Chapter 1: Reincarnation and Transmigration in the Flying Fox Network

  "Someone has fallen into the water! Come and save them quickly! … Someone has fallen into the water! Come and save them quickly! …"

  On a national highway in Northeast China, a military-plated Jeep Cherokee was speeding along. After all, it was early spring, and snow could still be seen on both sides of the highway. When the Jeep entered the lakeside section, the people in the car faintly heard someone calling for help! The silhouettes of three children soon came into the driver's line of sight.

  The jeep screeched to a halt at the side of the road, and a young man in military uniform burst out of the door, taking three strides to clear the guardrail by the roadside. As he ran towards the lake, he unbuttoned his overcoat. The girl standing on the lakeside calling for help saw the young man and hastily cried out: "PLA uncle, quickly save my little brother!" The young man gave the girl a reassuring smile, didn't say another word, tossed his coat aside, and leaped into the lake that had just thawed from ice. Relying on his athletic physique, the young man quickly swam to the spot where the boy had fallen in, swiftly grasped the boy with one hand while using the other to paddle furiously towards the shore.

  The icy lake water stimulated the young man's skin, and soon his left foot began to feel weak. The young man was shocked in his heart, but seeing the nearby lakeshore, he immediately let out a sigh of relief and quickened his pace. In the blink of an eye, the young man swam with the boy to the shore, preparing to lift the boy onto the shore when suddenly a large piece of ice about half the size of a banquet table, with edges and corners, came crashing towards him with the flowing lake water.

  The young man had just carried the boy to the shore when a thick chunk of ice crashed onto his head. The young man, who had suffered a severe blow to the head, immediately lost consciousness and slowly sank down: "Damn it! I didn't die at the hands of foreign agents, but I'm going to die here! Heaven, you're also too damn unfair!"

  "Alright! Don't complain anymore, kid!" The young man's muttering had not yet ended when two people appeared before him. The young man scratched his head and asked: "Are you the legendary Hei Bai Wu Chang?!"

  Bai Wuchang laughed and said: "You've got a good eye for talent! Come with us!" Seeing the young man hadn't moved, Hei Wuchang scowled and interrogated: "What's wrong? Don't you want to go?! Do you want us to use force?!"

  Young man asked: "Can I see my parents for the last time?!"

  "No! Time is almost up, we still have to go back and report! You'd better come with us!" Bai Wuchang said in a gentle tone. The young man sighed helplessly and reluctantly followed Hei and Bai Wuchang, muttering to himself: "Dad, Mom, I'm leaving! Your son can no longer take care of you... Brother and sister will definitely take care of you for me..."

  After an unknown period of time, Hei Wuchang and Bai Wuchang led the young man into the gates of the underworld. Bai Wuchang tapped on the sleeping Judge with his crying stick and said: "Old ghost, we've brought back the ghost! Take a look at where this kid is going next!" The judge lazily yawned, opened the Book of Life and Death, and asked: "What's your name?"

  "I don't know what my name is, so why did you bring me here?!" The young man tilted his head, looking like he didn't want to be there. Hearing the young man's words, Judge Huo, who was already annoyed at being disturbed from his sleep, immediately flared up in anger, pounding on the table and shouting: "Do you know where this is?! You dare to behave wildly after coming here?!"

  Xie Chaoyang looked around and said, "So this is the underworld?! It's exactly the same as Fengdu Ghost City!" Bai Wuchang smiled and said, "Of course! Fengdu Ghost City was originally our residence in the mortal world, it's no different from here, what's strange about that?!"

  "Stop arguing with him!" The judge banged his gavel and asked, "What's your name, anyway?!"

  Young man pointed to his mouth and gestured: "Look at my mouth shape! I... am... called... Xie... Chao... Yang!" The judge quickly searched for records related to Xie Chaoyang in the Book of Life and Death. The efficiency of the underworld was much faster than that of the world above, and soon the judge found all the records related to Xie Chaoyang. It would have been better if he hadn't looked, but as soon as he did, the judge's eyes widened in shock! He immediately called Black and White Impermanence to his side and asked: "You two didn't catch the wrong person, did you?!"

  Bai Wuchang took out a thin piece of paper and said, "This is the capture certificate you gave us. Isn't it written clearly on it?!" The judge took over the certificate, looked at it and said, "Oh no! I reckon King Yan drank too much wine last night and wrote it wrong! You guys wait here, I'll go find King Yan right away!"

  Yan Wang, who had just sobered up from his wine, saw the judge rushing over and asked: "What's going on that you're in such a hurry?!" The judge stuttered and told Yan Wang everything. Yan Wang's heart skipped a beat, and he muttered to himself: "What should I do?! These days, Ping Xin Niangniang is conducting research in the underworld! If she finds out about this, losing my job would be minor! If I get sent back to reincarnation, it wouldn't be worth it!"

  Yan Wang is indeed Yan Wang, doing things with a ruthless and cunning mind. With a turn of his brain, Yan Wang swept away the previous decadence and said to the judge: "Don't you know how to deal with him?! Can't we just use the original method and throw him into the animal path?!" The judge looked around and took out the relevant information about Xie Chaoyang, saying: "Great King Yan! This matter cannot be handled like this! This little guy has a habit of copying Buddhist scriptures! Moreover, all the Buddhist scriptures he copied were used to deliver the more than 30 million vengeful spirits who were killed by the Japanese in Nanjing! So this little guy's merits are deep!"

