"Hahaha~ Xiao Lang is really interesting!" The moment Ziming heard Xiao Hua say "please," she burst into laughter. Clearly, no one had ever said such things to her before.
"Alas, poor child!" Xiao Hua sighed. He knew that given Ziming's status here, and since she had always appeared as Ziye, she truly lacked affection. Even his ordinary words seemed wonderful to her; evidently, no one normally spoke much heartfelt truth to her.
Then Xiao Hua said no more. Ziming nestled against his left arm, smiling as they walked out of the "pitch-black" Netherworld Path.
Brilliant light flooded the end of the Netherworld Path, revealing an exceedingly strange space.
This so-called Yellow Springs Great Hall was like an oval egg, covering the entire space. Along the hall's four walls wound countless patterns. These patterns resembled the banners outside the hall: beast heads rarely seen in the ordinary world. Yet behind each beast head was carved a different body.
These bodies ranged in size. The largest were nearly dozens of zhang long, while the smallest measured only about a foot. Around these beast heads were painted countless rippling lines, seemingly like ordinary currents of water. Yet upon closer inspection, every single ripple was formed from white bones. Only, these bones could now bend, truly resembling water waves.
Yet none of this drew Xiao Hua's gaze. The instant he stepped out of the Netherworld Path, his eyes fell upon the floor of the great hall. Because the hall was... covered in skeletons!!!
Layer upon layer of snow-white skeletons—skeletons with pitch-black mouths and staring black hollows—were scattered across the ground like pebbles. No one knew where the hall's light came from, but when it shone upon those skeletons and reflected back, an indescribable play of light and shadow emerged from the floor, as though