The sky screen descended, and the Myriad Worlds watched together.
In the twenty-sixth year of the First Emperor’s reign, the sky screen appeared once more. On it, four paper effigies carried a coffin through the night. Inside lay a child dressed in an emperor’s ceremonial robes, appointed by Heaven as the Yin Emperor, ruler of the underworld and master of yin and yang.
Emperors of every dynasty were astonished. Emperor Gaozu of Han watched the sky barefoot; Emperor Wu of Han discussed ghosts and spirits with Huo Qubing; and Emperor Taizong of Tang, unable to sleep, asked Wei Zheng whether he would go to hell after death. But no one was more enraged than Zhu Yuanzhang in the fifth year of the Hongwu era. He saw his unborn eldest grandson, Zhu Xiongying, destined to die at the age of eight and be crowned emperor of the underworld!
“Zhu Biao! Give me a healthy grandson!”
Within the sky screen, in the parallel world’s fifteenth year of the Hongwu era, Zhu Xiongying opened his eyes inside the coffin.
He had no idea that every spell he cast, every magical duel he fought, and every thought he voiced was being watched by emperors and ministers from every age. He thought he was playing a single-player game, never realizing that he had become a top-tier star streamer across the Myriad Worlds.
Paper effigies carrying coffins, underworld bailiffs snatching souls, five ghosts bringing wealth, evil cultivators battling with magic... See how the Ming Dynasty’s Yin Emperor uses the ways of the underworld to solve the crises of the living world.
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