Amid eerie wails, the Red-Haired Monster drew closer, radiating ominousness and curses. These manifestations should only have appeared in the twilight years of a Source Heavenly Master or someone with a Sacred Body, yet the Great Emperor's baleful aura had triggered them early.
Clatter!
The clanking chains sounded especially terrifying amid the rain of blood, as though a dead spirit from the Nether Realm had truly arrived to seize a soul.
Rather than anger, Lin Xian felt delight. Waving the Human Emperor Banner, he laughed aloud. "The Netherworld Emperor is here, and the Heavenly Court has opened anew! Let's see whether you seize me or I seize you!"
The great banner swayed, purple qi billowing, white light blazing ten thousand feet, and black smoke sweeping outward. Heroic spirits, Corpse-Transcending Immortals, and Bodhisattva divine thoughts manifested one after another. Buddhist light shone everywhere, faith delivered the dead, and battle raged between black and white. Immortals wailed and gods wept, as though a passage to the Ninefold Netherworld had opened.
Ghostly qi now soared from the First Ancestral Vein, the consequence of the Eternal Ascension Dynasty binding itself to the dragon vein all those years ago. Those who died here had become earth-bound spirits.
The Human Emperor Banner swayed like an envoy summoning souls, guiding countless dead spirits toward early bliss in the Bodhisattva Realm and rebirth within the cycle of reincarnation in the Nether Soil.
Such a magical artifact could rightly be called the Underworld's nemesis. In the blink of an eye, millions of ghost soldiers were about to be swept up, forming a Lesser Underworld within the Human Emperor Banner.
"Awooo..."
A shrill, drawn-out howl rose, soul-shaking and deafening, like a ferocious beast of the Underworld released from its cage. The truly sinister Ghost Saint lurking in the shadows could