Chapter 597 The Blacklist on the Register of Life and Death (1/2)

The place whereby Shen Lian appeared was the entrance of the Xiliang City. The Qi of vitality between the heaven and earth naturally attached on the surface of his spirit, integrating and forming as the new Primordial Spiritual Body.

Nonetheless, as compared to the tempered Primordial Spiritual Body in the past, the mana in this type of Primordial Spiritual Body had significantly weakened and it was not as pure as before.

The previous Primordial Spiritual Body was like the well-tempered steel but the present Primordial Spiritual Body was like the newly-shaped iron filled with impurities.

However, all these were not important. What mattered most was that he could really feel the tight yet loose integration between the world and him. As long as Shen Lian was willing, he could become part of the Netherworld at any moment. At that time, aside from the Netherworld itself, there was nobody who could be above him, not even the Lady Mother of the Chariot and Rama, unless the Netherworld perished.

The feeling that this gave to him was that the Netherworld had officially recognized his status and was offering amnesty and enlistment to him.

”Offering amnesty and enlistment” was exactly the technique used by the dynasty in the mortal world to deal with the bandits. They would use high post and generous salaries to lure them to be part of the dynasty. All these were not due to any unstable factors.

He could then spend the Qi of heaven and earth freely without any constraints. In some sense, this would be similar to how the bandits were treated. The governor of the will of the Netherworld was definitely aware of the difficulty to eliminate Shen Lian and thus, they wanted to first use the pacifying way.

Shen Lian rejected without any hesitation because he believed that Rama would also get this treatment. However, they clearly did not accept it. Otherwise, it would definitely be impossible for him to break Rama's supernatural power, the Buddhist Kingdom on the Palm.

A person who could cultivate to the state of Mahasattva was definitely not a fool. Although Shen Lian did not understand the specific reason, he still determinedly rejected the readily available benefit.

When Shen Lian's mind was rejecting, he felt a heavy pressure. The more Qi of heaven and earth he took in, the greater the pressure on his body. If he could not endure it, he would be dragged into the karmic cycle, by then, he would also become part of the Netherworld, unless he chose to leave.

At the same time, under the circumstance that he was not aware, there was a page of the Register of Life and Death appearing on top of his head. He was the only one who could see it. He could clearly see that there were two bloody words on the page namely Shen Lian.

He appeared on the third row. There were two names in front of him. One was Rama, another one was Jinling Shengmu who was the Lady Mother of the Chariot. This had conformed to the mystery which Shen Lian knew. He also felt that this ranking was based on their abilities. Rama was obviously above the Lady Mother of the Chariot.

In the mystery, the Lady Mother of the Chariot was a proud disciple of Lingbao Tianzun. Lingbao Tianzun was also one of the few supremely-detached people, Shangqing in the Three Pristine Daoist Masters. He was detached from the years of ancient existence even earlier than Daoist Master Taiyi. How was it possible for Rama to be at a higher status compared to his proud disciple? Even if he was the descendant of Buddha or Ambitabha, it was almost impossible to be better than the Lady Mother of the Chariot.

In actual fact, Shen Lian was not aware that when the Register of Life and Death appeared on top of his head, the Lady Mother of the Chariot in Bi You Palace and Rama on top of the pagoda had both realised that the power of the Register of Life and Death which was restraining them had weakened by twenty percent.

This weakening power of the Register of Life and Death had flown back to the original copy of the Register of Life and Death and one part of it had flown towards Shen Lian.

However, Shen Lian was very clear about one point which was the Register of Life and Death was not equipped with humanity, it was same like the laws of heaven; they had no feelings. Its pressure on Shen Lian was based on the Shen Lian's consumption of the Netherworld's Qi of vitality or to be more precise, the sin that Shen Lian had formed with the Netherworld.

The more Qi of vitality that Shen Lian took in, the heavier his sin was and thus the pressure was naturally stronger.

Due to the fact that the previous Qi and physical body had already been defeated and dispersed, the sin which he and the Netherworld formed due to the Qi of vitality had also disappeared from then on. However, now that he was back to the Netherworld to take in the Qi of vitality and that he even rejected the amnesty and enlistment offerings, there would be considered as new sin. Thus, he felt the pressure of the Register of Life and Death.

Nonetheless, there was still one thing that Shen Lian did not understand. Why did he not feel such pressure in the past? Besides, obviously, people like the Emperor Xia and Tianyi also did not feel such pressure. There must be other reasons in this. Moreover, like what Liu Mengde said last time, if one could cultivate to the state of heavenly immortals, he could remove his name from the Register of Life and Death. It made no sense that the two names of Rama and the Lady Mother of the Chariot who were in the State of Taiyi were incomparable to the state of heavenly immortals.