Chapter 208: Past Events in the Spirit Realm and Current Situation in the Underworld
"The ancient god gave the four divine beads to the Yuling clan, making them the managers of the underworld, and gave them the power and responsibility to manage the dead, protect the balance of the underworld, prevent evil spirits from wreaking havoc, and maintain order in the human and ghost worlds. From then on, the pattern of the eight Yuling envoys and the Great Yutian jointly governing and ruling the underworld was born, and Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva was sent to supervise the Yuling clan."

Then, Li Ye sighed, a complicated look appeared in his eyes, and continued:

"In the same year, ten suns appeared in the sky. Hou Yi could not bear to see them bring disaster to the common people, so he drew his bow and shot down nine of them, breaking the towering Jianmu. From then on, the three realms were separated."

"Without the restraint of the gods, the Yuling Clan has taken sole power and is in charge of the underworld."

"At that time, there was no Soul Suppression General, and the entire underworld relied on the power of the Yuling Clan to govern. At first, they were able to do so with ease. However, around 400 AD, an unprecedented catastrophe occurred in the human world, and the Five Barbarians' Invasion of China occurred. As wars continued to break out, the number of undead souls increased dramatically, and soon exceeded the Yuling Clan's ability. The Yuling Clan was no longer able to cope with the situation, and they were willing but unable to govern the underworld."

At this time, a hint of mockery seemed to flash across Li Ye's eyes, and he continued to explain to Li Qingmu:
"In order to balance the underworld, the Imperial Spirit Master used the Xihe Divine Pearl to create the Soul-Realming Street. He had to start borrowing the power of humans to maintain the governance of the underworld in order to maintain his own rule. He also set up the Soul-Realming Generals, who rewarded the souls of the dead by allowing them to be directly transported to the Spirit Realm after death. He signed a contract with the Soul Hosts, allowing the Soul Hosts to guard the Soul-Realming Street on behalf of the Spirit Realm and resist evil spirits, while the Spirit Realm was only responsible for managing the Spirit Realm."

After saying this, Li Ye said to Li Qingmu with a faint smile on his face:

"This is probably the origin and story of Soul-Suppressing Street and Soul-Suppressing General. What do you think after listening to it?"

Li Qingmu tilted his head, pretended to think about it, and then said seriously:
"It sounds like a story about the central ruling group having to delegate power to the local governments in order to govern the country and maintain its rule. However, in the underworld, this is a confrontation between two tribes. In order to maintain their rule, the Yuling tribe was forced to delegate power to the human soul-suppressing generals."

Li Ye continued:
"Not only that, at first, in order to prevent the expansion of the power of human soul-suppressing generals, the spirit-controlling envoys personally went to the human world to search for children with the constitution of soul-hosting people, and then brought them back to the spirit realm for special training to cultivate them into soul-suppressing generals. However, although their ideas were beautiful, the spirit-controlling clan was arrogant by nature and disliked humans. When they went to the human world to find gifted soul-hosting children, they used violent means and often took advantage of others. Those children who were snatched back naturally held a grudge. After they grew up and had a higher level of hell cultivation, they secretly united and planned to defend the spirit realm. In the end, disputes broke out and violent confrontations were inevitable. However, the spirit realm had the four great divine beads and a deep foundation accumulated over the years, so it suppressed the rebellion."

"This turmoil was called the 'Rebellion of the Evil Generals', but after this turmoil, the Spirit Realm realized that it was unreliable to personally discover the spirit host."

"At the same time, with the continuous increase in the number of living beings in the world, wars and disasters continued, and the number of undead souls increased sharply. The actual demand for soul-suppressing generals in the underworld became more and more inflated. The original number of soul-suppressing generals was far from meeting the needs at the time. The selection and training models of soul-suppressing generals implemented at the time could not support such a huge demand. They could only continue to delegate power and hand over the power to find, select and train soul-suppressing generals to humans, allowing the existing soul-hosting people to discover and train more soul-hosting people."

Li Qingmu listened patiently, but after careful consideration, she found that this seemed different from what her father and master had told her before, so she frowned and asked:
"But Li Ye, as far as I know, the current training model for Soul-Suppressing Generals is different from what you said."

Many of the Soul-Suppressing Generals in the Spirit Realm, especially those in the important Soul-Suppressing Street, come from the Dead Soul Island. The Dead Soul Island is somewhat similar to the Central Military Academy, which specializes in training Soul-Suppressing Generals in important positions.

"Haha, look, you're anxious again. I haven't finished yet."

"Human ambitions will never stop expanding until their desires devour them. After humans mastered the selection and training of Soul Suppression Generals, their power expanded rapidly. A large number of Soul Suppression Streets were quickly occupied by human Soul Suppression Generals. This caused the Spirit Realm to be wary and wary, but they had to rely on the power of humans, so they came up with this solution."

"They selected a group of soul-hosting people who had no ambition and little desire for power, and set up a special organization in a hidden place to train and cultivate soul-hosting people. They also selected a group of people to discover and find children with the constitution of soul-hosting people. The Soul-Controlling Envoys tried to deprive humans of the full power to discover and cultivate soul-suppressing generals."

"Dead Soul Island?"

Li Qingmu listened to Li Ye's story and easily figured out that the place Li Ye was talking about, which was specifically for training spirit hosts, was the Island of Dead Souls.

And the people who were responsible for the excavation were none other than Gui Fu San Tong.

"Almost. To be precise, it is the predecessor of today's Dead Soul Island."

"The matter is not over yet. After the Spirit Realm carried out such an action, humans will naturally not sit idly by and wait for death. Humans will fight back quickly. As the Soul-Suppression General has been in existence for many years, there are already many humans in the Underworld. Almost all of them have the physique of a spirit host. The proportion of people in the human world who have the physique of a spirit host is very small, and there are even fewer people with good talents. Almost all humans in the Underworld have relatively good talents, so almost all students come from humans in the Underworld."

"What followed was the privatization and familyization of Soul Town. Almost all newly trained Soul Town Generals were descendants of the previous generation of Soul Town Generals. Naturally, it was the most efficient choice for the newly trained Soul Town Generals to inherit the Soul Town guarded by their fathers. This was the most practical option, and thus, the son succeeded the father, and the younger brother succeeded the elder brother, which became a very common situation in the underworld."

"And the Spirit Masters are powerless to resolve this situation, because the Spirit Realm cannot stop it, just like the situation of the royal family and nobles in ancient times. Guarding the Soul-Calming Street and suppressing and resisting evil spirits are all real achievements that are irrefutable. The Spirit Realm needs the help of humans and cannot be merciless. So over the past thousand years, this situation has become more and more serious, and later on the Dead Soul Island could only recruit orphans whose parents died in battle and a few children who were spirit-hosting people from the human world. Most of the Soul-Calming Generals were trained by the previous generation of Soul-Calming Generals or their families."

(End of this chapter)