After recovering the memories of his previous life, Qi Gu naturally also remembered what those black threads he often saw entwined around vicious ghosts actually were.
They were Threads of Karma. Everything in the world had cause and effect. For example, someone driving drunk was the cause, and another person being struck and killed was the effect.
The cycles of cause and effect in the world naturally could not be so simple, but everything unfolded according to this principle. A thousand years ago, in the Underworld's Purgatory, Qi Gu had been burned by fire and slashed by blades every day, yet he still worried about where the Horrifying Corpses had come from.
And how to deal with them.
He had once heard that the Underworld possessed a wondrous book called the Book of Life and Death. It recorded everyone's birth, aging, illness, and death, along with the good and evil they had done, for the Judge of the Underworld to consult when deciding which path they should enter in their next reincarnation, as a human or a beast.
He thought that perhaps the Book of Life and Death would contain records concerning the Horrifying Corpses.
With a goal in mind, all that remained was to persuade the Ghost Official to cooperate.
But naturally, the Ghost Official could not neglect his duties right under Heaven's nose. He could only pretend to drink with Qi Gu and then "accidentally" get drunk, while the Book of Life and Death just happened to be left nearby.
Qi Gu picked up the black-covered book and leafed through it. At first, he could not figure out how to use it. All he saw inside were expanses of snowy-white pages, like a blank notebook that had never been written in.
Qi Gu leafed through it repeatedly without