With that, the Prefect of Mount Tai returned the two old sheets of paper to him, then clasped his hands behind his back and walked slowly toward the rear hall.
Cui Jiuyang and Master Tiger exchanged a glance, each seeing the gravity in the other's eyes.
He turned and saw He Feixu standing rooted to the spot, his brows slightly knitted, lost in some unknown thought. He could not help wondering.
Lu Pan turned to the three of them. "Since you have the Prefect of Mount Tai's instructions, go and attend to your assignment at once. I still have matters to report to him, so I won't see you out."
He summoned a gray-robed ghost servant with a wave and ordered him to guide the three of them, then hurried after the Prefect toward the rear hall.
Led by the ghost servant, the three went to the Reincarnation Platform Office to collect the wronged souls from Dustpan Village.
Those souls had died unjustly because they had been deceived by Xuanyuan and the person plotting against him into murdering the Five-Colored Sparrow, only to suffer the backlash of its remnant soul in the end.
Thus, these wronged souls had become entangled in karmic ties with Xuanning. According to the Prefect of Mount Tai, Xuanyuan had established his own Daoist grounds and recreated Yin-Yang within them, so these souls with karmic ties to him could enter his Yin-Yang order.
The Reincarnation Platform Office stood right beside the Five Paths and Six Offices, with the Reincarnation Platform above and the entrances to the Five Paths below.
The Reincarnation Platform stood twelve zhang high. Pitch-black chains coiled around the bluestone platform, and ever-burning lamps hung from all its railing posts.
The Five Paths lay outside and below the Reincarnation Platform, with a pitch-black gate