Underworld, Ghost Domain, Hall of Yama.
A gigantic toad sprawled behind the Hall of Yama, swallowing and spitting out Yin Fire, inhaling deep gusts of Yin Energy, its swelling belly rumbling like rolling thunder between breaths.
Outside the Hall of Yama, ghost gods of all sizes stood in dense rows. Some lit a stick of incense atop their hats, some carried their own ingots trees, and others had a brazier floating before them, burning paper money from time to time.
These ghost gods were the primordial spirits of Great Ascension stage and Void Returning stage experts accumulated over the past six thousand-odd years in the Western Ox Continent. After these experts died, as long as incense offerings remained, they could maintain their primordial spirits without scattering. They usually lived in seclusion within the Immortal Capital, but this time, King Yama made a comeback, and the Eighteen Levels of Hell lacked judges, Tai Ao, underworld officials, and underworld generals, so he invited them to come out of retirement.
The former key positions of judge, Tai Ao, and others were all divine avatars invited from the Huaxia Divine Continent, but now King Yama had no one under his command and was forced to heavily employ the ghost gods of the Western Ox Continent.
Besides them, there were also ox-heads, horse-faces, and yakshas numbering in the tens of thousands. Most of them had reached adulthood, and some brought their whole families along with little ones holding onto their hands.
They wore ragged clothes and had sickly, sallow complexions, belonging to the ghost tribe. Seeing that the Eighteen Levels of Hell were recruiting and hiring people, they came to look for some work, never expecting to be appointed as underworld officials. For a moment, they still found it hard to accept their status suddenly