Since this was the Netherworld, why were there so many living beings here? And why had they been imprisoned here?
The answers from Monk Fa Ke and the other two also cleared up the doubts in Li Yan's heart.
Logically, any living being capable of entering the Netherworld had to be a powerful cultivator. Only they possessed the ability to cross realms.
These people had either come to train or had special matters to attend to, such as seeking rare materials found only in the Netherworld.
Otherwise, no living being would willingly come here. The Netherworld was saturated with dense death qi, which greatly affected the lives and movements of living beings.
Even cultivators, with powerful physical bodies and cultivation protecting them, would generally leave as quickly as possible.
After staying here for even a little too long, one would be transformed into an undead creature.
The deeper one went into the lower planes of Shura prison, the more easily such transformations occurred.
Thus, Li Yan did not know that the expert from the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect had also departed immediately after obtaining results.
Yet the first level of Shura prison, where Li Yan was, was a special existence. It lay at the edge of the underworld, where death qi and spiritual qi alternated.
Overall, however, death qi accounted for eighty percent, while spiritual qi made up only twenty percent. This was where souls that could not enter the cycle of reincarnation were punished after death.
Above the first level of Shura prison was a place called Yellow Springs City. Death qi and spiritual qi also alternated there, but spiritual qi accounted for eighty percent, while death qi made up twenty percent.
Moreover, there truly was only one city in that region—the sole Yellow Springs City. Everything else was an