Chapter 1094: Chapter 644: Underworld Family Affairs
"Not dead?"
Upon hearing their daughter’s words, the Judge’s Wife and her husband exchanged a glance, seeing confusion in each other’s eyes.
How could someone who isn’t dead come to this Land of Underworld?
Only the dead can come to this Land of Underworld; this is common knowledge in Japan.
On this Japan, the regular gateways between the underworld and the Mortal Realm have been blocked, so unlike the outside world, if you want to visit the Underworld, you can simply walk through the main gate, as long as you can convince the gate guards, you can go on an Underworld tour.
Unfortunately, such a method is no longer feasible in Japan, so if Japanese Witches want to enter the underworld, there are only two other ways.
The first way is death. After a witch dies, her soul will automatically trigger the mechanism of the Underworld and be directly drawn into it. This is an inherent authority of the Underworld institutions, naturally not something a mere Izanagi could block.
The second method is more difficult and dangerous, it’s the so-called detour when the main road is blocked.
The underworld is a corner of the Underworld System, which exists within the collective Dream Realm created by all witches’ dreams. The Dream Realm, as a spiritual world, exists within the Spirit World.
Meanwhile, the unique Witch Territory of Japan is also hidden within the Spirit World.
Thus, theoretically, Japan and this Underworld Country are not in a hierarchical relationship of Mortal Realm and Underworld, but neighboring entities side by side.
Both are within the Spirit World, naturally allowing the possibility of mutual crossing.
The original entry and exit point between the Underworld Country and Japan—Underworld Hinanara—served as a stable passage connecting the two places. This passage was conveniently established by the God King when he bestowed a corner of the Underworld upon Izanami to establish the Underworld Country.
For a mighty being like the God King, building a stable passage between two places in the Spirit World was as easy as lifting a finger, but for ordinary witches, it’s clear they don’t have that strength.
They can’t even establish a one-time passage, let alone a stable one. Even attempting it is like courting death, at the very least it’s a life-threatening endeavor.
The Spirit World is very dangerous; as a purely spiritual realm, the desires and fantasies of all beings can manifest into reality in the Spirit World, giving birth to bizarre and treacherous alien monsters, like the forms in nightmares or urban legends.
The underworld, as part of the Underworld, is surrounded by the resentments of countless dead and the pains of hell, who knows how many terrifying and strange Spirit World monsters were spawned from this negative energy.
With this natural monster defense ring, trying to enter the Underworld Country from outside is truly difficult.
It’s hard to even think about coming in from outside, even the ghosts within the Underworld Country can’t get out themselves.
After all, these Spirit World monsters normally wouldn’t dare or couldn’t trespass into the Underworld, but if a soul attempts foolhardily to escape from the Underworld, these monsters don’t mind taking in the self-delivered "takeaway."
Although the soul of a witch is protected by the Underworld System, making it immortal, it merely means being unkillable, not immune to injury or pain.
How to explain the principle of protection by the Underworld System?
If a complete Soul of the Witch is like an assembled puzzle toy, then the Underworld System ensures that no matter how much you act up, it will ultimately recover all the puzzle pieces, but it isn’t responsible for reassembling them.
In other words, if you irresponsibly get your soul shattered into pieces, the Underworld System will diligently retrieve every soul factor for you. Theoretically, as long as someone is willing to reassemble you completely, you can indeed achieve a soul resurrection.
But the question is, who are you? Why would the Underworld Envoys waste so much time and effort to reassemble you?
Hmm, unless you’re a respected high-level member of the Underworld with the top resurrection package, otherwise, who cares about you?
After all, the Underworld System only needs to ensure the total volume of witch soul factors doesn’t deplete. As for whom those soul factors originally belonged to, that’s not important.
Moreover, when those with depleted lifespan among the witches reincarnate, their soul bodies are thrown into the Styx River to be refined into fragmented soul factors. As the Styx River rolls on, these fragmented soul factors will randomly recombine in the river, eventually forming brand-new blank souls for the rebirth of new witch cubs.
Therefore, this kind of immortality is about conserving the total soul volume of the Witch World. For an individual witch, it can only be said that life is one’s own, cherish it, protect life, and don’t seek death.
Unless you have connections in the Underworld, someone isn’t afraid of the trouble to reassemble you from fragments.
Or, your soul is unique, even if shattered and no one helps you piece it together, it can still coalesce on its own.
However, the latter is reserved for those in high positions.
It’s known that every reincarnation is a refining of soul factors, and high-quality soul factors lead to high-quality souls, often indicating extraordinary talent.
If you can ensure that each time after rebirth, your shattered soul can reassemble itself, using only your original soul factors, then after thousands of lifetimes through countless trials, your soul’s quality will be honed to an unimaginable level.