Reshaping the Underworld; Life-Death Seal

Judge and Enma coughed up blood and staggered back at the same time, their eyes filled with incredulous horror.

The Black and White Qi slowly revolved in Chiyo's palm.

The ruins of the Bridge of Helplessness silently crumbled beneath their feet, turning into bone dust that was swept away by the airflow and vanished without a trace.

"Th... this is impossible..."

The bamboo scroll in Judge's hand shattered inch by inch, while the gray vortex in his eyes was on the verge of collapse.

"Within the Underworld, life and death reign supreme. How could they be shaken by the living?!"

Enma trembled all over. The massive suppressive hammer that had accompanied him for thousands of years turned to ash in his hand, without even the slightest chance to resist.

Chiyo did not pursue them.

He merely stood quietly in the void, with a constantly collapsing abyss beneath his feet and the gray, deathly sky of the Underworld overhead.

The stream of energy in his palm grew increasingly solid as the power of the surrounding Underworld rapidly flowed into it.

It gradually formed into a fist-sized sphere of light intertwined with black and white.

Countless scenes seemed to flow within the sphere.

The laughter of the living, the wails of the dead, the growth of plants, the fall of stars...

"Life and death were originally one. Reincarnation is also a cycle."

Chiyo's voice echoed through the Underworld.

"The 'laws' you uphold are nothing more than shackles that forcibly separate the two.

Judgment, suppression, punishment... these methods are ultimately only superficial."

He raised his eyes toward Judge and Enma.

"The true Underworld should not be like this."

As his words fell, Chiyo gently raised the sphere of light in his hand.

The entire Underworld shook violently!

With the sphere as its center,