"...This dead man didn't want the underworld poison to spread?"
Although Mu Wanqiu could not understand the inscriptions on the coffin, she could roughly guess their meaning.
"The King of the Underworld's calamity could erode the human heart."
Gu Shen spoke slowly. "This calamity invaded his mind. When his consciousness finally collapsed, he chose to seal away the underworld poison."
Gu Shen snapped his fingers again.
Snap!
A crisp tremor rang out.
The authority of underworld fire activated. Blazing Fire, tinged with a thread of pitch-black inkiness, leaped into the dead man's Soul Sea.
"Bzzzz—"
The dead man's brow thundered violently amid the burning Blazing Fire!
He had been dead for too long, and Gu Shen was not yet a true "King of the Underworld."
Even if the Pure Land accepted him for reincarnation, the dead man could not be revived in his complete form.
Yet he still opened his eyes.
Hollow eyes, devoid of flesh and blood!
"I want to see your final memories."
Gu Shen crouched down. "If you have any left."
The corpse's source matter had already dispersed, as had its spirit. Yet under the summoning of the King of the Underworld Authority, the dead man seemed to understand Gu Shen's words.
To him, they were a divine decree.
The dead man extended both hands and slowly raised them, offering empty air before Gu Shen. Countless wisps of Blazing Fire surged from his shriveled skin and gathered in his palms, as if he were holding up a cluster of flames.
Gu Shen dipped a finger into the fire.
Blurred, fragmented images swept into his Mental Sea.
The mist of Rin Iron Mountain shattered. With his final memories, this nameless man who had "died and returned" pointed out the exact route leading into the depths of Rin Iron