The river of blood with sky-piercing malevolence stood in front, its tumultuous waters filled with countless evil ghosts struggling to escape.

Sun Wukong stopped at the edge of the Blood River, watching those evil ghosts being devoured by the ferocious beasts with sharp fangs in the water.

"Save me!"

"Save me!"

The crying and screaming of those evil ghosts terrified two children into shivering.

"What river is this?"

The girl asked.

"I don't know."

The boy, pulling his sister, didn't know what this river was, but he knew that not even birds could fly over it.

He had seen with his own eyes a strange bird flying over the river surface, fall into the river like it had lost its wings, torn apart and eaten by the monsters inside.

Sun Wukong lingered for a moment, then stepped into the Blood River.

Flames burst forth from the soles of his feet, spreading over the Blood River, forming a pathway composed of magma.

He walked steadily towards the far shore.

The evil ghosts at the bottom of the river tried to climb onto the magma path, but as soon as they reached out their hands, they screamed and withdrew as if struck by a heatwave.

Even if some evil ghosts braved the flames to crawl up, they were scorched and turned to ash, never to be seen again.

The two children watched as Sun Wukong walked further and further away.

"I'll go first."

The boy stepped onto the magma, flames immediately igniting beneath his feet. He cried out in surprise, only to find that the flames did not harm him.

"It's okay."

The boy joyfully said to his sister, "Come up quickly."

The girl was pulled onto the magma and indeed, nothing happened.

The siblings, avoiding the evil ghosts, hurried to follow in Wukong's footsteps.

Yin Mountain, this is a pillar of the Underworld, very different from the mountain ranges in the Mortal World, with no trees around and shrouded everywhere with a sinister ghostly aura.

Sun Wukong, surrounded by light, walked past Yin Mountain.

The evil spirits, demons, and fiendish creatures lurking in the ghostly aura, and the wild ghosts stirring in the mountain caves all cowered far away at this light.

Only the two children dared to follow.

They made their way through Yin Mountain, then past several Ghost Government Offices, surprisingly not encountering a single Ghost Messenger.

A city appeared ahead with a big sign hanging over the city gates, inscribed with seven large golden characters: "Netherworld Ghost Gate."

Sun Wukong stopped his steps below the Ghost Gate, which was also deserted.

He walked into the Ghost Gate, and the entire city was eerily quiet, with only some lonely spirits, wild ghosts, and evil ghosts locked in fire cages to be seen elsewhere.

In a matter of few miles, Sun Wukong arrived at the Palace of Darkness.

"There's no one here either."

He walked into the Palace of Darkness, the palaces of the Ten Kings of Hell empty, not a single ghostly shadow in sight.

Sun Wukong had originally wondered how the Underworld would confront him, but it turned out, they had all slipped away.

"Are they that afraid of me?"

Sun Wukong thought and then sat down on King Qinguang's throne.

The two children knelt before him.

"What's the deal with those two little ghosts?"

Deep in hell, the Ten Kings of Hell nervously watched a mirror.

The scene displayed in the mirror was none other than that in the Palace of Darkness.

"Why are they following the Star of Disaster?"

"Is there any reason for it?"

Chujiang King asked, "Can we use them to our advantage?"

"Do not!"

King Songdi's face darkened, "How could the Heavenly Emperor be influenced by two children?"

The other Kings of Hell nodded along, an Immortal's will firm as a rock, let alone Sun Wukong who is the Heavenly Emperor.

He dared to destroy the Heavenly Palace, how could he be swayed by two little ghosts?

"But is hiding really useful?"

King Taishan expressed his worries: "Even the Jade Emperor couldn't stop him, so why should we oppose him?"

"Don't waver."

King Qinguang answered, "Fifty years will pass in a blink, everything will return to normal once Your Majesty comes back."

King Taishan glanced at the Book of Life and Death behind them: "What if he takes away the Book of Life and Death?"

"He couldn't subdue the Heavenly Emperor Jade Seal, he can't take it away."

King Qinguang said: "We just need to avoid the sharp edge for now, he will eventually leave after staying for a while."

King Taishan thought about it too, even if Sun Wukong became the Heavenly Emperor, being tainted with the sins of the Underworld for a long time would not bode well for him.

The Ten Kings of Hell continued to gaze into the mirror.

During their conversation, Sun Wukong had already made a move.

He drew the Wanling diagram in the Palace of Darkness, broke through the dome, and spread it over the entire Ghost City.

The Ten Kings of Hell didn't know what he was doing.

Sun Wukong looked at the Wanling diagram for a while, then said: "Come here."

The two kneeling children looked around.

"No need to look."

Sun Wukong said: "I'm talking to you."

The brother and sister then stood up and timidly walked over.

"Your souls are pure and untainted, capable of accommodating the Wanling Heavenly Dao."

Sun Wukong said: "I will pass on the Heavenly Dao to you, but you will lose your emotions, you must choose carefully."

The boy and girl looked into each other's eyes, then both knelt down.

"We are willing to accept."

They were wronged ghosts without even the qualifications for reincarnation; they had nothing to fear.

Sun Wukong stood up; he had a way to infuse the Wanling Heavenly Dao into others, but only pure souls could accept it.

Such purity not only referred to clean thoughts but also required the absence of desires.

These two children didn't yet understand what losing emotions meant, but their choice was better than staying in the City of Untimely Deaths.

"The emotions you lose will return to you after five hundred years."

As Sun Wukong spoke, two auspicious clouds appeared at the siblings' feet, lifting them to the Wanling diagram in the sky.

"How is your method any different from Buddha's Pure Land?"

Another voice resonated within Sun Wukong.

"I offer a choice."

Sun Wukong replied: "When their souls are strong enough, and desires return, they can freely leave."

That voice sighed immediately: "I don't like this approach."

"That's why you can't defeat me."

Sun Wukong replied while releasing the Heavenly Book from within his body.

After returning from the minor world, he had taken possession of the Heavenly Book and could now use part of its power.

The greatest power of the Heavenly Book was creation.

It stored the power of several great calamities, almost exhausted after two hundred years of evolution, but Sun Wukong could leverage the remaining power with the aid of Wanling Heavenly Dao.

"Evolution..."

The Heavenly Book in Sun Wukong's hand trembled with his voice.

Countless green lights emerged from the book, pouring into the Wanling diagram above.

The two children burst into flames.

Sun Wukong turned back, looking at a treasure orb atop the Palace of Darkness.

"If you refuse to show yourselves, then continue hiding."

He disliked coercion, but he had to let all the immortals of the Three Realms know—to rule the Three Realms, he didn't necessarily need them.

Sun Wukong turned to face the City of Untimely Deaths and said:

"The untimely dead cannot transcend, as I assume the position of the Heavenly Emperor, from today onward, I hereby open the great gates, all the ghosts of untimely deaths..."

"May give up their obsessions, transform into ghost messengers and take up positions in the Underworld, and after five hundred years, gain freedom..."

In the depths of the Netherworld, Diting faithfully conveyed Sun Wukong's words to the Womb of the Earth Bodhisattva.

After the Bodhisattva heard it, he looked up towards the outside of the palace, only to see a brilliance of ten thousand lengths radiating from the location of the Underworld.

That was infinite merit...

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