Howling Celestial Dog immediately accepted the order, left the hall, and returned to its own quarters, where it activated the Yuan Huang Talisman.
Blood light surged upward, and brown mist swirled around it. Before its eyes, an ancient stone gate appeared, its surface interwoven with the Intent of Life and Death, hazy and indistinct.
The stone gate stood slightly ajar, a sliver of light showing through the gap. Through it, one could glimpse the scene beyond: a world of profound darkness, a surging blood-brown river, and deathly mists shrouding heaven and earth.
Howling Celestial Dog activated its divine ability and summoned an Other Self Projection connected to the Underworld to possess it. Its body gradually faded, vanishing completely into the void. It slipped through the gap, attempting to set foot in the dreamlike netherworld of the Underworld.
After a wave of illusory, icy sensation, Howling Celestial Dog had infiltrated the Underworld. It saw the blood-brown river running through the entire realm, its source and destination unknown. Countless wronged souls and evil ghosts bobbed in its waters, crying out in shrill anguish as if they would never find release.
Flowers of the Other Shore bloomed along the banks, adorning the tranquil silence of death and making one forget sorrow, pain, and the past. Ancient stone bridges towered over the river, leading deep into the netherworld, to the place where the Wheel of Reincarnation turned in silence.
At that moment, every stone bridge was under heavy guard. Judges led the way, with Ghost Kings and Yin Commanders assisting. Not even a fly from the outside world could slip through.
Howling Celestial Dog had long sensed something amiss in the Underworld. When Master Xuan Bei had used the Myriad Realms Universal Talisman to deliver the souls here to salvation a few days earlier,