Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest

"In my opinion, the Yin Department has four main duties."

"Guiding, Judging, Imprisoning, Reincarnating."

"In the Era of Dharma Extinction, the Yin Department collapsed. The judging and imprisoning processes were completely discarded, leaving numerous wandering ghosts without guidance, forcing them to go to the Reincarnation Platform on their own to reincarnate, relying solely on luck to determine their next life."

"What I have to do is to pick up the lost functions of the Yin Department one by one until the entire structure of the Yin Department is rebuilt..."

Chen Lingyun was interrupted by Yan Yu's cold laugh:

"Haha! What rebuilding Yin Department? You just want to have fun!"

"I cannot deny this claim." Chen Lingyun said leisurely, "But putting my personal motives aside, rebuilding the Yin Department is beneficial without any harm to the entire Lu Country. The reason why people dare to break the law and act unbearably now is because they have no respect for the law and morality, correct? If they commit crimes during their lives and face brutal punishment after death, the crime rate will surely decrease significantly."

"The Yin Department in your hands would be the biggest harm, right?" Yan Yu bluntly said, "At that time, when people are brought before you by Hell's Envoys, they first suffer ten strikes of the Soul-Striking Whip, whether they commit crimes or not will be up to you to decide, right?"

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Chen Lingyun looked at him with some pity, as if she was looking at a fool, "Order must be established. If you don't establish it, someone else will. When that happens, others will take over the authority of the Yin Department, and when your parents and sister die of old age, if they are judged to reincarnate as animals, what will you do?"

Yan Yu suddenly had nothing to say. Indeed, even if he is a Golden Core Cultivator with the ability to pursue immortality, what about his mortal relatives and friends?

Even if the Yin Department remains vacant, his parents and sister will reincarnate randomly after their lifespan ends, and their next life might not even be human...

Yan Yu considers himself to be selfless, serving the country and the people, but that doesn't mean he has to cut all familial ties cold-heartedly; that would be too foolish.

"Let's not talk about motives and advantages." He continued to interrogate Chen Lingyun, "How do you plan to establish the Yin Department? Do you have that ability? Not to mention, do you have the Book of Life and Death, which records all living beings' information in the world? Without the Book of Life and Death, how do you judge people's goodness and evil? Based on your eyes?"

"We can connect to the crime information database of the Public Safety Bureau," Chen Lingyun casually said.

Yan Yu: ???

"The Lu Country sees nearly 10 million deaths each year." Chen Lingyun continued, "That averages to twenty to thirty thousand deaths a day. I only need to recruit a hundred thousand ghost employees to work in the Yin Department to review resumes, check records, and verify each wandering ghost's merits and sins every day; isn't that easy?"

Yan Yu: ......

"For each death certificate issued in the living world, one ghost will be guided in the netherworld. The deceased's career and records are ready and can be directly used." Chen Lingyun smiled, "For example, if there is a secret murder and burial, or if someone dies in an accident and goes missing, even if it is concealed from people in the living world, when I find an extra wandering ghost with no reason, can't I notify the living world to investigate? This way, Lu Country will no longer have unsolved cases, right?"

"This is the problem," Yan Yu couldn't help but retort, "We already have an intensive management system. When alive, everything has to be controlled; now you want to manage even after death. Don't you think this feels increasingly suffocating?"

"Hmm? Isn't this the mode you prefer?" Chen Lingyun asked in surprise, "Since you support the comprehensive management of all cultivators, disallowing private cultivation, why don't you support managing ghosts and prohibiting private reincarnation?"

"Are you deliberately looking for trouble?" Yan Yu's face immediately darkened.

Banning private cultivation among civilian cultivators is because he witnessed the catastrophic impact and chaos when the civilian cultivator class completely lost control in his previous life! Can ghosts have such capabilities?

"I am discussing this with you seriously." Chen Lingyun calmly said, "You can't just support strict management in areas you can control, right? In my opinion, the outcome of reincarnation involves the family background in the next life, requiring fairness and justice far greater than the college entrance examination."

"To ensure maximum fairness and justice, the strict management of each stage of the college entrance examination, you know that."

Yan Yu was again speechless and only replied after a while:

"The problem is, how do you ensure the fairness and justice of reincarnation?"

"You don't need to worry about this." Chen Lingyun smiled, "Current reincarnation is a completely random process. A great benefactor who builds bridges and paves roads might reincarnate as pigs or dogs, and a bastard who murders and commits arson might reincarnate as a wealthy young master. As long as I intervene and make subjective judgments based on goodness and evil, even if I can't guarantee 100% accuracy, I can still ensure that good people generally have better reincarnation results. Isn't this promoting the moral value of 'good begets good, evil begets evil'?"

Her words indeed made sense; the randomness of reincarnation is unreliable, meaning the merits and virtues of a previous life have no impact. Even biased subjective judgments are better than pure random ones.

The problem is that the person holding the judgment power will be Chen Lingyun! Her moral views... They really don't inspire confidence in me!

"Let's not talk about that anymore." Yan Yu waved his hand to interrupt her, "Just tell me how you plan to do it. I am curious to see where you will find those hundred thousand ghost employees for the Yin Department."