When I became Houtu, one of the Ancestral Witches, the Heavenly Dao was urging me to create reincarnation and sacrifice myself: “Give up your primordial spirit in exchange for merit!”
The earth patterns on my skirt burned like branding irons. Gazing at the billions of struggling souls in the Sea of Blood, I sneered and altered the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Fiends Formation, refining the Sea of Blood into earth veins and seizing control of the Netherworld!
The Heavenly Dao flew into a rage and sent down golden light to destroy the world, but I caught it in my bare hand. My declaration rang across the Primordial World:
“From now on, I rule the Netherworld. The life and death of all spirits are no longer in the Heavenly Dao's hands!”
I ordered Minghe to turn his Blood Pool into a toilet beside the Book of Life and Death. Hongjun and the saints of the Heavenly Dao? Are you ready to compensate me for my workplace injury and emotional distress?
