copies of the Book of Life and Death. Depending on the official position, the content of the Book of Life and Death will be different, and the authority will also be different.

For example, the copies in the hands of the Black and White Impermanence and the Ox-Head and Horse-Face only have the function of checking and summoning souls, while the copy of the Book of Life and Death in the hands of the Judge is more complete, and can even make some modifications based on the karma and merits of the living beings.

For example, based on the merits of a mortal, one can determine whether the other person needs to be punished in the eighteen levels of hell.

The Book of Life and Death in the hands of the Ten Kings of Hell can interfere with the reincarnation of the creatures listed in the Book of Life and Death, and interfere with whether they can be reborn into a good life.

As for the leader Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, he no longer needs to worry about the six realms of reincarnation. His main job is to convert the evil spirits in hell into Buddhist soldiers and provide long-term grassroots soldiers for Lingshan.

You must know that not everyone in the world of Journey to the West can achieve immortality.

Lingshan is not as wealthy as the Heavenly Palace to support a hundred thousand heavenly soldiers and generals as standing combat units.

Therefore, except for the forty-six Buddhas, four Bodhisattvas, eight great Vajras and five hundred Arhats, the rest of the holy monks, Jietis, Bhikkhus, Upasikas, etc. in Lingshan are all non-staff temporary workers.

They do not have wages that can increase their longevity, and can only rely on the six realms of reincarnation to return to their true spirits after death, and then be saved by Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and return to Lingshan.

The so-called Buddhist practice of cultivating the afterlife means that if you don’t work hard in this life, you will be dead when you die, and no one will go to hell to rescue you. It is very realistic, but also very useful.

So the Book of Life and Death is like a very complete administrative system.

Tasks are issued by the Heavenly Dao, and then implemented step by step by the functional departments of the underworld at all levels, thus completing the operation of the six realms of reincarnation.

Therefore, any mistake in the work will have a very bad impact on these civil servants in the underworld.

If you make too many mistakes, not only will you lose your career advancement opportunities, you may even face being fired.

So when Judge Cui nervously opened his book of life and death,

He looked at the place where the Black and White Impermanence pointed.
His face suddenly turned dark:
"What's wrong with you! Shouldn't these six people have died at 15:00? Why haven't they been brought back yet?"

Hearing this, Heibai Wuchang was stunned: "No, Judge, they should have died at 15:02. We had already summoned their souls, but they were kidnapped on the way. When we looked again, they were already more than ten years old."

Judge Cui was so angry that he cursed:
"You're talking nonsense. It's clearly written in the Book of Life and Death: 'Ears heard anger, at one quarter past noon, he was shot to death by Chen Xuanzang with a light machine gun.' Uh, what is a light machine gun?"

Black and White Impermanence came closer, opened their mouths in bewilderment,
Huh? Changed again?
broken!

The two of them looked panicked.
Sure enough, a flash of lightning appeared in the underworld and struck the two of them, making their already pale faces even more terrifying.

Although the underworld is affiliated with Lingshan, their nominal superior is the Heavenly Court.
The Dragon King of Jinghe River was slain by Wei Zheng in his dream because he had slightly tampered with the time. Although the Black and White Impermanence would not be executed, they were definitely punished. The lightning just now had destroyed their 500 years of cultivation, which made the two of them almost cry out of heartache.

That was the merit I had accumulated through 500 years of hard work, and it was gone in an instant.

Judge Cui looked at the sad-looking Black and White Impermanence and cursed:
"You idiot, why don't you go and get the soul? Do you want to get hit again?"

Black and White Impermanence shuddered and followed the rules of heaven to come to the Liangjie Mountain.

At this time, Tang Seng looked like a madman. He held a light machine gun and fired at the six bandits desperately.

The most horrifying thing is that the six bandits on the opposite side were almost beaten to pieces, but they still held swords in their hands and rushed towards Tang Seng recklessly.

Tang Seng seemed to be extremely frightened and shouted:

"Why are you not dying? Why can't you die? I will liberate you. I will liberate you!"

Tianyu, who was not far away, was also stunned. He was not surprised that Tang Seng transformed into Tang San and destroyed the world. He was just surprised to see that the six robbers were like cursed Caribbean pirates who could not be killed no matter how hard they were beaten.

It was as if the soul was attached to the body and forced the broken body to move.
To put it more bluntly, it looks like a group of ghosts beating up Tang Monk.

"Oh my goodness, did I cause the Six Paths of Reincarnation to get stuck? When I was killing them just now, I saw the Black and White Impermanence coming to collect souls. Why didn't they come when Tang Seng was killing them? Could it be that each person's soul can only be collected once? Or is the resentment on the other side too strong and needs Tang Seng to save it?"

Tianyu knew that Tang Seng could save the souls.
Liu Bochin praised himself so much before because Tang Seng read a passage of the Sutra of the Dead for his dead father and also wrote a letter of recommendation for his dead father.

As a result, his father told him in his dream the next day that he was going to marry into a wealthy family.
These so-called scriptures are actually official documents from monks to provide power of vows to the Buddha and to communicate with departments at all levels in Lingshan.

Now this group of robbers turned into evil ghosts and harassed Tang Seng. Although they still could not break through Tang Seng's defense, they scared Tang Seng so much that he almost went crazy.

Just when Tianyu was wondering,

Black and White Impermanence appeared out of nowhere. They looked at Tianyu stealthily and nodded with a wry smile.

He then took out the soul-locking chain, locked up the souls of the six people and pulled them directly into the ground.

The six robbers fell to the ground instantly.

Tianyu looked at the scene in front of him with a frown. As long as the soul is not hooked away, the other party will not die, right?

What a ridiculous reincarnation mechanism! It is obvious that the six paths of reincarnation in the Journey to the West world are driven by ghosts.

The various ghosts and monsters described in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio are most likely caused by the dereliction of duty of this group of useless ghost officials.

Tianyu turned to look at Tang Seng.

At this time, Tang Seng had collapsed to the ground in cold sweat, his face pale, silently chanting "Amitabha".

Tianyu laughed and walked to Tang Seng with three steps and one sway, then clicked his tongue and said:

"Master, didn't we agree on a one-for-six trade? Why are you fighting six? If you were worried that I would steal the kill, you should have told me earlier. How would I know if you didn't tell me? Right?"

Tang Seng trembled and pointed to the sky, then he fainted without catching his breath. (End of this chapter)