Above the Great Dao

The Judge was precisely the Earth Judge who once battled Zhong Kui, his power was truly astonishing. With a thunderous voice, he declared: "Soul Chasing Judge, besides the younger generation of our Yan Family, we are here too!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the ground cracked open, scalding earthly energy surged forth, streams of lava erupted from the ground, and the Fire Judge emerged from the lava, wielding the river of lava as a whip, with murderous intent.

This Judge was another Judge involved in the siege of Zhong Kui back in the day, the Fire Judge.

Chen Shi's heart trembled slightly: "Fire and Earth Judges are all from the Yan Family? Was it the Yan Family who hunted Zhong Kui back then?"

As he pondered this, more Yin Commanders approached, their aura formidable. Though not as powerful as the Fire and Earth Judges, they were also not to be underestimated, as there were up to seventeen Yin Commanders.

Wang Fu, Jia Yuan, and Zhu Shun felt heavier in their hearts.

Over the years, the Yan Family had been systematically weakening the Yama Hall left from the True King Era, to ultimately replace it, and today they were finally about to achieve complete success!

In the distance, the Red-haired Ghost stood amid the dark clouds, the Young Master Wei Yue stood on his shoulder, looking from afar, smiling: "Today, our Yan Family has finally cleared all obstacles for my father, Wei Ling. The goal of the Thirteen Families has moved one step forward. These stubborn old gods were always hindrances, and it's long due for them to be eradicated for the future peaceful era... Strange, how did Chen Shi get in?"

He furrowed his brow slightly.

He had guessed that Chen Shi went to Immortal City, so he sent Ghost Gods to Chen Shi's Yuan Chen Palace to block him, but unexpectedly this kid snuck out of Immortal City and turned up here to join the commotion.

"Once the array activates, he is surely doomed."

Wei Yue whispered, "This person does have talent; it's just a pity he can't be used by me."

The Red-haired Ghost said: "Young Master, Chen Shi harbors hundreds of Demon Gods within him. If he dies, I'm afraid those Demon Gods might erupt..."

Wei Yue laughed: "This is the underworld, Demon Gods are everywhere in the underworld, let it be. Our Yan Family's millennium plan will not halt because of one Chen Shi!"

Before he could finish his words, the battle had already begun.

The Fire and Earth Judges swung their long whips towards the three Great Judges, while each of the Yan Family's Yin Commanders and Yin Messengers activated their magical treasures to attack the three Great Judges, with twelve top experts of the Yan Family simultaneously striking in the Mortal World!

This battle had been long planned by the Yan Family, determined to seize the ruling power of the Yama Hall!

The Soul Chasing Judge, Sin Judge, and Sword Mountain Judge wore solemn expressions, each enhancing their Divine Power to the limit, striving to fend off the enemies!

They had fought arduously during the True King Era, resulting in the later True King flourishing age, but never expected the descendants would covet their Divine Authority out of self-interest!

Wang Fu wielded the pen as a spear, intercepting the Fire Judge's lava whip, shaking the large spear to cut the lava whip into three segments, then turning and leaping up, the spear crashing towards the Fire Judge's forehead.

Before his Judge's Pen could fall, magic and various magical treasures from all directions bombarded his body!

Beneath the Green Luo Cover, terrifying power swayed constantly, and just as the world-destroying power was about to swallow Chen Shi and the Black Pot, a massive stele smashed through the Green Luo Cover, descending from the sky, thundering to the ground!

The mountain rocks in the underworld flew as several Yin Messengers were shaken back by the impact caused by the falling stele!

The stele landed right in front of Chen Shi, shielding him from the residual impact of the magic!

Chen Shi originally planned to escape to the Mortal World with the Black Pot, avoiding the battle of ghosts and gods in the underworld, but upon seeing the stele, he froze, immediately dismissing the idea to escape back to the Mortal World, looking up along the massive stele.

The stele appeared to have a base, carved from granite, hard and polished smoothly, with the surface already chiseled into a large frame, likely intended for a tombstone.

The deceased's name would be inscribed within the frame. If descendants were attentive, they would inscribe eulogies or the life deeds of the deceased on the stele.

At that moment, a new line of name had been newly chiseled on the stele.

"Yan Shiji, born in the Jiajing 6587 year, passed on the sixth day of the sixth month in the year 6643 at the time of Zi."

Just as Chen Shi saw this, suddenly a powerful existence from the Yan Family in the Returning Void Realm took a direct hit from Jia Yuan, their physical body failing, vomiting blood, and falling lifeless!

"Shiji!" An elderly man beside him let out a sorrowful cry.

Chen Shi was stunned: "The deceased person is Yan Shiji? The death time exactly matches the stele's!"

He continued looking up along the stele, to see a dry, rough large hand, with thick knuckles and long fingers covered in calluses.

