The Great Demon King Lu Zhaoyao!
But it would take hundreds of years to completely wear away a person's memories. That was impossible unless they were naturally forgetful.
So, with Da Ming waging wars year after year and constantly expanding its territory, countless souls had been created.
Without the Ten Halls of Yama to judge them, or the Six Paths of Reincarnation to send them off to be reborn, the only way to reincarnate required a long wait. As a result, the souls of the dead remained in the mortal world.
Wherever souls gathered in great numbers, powerful ghosts would eventually break through the boundary between life and death. As the yin energy produced by these ghosts slowly accumulated, it formed a ghost domain, and every ghost domain had a ruler of its own.
The lowest-ranking rulers of ghost domains were evil ghosts and vengeful spirits. They were more like bound spirits, trapped in one place and unable to leave. But these bound spirits often wreaked havoc on the people in the places where they were trapped, leaving those areas devastated.
The rulers of somewhat larger ghost domains were Ghost Kings. They typically controlled vast territories and had Ghost Generals and ghost soldiers under their command to help them govern cities.
Above the Ghost Kings were Ghost Emperors, even more powerful ghosts. They controlled many ghost cities and had quite a few Ghost Kings serving them, keeping their territories firmly under their control.
Above the Ghost Emperors were Ghost Emperors as well. In truth, they were much the same as Ghost Emperors; the only difference was that they controlled more cities.
However, Ghost Emperors were somewhat more powerful than Ghost Emperors. Their strength was immense, and they had accumulated merit, allowing them to walk among the living.
In other words,