The sky was ink-black, the earth covered in frost.
Venerable White Ze hovered high in the air, forging a great wheel beneath the vault of heaven to transport the countless ghostly shades sent into the Yin-Yang Realm. According to the resentment entwined around each ghost, the wheel would distribute them to different regions.
When Pangu split heaven and earth, the world was divided into yin and yang. Ghosts from the realm of the living were meant to pass into the Netherworld; the laws of Heaven were originally strict and unyielding. But there were simply too many living beings that died. No matter how vast the Heavenly Dao, it could not fully bear the workings of such immense numbers. As time passed, omissions naturally arose.
Yin souls burdened by excessive resentment could not enter the cycle of Heavenly Dao reincarnation and remained in the world. This was an error produced in the turning of the great Dao of heaven and earth. Since ancient times, countless yin entities had been left behind in this gap among mankind, becoming ghosts—one kind of evil apparition.
What White Ze wanted to do was imitate the Netherworld and create another underworld, gathering the ghosts that had slipped through the cracks of Heavenly Dao and failed to reach the Netherworld into her new underworld, so that yin and yang in the mortal realm would not descend into chaos.
Put simply, whatever the Netherworld did not take, she would take.
Even patching up omissions was still a task as hard as scaling the heavens for mortal strength. If she could accomplish it, she would indeed deserve the Transcendent Mystery rank.
The workload of creating an underworld was enormous. Fortunately, Chu Liang had offered her a plan, sparing her the effort of catching ghosts all over the world and