CHAPTER 437: CHAPTER 288: NETHER RIVER AND THE UNDYING KING

The emotionless questioning voice was like the sharpest cold wind, instantly blowing away the shock and stupor of all the strong figures in the Heretic Court, replaced by a chilling fear and disbelief that surged to the top of their skulls.

They seemed to be struck by an invisible heavy hammer, abruptly awakening from their previous observer’s mindset, their faces showing expressions as if they had seen a ghost.

"Impossible!" a senior chief judge exclaimed, his voice carrying a hint of tremor, "Absolutely impossible!"

"The Void Vision Magic Mirror is a first-level Sealed Object, its core derived from the extraordinary traits of a fallen Sequence Three Secret Gazer, theoretically able to glimpse everything, with unparalleled stealth.

How could anyone possibly perceive the scene reflected by the Void Vision, and even reverse it to convey information through the Void Vision?" Another cardinal murmured, his face pale, his understanding of high-tier Sealed Object abilities completely overturned.

"What sequence is this existence that calls itself the Ten Halls of Yama?

And named as the Ten Halls of Yama, does it alone preside over the ten halls, or is it that there are nine other powerful beings like it in the Underworld?"

These pressing questions weighed on each person’s heart like heavy stones, suffocating them.

The ability to ignore the gaze of a first-level Sealed Object, and to counter-lock them, such great power has already far surpassed their understanding of Sequence Three.

Could it be Sequence 2? Or even higher?

Meanwhile, as the powerful figures in the Heretic Court fell into immense panic, unable to see a higher realm, Lu Yan sat calmly in the seemingly eternal Divine Hall of Fengdu City.

In the vast and vacant Divine Hall, there were no physical presences, only blurred and majestic divine shadows standing quietly, exuding the divine elegance of the All Heavens Divine Court.

Lu Yan’s position was not the highest seat symbolizing the supreme throne of Emperor Fengdu, but one of the Ten Halls of Yama beneath it.

The Ten Halls of Yama, who had just manifested divine might in the Tomb of the Dead, invoking the Yellow Springs to obliterate everything and casting an examining gaze from afar, was precisely Lu Yan’s disguise.

All of this was within Lu Yan’s calculations.

As early as in the police station, Lu Yan had insight into the complex causality behind the Council of the Dead through the Eyes of Wandering Souls.

Especially noticing the faint traces of the Steam Sect’s intervention in this affair, leading Lu Yan to suspect the Steam Sect’s secret surveillance behind this plot.

Faced with the probing of the Steam Sect, Lu Yan did not hesitate, decisively mobilizing the Underworld Army to launch a destructive attack on the Council of the Dead with overwhelming force.

Moreover, during this process, to avoid prematurely exposing his true identity and power level as much as possible, Lu Yan chose not to act personally.

He cleverly utilized the power of the Yin Soldiers Army and the rules contained within the Underworld Heaven and Earth to suppress and clear the middle and lower echelon forces of the Council of the Dead.

It wasn’t until the Chairman of the Dead awoke, this Sequence Three Ferryman who had been dormant for thousands of years, displaying demigod might that threatened the battlefield, that Lu Yan finally intervened personally.

Yet, he still did not choose to descend in his true form, but disguised as the Ten Halls of Yama, using the Yellow Springs Array composed of six thousand Yin Soldiers as a temporary medium and coordinate to invoke the Yellow Springs Rules within the Underworld Heaven and Earth.

Even before the small Underworld Heaven ascended, the Yellow Springs Rules could wipe out a Divinity Transformation Daoist Monarch.

During the subsequent expansion of the small Underworld Heaven, casting the All Heavens Divine Court, and establishing the Extraordinary Order, the Yellow Springs Rules further received ample growth.

Originally belonging to the Underworld Heaven and Earth, the Yellow Springs Rules would be slightly weakened if detached from it.

But in the Tomb of the Dead, the Realm of the Dead environment intertwined with reality and fantasy and the Nether River made the rules of this world extremely close to those of the Underworld Heaven and Earth.

Coupled with the Yellow Springs Array sealing off the entire Tomb of the Dead, allowing the peak state of the Yellow Springs to descend into the tomb, the high-tier rules delivered a dimensional strike, completely burying the Sequence Three Ferryman and the millions of undead within the Tomb of the Dead under the ever-flowing Yellow Springs River, erasing all traces of their existence.

After accomplishing all of this, Lu Yan could have withdrawn his power and left directly.

But with the probing gaze of the Steam Sect lingering like a fly that couldn’t be swatted away, he decided to turn the tables, using this opportunity of manifesting divine power to deliver a chilling deterrence to those lurking observers.

As a first-level Sealed Object, the Void Vision Magic Mirror indeed possessed extremely strong stealth capabilities, almost impossible to detect by conventional means.

However, when this mirror cast its gaze upon the Yin Soldiers Army containing the rules of the Underworld and reflected the illusion of the Ten Halls of Yama disguised by Lu Yan, an unbreakable causal link was established between them.

For Lu Yan, tracing this newly formed line of causality allowed him to easily pinpoint the exact location of the Void Vision Magic Mirror and its hidden manipulator.

That seemingly earth-shattering glance from afar was in fact the inevitable result of Lu Yan’s precise calculations.

Within the Divine Hall, Lu Yan slowly raised his palm.

At this stage, he had no intention of completely tearing things apart with the deeply rooted Steam Sect.

After all, from the perspective of known high-end combat power, the Steam Sect, with its heritage spanning tens of thousands of years, had accumulated a foundation far beyond that of the Underworld in its early developmental phase.