"Mother, it's Grandpa and his friends looking for us."
After the Grand Libationer left, Chen Shi said to Wu Qingyu, "The Grand Libationer lied. He wants to keep us here until I create the method to destroy the True God from Beyond the Heavens."
Wu Qingyu had only located him in the fourth year after his death.
During those four years, he had only a single thought: to stay alive and exact revenge.
He parasitized the corpse of a little yaksha, his monstrous resentment towering to the heavens, his demonic nature profound. He fought and killed with ghosts and monsters, battling to the death with deities and fiends, acting more like a demon than a demon itself, filled with a grim, chilling intent to kill that stripped him of his humanity.
Yet Wu Qingyu's arrival awakened his humanity.
If there was still anyone in this world who loved you, it had to be Mother.
Wu Qingyu cast aside her mortal shell and entered the Underworld with her soul to search for her son. It took her four years to find him, and she awakened the humanity hidden within his demonic nature.
Only by Mother's side would his gaze grow gentle.
Wu Qingyu asked, "If you give him the cultivation technique, will he let us leave?"
"No."
Chen Shi said decisively, "His heart belongs to Great Shang. What he wants is not the destruction of the True God; what he wants is the restoration of Great Shang's rule."
During that period, the Underworld was far from peaceful. The Heavenly Dao Walkers of Despair Slope were tracking their whereabouts, and battles broke out from time to time.
Despair Slope took note of the newly established Divine Capital, viewing it as a major threat.
Fierce battles between ghosts and deities also occurred in