After Pan Xuan incorporated the Treasure-Dropping Golden Coin into the Heavenly Dao, the rain of merit light atop Mount Buzhou had yet to fully disperse.
The purple-gold motes filling the sky were like countless tiny fireflies, drifting down from the Nine Heavens and merging into every node of the Divine Dao Network.
The Twelve Ancestral Witches and the Three Pure Ones stood around the altar, each sensing the two new threads of law within the Divine Dao System.
The Great Dao of Transactions and the postnatal Wealth Dao had now officially become part of the Heavenly Dao's framework.
"The Heavenly Dao is complete. Next comes the Earthly Dao."
Pan Xuan withdrew his gaze from the horizon and turned to Houtu.
"Sister Houtu, now that the Great Dao of Transactions and the Wealth Dao have been incorporated into the Heavenly Dao, they should also be integrated into the Earthly Dao.
"The Earthly Dao governs the Netherworld and reincarnation. Before departed souls can be reborn, they must undergo judgment, and judgment itself is a form of transaction-exchanging the merits and faults of their past lives for the blessings and misfortunes of their next.
"But in the past, such transactions relied entirely on the Book of Life and Death to make its own determinations, without standards at the level of laws.
"If the Great Dao of Transactions and the Wealth Dao are integrated into the Earthly Dao, the judgment process will become more precise, and reincarnation will operate more smoothly."
Houtu nodded slightly. At her brow, the Lord of Reincarnation Law Deity and the Earth Ancestral Witch mark lit up simultaneously.
She raised a hand and took the Book of Life and Death from her sleeve. The dark-gold volume opened on its own in her palm, its pages turning without wind as the