  Upon hearing the judge's words, Yan Wang immediately fell into a daze and didn't come back to his senses until about a minute later. However, he had a worried look on his face as he muttered to himself while pacing around in circles: "What should I do?! What should I do?!" The judge smiled slightly and walked up to Yan Wang's side, saying softly: "For now, the best plan is to have a good talk with him! Let him make his own demands, that way we can adapt to any situation! Then when he's reincarnated, just swap out the space, and no one will be the wiser!"

  Yan Wang smiled and patted the judge's shoulder, saying: "This idea of yours is not bad! Quick! You go call that little guy for me!" More than ten minutes later, the judge brought Xie Chaoyang to Yan Wang's presence and said: "He is Xie Chaoyang!" Yan Wang nodded slightly, walked around Xie Chaoyang in a circle, and said: "I didn't expect you little guy to have so much merit and golden light on your body! It seems that you've done many good deeds!"

  Xie Chaoyang, who had been in the intelligence world for many years, quickly sensed some suspicious signs from Yan Wang's demeanor. Still with an unchanged expression, Xie Chaoyang smiled and said: "No way! In our line of work, one must be calm! If you can't calm down, it's easy to lose your head! So copying Buddhist scriptures is the best way to calm your mind! Later on, after copying many scriptures, there was no more space at home, so I thought of burning them in front of the massacre memorial monument. What's wrong with that?!"

  Yan Wang nodded slightly and thought to himself, "What kind of person is this kid?! Why is he so difficult to deal with?! Why did he have to burn the Buddhist scriptures he copied in front of the massacre memorial monument?! He's really a damn idiot!" Suddenly, a ray of spiritual light flashed, and Yan Wang came up with an idea. He used his divine powers to observe Xie Chaoyang's soul. After observing for half a day, Yan Wang still couldn't figure anything out. Helpless, Yan Wang spoke up, "Your merits are great, according to the usual rules, I should give you a position in the underworld! However, there are too many civil servants in the underworld right now, and to reduce the burden, there isn't a suitable position for you. So, I can grant you one wish and let you reincarnate!"

  Upon hearing Yan Wang's words, Xie Chaoyang muttered to himself: "It can't be that simple, right?! An old saying goes: 'Yan Wang is easy to deal with, but the little ghosts are hard to handle!' Since I'm already a ghost, why not take advantage of Yan Wang and get some benefits from him?!" After thinking it through, Xie Chaoyang was about to speak when Yan Wang glanced at the hourglass beside him and said: "I can only grant you one request, no more! You'd better think carefully!"

  Xie Chaoyang thought for a moment and said, "If that's the case, let me be reborn as a journalist after I die. Is that too difficult?" Yan Wang furrowed his brow upon hearing Xie Chaoyang's request. The judge standing beside him walked over to Yan Wang and whispered, "Boss, we can't send him to the future, but we can send him to the past. As long as this kid doesn't cause any trouble, it won't have any impact on the future!"

  Yan Wang nodded slightly and said, "Alright! Your request is not excessive, I'll reluctantly agree! Follow me!" After that, Yan Wang led Xie Chaoyang towards the Wheel of Rebirth. Xie Chaoyang was very curious about the affairs of the underworld and kept asking questions along the way, as a result, Yan Wang accidentally let something slip.

  Xie Chaoyang refused to budge, lingering around the Wheel of Rebirth and refusing to take another step forward. Never had Yanwang been so humiliated, his anger ignited by Xie Chaoyang's shameless behavior, and in a fit of rage, he pushed Xie Chaoyang into the Wheel of Rebirth. By the time Yanwang calmed down, it was too late.

  Looking at the closed wheel of reincarnation, King Yan sat weakly on the ground and muttered: "This time it seems really over! I forgot to erase this kid's memory!"...

  "Ah……” Xie Chaoyang let out a miserable cry and disappeared in the reincarnation tunnel. When Xie Chaoyang regained consciousness again, his mind suddenly had many more things. Not long after, Xie Chaoyang felt a headache and fainted once more.

  It wasn't until the evening of the second day that Xie Chaoyang slowly came to. When he woke up, he realized that the body he was occupying belonged to Lin Aofeng, who was born in 1910 and was currently three years old, an only child. His father, Lin Guodong, was a businessman, and his mother, Cheng Xuemei, was a teacher at Fujian Dehua Girls' Middle School.

  "Hey! What bad luck! I didn't think that I, a renowned secret agent, would turn into a little kid! But the King of Hell hasn't treated me unfairly, letting me be reborn with my memories intact! In that case, I'll make good use of my knowledge to contribute to China's rise!" Just as Xie Chaoyang was muttering to himself, he heard a girl call out: "Young master! You're awake?!"

  Searching for the sound, Xie Chaoyang unconsciously turned his head to look at the girl. The girl saw that Xie Chaoyang was looking at her and immediately became overjoyed, rushing out of the door while shouting: "Young master is awake! Young master is awake!"

  Before long, a man and woman in their thirties walked into the room. As soon as they entered, the woman rushed to the bedside, hugged Xie Chaoyang and muttered: "Bodhisattva bless! My son is fine! Thank goodness!" Upon hearing the muttering, Xie Chaoyang understood that the woman in front of him was his mother in this life.

  Although he had woken up, Xie Chaoyang's mind was still a bit dizzy. At this time, he heard a man's voice say: "Xuemei, the child has just woken up! Let him rest well for a while?! The child has been in a coma for several days, and you haven't had a good rest either! Don't let the child recover, but your body is exhausted!" The woman nodded slightly and said: "Ziliang (Lin Guodong's courtesy name), I know! You can rest assured! I'll stay with my son for a while, then go rest!"

  The man helplessly sighed and turned to walk out of the room. Watching her husband's back as he left, the woman unconsciously sighed and said: "Son, it's not that your dad doesn't care about you or love you, but for this family, he has no time!"