Alternate Dimension Game: Happiness is all that matters!
Chapter 438 - 304 Establishing Reincarnation

Chapter 438: Chapter 304 Establishing Reincarnation

"There wasn’t even a hint..."

Wang Hao thought for a moment and several plans emerged in his mind.

"The Emperor of Heaven," as the supreme commander of the Heavenly Gate, undoubtedly played a very important role.

Only a fair and just system of judgment could correct the chaos of the Mountain and Sea Realm.

Without a solid and reliable system or a clear direction, one would end up like Qiu Yuan Monk, aimlessly wandering, possessing great martial strength but with no place to use it.

"The first is execution, end it once and for all. For such a grave crime, the death penalty is the simplest form of judgment and can also effectively appease public sentiment."

"But it seems too crude and simple."

Because the "Water Ghost King" lacked intelligence; devouring humans was its innate instinct, and even if it were executed, the benefits would be almost nonexistent.

"The second method, reform and make use of it. Qingshi Town is in dire need of development, the productivity is still too low, it’s taking forever just to build a road."

Infrastructure, as a labor-intensive industry, required high demand for productivity. The Mountain and Sea Realm had no cement, no asphalt, and could only quarry rock for road construction, which was far too slow.

Wang Hao even planned for steam trains to connect Qingshi Town, Lake Entrance, Yellow Stone Town with its surrounding mines, and the even more distant coal-producing town, creating a large industrial triangle.

But this plan required a huge amount of productivity.

Even if resources were transported non-stop, turning all two to three thousand residents of the town into laborers who worked day and night would still take years of time.

"If there was a monster that could work day and night, the productivity could be greatly increased. But to give it a chance to repent such a big crime seems too merciful..."

This was a difficult scale to measure.

Wang Hao scratched his head and searched Baidu for a while, coming across a relevant topic: "If a serial killer had academic abilities comparable to Einstein and could potentially achieve great things in the future, how should they be sentenced?"

The various academic debates made his head spin.

However, according to most netizens’ opinions, they seemed to favor keeping the killer alive because the dead are gone, and the living should contribute more social value.

"Sigh, truly a moral dilemma."

In reality, he didn’t want to complicate things too much; the monsters of the Mountain and Sea Realm were relatively clear in terms of good and evil, and were not comparable to humans.

But a complete set of clear systems was still needed.

With this in mind, Wang Hao stood up and paced back and forth in the room. Ideas formed and burst like soap bubbles in his mind.

Suddenly, a religious term flashed through his mind: the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

What would happen if I established a system of Six Paths of Reincarnation in the Mountain and Sea Realm?

The Six Paths consisted of three Good Paths and three Evil Paths. The three Good Paths were the Heavenly God Path, the Human World Path, and the Asura Path; the three Evil Paths were the Hell Path, the Hunger Ghost Path, and the Beast Path.

Reincarnation continually proceeded among the six paths from Heavenly Dao to Hell Path, based solely on one’s conduct in life.

The concept of "Six Paths of Reincarnation" was created by Buddhism; while Taoism also introduced the concept of "Reincarnation," it borrowed the "Six Paths" from Buddhism to create the "Five Paths," namely heaven, human, beast, hungry ghost, and hell, collectively known as "All Living Beings."

Evil Gods ran rampant in the Mountain and Sea Realm, with bad driving out the good, making it easy for True Gods to come under attack and fall.

If the appropriate settings were added, and these deities were captured and judged one by one, over time, the collapsing order would be fundamentally reversed.

The more Wang Hao thought about it, the more he found the idea intriguing, experiencing a sense of sudden clarity.

His subconscious also felt that it was natural and necessary work to be done.

"The purpose of the Heavenly Gate is to ’bring a hundred fortunes with good deeds and a hundred calamities with bad deeds,’ that is, good and evil will receive their recompense. This setting for the Six Paths of Reincarnation is also in line with this principle, perfect!"

Although it ran the risk of plagiarizing from ancient religious classics, Wang Hao had no qualms about it. After all, it was just a game; so what if he copied?

Upon further consideration, this setting of the Six Paths of Reincarnation needed only to judge the deities and not the humans in the Mortal World.

Because the troubles among humans were too numerous, and the concept of "good and evil" was difficult to clarify in a single statement. The laws created by humans themselves filled several thick volumes, containing too many ambiguous areas that could not be squarely judged.

"If my sense of good and evil forcibly judged them, it could easily affect the development patterns of human society. A rigid society is not necessarily a good thing."

On the other hand, it was relatively easy to define the "good and evil" of these deities; they mostly lacked high intelligence, did not possess the seven emotions and six sensory pleasures, nor any desires for reproduction and mating.

The Mountain and Sea Realm was a world inherently vulnerable to infiltration and invasion. It was not realistic to completely eradicate all demons and evil spirits. Therefore, it’s better to guide than to block, simply set the right rules, manage the troublemaking "Evil Gods," and let humans decide for themselves what they would become.

"That’s settled then!"

He typed into his phone’s chat box, "Establish the Six Paths of Reincarnation regulations. Cast the Water Ghost King into the Hell Path to toil away day and night, mining and splitting rocks to build roads for ten thousand years until its karmic obstacles are removed before it can reincarnate again."

Originally, the Hell Path in religious scriptures involved punishments of billions of years, which was far too excessive. Now, changing it to ten thousand years, that’s about right.