Ji Yuan had been respectfully invited into Underworld Palace by several ghost cultivators. He had not come here for so many years, yet the changes here were even greater than those in Great Zhen. If the outside world was flourishing with life, then this ghost city had simply been reborn anew.
Most striking of all was naturally the scale of the entire Underworld City, which had expanded more than tenfold since before. Then there was Underworld Palace itself—Xin Wuya's former Underworld Ghost Manor had already been replaced by grand palaces.
He had heard that Xin Wuya was in secluded cultivation. Though Ji Yuan had thought his arrival might prompt Xin Wuya to emerge early, he had not expected him to come so swiftly. Ji Yuan had barely sat down in one of the halls and eaten two pieces of the exquisite offerings brought before him when Xin Wuya's aura rapidly drew near.
Xin Wuya hurried over. The moment he entered the hall where Ji Yuan was, he saw Ji Yuan seated there. Just as he had expected, even though his cultivation now surpassed what it had once been by far more than tenfold, Mister Ji still revealed not the slightest air of an immortal.
Before he even drew close, Xin Wuya, who had been Underworld Emperor for many years, showed none of an emperor's airs. He stepped forward first with formal courtesy and, upon reaching Ji Yuan, bowed deeply in a grand salute.
"Xin Wuya greets Mister Ji!"
The Underworld Marshals, Ghost Generals, and Ghost Officials behind Xin Wuya also followed him in paying their respects to Ji Yuan.
"Greetings, Mister Ji!"
Only half of these Aged Ghosts were veterans from Boundless City. Many had been newly promoted. Some already shone with divine light and had become ghost deities; some