Huang Quan Realm

Huang Quan, or Hell, is where the dead that sinned are imprisoned. It is one of the six realms of Samsara and is formed from part of Grand Tie Wei Mountain.

## Information

Huang Quan has authority over the reincarnation process of Samsara. Before being reincarnated, if a dead soul committed too many sins in life, they have to suffer in one of the hells to atone for their sins before their soul is cleansed and they can be reincarnated. However, if one has accumulated merit in their life, they will be reincarnated in a good life according to how much merit they have.

3 Divine Armaments of Hell:

* Devil King Warden Rod
* Forgotten River Soul Separation Hook
* Six Path Great Mountain Sword

### Organization

Huang Quan has different departments to manage the afterlife.

* **Gates of Hell:** combat
* **The Bridge of Life and Death:** espionage and secret arts
* **Tie Wei Mountain:** defense
* **The 18 Hells:** imprison and torture the most ferocious beings in all the realms
* **The Forgetting River:** Large scale wars. It is located in a Phase Realm below the waters of the Forgetting River.
* **The Hall of Reincarnation:** administration and all affairs

Of the officials of Huang Quan, they are divided into the following ranks: Minor Devil, Devil Soldier, Devil General, Great Devil, Daemon, Partial Deity, Virtuous Deity, and High Deity. From Minor Devil to Great Devil, these ranks are considered mortals; the rest are true Deities. At the Daemon level, officials will manifest a Samsara Divine Skill in accordance with their will and abilities.

## Structure

### Passage to Huang Quan

When a soul dies in Samsara, they will be guided by Huang Quan through the space vortex between worlds down a steep path to a dark, vertical tunnel with rocky walls that is several thousand meters wide. Cold winds blow in the tunnel. Eventually, the tunnel levels out into a normal horizontal path before opening up in the skies above the surface of Huang Quan.

### Surface

The surface of Huang Quan is formed from the giant black Grand Tie Wei Mountain. The Forgetting River flows on the surface. Within the Forgetting River are entrances to the 18 layers of hell. Clouds of mist rise from the Forgetting River to become black clouds in the sky, where fierce winds blow.

The Forgetting River, as the source river of Huang Quan, is capable of propagating life. It has fish living in it.

### 18 Layers of Hell

Huang Quan has different hells to punish different types of offenses. The layers of hell are as follows:

1. **Blood River Hell:** The dead are submerged in boiling blood, suffering from the pain of being boiled alive. Monsters in the blood constantly eat their bodies. The river flows down a steep hillside, leading to the second hell.
2. **Dismemberment Hell:** The dead roll down the steep hillside, gaining momentum as they do. Countless blades and shards protrude from the ground, slicing the dead into bits as they fall. When they "die," they revive and wake up again where they died and begin falling again until they have been dismembered once more. This cycle will keep repeating itself until they finally made it past the entire 693,800,000 mile journey.
3. **Frozen Hell:** The dead are frozen in a deep lake, continuously suffering from the freezing cold. Half of the Frozen Hell was flung into space.
4. **Devouring Hell:** The dead wander a desolate desert landscape, where occasionally metal dogs, metal tigers and metal lions would sprout from the ground, chase them down, tear them apart and eat them.
5. **Eroding Hell:** The dead in this layer will have their bodies slowly eroded away by the liquid they’re in, until finally even the scraps of their bones are eaten away will they be considered dead.
6. Artillery Hell
7. Stone Mill Hell
8. Blade Mountain Hell
9. Roasting Hell
10. Limbless Hell
11. Steamer Hell
12. Skinning Hell
13. Heartless Hell
14. Deboning Hell
15. Poison Hell
16. Frying Hell
17. Jagged Hell
18. Pinching Hell

The punishment becomes harsher and crueler the further down one travels. Each layer of hell is further divided into three sublevels: Small, Great, and Infernal. These sublevels indicate the duration rather than the severity of the punishment. In Small Hells, the dead only need to suffer a while before reincarnating; in Great Hells, they suffer 500 years at a time before getting a day of rest; and Infernal Hells continue their torture for eternity unless something unexpected happens.

After Gu Qing Shan merged the Twin Rivers of Life and Death with the Samsara and regained his Deific Authority, the River of Death now lies at the deepest parts of hell. It serves as a final resting place for those who have paid for their sins but no longer wish to reincarnate.

## Background

In the age of old, Huang Quan only had 9 hells and was ruled by the Devil King. Later, the Divinities of the Heaven Realm wanted control over the power of life and death that Huang Quan has, so they dispatched 8 Divinities to manage Huang Quan. At first, the Divinities were responsible for leading mortals into hell, as well as guiding them back to reincarnation after they went through torture to atone for their sins. The Devil King was responsible for the 9 layers of hell and had absolute control over the dead there.

However, they came into conflict, and so the Divinities of the Heaven Realm and the Devil King waged the **First Divine War of Huang Quan.** The Devil King was unbeatable with the Devil King Warden Rod, forcing the Divinities to flee back to the Heaven Realm. However, the Divinities of Heaven allied with the Asura World, Beast King World, and Demon World to defeat the Devil King. The Devil King Warden Rod’s spirit was crushed while the rod itself was sealed away, but the Devil King left behind instructions and rituals in the Rod for it to automatically carry out.

The Huang Quan was now governed by the divinities from the Heaven World. In the Past 1000 years, Huang Quan was governed by Machines made by the divinities from Heaven realm, This all change when demons attacked Huang Quan to release all the prisoners of hell and let them loose to Human Realm.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapter 1812
2. ↑ Chapter 1819
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chapter 381
4. ↑ Chapter 378
5. ↑ Chapter 380
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Chapter 383
7. ↑ Chapter 1794
8. ↑ Chapter 388
9. ↑ Chapter 1813
10. ↑ Chapter 392
11. ↑ Chapter 1821
12. ↑ Chapter 391