The Eternal Night Sea, Xisang Kingdom.
Inside the Imperial Palace, a jet-black Imperial Robe trailed across the floor. Xi Sang stood before the Imperial Throne at the head of the hall, listening to a subordinate's report with shadowed eyes.
The figure prostrated below the steps trembled incessantly, voice shaking. "In recent years, many of our resources have frequently spoken of the Underworld, saying it governs life, death, and reincarnation, and offers refuge from the suffering of this world.
"Your subordinate investigated in secret and discovered... discovered that this matter seems connected to Di Yang, who escaped all those years ago."
"Di Yang?"
Xi Sang's gaze shifted. He had not heard that name in years. To think that brat was still alive.
The figure below the steps lowered their head further and replied, "According to my secret investigation, he now calls himself the King of Hell and commands the Underworld. That is why we never discovered his whereabouts."
At this, Xi Sang's brows gradually furrowed. After pondering for a moment, he said, "The Underworld... what connection does it have to the Underworld Bureaucracy?"
He seemed to be asking both the figure below and himself. Without waiting for an answer, he murmured, "The Underworld, the Ancient Underworld Bureaucracy."
As a taboo being who had existed for countless years, Xi Sang knew many of Eternal Night's secrets. He had indeed heard of the Underworld Bureaucracy.
It was an even more ancient existence, so ancient that even he knew only a few scattered fragments about it. If this Underworld truly had ties to the Underworld Bureaucracy...
"Could that brat have escaped by sheer luck back then, fallen into some ruin connected to the Underworld Bureaucracy, and obtained its legacy?"
Xi Sang considered this in silence. A moment later, he suddenly smiled, an inexplicable menace