The arrival of Qin Ye with the Harken on his shoulder didn't attract any attention, and neither of them turned their attention toward the city that was just beginning to be established. Instead, both of them cast their gaze into the six paths of reincarnation.

"Is that... Arthis?" Qin Ye asked in a surprised voice as he raised an eyebrow.

"It seems like it..." The Harken was also quite taken aback. "But how did this happen? Her Yin energy has increased by 1% in just a few months! This rate of growth is incredible!"

What on earth is going on?! 

High-grade underworld emissaries could no longer achieve cultivation progression through Hell's Record. If they wanted to reach the Yama-King level, there would only be two options available to them.

The first option was to do so through a grand script of death. They would have to establish their own mythology in the mortal realm, then accumulate followers over the course of centuries until they could finally complete their metamorphosis.

The second option was to constantly accumulate more accolades in order to progress through Hell's administrative system. High-grade underworld emissaries were different from their low-grade counterparts, in that many belonging to the latter category only had official titles but no actual administrative power. In contrast, virtually all high-grade...