Following the large hand up, he saw the elderly man's face, cascaded with weathered lines.

The face of this elderly man had endured the winds and rains, fully showing an aged and weather-beaten appearance, shrouded across the sky, appearing extremely immense.

"The old man from the quarry!" Chen Shi's heart was startled.

The people engaged in the melee also noticed the descending stele, each taken aback, but they were already in the heat of battle, unable to stop, forced to continue fighting.

"Split personnel, go to the Mortal World and kill that old man!" the Earth Judge shouted loudly.

Immediately, Yan Family experts returned to the Mortal World.

The sound of clinking resounded from the sky, as if chiseling stone, only to be followed by an elderly voice from above.

"Yan Shichuang, born in the year 6592 of the Jiajing era, died on the fourth day of the sixth month in the year 6643 at the hour of the Rat."

The chiseling suddenly ceased, and a colossal stone stele plummeted from the sky, crashing to the ground. At that moment, another elder of the Yan family's Returning Void Realm screamed, blood flowing from all seven orifices, and died!

The chiseling resumed.

The elderly voice echoed again: "Yan Jing, born in the year 6582 of the Jiajing era, died on the fourth day of the sixth month in the year 6643 at the hour of the Rat."

Another stone stele crashed down from the sky.

An old woman, who had fought Zhu Shun to the point of bleeding from all seven orifices, suddenly kneeled upright, motionless, her head slumped abruptly, already deceased!

"Quickly, kill him!" Sixth Uncle Yan Qinghu shouted.

The clinking sounded, and with a hideous expression, Yan Qinghu, disregarding the encirclement of the three Great Judges, suddenly passed through the underworld and returned to the mortal realm. In the moonlight, amid the icy snow, an elder surrounded by tombstones was chiseling words onto a gravestone with an axe.

"Stop!"

Yan Qinghu activated his Divine Skills, and in an instant, the snowflakes in the sky within a hundred miles came to a halt. Each flake transformed into the sharpest blade, slicing towards the elder!

This was a Divine Skill recorded in the Yan Family's Lingshan Hall Collection, the Ice Heart Demonic Slash!

At this moment, the elder had already finished carving a gravestone and muttered in a low voice: "Yan Qinghu, born in the year 6556 of the Jiajing era, died on the fourth day of the sixth month in the year 6643 at the hour of the Rat."

Yan Qinghu suddenly felt all life force within him stripped away, his physical body aging and dying in the blink of an eye.

"You, the Grave Stone Carver among the Five Great Evil People, Du Yiran!"

As if recalling something, a spark lit in his eyes, and he struggled to approach the elder, his voice enthusiastic.

"The Book of Life and Death, in your hands! Give it to me—"

Just as he uttered this, he lost all strength and fell.

His Divine Skill went out of control, transforming into a howling gale, with snowflakes whirling wildly, losing all power.

The elder ignored him, wielding his axe to continue carving the next gravestone.

"Boom!"

Another stone stele descended from the sky, crashing into the underworld, accompanied by an elderly voice from beyond, claiming the life of a Yan family powerhouse on the spot!

Everyone was horrified, the Fire Judge shouted, wielding his long whip as the elder threw a stele into the underworld, the whip lashed towards the elder!

A faint arc of light appeared behind the elder's head, within which a giant Primordial Spirit hand, spanning several miles, met the magma whip.

The elder's body swayed slightly, yet he withstood the strike.

"Mahayana Realm!"

The Fire Judge, awed, retracted the whip, and shouted, "Everyone, retreat immediately!"

He whisked away the remaining Yan family experts, riding the fiery dragon into a whistle-filled escape.

The Earth Judge and other Yin Commanders and Yin Messangers, seeing this, dared not linger in battle and each flew away!

The elder cast down another stone stele, but the Fire Judge already took the Yan family members beyond its influence, nullifying the stele.

The three Great Judges, Soul Chasing, Sin and Sword Mountain, were injured and bewildered.

Chen Shi laughed: "You three don't leave, wait for me here!"

He was about to return to the mortal realm with the Black Pot when he noticed the ineffective stele, eyes twinkling, and said: "Judge Wang, please watch this stele for me, don't lose it."

Soul Chasing Judge Wang Fu was about to speak when Chen Shi dashed onto the mortal realm riding a dog.

In the snow and ice, the elder left a field of steles and vanished.

Chen Shi immediately rushed to the quarry and soon arrived outside. He called out loudly, "Chen Yindou's grandson Chen Shi, requests to see Uncle Du!"

An elderly voice came from the quarry: "Didn't that scoundrel Chen Yindou teach you? You should call me Grandpa Du! I'm not like Granny Sha, she's unwilling to accept old age, I accept it."

—The last of the Five Great Evil People, and the strongest aside from Chen Yindou, the Grave Stone Carver Du Yiran, finally makes an appearance! Old Du appears, asking for votes.