I, the transmigrated villain, please wait, gentle master.

Chapter 121 The Palace Wheel King

Mei Shiyu looked at Yuan Che and called out, "Che'er."

Yuan Che looked up, “...Huh?”

His dazed and simple-minded appearance conveyed a mixture of surprise and confusion.

Seeing him like this, Mei Shiyu couldn't help but chuckle, but quickly suppressed that faint smile.

He asked seriously, "What exactly is wrong with your body?"

He had too many other things to deal with before, and after helping Wang Wu heal his injuries, he encountered a zombie... Only after all these problems were resolved did he have time to turn around and take care of Yuan Che.

Yuan Che twisted the hem of his clothes in embarrassment, perfectly portraying the shy and coy image of a young girl.

"I... I didn't actually 'reincarnate,' but rather I accidentally swapped bodies with someone else."

Body swapping?

Mei Shiyu seemed slightly surprised.

“Go on. Also, don’t be so…so 'shy'!”

His description, though poorly worded, was quite accurate.

Since switching bodies, Yuan Che has been influenced by the original owner's behavior and habits, and occasionally unconsciously displays a girlish demeanor.

Mei Shiyu's words dealt him a double blow, both physically and psychologically, and he almost tore his clothes to shreds.

"I'm sorry, Che'er, I didn't mean to make fun of you, it's just that I'm still... still not used to seeing you like this."

Mei Shiyu has always been straightforward in his speech.

He tried his best to press down the corners of his lips.

He can swear to God that he was absolutely not gloating.

It's his enigmatic sense of humor that always seems to appear in the most inappropriate places!

Yuan Che: "...This junior understands."

He had long noticed Mei Shiyu's hidden attribute of having a "strange sense of humor".

After all, he almost burst out laughing even on such a serious occasion as the disciple-acceptance ceremony in his previous life.

This made Yuan Che constantly wonder if he had put his clothes on backwards.

So embarrassed that I dug a hole in the bed sheet with my toes late at night.

"Then...is this okay?"

Yuan Che cracked his throat, deliberately making a rough sound, like it had been chewed by a dog.

"No."

Mei Shiyu said bluntly, "Just use your original voice, whatever you do, don't change it again!"

Yuan Che said sullenly, "Well... alright then."

Mei Shiyu said, "Let's continue from where we left off."

Yuan Che said, "The reason I swapped bodies with someone else is because after I came to the underworld, I went to the Judge's Temple..."

The reason he went to the underworld was nothing more than to resurrect the men, women, and children of Lingxi Village.

He was the hope of the whole village.

The journey took us from Yongjie Town to Guimen Pass, across the Yellow Springs Road and the Naihe Bridge, and finally to the Judge Temple.

A living person could travel freely in the underworld, penetrating deep into the enemy's rear, without being discovered by the underworld officials from beginning to end.

I'm so lucky.

On the Dust-Creation Platform of the Judge Temple, he saw the spirits of his parents and relatives.

Mei Shiyu used an array to deliver the souls of the dead in Lingxi Village, essentially opening a green channel for them to be reborn.

This group of people didn't need to work like oxen and horses at the border to pay off their debts, nor did they need to wait in vain with the procession on the road to the underworld. They could "cut in line" to drink the Meng Po soup and float directly to the Judge Temple to be judged.

Having drunk the Meng Po soup, they had long forgotten their past lives.

What Yuan Che saw were nothing more than empty-eyed and listless ghosts.

His parents and relatives are completely different from how they were when he was alive.

Yuan Che was incredibly lucky. Just as he jumped onto the Dust Fate Platform to disrupt the rules of judgment, Judge Cui Jue happened to be out of his residence, and the Xie Zhi beast guarding the Judge's Pen was fast asleep in its egg.

Yuan Che racked his brains trying to revive his relatives and friends, but he couldn't find a way.

Later, he accidentally broke the Three Lives Mirror that was suspended high in the sky and scattering white light.

The commotion was so loud that it startled even himself.

Fortunately, the "swan egg" was fast asleep and didn't move at all.

