Master of Kaidan-Chapter 553: I Want to Capture My Invincible Working Hell

After having experienced the harshness of the working hell, Feng Xue gave up on the idea of transforming the other copies on the notice board into hells as well. Directly transforming them and then slowly cultivating them through assimilation abilities wasn’t too costly, but it would likely take an exceedingly long time. It seemed better to stay here and slowly absorb the power of the "ritual" and then wait until he had stockpiled enough resources to reap.

What was that saying again?

Sustainable development is key!

After all, the harvest cycle for these things was really long. The predecessor who had "merged with the Way" had nurtured them for so many years. Without his divine decree, who knew how long it would take for a real Kaidan Phantom Object to emerge?

However, speaking of which, if considering his previous idea that Kaidan equaled gods, what were Kaidan Phantom Objects? Innate Spiritual Treasures? Divine Artifacts? Or perhaps a wild Divine Country?

Now, through the method of divine decree, Feng Xue had granted two Kaidan Phantom Objects with the Hell positional matrix, thereby integrating them into the Underworld system and making them part of his Companion Phantom Objects. This gave him an interesting right, which was to amend the Netherworld Law Code and thus influence the rules within the two major hells.

"Isn’t this just the resurrection backup plan I wanted?"

Feng Xue took out the Netherworld Law Code, pulled out the pen spirit, and began scribbling and modifying it until he had customized a set of regulations that sorted the individuals who needed to enter the Schooling Hell and Working Hell and embedded content about himself within both hells.

For example—

The extracurricular books used for reading comprehension in the Schooling Hell were various legends about himself as the Emperor of Heaven, as well as folk customs and stories of the City God Temple and texts like "Essays on the City God" and so on.

As for the Working Hell, that was even simpler. Add a "Temple of the Heavenly Emperor" in the city, set up his shrine in the exchange, use currency bearing his own likeness, and require offerings to himself when trading life spans.

As for whether anyone would wonder why it wasn’t the Yin Tianzi or Tai Shan Jun but the Emperor of Heaven... just think, whose image is on the Joss Paper, King Yan or the Jade Emperor?

After finishing these arrangements, Feng Xue couldn’t help but show a satisfied smile—

"The functionality and growth potential of Schooling Hell are both better. Keeping it close makes it easier to pull in people with business cards, while Working Hell could be used as a backup for resurrection and also strengthen the Kaidan of the Emperor of Heaven, possibly even adding more entries. Now, I should consider where to place Working Hell."

Feng Xue put away the Netherworld Law Code, contemplating where to place his first resurrection backup in the worlds.

This may have been just a casual move, but the location needed much consideration.

First, the Divine Enthronement World and this world were certainly not suitable—though the Kaidan had died, it could come back to life at any time, and if it suddenly gained powers like "Plunder" or innately had attributes like "Underdog" or "Raising Havoc in the Heavenly Palace," wouldn’t he be the biggest loser?

Likewise, worlds with living Kaidan like the gaming world or the world of the Miss Ke family were also out of the question.

Yet actually, this didn’t need much thought, as the most suitable place for Working Hell was still there!

...

"It’s been less than a year, and it’s this desolate already? Truly worthy of being the Cyberpunk World!" Having returned to this familiar yet unfamiliar world, Feng Xue couldn’t help but curl his lips. In just a short year, which in the Martial World might still be heating up, was enough to get completely cold in the cyber world.

An online search soon revealed that news of Bert, George, and Dunn was pitifully rare, with only a few barrage video sites occasionally showing some ghostly mashup videos featuring them.

By contrast, the legends of ghosts had spread even more and along with it, the entire ghost-hunting industry was thriving.

But Feng Xue didn’t mind. After all, the cyber world was where he farmed "targeted cards." The few Kaidan he had were being nurtured with other "Identities." As long as he had the power, it didn’t matter. As for ghosts, wasn’t it more appropriate for Hell to unfold with them around?

Compared to this, he simply found a junkman at the base level, and through his money power, acquired an identity and then—

Acquired the property rights of a lawless area.

It might sound exaggerated, but actually, it wasn’t such a difficult task. In Isgray City, a hive-like city, as long as you had money, there was nothing you couldn’t buy. Just purchase the entirety of a neighborhood’s properties, restructure them on your own, and then handle a residency certificate, and the area would become a lawless zone.

As for interior processing...

Sorry, Phantom Objects can do whatever they want!

...

Three days later, standing within his own city block and looking at the deserted buildings, Feng Xue went down to the lowest level of this block, took out the Working Hell from the Schooling Hell, and issued the command to unfold.

The 20-square-meter model of Working Hell landed on the ground and immediately extended ethereal tentacles that connected with the solid urban framework. Bursts of rules began to surge within the designated area, causing the original high-rise buildings and factory shops to undergo a certain degree of distortion.

Initially deserted, figures began to appear in the city district, and a false prosperity emerged.

"At the moment, they’re all pseudo-humans, but there’s nothing to be done; the phantom transformation process has assimilated all the captured spiritual bodies... Maybe next time I should capture all the ghosts before performing the phantom transformation."

Feng Xue checked the number of NPCs in Working Hell, slightly dissatisfied, then took out his expensive steel pen. With a light tap of his finger, the pen spirit floated out and, looking at the cyberpunk city, immediately asked:

"What do you need?"

"Let out the ghosts we collected before."

Feng Xue pointed to the barren district, and the pen spirit nodded. She pulled out her notebook filled with the word "death," and as her finger traced across the pages, the characters faded slowly. Then, one by one, ghostly figures flew out of the notebook and landed on the ground, where under the rules of Working Hell, they manifested bodies that seemed like normal people, began wandering through the city, and under the power of the "Assimilation" ability, slowly adapted to life in this district and spontaneously started working.

Due to the limited area of the district, there wasn’t much work available—only two electronics factories, three office buildings, and an information center, with the rest being convenience stores, fast food joints, flyer distribution, and other assorted jobs.

However, once Working Hell completely assimilated the area and began to slowly spread outward, everything would change.

After waiting another two days, when all ghosts and pseudo-humans had been calibrated to hardly differ from the numb working populace, Feng Xue finally initiated his plan.

Thus, on the live streaming platforms of Isgray City, a new channel quietly appeared—

"Revamping the Workplace, Starting with Me!"

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