First update today: Chapter 1689! 1/4!
After "sending off" Zhong Kui, the Heavenly Spirits and Earthly Fiends were all somewhat embarrassed. No matter what, Zhong Kui was practically an ancestor-level figure to them.
Helping him reincarnate was like bringing their own ancestor back to life, allowing him to live another life and bless them descendants.
But Zhong Kui, as a judge of the Punishment Department, hated evil with a vengeance and gave them no face at all. If Zhong Kui had possessed the ability to judge them now, every single person present would have been skinned alive. Those whose offenses were especially severe might not even have had the chance to reincarnate through the Stone of Three Lifetimes!
Yet Xu Kun and the others might have overlooked one issue.
That was... from Emperor of Mount Tai down to the Six Scribes of the Underworld, were they truly the ancestors of the Ghost Race?
This question would become a controversial topic between the human race and the Ghost Race in the future. Everything had to be traced back to its roots!
The Ghost Race had no roots... ah, no. As yin-bodied beings without heavenly souls, how they came into existence had to be figured out!
"Um, little friend, please continue. Judge Zhong has a fiery temperament, so..." Gongsun Sheng wanted to explain something, but when the words reached his lips, he could not bring himself to say them.
Explain what?
Explain that they merely wanted to be good people, but had been forced by circumstances? That in order to conveniently lead the Ghost Race, they had to fulfill the wishes of other ghosts, open the Gate of the Underworld, and allow countless ghosts to wreak havoc in the human world?
That might fool ghosts, but trying to fool people was