Blood Lotus Crown Prince
The Blood Lotus Crown Prince was Red Lotus World-Purifying King's most favored child. This Yama Son of Heaven had over a hundred sons and daughters, yet only a handful were truly favored, all of them at the peak of the Manifest Divinity realm.
Among these offspring, whoever could break through to the Immortal God rank would be qualified to become the next Red Lotus World-Purifying King.
The underworld's system was entirely different from the Divine Court of the heavenly realm. It followed a succession system. In truth, including the Ksitigarbha Holy Emperor, the Eight Great Yamas were effectively regional feudal lords—highly independent, obeying deployments but not proclamations.
The Divine Court of the heavenly realm could not directly command the underworld. Only the Zhenyu Heavenly King was responsible for overseeing its various forces, reporting all matters to the Divine Court.
Yet the Zhenyu Heavenly King himself could not freely direct the Ksitigarbha Holy Emperor or the Eight Great Yamas, much less the ghostly officials and underworld gods at every level of the underworld.
On the other hand, for certain matters, the Zhenyu Heavenly King possessed the authority to execute first and report afterward. So long as the Lord of the Divine Court nodded, the Zhenyu Heavenly King could even directly kill a Yama Son of Heaven.
The Ksitigarbha Holy Emperor was equivalent to a feudal king, the head of the Eight Great Yamas and the local strongman of the underworld. Within the underworld, his authority was immense.
Yet every move made by this Ksitigarbha Holy Emperor was subject to the Zhenyu Heavenly King's supervision and restraints.
This was also the Lord of the Divine Court's art of controlling his subordinates: making those below restrain and oversee one another, preventing these great figures of the Divine Court and