Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh~
The Red Lotus Karma Fire, which should have been utterly silent, swelled so violently that it actually roared like a howling gale.
The blood-red flames first filled the entire Azure Splendor Ghost Realm. At the sight, a row of sweat sprang out across Fa Ren and the other two's backs, and they did not dare move a muscle.
They could sense that if they so much as touched those flames, they would be burned to drifting ash in an instant.
Boundless karma fire surged forth, transforming the Azure Splendor Ghost Realm into a massive, illusory lotus.
The raging blaze ignited the darkness all around them in an instant.
Everyone could clearly see that the darkness, which had seemed empty before, was actually made up of countless maggots.
As the flames burned, those maggots vanished at high speed as though erased by a rubber.
One patch of darkness was burned open, and a beam of light fell through it.
Though Yomi had always been dim, after spending some time amid endless darkness, this light felt dazzling instead.
Then came a second beam, a third...
Accompanying them was Izanami's shrill, miserable wail.
After putting Wondrous Purity and the others away, Izanami withdrew her divine art, Darkness of Yomi.
The Hall of Yomi appeared intact behind her, but all the wraiths that had once attended her within had vanished without a trace.
"Mother Goddess!"
An oni deity whose body was nothing but a flaming skeleton appeared before her.
Izanami gave him a disgusted look and rebuked, "Do not call me that. You should address me as Izanami-no-Mikoto."
This oni deity was Kagutsuchi. At his birth, he had burned his own mother to death.
His enraged father, Izanagi, had slain him with the Ten-Fist Sword, and he too had come to