When ordinary people contemplated the Netherworld and peered into Nine-Nether, they could not help but wonder where their own fate lay within reincarnation.
The karmic ties of fate had always been highly valued.
That was naturally one reason why, throughout the ages, cultivators had never ceased to walk the path of reincarnation.
Lu Qing looked at this life record.
In the previous life he remembered, Cui Ziyu had shared the same name but not the same fate.
The Cui Ziyu of that previous life had been recorded in the biographies. Originally an ordinary man, he judged cases in the underworld at night and bore the title of Judge.
Yet the life record now being slowly outlined word by word amid flowing light carried a twisted, eerie strangeness.
"Cui Ziyu, born in the three-hundredth year of Great Qi."
"Born in an unnamed village of Great Qi."
"Fond of learning in childhood, drawn to immortality in youth. Later left his homeland to study abroad, gaining considerable renown..."
The earlier parts of Cui Ziyu's life were ordinary enough.
But once it reached his path of cultivation, a faint sense of oddity emerged.
Especially regarding that fortuitous encounter in cultivation.
"An immortal descended to the mortal world and, seeing that his talent was extraordinary and his bearing immortal, was overjoyed."
"He passed down his mantle, hoping Cui Ziyu would cultivate the Dao, accumulate merit, and join the ranks of immortals."
"The Merit-Based Immortalization Method... It seemed this stretch of time still belonged to the ancient era."
Lu Qing's fingertip paused slightly.
He thought of the Heavenly Net Chessboard above the vault of heaven.
The chessboard had always existed. It was a world where only those figures walking ahead upon the path of the Dao could personally witness the flow of the great tide, scheme