Lord Judge sat atop the high platform, countless golden dots gathered below, close to the ground, taking a kneeling posture.

The judge waved the writing brush in his hand, and instantly, countless membranes burst like bubbles.

The elemental spirits trapped within the membranes fell to the ground, gradually grew larger, and the golden light on their bodies gradually faded, the power of merit helping them transform into spiritual bodies.

The elemental spirits "broke out of their shells" essentially reborn, but to cultivate into their original spiritual bodies would take at least several decades to a few hundred years.

But because someone guided them, assisting with merit, in an instant they gained nearly a hundred years of cultivation, transforming into spiritual bodies.

Some of the women knelt together on the ground, their attire not of ancient times, but modern, like clothing from the era of country M.

The women began to recount their experiences.

War plunged them into extremity, they were captured for amusement, unable to endure the humiliation, they chose to end their lives.

They clung to the beauty of the mortal world, greatly yearning for past happy days, but the war claimed the lives of their loved ones, the sinners treated them as playthings, with no familial affection left, no hope of living on, they chose such extreme and tragic deaths.

After they finished their painful recount, another group of women stepped forward.

This group was dressed differently, from an even older era, wearing attire from the Q dynasty.

They knelt on the ground, recounting their past.

Among them, some had husbands who passed away early, becoming widows, the husband’s family fearing they would remarry, sullying the family’s reputation, forced them to hang themselves to prove their innocence, and after their deaths erected chastity memorials, suppressing their spiritual bodies, not allowing them the chance to reincarnate, leading them to willingly let the Ghost King devour them, wanting to completely vanish, but unexpectedly did not truly disappear, instead becoming elemental spirits without freedom.

After they recounted their pain, yet another group of women stepped forward, they were from even earlier dynasties.

In their recounting, they revealed the pain of women oppressed under ancient systems, the sense of relief in facing death, and the thought that death equated to freedom, etc.

Yet none of them imagined, in such hell-like environments, forced to choose death as an escape, but the eventual end for those who took their lives was so wretched, if not for the kind-hearted little girl assisting with merit, their days akin to headless flies, they wouldn’t know when it would end.

Upon reaching the T dynasty women, though the prosperous T dynasty saw the status of women overturned because a woman became Emperor, some remote areas still subjected the weak women to unfair treatment, men dared not vent anger at those women capable of being officials outside but secretly seized young girls in remote mountains to oppress, to vent and prove their once supreme power.

The ancient pagoda has been built for thousands of years, the elemental spirits suppressed within the ancient pagoda come from multiple dynasties, with different experiences.

Some indeed were evading life, self-abandoning, turning into elemental spirits served them right.

But some, like these women kneeling on the ground, were forced by the era, harmed by the environment, without other choices. Living in the mortal world seemed no better than living in hell, thus choosing death, choosing to go to hell, rather than remain in the mortal world suffering humiliation.

Listening to the women’s laments, the judge was moved and saddened, wielding the brush grandly, sending them to the Reincarnation Palace, as for what door Meng Po would have them enter, what kind of people they would become in their next life, that was not within his consideration.

Little Taotie moved the gold bricks one by one from the horse-faced bell, having moved only halfway, a swarm of golden light aggressively condensed upon her.