"Have you always thought that exorcising ghosts, slaying evil, and fighting the Restricted Zones were the greatest duties of Unusual Persons and Netherworld Messengers?"
The King of Reincarnation spoke, and his very first sentence sent a tremor through many hearts.
Wasn't that the case?
"Three hundred years ago, the Yin Qi emanating from the Restricted Zones was extremely thin. Weird Objects were even rarer than Unusual Persons, and some powerful figures wiped them out with a casual wave."
"Back then, the Dao Alliance held great power. The various factions competed for the position of alliance leader, and that was the biggest matter in the Unusual Person World."
"Two hundred years ago, Weird Objects grew more numerous. The Dao Alliance's leader at the time announced that Unusual Persons could hunt Weird Objects in exchange for cultivation resources. Once that measure was introduced, the weird became scarce again. There were plenty of cases where entire families were exterminated over a single ghost."
"A hundred years ago, Weird Objects plagued the world, and the Dao Alliance declined. Our Netherworld began taking over the affairs of the Unusual Person World. Yet in those early days of building our organization, our greatest losses actually came not from fighting Ghostly Beings, but from killings by remnants of the Dao Alliance."
"They resented the Dao Alliance's decline and believed it had all been caused by the Netherworld's struggle for power and profit."
After saying this, the King of Reincarnation slowly swept his gaze over everyone and concluded.
"Conflict between people is what has persisted throughout the long river of history, the hardest thing of all to erase!"
Everyone opened their mouths, but for a moment, they found themselves unable to refute him.
"That includes the present."
"Let me tell you plainly. There is a group called the