Since that was the case, they would just watch the Golden Dragon King pull the wool over the Blue Silver Emperor's eyes with a perfectly straight face. They would keep their mouths shut.
Sure enough, the Blue Silver Emperor's expression changed abruptly when she heard the Golden Dragon King's words.
"Don't the souls of humans and Soul Beasts return to the Netherworld after they die? Why would they appear here?"
The Blue Silver Emperor was certain this was not the Netherworld, because she had been there ten thousand years ago, then returned after being planted.
This time, her soul had been scattered and then re-formed, so she had not returned to the Netherworld. But this place was clearly even stranger than the Netherworld.
"You even know about the Netherworld?"
The Golden Dragon King gave a mocking remark.
"The Netherworld ceased to exist three thousand years ago."
"So all the souls in the Netherworld returned to their respective worlds, and each world gave birth to a Netherworld of its own."
"This is the newly born Netherworld, so there aren't just Soul Beast souls here. There are human souls too."
As he spoke, the Golden Dragon King pointed into the distance. Sure enough, the Blue Silver Emperor saw countless human souls, though these people felt a little familiar. She did not know whether she was imagining it.
So that was how it was?
The Netherworld had been gone for three thousand years. Didn't that mean it had disappeared along with the Divine Realm under the effects of the Temporal Tide?
Then that made sense.
The only thing that didn't make sense now was how she had died.
Pah! How had she died again halfway through coming back to life? She couldn't figure it out.
Seeing that she was among her own kind,