Yama stepped inside the tomb.
The interior was almost empty.
At the center of the chamber lay a single rusted coffin, surrounded by dust and cobwebs. The rest of the place looked abandoned, as if no one had visited it in years.
Yama frowned.
Seriously? Did Ye Ji really come here every week just to pray and cry?
He sighed.
If only the Judgment Book allowed me to check Ye Ji's history.
One of the few limitations of the Judgment Book was that Yama could never read the life story or fate of himself, nor the person whose body he currently inhabited.
After all, he was Yama, the Lord of Hell and the God of Death.
The one who controlled fate could never read his own.
Yama slowly approached the coffin.
As he drew closer, his eyes narrowed.
The surface of the coffin was covered in ancient inscriptions.
Strange symbols were carved across the wood like a complex formation. In the center of the coffin, there was a faint painting of a terrifying eye.
The eye looked as though it could devour everything in existence.
Yama studied it carefully.
Whoever crafted this coffin must have been extremely powerful.
He could sense the energy within the carvings.
It was a restriction formation, designed to prevent anyone from opening the coffin.
Just what kind of person was this ancestor?
Did they really believe he might return from the dead?
Yama brushed away some of the dust to examine the carvings more closely.
The moment his hand touched the coffin—
Something changed.
He immediately felt a reaction from the Judgment Book.
Without hesitation, Yama summoned it.
The enormous golden book appeared in front of him.
He opened it.
A new page had appeared.
Name: Ye Yong
Age: 12,430 Years, 8 Months
Cultivation Rank: 5th Stage – Heaven Extinction Realm
Warrior Rank: 4th Stage – Sword Heaven
Magic Rank: 3rd Stage – Magic Heaven
Cause of Death: Murdered
Yama's eyes widened.
The Judgment Book had changed again.
It was now displaying cultivation ranks and magic levels.
But what shocked him even more was something else.
Ye Yong had cultivated both warrior techniques and magic.
From what Yama had learned from Yu Yan, this was extremely rare.
In this world, people usually specialized in only one path.
Very few had the talent to pursue both.
Yet Ye Yong had mastered both disciplines.
Yama placed his finger on Ye Yong's name.
The world shifted again.
An illusion formed around him.
Scenes from Ye Yong's life unfolded before his eyes.
Ye Yong had been a legendary genius.
Respected.
Righteous.
He lived a brilliant life until he fell in love with the young miss of the Imperial Clan.
The Imperial Clan opposed their relationship.
To them, the Ye Clan was far too weak.
They secretly hired assassins to eliminate Ye Yong without alerting their daughter.
But they failed.
Ye Yong was simply too powerful.
Eventually, the couple married.
However, just before the imperial young miss was about to give birth to their first child, disaster struck.
One day, Ye Yong was surrounded.
Five hundred experts.
Each of them was only one or two cultivation levels below him.
Even a genius like Ye Yong could not defeat such overwhelming numbers.
He immediately understood.
That day would be the day of his death.
As the battle reached its final moments, a familiar figure appeared.
Chen Dong.
The young master of the Chen Clan, the strongest clan in the Unknown Lands.
He was also Ye Yong's former rival in love.
Chen Dong had always hated him.
In that instant, Ye Yong understood everything.
The entire ambush had been planned by Chen Dong.
The illusion reached its final scene.
Chen Dong stepped forward and stabbed Ye Yong directly through the heart.
A satisfied smile appeared on his face.
"Die without ever knowing why you died."
The illusion shattered.
Silence returned.
Yama closed the book slowly.
I cannot believe someone like him died in such a cruel way.
But just as he was about to close the page, his finger accidentally touched the words Cultivation Rank.
Suddenly —
The Judgment Book began to glow.
Streams of information surged from the page and rushed directly into Yama's mind.
Yama staggered.
Countless memories flooded his consciousness.
At the same time, an intense pain spread through his body.
His broken meridians were being repaired.
Energy surged through every part of him.
It felt like thousands of needles were stabbing into his flesh.
Even his brain felt like it was being torn apart.
Yama clenched his teeth.
He refused to scream.
He was the Lord of Hell.
The God of Death.
How could he be defeated by mere pain?
He had tortured countless sinners in Hell.
If the demons of Hell saw him unable to endure such pain, they would laugh endlessly.
Thirty minutes passed.
Finally, the pain subsided.
Yama slowly stood up.
His body felt completely different.
He reviewed the information that had entered his mind.
His eyes widened.
Within his memories was a cultivation technique.
Along with a sword art.
This must be the cultivation method Ye Yong practiced.
Yama's excitement exploded.
Holy hell…
The technique contained ten stages for every cultivation level.
It was incredibly complex.
Clearly a lost and ancient technique.
But what amused Yama the most were the names.
The Lord's Thunder Cultivation Technique
The Lord's Sword
Yama grinned.
Anything with the word "Lord" in it is perfect for me.
According to the description, each cultivation stage unlocked unique abilities.
At higher levels, the user could summon thousands of thunderbolts and wield them as weapons.
Suddenly, Yama understood something.
So that's how Ye Yong wiped out fifty experts in seconds during his final battle.
I honestly thought the heavens themselves were helping him.
Yama laughed quietly.
Once I return to Hell, I'm definitely testing this in the Upper Netherworld.
Those sinful bastards will love it.
But the biggest surprise was not the technique itself.
It was the Judgment Book.
Since arriving in this world, the book had gained a new ability.
It could extract cultivation techniques from people whose records appeared inside it.
As long as Yama could access their page…
He could potentially obtain their techniques.
This upgrade is very useful.
Yama looked down at his hands.
His meridians had been completely repaired.
He could finally cultivate.
If I want to survive in this world, I must grow stronger as quickly as possible.
But then he suddenly remembered something.
The page had also shown Magic Rank.
Curious, Yama summoned the Judgment Book again.
He placed his finger on the words Magic Rank.
Instantly, the book began to glow violently.
It trembled.
The entire tomb filled with blinding white light.
Then—
BOOM!
A violent force blasted outward.
Yama was thrown across the tomb.
CRASH!
The entire burial chamber began to collapse.
Outside the tomb, the servants heard the deafening sound.
BANG!BANG!
They rushed toward the burial grounds.
When they arrived, they saw the tomb completely destroyed.
The ancient structure had crumbled into dust.
Only one thing remained intact.
The coffin still stood in the center of the ruins.