The recruitment assembly drew to a close, but the Netherworld World remained extraordinarily busy.
The newly appointed divine officials each assumed their duties and began fulfilling their divine offices at their respective posts.
The Ten Halls of Yama presided over the Hall of Judgment, while the Four Great Judges each oversaw one of the four departments.
The Seventy-Five Office Merit Officers buried themselves in a sea of documents and records.
The Ten Netherworld Marshals led their ghost officers back and forth between the Primordial World and the Netherworld, while the generals guarding the Six Ghost Gates led netherworld soldiers on rotating shifts, day and night.
The entrances to the eighteen levels of hell stood in a row deep within the Blood Sea.
The Lords of Hell had begun administering punishments within their respective jurisdictions, and the first batch of wrongfully slain souls had moved into individual courtyards within the City of Wrongful Deaths.
The entire Netherworld resembled a precision machine, running ever more smoothly as its parts settled into place.
Before the Ghost Gate, Black and White Impermanence had just brought back a batch of departed souls whose allotted lifespans had ended in the Primordial World.
Ox-Head and Horse-Face escorted condemned souls toward the depths of the Blood Sea. Departed souls streamed endlessly across Naihe Bridge, while the great cauldron in Meng Po Pavilion simmered with sorrow-forgetting soup day and night.
The six luminous wheels of the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk turned slowly at the center of the Netherworld, each revolution sending countless departed souls to the destinations of rebirth they deserved.
The Heavenly Human Path, Human Path, Asura Path, Beast Path, Hungry Ghost Path, and Hell Path-the Six Paths of Reincarnation each fulfilled their functions in orderly fashion.
As the Netherworld's divine office system became complete, the Six Paths