This Yin River, its counterpart can only be the Jin Sect territory, and the people mentioned by them are none other than the people of the Jin Sect.
If it were elsewhere, Xu Qing would have a reason to ignore it, but the Jin Sect is where he founded his fortune, all his possessions are here.
"True Lord, please speak frankly, just do not deceive me any further."
"Rest assured, I shall not speak rashly this time."
The man in the red robe, his face solemn, said, "You should already know whom the temple beneath the Bone Temple is burying..."
"I know, it is the True Lord of the Dragon and Tiger Mystic Altar, but is he really buried beneath the Bone Temple?"
The man in the red robe raised an eyebrow and looked at Xu Qing, seemingly a bit surprised.
"You are more perceptive than those two. Indeed, if those two could walk out of the Bone Temple, I might not have regarded them highly, it's very possible they have already become souls under my sword by this time."
The man in the red robe seemed to have a fondness and appreciation for talent, patiently explaining, "Do you know why the Yanluo Tianzi has returned to the ruins?"
"Because the Yanluo Tianzi could not bear to see the chaos in the Netherworld, he sought a method to forge a stabilizing artifact capable of suppressing corpse laws and resolving the great upheaval.
This news spread, and the Dazang Wang Bodhisattva immediately reported to the Celestial Emperor, stating that he had made a great vow that as long as the underworld remained, he would never attain Buddhahood."
"The Dazang Wang Bodhisattva spent long years in the Netherworld yet never realized his grand vision, the Yanluo Tianzi, although able to govern the Ten Halls Yama and the multitude of ghosts, he is also the greatest ghost god of the Netherworld.
Even gods are subject to recitation, and what virtue or ability does a ghost god have to achieve what the Dazang Wang Bodhisattva cannot accomplish?"
The man in the red robe shook his head with a bitter smile, "The Celestial Emperor questioned the Yanluo Tianzi's grand vision as impractical, intending to use the pretext of resolving the great upheaval to forge a transcendent artifact beyond the heavenly law."
"The Yanluo Tianzi, knowing the Celestial Emperor's intentions, divided the precious treasure of the Netherworld into two and let it naturally evolve in the mundane world, instructing trusted ghost gods under his command to enter the world to search and forge this treasure."
The man in the red robe continued, "Upon learning of this, the Celestial Emperor wanted to punish the Yanluo Tianzi, yet never expected that the former Yin Sovereign would sacrifice himself to the way, returning to the ruins in the Netherworld, unable to even preserve his corpse fully."
"The Celestial Emperor desires to reforge the treasure of the Netherworld, and that yet unfinished artifact now resides in the Yin River, perhaps you have seen it."
"I have seen it?" Xu Qing's heart tightened, yet he thought of his Sutra of Salvation, but the next moment, the Demon Exorcism True Monarch dispelled his doubts.
"Not only you have seen it, many people have seen it, it is the Ghost Law that guards the entrance to the Yin River, ranking first among the twelve gates, overseeing the Netherworld and the Heaven-Reaching Road!"
"The Ghost Law commands the myriad ghosts; any ghost creature, whether phantoms, plague demons, or various Yin Ghosts, or Netherworld ghost gods, are all inherently restrained by it. Each time it devours a ghost, it gains the ghost law divine techniques that ghost possessed previously."
The man in the red robe expressed a deep fear, "The Ghost Law wants to command the authority of reincarnation, but how can the affairs of the Netherworld be governed by a mere ghost creature?"
"What is false can never become the truth, the Ghost Law does not count as a ghost god, it is nothing more than a counterfeit nurtured by the Celestial Emperor."
"The Netherworld has long lost the Mirror of Sin, there is no Judge to write between life and death, the Ghost Law is what the Celestial Emperor, along with those law corpses of the Netherworld, wants to use to replace the Mirror of Sin, to act as a proxy for the Judge."
Xu Qing suddenly captured a crucial piece of information, "You said law corpses? Since the Ghost Law is the proxy created by the Celestial Emperor, how does it relate to the law corpses?"
The man in the red robe scoffed, "The Heaven-Reaching Road is severed, the Ghost Law is a part of the Netherworld's ghost creatures, the law corpses see it as family, the Celestial Emperor has made wedding clothes for others."
"But this is not unsolvable."
"Although the Ghost Law can see through ghostly tricks, it cannot see the thoughts of living humans."
The man in the red robe laughed, "The eater of ghosts, only ingests but does not release, does not ferry living humans, it's far from the way!"
"And the one who holds the treasure of the Netherworld must be someone who broadly ferries living humans, someone who can comprehend the mystery of life and death."
"Only such a person is qualified to interfere with the affairs of my Nine Netherworld."
my Nine Netherworld affairs."