Above the Great Dao

In the Immortal City, numerous Yin Messengers surged towards the direction of the Young Master of Yuan Chen Palace, steering countless wooden boats into the darkness.

The Immortal City was vast, with countless Ghost Gods managing its various affairs. This was the underworld governance system left from the True King Era. Even though the Ten Halls of Yama had been replaced, this governance system still operated efficiently without collapsing.

Faced with the fierce army of Yin Messengers, even Du Yiran at his peak state, even the Black Pot, even the boat maiden occupying the Red-haired Ghost's physical body, even the three Great Judges, struggled immensely.

Everyone was forced to move closer to Yuan Chen Palace, with only Du Yiran guarding the forehead of the Disaster Beast to prevent the talisman on its forehead from being removed.

After all, he was a being of the Mahayana Realm, exceptionally powerful. Facing the siege of numerous Yin Messengers, he could surprisingly hold them off without retreating one bit!

However, his pressure was also growing immense. Earlier, he had been full of vigor, feeling as if he had returned to his twenties, believing he could handle any master in the world, whether it be a Ghost God or a Judge. But now, he only felt like an aging set of bones lying under a mountain waterfall, watching the sunset and waiting for death.

At this point in the battle, he was truly exhausted. His arms felt as if they bore the weight of two mountains, incredibly heavy. His qi-blood flowed in his body like rivers, sluggish and hard to stimulate, and even the previously freely wielded Void Great Realm was no longer as effortless.

His Primordial Spirit and physical body were tightly unified, yet now they were being battered apart by the multitude of Yin Messengers.

He had always thought himself invincible, his physical body and Primordial Spirit refined to a flawless Void Great Realm — it was just his body that was old, a hero at dusk. But being besieged by so many Yin Messengers now, he realized just how many aspects he hadn't refined yet.

In front of Yuan Chen Palace, the three Judges, Jia Yuan, Wang Fu, and Zhu Shun, couldn't care less about causing a sensation. Each activated their golden bodies of a thousand feet, channeling the power of their Judges' Pens.

Wang Fu's Judge's Pen could bind and extract souls, a pen as thick as a beam, marking the Yin Messenger or Yin Commander's body, dragging out their soul effortlessly!

Jia Yuan's pen was like a spear, igniting the karmic fire of sin, fiercely blazing. Once it touched the body, it couldn't be extinguished. Those confronting him saw their physical bodies and Primordial Spirits continuously burnt by the karmic fire, emitting miserable cries and greatly losing their battle strength.

Zhu Shun wielded his Judge's Pen, invoking the power of Sword Mountain Hell, causing endless blades to dance in the air.

The three Great Judges possessed a Ghost God Domain spanning nearly a thousand miles. Enter it, and they controlled life and death.

Any one of these three, placed in the Human World, would be an unimaginable strong individual. But in the underworld, teeming with Ghost Gods, even a Judge couldn't hold out long against a torrent of Ghost Gods!

Moreover, with the presence of the Fire Judge and Earth Judge, who were from the Yan Family and existed in the Mahayana Realm before their deaths, worshipped with incense for thousands of years. They replaced two Judges of the underworld over a millennium ago, assuming the position, and had extreme authority in Hell.

Their battle prowess was unbelievably formidable, facing any of the three Judges without falling behind.

Adding the siege of more than a dozen Yin Commanders caused the three Judges tremendous pressure.

The three Judges stood at the front, bearing the brunt of the attacks, while the Black Pot and Red-haired Ghost faced the assaulting Yin Messengers.

Suddenly, rivers traversed the sky, meandering through the Immortal City, bypassing celestial streets and Yuan Chen Palace, surging towards them.

Upon the rivers were numerous wooden boats manned by tall Horse-face Yin Messengers, raising bronze lamps from afar. Streams of light illuminated the way as the rivers flowed into the darkness, carrying boats laden with Yin Messengers ready for battle.

These Yin Messengers were from the vicinity of the Immortal City, returning upon hearing of the chaos.

Looking at the boats sailing towards them from the darkness, everyone couldn't help but feel despair.

This was a ghost army of the underworld, utterly irresistible!

"Hasn't the top scorer come out yet?" the Red-haired Ghost couldn't help but shout.

As soon as the words left his mouth, Chen Shi charged out from their rear.

Everyone felt a flicker of joy in their hearts, soon followed by frowns.

Chen Shi had found his mother's soul, but now the problem was how to break through the encirclement.

The Black Pot shook, a dark wind rose, trying to envelop their group and send them back to the Mortal World, but as soon as the wind rose, it stopped abruptly.

In the darkness, countless Yin Gods stabilized the Yin wind, rendering it impossible to employ Divine Skills.

The Black Pot felt a heavy weight in his heart.

At that moment, Chen Shi surged forward, light bursting from the small temple behind his head, awakening a stone statue of a goddess, and shouted loudly, "Protect me!"

It was a stone beauty, a head and body each a yard long, flying out at once, spreading an unusual Ghost God Domain.

This stone beauty was indeed Stone Rock Lady, summoned with all Chen Shi's might at this moment.

Stone Rock Lady also understood that after nurturing soldiers for a thousand days, they should be used at once. This was the time to exert her strength, and she immediately stirred her overwhelming Divine Power!

Coincidentally, the Earth Judge's White Bone Whip rolled ominously, lashing out towards them, innumerable bones clambering along it, evidently a whip composed of individual white bone skeletons.

The White Bone Whip whipped into the Ghost God Domain of Stone Rock Lady, and suddenly countless white bones emitted dreadful screams, turning into powder one after another!

The body of Stone Rock Lady grew at a speed visible to the naked eye, the power of the White Bone Whip astonishing, about to strike her the next moment, when Wang Fu suddenly raised his hand to seize it. Both Judges exerted their strength; Wang Fu gritted his teeth, dragging the Earth Judge into Stone Rock Lady's Ghost God Domain.

The White Bone Whip, immensely thick, was forged by the Earth Judge refining countless human bones through thousands of smelts into a Magical Treasure, usually transformed into numerous white bone skeletons grazing on the underworld's wastelands, devouring other bones and spirits to raise its immense power.