Yuan Che held his breath and saw his birth, his full moon, his first birthday... for twelve whole years. He grew up surrounded by love, with his parents and neighbors taking meticulous care of him.

Seeing those happy and blissful scenes, he almost burst into tears on the spot.

Yuan Che vowed to bring home those he loved and those who loved him in return.

But he did not expect that the trial on the Dust-Fate Platform would be so strange—all of the hundreds of households and nearly a thousand villagers in Lingxi Village were sentenced to go to hell and suffer torture for two hundred years.

Yuan Che had no idea what heinous crimes they had committed to deserve such a cruel trial!

Once the curtain fell on the stage of worldly affairs, Yuan Che could no longer find those familiar faces.

The broken mirror on the ground miraculously returned to its original state.

Yuan Che increasingly felt that something was wrong.

He usually has a strong premonition of danger.

Without a second thought, he grabbed the mirror and jumped off the Dust and Fate Platform.

Unexpectedly, the ground suddenly collapsed!

His footing gave way, and he fell backward into the abyss.

The last thing he saw was Judge Cui Jue's eyes, gazing at him from the edge of the abyss.

Neither sad nor happy, even with a hint of pity.

"Just like that, I inexplicably fell into the Ten Kings' Palace, which is the territory of the King of Reincarnation among the Ten Kings of Hell."

Yuan Che's mouth was dry from speaking, and he could only swallow to moisten his throat. "In the Ten Kings Palace, I didn't see the Wheel King himself, but I did see a girl who was also a living person, just like me, who was the original owner of this body..."

He and the girl wandered around the territory of the Ten Kings.

Strangely, no matter how they walked, it was like they were going around in circles; they couldn't go far or get out of the area.

They were tired from walking, so they simply leaned against a well to rest.

Yuan Che didn't expect that he would fall asleep as soon as he closed his eyes.

When I woke up, the girl was gone.

He discovered that he and she had switched bodies, and he quickly got up to look for her, but he couldn't find her no matter how hard he looked. Instead, he stumbled upon a way out.

And so, he escaped.

Although he was chased by underworld officials and ghost soldiers as a "dead ghost," he miraculously escaped their pursuit.

Finally, in Yongjie Town, he encountered Li Tingyun and Mei Shiyu.

As Mei Shiyu heard this, he gradually understood and said, "The King of Reincarnation is the only one among the Ten Kings of Hell who does not set up large or small hells in his own territory."

"He only receives the souls who have completed their sentences in the first nine Ghost King Palaces of Hell, and drives them to jump into the Well of Reincarnation so that they can be reborn in the next life."

"Those who are born as humans are either male or female."

Mei Shiyu guessed, "Che'er, the well you saw might be the Well of Reincarnation. Your soul swap is inextricably linked to that well."

Yuan Che nodded, then added, "Master...Immortal Venerable, there's something else I don't understand..."

Mei Shiyu said gently, "Go ahead."

"The villagers of Lingxi Village, my parents, elders, friends... why did they go to hell? Their souls have all been delivered to a better realm, how could they possibly go to hell?!"

Yuan Che felt puzzled, even angry.

All Mei Shiyu could say to him were eight words: "Cause and effect, reincarnation, good and evil will be rewarded accordingly."

Yuan Che remained unconvinced and retorted, "Even if some of them are truly heinous, it doesn't mean everyone should be implicated! What wrong could those children, who are even younger than me, possibly have done?"

After thinking it over, Mei Shiyu told him, "The principle of cause and effect applies not only to an individual, but also to a family, a bloodline, and even a country."

Yuan Che asked, "Could it be that our family has committed evil deeds that have brought misfortune upon our descendants?"

Mei Shiyu said, "This is just a guess, not a conclusion."

Yuan Che shook his head repeatedly, looking away, his gaze wandering left and right, his mind racing.

Suddenly, a thought flashed through his mind, and he muttered to himself, "Is it that curse... the curse about the 'Golden Silkworm Devouring the Tail'?"

Mei Shiyu was taken aback when he suddenly said this.

He then asked, "The golden silkworm eats its own tail?"