He stood atop the high, dark hall, hands behind his back, calmly questioning the ghostly soldiers behind him.

"Yes! Absolutely true! Countless living people can testify! Our people were among the crowd at the time!"

"That's good, it's fine if they were caught on the street." Yama turned around, his voice full of majesty, "Go, summon millions of Yin soldiers as I command!"

"Yes, sir!" the ghost soldier replied, then turned and left.

After the ghost soldiers left, Yama sneered disdainfully.

"Heh, I don't care about Su Nian or Li Nian. If you want to sit on the throne of the Human Emperor, you have to get past me first! Not only do you not come to pay your respects, but you also arbitrarily separate the mortal realm from the underworld. Our underworld has not sent troops for thousands of years. Do you really think we have disappeared from this world?"

...

Inside the Emperor's Palace in the City of the Human Emperor.

When Su Nian summoned the newly appointed elders of the Human Emperor's Palace, as well as several leading figures from the past Kyushu and the Demon Realm, he released Li Hongfei.

When she saw Li Hongfei being thrown into the center of the main hall by Su Nian, Ru Beiqiu let out a soft sound of doubt in the direction of the Four Seasons Gate.

"Huh? Who is this person...?"

"What's wrong?" Su Nian asked Ru Beiqiu, "Have you seen him?"

Ru Beiqiu nodded slightly, "Yes, when we entered the city, this guy tried to ambush our Four Seasons Sect Master, but I slapped him away."

"I see. It seems he was planning to sneak into the Four Seasons Gate's caravan to enter the city." Su Nian nodded.

Qian Weiwei approached Li Hongfei, stroking her chin as she looked at his bluish-black skin. She then reached out and touched the demonic horns on his head, asking doubtfully, "Is this the evil spirit from the underworld? If you hadn't told me, I would have thought it was that mutated demon!"

“The ghosts of the underworld are all people and demons from the mortal realm who died and became ghosts. He must have been a demon in life, and he still retains some of the characteristics of a demon after death,” Su Nian explained.

"I see." Qian Weiwei nodded.

Qian Muyu hesitated for a long time before finally coming to Su Nian and bowing, saying, "Your Majesty, I have something to say."

"Speak, what is it?"

Qian Muyu cupped her hands and said, “The Underworld is different from other sects and demons. It is a force that has existed in this world since the beginning of creation. Throughout history, the souls of countless powerful beings who died in the Yang Realm have returned to the Underworld. This world has gone through tens of thousands of years, and the top experts in the Underworld are already as numerous as hairs on a cow. Although our Little God Realm has begun to take the shape of the Immortal Realm, it is still only just beginning. The Ghost Immortal is imminent. At present, the cultivators of all sects are desperately improving their cultivation. If the Underworld attacks at this time, it may affect us.”

"Then, in your opinion, how should we handle this?" Su Nian asked calmly.

Qian Muyu raised his chest and said confidently, "In order to prevent the millions of Yin soldiers from the Underworld from causing trouble in our mortal realm, I propose that we send a half-step True Immortal realm expert to take the initiative and teach the Underworld a lesson! Let them understand who they are really going against!"

Su Nian smirked and clapped her hands. "That's right. To prevent the underworld from bothering us, giving them a good beating is indeed the best option."

Everyone agreed with Qian Muyu's suggestion and praised her for her decisiveness.

To proactively confront the underworld? This was something that would have been unthinkable in the past!

In this world, the most terrifying sect or clan is not the Human Emperor's Palace, nor the Illusion Demon Clan, but the Underworld, which exists independently outside the world!

Unlike the Southern Heavenly Gate, which is only responsible for the ascension trials, the Underworld needs to manage the souls of the dead in the human world. Therefore, it is necessary to frequently send people to roam the mortal realm to capture those wandering ghosts and spirits.

After tens of thousands of years of accumulation, the number of ghosts in the underworld has reached an astonishing number!

It is no exaggeration to say that there are as many ghosts in the underworld as there are people in the mortal realm.

Over the course of ten thousand years, countless emperors have come and gone in the Hall of Human Emperors, but the King of Hell in the Underworld has never changed.

The previous emperor was terrified of the underworld. The reason was simple: he knew very well that if the underworld declared war on the emperor's palace, the emperor's palace would be powerless to resist.

However, this situation was reversed in Su Nian's generation.

Two True Immortals and three Half-Step True Immortals—such a force would be a dominant force even in the Immortal Realm.

Hearing the discussions inside the hall, Li Hongfei scoffed disdainfully.

He was bound hand and foot, and sneered, "You ignorant mortals actually dare to dream of defying our Underworld? Hahahaha—that's the funniest joke I've heard in the last thousand years! Hahahaha—"

Su Nian wasn't annoyed. Instead, she looked down at him and said with a faint smile, "You've been used as a pawn and discarded, and you still haven't realized it?"

"Me? Abandoned?" Li Hongfei scoffed. "Are you out of your mind? I'm an elite of the younger generation in the Underworld! Our superiors have always taken good care of me. How could they treat me like a pawn, as you say?"

"It is precisely because you are the most outstanding young generation in your underworld and have a great reputation that the King of Hell has a sufficient reason to send troops against us after we capture you."

Su Nian said with amusement, "Since Yama already knows that I have captured the former Human Emperor, he should understand even more that you, a mere young man at the fifth level of the Tribulation Transcending Realm, are not enough to deal with me."

Li Hongfei pursed his lips and looked to the side.

"Before you set off, he gave you a secret treasure and told you it was a treasure specifically designed to deal with me, right?" Su Nian's penetrating eyes locked onto Li Hongfei.

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