The Cui Family’s Northview Pavilion.

“So, the Nine Serenities Netherworld Crow is headed toward Ziluo City.” Su Yi’s eyebrows rose.

Cui Chang’an sighed and grimaced. “That’s most likely the case. During the Lantern Festival forty-five thousand years ago, the Nine Serenities Netherworld Crow appeared near Ziluo City. According to the ancestors of the Cui Family, that jinx either bears an ancient grudge against the Bureau of Adjudication, or against the Infernal Palace as a whole.

“Uncle Su, as I’m sure you’re aware, Ziluo City was once a core territory of the Infernal Palace, while the Bureau of Adjudication was the division of the Infernal Palace with the most blood on its hands. Every time the Lantern Festival arrives, Ziluo City faces the greatest onslaught.”

Su Yi nodded. In ancient times, the Infernal Palace was an organization consisting of numerous great factions.

Of them, the Bureau of Adjudication was charged with meting out justice. They’d killed countless imprisoned terrifying entities.

Although the executed perished and their Daos were extinguished, remnants of their baleful...