Chapter 1064: Chapter 138: Feigning Compliance and Submission_5

“Is that so?”

The jade-faced little fox was taken aback for a moment, then shook its head and said, “Who knows, anyway, we have long been out of the jurisdiction of the underworld…”

Zhao Yu had heard of the underworld before but had not delved deeply into it. Seeing the little fox say this, he couldn’t help but ask.

“The underworld… When I was young, my mother used to tell me to cultivate well, otherwise the Underworld Envoys would come to capture me…”

Recalling this, the little fox said, “When I was young, indeed, there were cases where companions were captured by the Underworld Envoys because their level progress was insufficient…”

Zhao Yu understood that the little fox did not know much either. Thinking for a moment, he, now being a Heavenly Immortal, glanced down at Oxhead and Horseface below, who seemed to only possess the strength of the Nascent Soul Stage, and then descended directly.

He used the Invisibility Technique, which made them invisible to ordinary mortals.

“Swoosh!”

Zhao Yu descended, without hiding his form from Oxhead and Horseface.

The two Underworld Envoys were startled for a moment, and then, clasping their hands, said respectfully, “Greetings to the Heavenly Immortals…”

“What are you doing?!” Zhao Yu casually asked.

Oxhead and Horseface looked puzzled for a moment and then answered blankly, “Capturing souls…”

“Why capture them?”

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Zhao Yu asked with some confusion, “Looking at that person’s soul condition, it seems he’s not yet reached the extent of death…”

“This, the Book of Life and Death states that his time under the sun has ended…” Oxhead and Horseface were somewhat puzzled.

Time under the sun…

Zhao Yu frowned, basing on his understanding, once life had ended, the soul should have dissipated.

Yet in cases like these, after a person died, their soul was captured and taken to the underworld, which seemed somewhat strange.

“May I visit the underworld?”

“Ah?”

Oxhead and Horseface were somewhat baffled. Did someone actually want to visit such a place?

However, the two before them exuded intense spiritual energy, obviously of the Immortal Realm, and they were not ones to offend; they could only nod in welcome.

“Then lead the way, go ahead!”

“Sure!!”

Oxhead and Horseface, without any suspicion, guided a soul, and then pinched their Spell, burrowing down into the ground.

Zhao Yu, along with the little fox, quickly followed.

Soon, he discovered that although Oxhead and Horseface seemed to be burrowing underground, they actually used the runes etched beneath to engage in long-distance teleportation.

“Where is this going?”

With his Heavenly Immortal’s level progress, although there were no guiding runes, Zhao Yu tightly followed, shuttling along with them.

Moments later, after an unknown length of shuttling, they arrived at a dim and terrifying place.

“Is this the underworld?”

Zhao Yu’s eyebrows involuntarily furrowed in this place, where he felt not a trace of spiritual energy but instead a sense of coldness.

“Sir Heavenly Immortals, do you need us to report your visit to the Judge?”

Oxhead and Horseface asked cautiously.

“No need, I am just taking a casual look…”

Zhao Yu waved his hand, signaling for them to proceed as they wished.

Oxhead and Horseface breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly ran in a certain direction, escorting a soul.

Zhao Yu cast a spell to once again hide his and the little fox’s forms.

“My Lord, what are we doing here?!” the little fox asked curiously.

“Just taking a look, you haven’t been here either, have you?” Zhao Yu said casually, proceeding to roam around with the little fox.

He discovered that this place was indeed full of ghosts; however, most were controlled by creatures similar to Oxhead and Horseface.

Looking around, all the souls appeared healthy, not in a state nearing death.

“These people…”

Zhao Yu’s brows were tightly knitted, and he suddenly realized he had overlooked a problem.

That was, when he had first arrived, the ordinary people here had lifespans of only around a hundred years.

He hadn’t thought much about it at the time, as the normal lifespan on other planets in the Milky Way were around the same.

But now, it seemed very wrong.

In the universe, normal human lifespans of around a hundred years were due to lack of nurturing by spiritual energy.

But here, this was the Primordial Continent, where the spiritual energy of the entire Milky Way concentrated.

Even if Heaven Realm concentrated a lot of spiritual energy, the energy in the human world was relatively less, but that was only in comparison to Heaven Realm.

For other planets in the Milky Way, this human world of the Primordial Continent was practically a realm of Immortals.

Thus, in this human realm, even if normal humans did not cultivate, they could naturally live for hundreds or even thousands of years, or longer.

However, now, ordinary people only lived a hundred years before their time under the sun ended, and they entered the underworld.

“Impossible…”

Zhao Yu was very clear on one point; that was, Immortals could not possibly reincarnate through the underworld after death.

If the underworld had that capability, then it, not Heaven Realm or Demon Domain, would be ruling the Primordial Continent.

But in reality, the underworld was merely an institution under Heaven Realm.

“Given such favorable conditions, there is only one true explanation…”

“That is, someone deliberately set ordinary human lifespans to a hundred years, thus utilizing their remaining time to research their souls…”

Zhao Yu, taking the jade-faced little fox along, shuttled back and forth, visiting all the less significant areas of the underworld.

Finally, in the centralmost area, they saw what was called the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

“Strong human interference, although not something I could achieve, is clearly not naturally occurring…”

The Six Paths of Reincarnation, implying the process of throwing souls into it for reincarnation into other beings.