Who would have thought that people in the occult world would also keep up with the trends of the times so closely, not only opening a forum online, but also making the forum's defenses unusually strict.

The encryption level of this forum was extremely high. If it weren't for the fact that He Yan possessed technology thousands of years ahead of this world, he definitely would not have been able to crack the encryption layers of this forum.

With mixed feelings, He Yan clicked into the post "Must-Read for Newbies" and read it carefully.

The content of the post was very detailed, first introducing the classification and concepts of occult items, then briefly introducing the various forces in the occult world according to their rankings, and finally recommending a series of introductory occult readings.

For those people in the occult world, this information might be very ordinary, but for He Yan who had never been exposed to these things before, this information was truly a timely rain, preventing him from falling into a passive position due to ignorance when facing the expert invited by Yan Xixi.

After reading, He Yan copied and stored all the information in the post, then closed it.

—Although this forum had a special setting that prohibited copying, for He Yan, he could still successfully break through this setting after spending some effort.

This newbie post only introduced the most basic and superficial occult knowledge. If he wanted to find a way to remove the curse on his body, he still needed to search through other materials.

With this thought in mind, he scanned the forum homepage and his gaze stopped on one of the posts for a long time without moving away.

This was also a pinned post in red, just below that newbie science post, with a very eye-catching title.

"First Rule to Save Your Dog Life: Those Big Shots You Absolutely Can't Offend!"

He Yan: "............"

He felt that the person who wrote this post definitely couldn't be anyone proper!

He Yan glanced at the signature: Silently Cultivating Little Demon.

He Yan: "............"

Although he knew that the content in this post probably had nothing to do with the information he wanted to find, He Yan still couldn't suppress his curiosity and clicked on the post.

Although the title was very sensational, the content of the post was still somewhat useful.

In a narrow sense, the occult world actually refers to the occult organizations composed of human masters. In a broad sense, it can actually be related to monsters and the underworld.

This post was based on the scope of the occult world in a broad sense, mixing all non-human creatures together and ranking them according to their level of danger.

With a bit of curiosity, He Yan started reading from the first floor.

Ranked first was an underworld big shot.

The underworld, also known as hell, is ruled by Yama and is divided into twelve courts, each led by a court head in charge of different responsibilities.

For mortals, the most famous of these twelve courts is undoubtedly the Court of Reincarnation, which frequently appears in various mythological stories and is in charge of the affairs of ghost reincarnation.

But that's just the impression of ordinary people. In the occult world, the most famous of the twelve courts of the underworld is not the Court of Reincarnation, but the Court of Ghost Prison, which is in charge of punishments.

The Court of Ghost Prison is roughly equivalent to the courts of the human world, only much more severe and with much greater power.

After a person dies, their ghost is not directly sent to the Court of Reincarnation, but is first sent to the Court of Ghost Prison for a strict evaluation of their merits and demerits in life.

Ghosts with heinous sins will be directly thrown into the Abyss Prison to receive punishment, ghosts who have committed general sins will be sentenced to be reincarnated as animals, ghosts with merits will be arranged to have a rich and noble fate in their next life, and ghosts with grievances will also have the opportunity to seek redress.

That female ghost who returned to the mortal world to take revenge on Yan Xixi was directly issued an underworld decree by the Court of Ghost Prison due to her deep grievances, allowing her to return to the mortal world to take revenge before entering reincarnation.

In addition to judging ghosts, the Court of Ghost Prison has another special function, which is to supervise and review the other eleven courts of the underworld. This special power directly makes the status of the Court of Ghost Prison above the other eleven courts, so in fact, the status of the head of the Court of Ghost Prison is much higher than the other eleven court heads.

And the most dangerous figure ranked first in this post is this head of the Court of Ghost Prison, Xuan Qi.

Since the birth of the twelve courts of the underworld, the positions of the heads of the other eleven courts have all changed due to various reasons, and only the head of the Court of Ghost Prison has remained the same throughout.

Although the Court of Ghost Prison does not carry out punishments, due to its extremely strict judgment system, it has also been given the nickname "Hell's Prison" by the people of the occult world.

As the head of the Court of Ghost Prison, Xuan Qi is naturally not a kind person. In fact, this person is known for being strict and unsympathetic in his actions.

In fact, Xuan Qi has always acted in a very low-key manner. All along, the people of the occult world only knew of the existence of such a strict head of the Court of Ghost Prison, but had never been able to see his true face, until the occurrence of that underworld turmoil two thousand years ago, when this head of the Court of Ghost Prison finally appeared in front of people for the first time.

The origin of the turmoil was a thousand-year-old ferocious ghost who had been thrown into the deepest part of the Abyss Prison to suffer eternal misery. By chance, it swallowed a fragment of an immortal artifact in the depths of the Abyss Prison, causing its strength to soar. After devouring all the ferocious ghosts in the deepest part of the Abyss Prison, it directly broke through the restraining barrier and released all the ferocious ghosts with deep sins from the Abyss Prison!

Soon, the underworld was in chaos, with countless ferocious ghosts pouring out from the Abyss Prison, and countless underworld officials being torn apart and devoured by the ferocious ghosts!

In fact, according to the strength of the underworld, these ferocious ghosts might have caused some chaos in the underworld after breaking out of the Abyss Prison, but it shouldn't have reached the point of being completely unable to resist.

