Deeper along the forbidden ancient road.
Looking into the distance, nine vast worlds lay along the ancient road. Within the dense Chaos Mist, countless ghostly flames flickered across each world. The nine worlds resembled nine stars joined in a row, majestic and imposing.
At that moment.
Within the Ninth Origin Clan's ancestral land.
Bones piled up into towering mountains. Flesh formed the earth, and gray blood flowed like rivers.
Upon the mountain of corpses stood a vast, magnificent palace.
The Pingdeng Palace!
At that moment, inside the Pingdeng Palace.
Four powerful beings sat on either side. They all wore paper robes, fashioned much like the official garments worn by court officials in the mortal world.
Yet an indistinct aura of reincarnation emanated from those paper robes, making them impossible to look at directly.
Each of the eight had a great seal hanging from their waist...
A Reincarnation Seal!
At the head of the hall, a middle-aged Forbidden Master in similar attire spoke calmly:
"According to the message from the Void Land, the Rotation Authority was stolen by that great black dog from back then."
He was the current Forbidden Master of the Ninth Origin Clan—the Pingdeng Forbidden Master!
As his name suggested, he sought to control the authority of King Pingdeng, one of the Ten Palace Yama Kings.
The other eight Forbidden Masters all wore grim expressions.
"That dog once pissed all over the ancient road, and it still hasn't died!"
"Outrageous! It actually dared to make a move against reincarnation!"
"That dog has karmic ties to several great figures. Does its move mean those people... still have something up their sleeves?"
They all began discussing it.
"I've issued a dog-killing decree. Any living being connected to a dog found on the forbidden road is to be wiped out!"
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