"Yin Tianzi..."
Those three words rang through Huang Shendu's mind like a funeral bell tolling in the deepest reaches of the Ninefold Abyss.
He was not imagining things.
During the Killing Game in Blackwater Ancient Town, he had died and come back to life, forcibly fusing with an eyeball belonging to the Black Sky Lord.
At that moment, more than the rules of the forbidden Ghost Raiser profession had been branded into the depths of his soul alongside the eyeball. There had also been fragments of memory, incomplete yet vast.
In those strange, dazzling fragments, Huang Shendu had glimpsed a terrifying realm utterly unlike the Living World.
It held the Senluo Treasure Hall, the Iron Trees and Blade Mountains, and the Ten Great Yamas, each holding sway over a ghostly domain.
And at the highest point above its endless abyss sat a supreme ruler who commanded all ghosts and held the cycle of life and death in his grasp.
The lord of all ghosts.
Also known as Yin Tianzi.
If the Commander-in-Chief who held the Imperial Jade Seal in Ziwei City was the uncrowned emperor who bore the Great Xin Dynasty's fortune in the Mortal World, then Yin Tianzi was the final destination of every trace of Yin Baleful Intent, Death Qi, and every departed soul. He was an underworld emperor capable of standing against the imperial power of the Living World.
"Black Heaven Yama deliberately left this part of his memory in the eyeball instead of erasing it..." Huang Shendu's gaunt fingers gripped the armrest of his wheelchair.
Every move made by a King of Hell in the Upper Four Realms was bound to carry some far-reaching design.
He had left the memory of Yin Tianzi not to broaden Huang Shendu's horizons, but to send a message to certain