It's just that at that time, the immortal realm had not yet disintegrated, and Yama and many high-ranking underworld officials were forced to enter reincarnation due to the struggles in the upper realm. The underworld was severely understaffed and lacked people with sufficient strength to suppress the situation, causing unrest and allowing the ferocious ghosts to take advantage of the situation and create this chaos.

In the end, that ferocious ghost even tried to break through the barrier between the underworld and the human world to continue wreaking havoc in the human world.

The barrier between the underworld and the human world was personally set up by more than a dozen Golden Immortals when the underworld was established, and should have been unbreakable. But this barrier had been maintained for hundreds of millions of years after all. Its strength had inevitably declined a lot with the long passage of time.

And that ferocious ghost, after devouring the fragments of immortal weapons and countless other ghosts, had reached a level of power that could be called terrifying. After three days and three nights of ramming, it actually managed to create a crack in the barrier!

If this barrier shattered, countless ghosts from Hell would pour into the human realm, and the entire mortal world would be reduced to a second Hell, ceasing to exist. Aside from the immortal realm, no one could be spared. So after realizing the severity of the situation, all the great powers of the metaphysical world gathered at the entrance to Hell at that time, prepared to stake their lives to stop this ferocious ghost.

Just as these great powers were ready to fight the ghost to the death, a huge resentment suddenly surged out from Hell, completely devouring the ghost that was squeezing out through the crack in the barrier. It then turned around and captured the remaining minions one by one, swallowing them all.

In an instant, on the other side of the barrier in Hell, there was nothing left except the rolling black energy surging like tides and the shrieks of ghosts.

Originally, seeing the surging black energy in Hell, the people of the metaphysical world felt a chill in their hearts, thinking that an even bigger entity had emerged and they were all about to be finished together. But that resentful energy only kept devouring the evil ghosts. After the last ghostly cry disappeared, the resentful energy immediately receded like the tide, and the crack in the barrier between Hell and the human realm was filled by the eerie black resentment.

Only then did everyone realize that this resentful energy of unknown origin turned out to be an ally. After looking at each other in speechless disbelief, they dispersed.

Later, when Yama returned to Hell from the cycle of reincarnation, he explained the whole story to everyone.

It turned out that the one who devoured all the rampaging ghosts that day was the director of the Court of Ghost Prison. He had been in closed-door cultivation before, and only came out to suppress the rioting ghosts after sensing the turmoil in Hell.

Since then, the director of the Court of Ghost Prison became famous in the metaphysical world. Even though two thousand years had passed since that upheaval, his great name was still circulating in the cultivation world, and was even included as a required part of the introductory metaphysics curriculum.

There were countless speculations about his origins in the metaphysical community.

The most widely accepted guess was that Xuan Qi was actually the resentful energy differentiated from the primordial chaos when the Three Realms first formed. With Sirius as his foundation and killing as his Dao, he directly took a position in Hell when it was first established to avoid the great tribulation between Heaven and Earth.

Sirius is also known as the "Killing Star", which shows the nature of this Court of Ghost Prison director.

[1L] Silently Cultivating Little Spirit:

......

I'm sure no one has any objections to this person being ranked first. Although this big shot has never shown his face again since that upheaval two thousand years ago, I believe everyone has read about his deeds in the required introductory metaphysics course. I advise everyone to always remember not to casually court death, otherwise after dying and becoming a ghost, falling into this person's hands, you'll be stripped and convicted one by one with no escape.

Also, although the possibility is extremely slim, and no one has seen what the true form of this big shot looks like, if anyone does encounter him, please remember to immediately turn tail and run!

Although this big shot from the Court of Ghost Prison won't indiscriminately kill based on his background, it's said that resentful energy fills the sky as his special effect whenever he appears. Just that resentful energy alone is enough for us to drink a pot.

This is a true powerhouse...

Compared to him, that black foolish ghost of theirs is simply thrown out from who knows where.

However, as a qualified partner, He Yan just randomly complained a bit in his heart and didn't really look down on it.

After marveling at the life of the Court of Ghost Prison director in his mind, He Yan continued scrolling down.

The second place was an infamous ten-thousand-year-old flood dragon, and the third was a sword cultivator from the Sword Sect who had attained the Dao through killing and had already entered the Deity Transformation stage...

Although objectively speaking, these people were also very powerful, being listed after the first person made them seem not very outstanding in comparison.

But these people were all legendary figures in the metaphysical world and had nothing to do with him.

He Yan casually glanced a bit more before closing this post and continuing to search for the information he needed.

The time left for him was running out. He didn't know if the female ghost was still in this world or when that expert would lure her to take revenge on him again. He had to master the ability to protect himself as soon as possible.

After spending the entire afternoon on the forum, He Yan finally figured out how to remove the curse on his body.

Metaphysics was a very profound field of study. Even though He Yan had a cheat like spiritual power, forcibly digesting such a huge amount of information in such a short time still inevitably made him feel fatigued. But he didn't dare to rest or delay at all. He turned off the computer and went out to buy the things needed to remove the curse.

Although it was already starting to get dark, most shops run by people in the metaphysical world were open 24/7. Following the guides on the forum, He Yan went to several shops that were said to have "good quality and low prices without ripping people off", buying the things he needed in small quantities from multiple places.

Metaphysical supplies were all very expensive. Even though he bought relatively ordinary items, adding it all up still amounted to a huge sum. The over one million he earned from taking jobs on the hacker forum today was reduced to spare change in the blink of an eye.

Author's Note:

He Yan: Suddenly became poor (sigh)

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