In ancient times, there were Five ghost emperors, each guarding a Ghost Gate Pass.
The Eastern Ghost Emperor guarded Mount Tao Capital.
The Northern Ghost Emperor guarded Mount Luofeng.
The Southern Ghost Emperor guarded Mount Luofu.
The Western Ghost Emperor guarded Banner Tomb Mountain.
The Central Ghost Emperor guarded Embracing Calf Mountain.
Legend had it that each of the five divine mountains possessed a passage leading to the world of the living. All who died in the mortal world would pass through Ghost Gate Pass and be ferried into the Netherworld Land.
But those were merely legends from ancient times.
In the present-day Netherworld, the Five ghost emperors had long since ceased to exist, and Ghost Gate Pass had long vanished into the river of history.
Even Mount Tao Capital was now merely a highly renowned spirit mountain within the Six Paths Royal Region.
Long ago, a great demonic Dao cultivator whose cultivation reached the heavens had occupied this mountain. The world called him the Mount Tao Capital Lord.
Yet Su Yi preferred to call him the Old Rooster.
In his previous life, to cross the Bitter Sea, he had once come to Mount Tao Capital and played a match of Go against the Mount Tao Capital Lord. He won a section of the Mount Tao Capital Divine Wood's source heartwood, which he used to forge a Non-Drowning Boat.
When he crossed the Bitter Sea back then, that treasure had repeatedly worked its wonders, turning calamity into fortune.
This time, Su Yi had come partly because it was along the way, and partly because he intended to take another section of the Mount Tao Capital Divine Wood's heartwood to forge a Non-Drowning Boat, preparing for his future journey to the Bitter Sea.
Night was drawing near, and a crescent-shaped purple