Chen Shi opened the ledger, and saw that it recorded millions of souls who, before drawing their final breaths, had prayed to Empress Houtu to exact revenge on an immortal named Yin Fenglou, cursing him to fall into the cycle of reincarnation and never ascend.
The ledger recorded the cause and effect of this matter. In the Lingtai Realm, in a place called the Fengyu Kingdom, a great flood had occurred one year, and the imperial court had ordered Yin Fenglou to take disaster-relief silver and the supreme treasure, the Plough Heaven Comb, to the downstream regions for disaster relief and to dredge the waterways.
Yin Fenglou was already a high cultivator in the Tribulation Crossing Realm at that time. Because he lacked sufficient confidence in surviving his heavenly tribulation, he had never dared to initiate it. However, upon obtaining the imperial court's supreme treasure, the Plough Heaven Comb, he conceived a plan.
He actively provoked his heavenly tribulation and used the power of the Plough Heaven Comb to resist it, finally succeeding in crossing the tribulation. But that supreme treasure, the Plough Heaven Comb, was also buried within the heavenly tribulation.
Knowing that he had committed a grave mistake and not daring to go to the disaster area, Yin Fenglou had fled with the disaster-relief silver.
After he fled, the downstream dikes breached, causing millions of common folk to be swallowed by the floodwaters and become food for the fish and shrimp in the water. Countless people saw their families torn apart. Because of this, the national fortune of the Fengyu Kingdom came to an end, its state and family shattered, and it finally fell to foreign enemies.
Yet Yin Fenglou survived the Ascension Realm, actually harmonized with the Dao to ascend, and went to the Earthly Immortal Realm.