I Became Yanluo After Death, and the Ming Imperial Family Panicked

I sat in solitude beneath the earth for ten years, using the imperial dragon energy within me to guard the Ming Dynasty’s Yin Prison and hold back countless evil spirits.

But then Crown Prince Zhu Yunwen destroyed the grand formation to claim credit, causing a hundred thousand innocent people to die in vain!

To protect his beloved grandson and preserve the royal family’s reputation, Zhu Yuanzhang issued an imperial edict branding me a traitor who colluded with demons and monsters, then sentenced me to death by a thousand cuts at the Meridian Gate!

I faced the officials’ curses, Empress Ma’s reprimands, and the Crown Prince’s cold gaze.

I laughed at the heavens, then publicly tore out my imperial bones and severed all ties with my family!

“This filthy Ming Dynasty and its spineless prince can go to hell. I’m done serving you!”

At the moment I died beneath a thousand cuts, the System suddenly awakened!

I opened my eyes in the abyss and became the Netherworld’s Yin Emperor, commanding the Ten Yama Kings and a million ghost soldiers!

If right and wrong are turned upside down in the mortal realm, then I’ll reshape the Netherworld and settle the karmic accounts!

I led the soul of Crown Prince Zhu Biao down to the underworld and sentenced him to hard labor pushing a millstone; seized evil feudal princes and cast them into the boiling-oil hell; and unleashed karmic flames to sever the Ming Dynasty’s fortune!

As a million ghost soldiers marched through Yingtian Prefecture, the fall of the Ming Dynasty seemed imminent.

Zhu Yuanzhang finally broke down completely. Kneeling outside the Meridian Gate, he wailed blood and tears: “Ninth Son, your father was wrong! Please leave the Ming Dynasty a sliver of hope!”

I sat upon the imperial throne of the Ninefold Netherworld, my expression indifferent. “The Ming Dynasty’s time in the mortal realm has run out. When the King of Hell says you die at the third watch, who dares let you live until the fifth?”