Li Dalong sat cross-legged while Li Wei examined his traits.
If judged by the cultivation realm, Li Wei, as the ancestor, was far lower in realm than his descendant, Li Dalong.
This was simply because Li Dalong possessed two Dharma Treasures—the Heaven-Piercing Coffin and the Heaven-Imprisoning Lock—as well as Heaven-Piercing Coffin's last master, Shenwu inheritance.
Outside Li Dalong's cultivation area, wandering ghosts drifted about. The zombies and vicious spirits following him were innumerable.
They occupied a territory within Hell Layer II: The Rending Vows, waging war day and night.
Whenever Li Wei came to see Li Dalong, he mostly found him cultivating, turning a deaf ear to the battles fought by the vicious ghosts and zombies outside.
A century of cultivation in the Netherworld also came with many unknown experiences.
[Your descendant Li Dalong has forged an illustrious reputation in Hell Layer I: The Silence Maw by commanding zombies and vicious ghosts.
He slew the Ghost King of The Silence Maw, "Hellblade King."
After years of refining King Hellblade King, he has been blessed by the Qi-Destiny of the Netherworld and acquired the trait: Punishment Official.]
[Holding the duty of punishing evil in Hell Layer I: The Silence Maw, his cultivation speed in the Netherworld increases by 30%.
He has received the Netherworld's bestowed Void Refinement technique: Silence Maw Forbidden Technique.]
[Tracks the opponent's soul and rips out their tongue, forbidding them from using techniques.
The effect depends on the Spiritual power of both parties; if the opponent's Spiritual power is exceptionally strong, it can only reduce the intensity of their techniques.]
[Through the boundless Blood Sea and the Yin energy of the Netherworld, your descendant Li Dalong's cultivation speed has increased.
The death aura within the Blood Sea and the Heaven-Piercing Coffin has been replenished.
Coupled with the delivery of the clan's spiritual pills, his years of cultivation have allowed him to reach the peak of the Void Refinement realm.]
[Over the past century, by utilizing the techniques of Netherworld zombies and vicious ghosts to study the Void Refinement space, his strength has increased massively.]
Li Wei flew around, inspecting the Netherworld.
This place was pitch-black and boundlessly vast.
Over the years, it wasn't that Li Wei hadn't asked Li Dalong about the Netherworld. The so-called King Yama and other known names—none of them existed.
The Netherworld was left with only endless chaos. It was completely disorderly, without a Bridge of Helplessness, let alone Samsara.
The ghostly entities of the Netherworld possessed intelligence and cultivated within it.
Once they died in the Netherworld, their divine souls would dissipate into its atmosphere, only to be reborn within the Netherworld after being baptized by the passage of time.
The oldest Void Refinement realm Netherworld Official that Li Dalong had ever met was similarly ignorant about the Netherworld's affairs.
He only knew how to scrape by, constantly on guard, fighting, and vying for territory.
These vicious ghosts, who had lived long enough, were not only daring enough to fight and kill, but they even dared to clash with powerful Netherworld Officials like them.
....
With the nine-tailed demon fox that Xu Cuihua had transformed into standing guard beside him, Li Dalong's divine sense had already entered the Heaven-Piercing Coffin.
By now, he had long refined the Heaven-Piercing Coffin into his lifebound Dharma Treasure; the two were inseparable.
The sixth layer of the Heaven-Piercing Coffin contained the low-grade Dharma Treasure, the "Heaven-Imprisoning Lock," and now, Li Dalong's divine sense had entered the seventh layer.
Li Dalong's divine soul stood on the ground of the seventh layer, staring straight at the illusion before him.
In the illusion, a man carrying a coffin on his back could be seen constantly waging war across the world.
He fought from the land to the underground, from the underground to the sea, and then from the sea up to the jade pavilions above the void.
As he slaughtered, the number of zombies inside the Heaven-Piercing Coffin grew ever larger.
"Is this Shenwu?"
Li Dalong stared blankly at the solitary and arrogant figure standing before countless zombies.
It was unknown how long ago this era was; the world back then did not have the current Azure Dynasty.
Shenwu's unscrupulous corpse refinement had angered the immortal cultivators of the world, yet no one could suppress him.
Every time Shenwu emerged, his corpse-driving technique and strength would grow even more formidable, winning every battle.
But an illusion was ultimately just an illusion, lacking detailed intelligence. It only revealed that Shenwu did two things his entire life: refine corpses and wage war.
The final scene showed the sky filled with cultivators and immortal soldiers stepping on auspicious clouds, wielding Dharma Treasures as they charged toward Shenwu's horde of corpses.
After achieving a complete victory in this battle...
Shenwu entered the Void Refinement space.
Countless zombies joined him in pressing their hands against a massive door. Pushing it open, they beheld a path paved entirely with corpses and bones.
"This is Shenwu's Dao path: 'I alone am supreme. Those who oppose me shall perish; only zombies submit to me.'"
Even though Li Dalong had spectated Shenwu's Dao path hundreds of times, his face still showed shock, mingled with a bit more confusion.
"The Ancestor said Shenwu was shocked to death by the aftermath of a battle between two Emperors.
The twenty-four Emperor thrones in the world... could they truly be that powerful?
Even Mahayana realm cultivators couldn't withstand the mere shockwaves before them?"