Calamity Rises in the Mortal World, a True Immortal Descends

The baleful dragon roared, splashing the filth and turbidity that had accumulated in the Netherworld's Yellow Springs across the mortal world.

Within the Netherworld, the Spirit Emperor of the Yu Dynasty had already achieved his scheme.

The Ghost Emperor gazed at the profound rift in the Netherworld's firmament, at the grim Yellow Springs water and filthy silt surging skyward from the Yellow Springs, then nodded in satisfaction.

With the baleful dragon, bound to the Yellow Springs by Karmic Cause and Effect, serving as the lure, the accumulated sludge within the Yellow Springs had finally been drawn out.

Although Lingyou Prefecture and several surrounding prefectures would become ghost domains in this sacrifice, the Netherworld would at least remain clean for a time.

With that thought, the Spirit Emperor slowly turned around. Standing atop the seven-tiered altar, he looked down at the ministers kneeling below. "Though this sacrifice was for the sake of all beings in the Netherworld, I have ultimately wronged the people of the mortal world."

"My heart is ashamed. I shall enter seclusion and cultivate in peace, praying for blessings upon the mortal world."

The ghosts and gods bowed one after another. "Your Majesty is benevolent and kind!"

What benevolent and kind?!

It was simply that, as the chief culprit and chief officiant behind the Yellow Springs' eruption, the Karmic Cause and Effect of the mortal world's calamity had become connected to the Spirit Emperor. His fortune had been damaged, and he needed to avoid all affairs for the time being!

Yet the ghosts and gods saw through it without exposing it. After all, it was not only the Spirit Emperor's fortune that had suffered. They received the mortal world's incense offerings, so their fortunes had naturally been damaged as well. They too needed to rest and recuperate.

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