The Underworld.
An immense river stretched across heaven and earth.
Beside this river lay an Other Shore Flower Sea. A girl dressed in lavish black robes gently swung her bare feet, stirring rings of ripples in the water. This girl was Hua Wuai, one of the Xuantian Nine Stars.
In the Underworld, only she dared bathe her feet in the waters of the Three Lives River, which brimmed with tremendous reincarnation power. Others did not even dare approach it.
A token at Hua Wuai's waist glowed faintly.
It was the Xuantian Token.
A trace of surprise flashed through her ruby-red eyes.
"Oh, he's already back."
A rare smile appeared on Hua Wuai's face.
She even began humming a song softly.
Scenes of her acquaintance with Chu Kuangren surfaced unbidden in her mind.
The waters of the Three Lives River beneath her feet rippled with her thoughts, reflecting her past encounters with Chu Kuangren.
Their last meeting had been twenty thousand years ago.
Back then.
Chu Kuangren had come to the Underworld to fulfill his promise, freeing Hua Wuai from the suffering of endless reincarnation and helping her escape its vortex.
Even a Primordial Chaos cultivator might not have been able to accomplish such a thing, yet Chu Kuangren had done it. Using the power of the Great Dao, he had forcibly shattered the Reincarnation Vortex.
From then on, Hua Wuai no longer had to suffer through reincarnation.
However, Chu Kuangren had found her another burdensome task.
He had entrusted the entire Underworld to her care, even handing over the Underworld Authority without reservation and making her the new Ghost Emperor of the Underworld.
Hua Wuai had been utterly stunned. Ruling the Underworld was undoubtedly a supreme authority, something countless people dreamed of.
Yet Chu Kuangren had simply handed it to