Lady Ping Xin stood atop the Six Paths Reincarnation Plate, her gaze directed towards Emperor Fengdu, enveloped by boundless ghostly essence.
As the actual ruler of Earthly Hell, she sensed that Emperor Fengdu seemed to be undergoing some sort of transformation.
Endless waves of nether qi poured into his body, transforming into another kind of energy that also seemed to be affecting his current soul body.
For Lady Ping Xin, who had reached the level of a Saint, the nature of this energy was of little consequence to her.
Any kind of energy was merely one form during the pursuit of the Dao.
Upon reaching its zenith, it was time to comprehend the Laws and pursue one’s own Dao.
In Lady Ping Xin’s view, there was absolutely no need for Emperor Fengdu to draw in more boundless nether qi and transform it into another kind of energy.
Because Emperor Fengdu’s spirit was immensely powerful, having reached the Eighth Transition Limit, which in the Immortal Dao, would be considered the Quasi-Saint Peak.
He had long since mastered the Laws and pursued his own Dao.
Lady Ping Xin felt puzzled in her heart, thinking that Emperor Fengdu’s current actions seemed superfluous.
If it were merely so, although Lady Ping Xin was puzzled, she had no intention to intervene.
However, when Lady Ping Xin discovered that as Emperor Fengdu absorbed the boundless nether qi and turned it into another kind of energy, his spirit’s very essence began to change.
And this change was toward a direction she did not understand.
Though unfamiliar to her, she had seen this kind of change in some beings within the Earthly Hell.
These beings had grasped a sliver of the Netherworld’s rudimentary Laws and began to create their own cultivation techniques, continuously cultivating.
Indeed, the cultivation techniques they created made them more powerful.
Yet as they continued to cultivate these techniques, their spirit’s very essence was altered, seemingly turning into another species.
In Lady Ping Xin’s eyes, these beings, though similar to spirits, were no longer spirits but bore more resemblance to the evil ghosts of Hell.
And as they cultivated, their state became more unstable, increasingly resembling the evil ghosts of Hell.
It seemed that this path was one leading progressively towards becoming an evil ghost, and its state was irreversible.
No, there was still a way to change.
Allowing these beings to enter the Six Paths Reincarnation Plate and be crushed by its merciless force, their enhanced strength shattered, returning to their most fragile spirits.
During the process, the spirits would diminish significantly, leaving only their weakened essences to enter the cycle of reincarnation and rejoin the Primordial World.
Thus, when Lady Ping Xin felt that Emperor Fengdu was steadily walking towards becoming an evil ghost, an urge arose within her to stop him.
With Lady Ping Xin’s control over Earthly Hell and her Saint-like cultivation realm, stopping Emperor Fengdu, who had not yet fully mastered his authority, was effortlessly simple.
Just as she was about to stop Emperor Fengdu’s actions, she sensed a tremor within the Netherworld’s Laws.
A powerful law manifested within the Netherworld’s Laws, piercing through the entirety of the Netherworld.
Lady Ping Xin immersed her spirit into the Netherworld, and after a long while, she awoke to realize that the source of the Law’s tremor was none other than Emperor Fengdu.
Lady Ping Xin’s spirit detached from the Netherworld’s Laws, her eyes fixed on the figure hovering above Fengdu City, and said in a hushed tone.
"Is that energy called Ghost Qi?"
"Is that transformation called becoming a ghost?"
When Lady Ping Xin’s gaze fell upon Emperor Fengdu again, she found that his spirit had completed its transformation, becoming a ’ghost.’
Moreover, his cultivation realm had once again touched the barrier that precedes Sainthood.
This time, Lady Ping Xin looked past the boundless ghostly essence, observing Emperor Fengdu more carefully.
At this moment, Emperor Fengdu, who had just reached the barrier to Sainthood, also sensed Lady Ping Xin’s gaze.
Without any concealment, he boldly exhibited his true self and the Dao derived from it.
Based on the joint deductions with Di Jun, they had also deduced a Dao for the Ghost Path that could reach the level of a Saint.
Moreover, this path had been tried by Di Jun in the Spiritual Illusion Realm and did not collapse like when comprehending the life level but was actually successful.
This meant that if he followed the path deduced with Di Jun, one day Emperor Fengdu could become the first Saint of the Ghost Path.
Regrettably, they deduced well, but could not escape one very realistic problem.
That is, the Netherworld’s level was still not enough, unable to completely accommodate a being who achieves Sainthood independently through the Ghost Path.
Even in the Primordial World, the Ghost Path is not seen as the orthodox path within the Heavenly Dao.
Moreover, there is no unique environment like that of the Earthly Hell in the Netherworld, so even for Emperor Fengdu, it is impossible to become a Saint in the Primordial World.
This was an important issue that Emperor Fengdu had to face.
At this stage, the relationship between the world and the beings is not a simple one of nurture but of mutual enhancement.
The world helps beings ascend, and beings help perfect the world.