The Yellow Springs Road lay dim and gloomy.
Black were the silent towering peaks, red the sea of Lycoris Radiata. The winding Yellow Springs Road linked Ghost Gate Pass and the River of Forgetfulness, where a force of two hundred figures glowing with white light hurried onward.
Bai Yujun occasionally looked back, gazing until Fengdu was no longer visible.
"I have always kept it in my heart..."
After one final look, she turned and led the Heavenly Soldiers onward at a brisk pace.
She slowed when passing the silent, statue-like iron-blooded Heavenly Strategy Legion, unwilling to disturb the exhausted soldiers slumbering within. They were so very tired, waiting in silence, quietly guarding the ghost gates and Yellow Springs.
"Farewell."
The troop of white-armored Heavenly Soldiers and Generals, radiating light, sped down the Yellow Springs Road toward Ghost Gate Pass. Bai Yujun did not actually like the deathly aura of the underworld. She constantly circulated dragon energy to shield her dragon body from infection by deathly aura and Yin Energy, yet she also had a strange intuition that even if she were infected, she might not die immediately.
More likely, she would fall asleep and await revival. A hundred years, a thousand years, ten thousand years—eventually, the day would come when the dragon raised its head.
They arrived at Ghost Gate Pass.
They completed the procedures and presented their jade tablets.
The hideous, ugly Ghost General called for the ghost soldiers to clear the way for the Heavenly Court officials. Under the watchful eyes of countless wandering souls, Bai Yujun led more than two hundred Heavenly Soldiers into Ghost Gate Pass, passed through the Teleportation Array, and returned to the South Heavenly Gate.
When she breathed in the fresh Heavenly Court air brimming with spiritual energy, the entire dragon felt comfortable