Inside the gates of Ghost King City, a massive skeletal skull floated above the city. A ghost officer led Zhou Yuan's soul through its mouth and into a barrier.
The barrier resembled a furnace, or perhaps an alchemy furnace. Though not particularly large, it still spanned over a hundred kilometers. At its highest point, above the skeletal skull's crown, two masses of law power, one gray and one white, chased each other endlessly, spinning counterclockwise.
This barrier had once been the scheme into which the Grand Ghost King had poured the most effort-the ten-thousand-lives-to-ghosts domain.
"Lord Soul-Devouring Ghost King!"
The ghost officer hurried over, his face brimming with excitement.
His superior, the Soul-Devouring Ghost King, was tossing two souls into the barrier. At the shout, he turned and snorted.
"What?! Why are you shouting so loudly? Do you have a death wish?"
The Soul-Devouring Ghost King was pitch-black, his body below his head swollen into an oval like a toad. His roar was just as grating as a toad's croak.
Once he threw the two souls into the barrier, the gray and white masses of law power above the ten-thousand-lives-to-ghosts domain immediately began spinning faster...
Before long, the two souls actually became two fairly powerful members of the Ghost Race and walked out of the domain!
The Soul-Devouring Ghost King's eyes lit up. He eagerly snatched them both up, his mouth instantly expanding to nearly ten times its size, and swallowed both ghosts in one gulp!
"Wonderful!"
Two wisps of dark gray ghost power drifted across his body, increasing his strength a little.
The ten-thousand-lives-to-ghosts domain was the Ghost Race's most dangerous scheme!
Whenever humans suffered unnatural deaths and entered the River of Life and Death, the Ghost Race would bring their souls into the ten-thousand-lives-to-ghosts domain, where they would