This battle in the netherworld of the Underworld did not last very long.
Although the greatest danger and fighting force in Fengdu City—the countless vicious ghosts and evil spirits originally suppressed by the seventy-two Chief Officers—had all turned to dust and vanished in that [Mount Tai Prefect Sacrifice], Fengdu City had accumulated a formidable foundation.
From the beginning of the Third Kalpa, when the age of chaos between yin and yang began, all the way until eight thousand years ago.
The foundation accumulated over many changes in the netherworld of the Underworld, in the ghost domain of Fengdu.
A full seventy-two top-tier Earth Immortals, with battle experience and an array of divine powers honed to the utmost.
Ten of them had even gained the power of the earth gods and broken through the barrier to become True Lords.
Add to that two standard Imperial-realm beings.
This was already an extremely standard force, even stronger than an ordinary [division of celestial gods].
The netherworld of the Underworld had suffered an internal upheaval before. Although Taisu Miaoguang King and the others had struck first and swiftly subdued Yin Virtue Ding Xiu True Lord and the others, they had effectively lost two True Lords, along with Black and White Impermanence, Ox-Head and Horse-Face, and Meng Po—five standard Earth Immortal-level ghost gods who were infinitely close to the True Lord realm.
Their strength had already declined, and they were no match for Fengdu City in terms of top-tier combat power. Moreover, the ghost gods of Fengdu City had been ambushed and framed back then, and they had long been seething with resentment toward the Ten Hall Yama Kings, who had once also been Chief Officers of the Seventy-Two Departments.
Then the appearance of the Mount Tai Prefect completely changed the situation.
Under the Mount