Kiro looks at Qīngguāngwáng
I see one of the ten rulers being frightened infront of me.
Maybe it was just my imagination.
Kiro takes a step forward intending to enter the Gates. The ruler comes up to him—"I'm afraid I will not be able to let you enter"
At that moment Kiro steps up to his face—"Is it because I'm not dead yet?"
Qīngguāngwáng is happy with how straightforward he was—"Yes, This is a land for the dead"
Kiro sees a cliff 5 meters away, he dashes forward toward the cliff and jumps.
To his surprise, he was floating in the mid air.
Qīngguāngwáng snaps his finger and Kiro is being flown back to the Gate.
The Confidence of Kiro shatters his fun, he enjoyed people being helpless,but he was different from the others.
—"Bring him in" says Qīngguāngwáng
As he leaves, the guards escort Kiro inside.
Kiro gazed at the sky; Dark red in colour as though it was painted using the blood of people,He hears screams of people in far distance but is unable to see them.
He looks at the flowers, burning with flames.
He mutters to himself
Those flames are not burning from the wind,
It is blowing from the screams of the people.
At that exact moment he realised , the fields of fiery flowers which he crossed was continuously burnt from the screams of the people,This was named as the valley of death.
As they enter the main entrance, Huge gates open, there remained two faces stuck on the gates. They murmured to one another until Qīngguāngwáng came
"Welcome back master"
—said the face with a pig with eyes of fish.
"Open the gates, we shall"
—- said the other, with the face of a human with a beak.
The gates opened and the guards stood by as Kiro and Qīngguāngwáng entered.
Kiro gazed at the huge pillars, it was endless,
As if it wanted to stretch to the heavens.
Kiro gulp down his nervousness and entered into the main hall where the other 9 Rulers sat.
Chǔjiāngwáng, Sòngdìwáng, Wǔguānwáng, Biànchéngwáng, Tàishānwáng, Píngděngwáng, Dúshīwáng, Zhuanlúnwáng, and the most prominent, Yānluowáng.
They all sat on a high throne, with their faces blocked from Fulu( A Chinese talismanic script) yellow in colour and the letters were red.
"Who have we here" said Yānluowáng
Who sat at the middle, he was huge with piercings on him. His face was not covered with Fulu.
Kiro looked at him and replied—"I'm Kiro and am here in search of a mountain God named Jin"
All the 9 kings laughed at the same time and stopped at once.
Yānluowáng raised his hands and a Fulu flew towards Qīngguāngwáng and he became still as though he was a puppet, he got back to his seat quietly.
Kiro frowned at Yānluowáng, which made him angry.
"You human dare not to bow infront of me and now you look at me"
And he stares into his soul, uncovering his deepest secrets to use against him.
As he looked inside it was an empty void, he was captured inside his void all empty.
He felt tiny as he gazed into his soul, as he gazed further, he saw thousands of people bowing, Thousands of eyes lit up to look at him.
They screamed YOUR'E NOT HIM!!
A man sat there on a throne, playing chess alone and a pawn fell down at Yānluowáng's feet.
Pick it up for me will you? Said the man with a calming voice, he had a crown Red in colour.
"It can't be!" — screamed Yānluowáng
And he stopped staring into Kiro's soul.
He was drenched in sweat, he could not even stare towards Kiro.
"You dare pull your puny little tricks on me!!"
— shouted Yānluowáng.
"Your skin tearing apart" mutters Yānluowáng
And Kiro suddenly feels his flesh ripping apart. He could barely stand but as he looked at his skin, it was all intact.
Yānluowáng was surprised at how his body did not rip apart. This was because his words only affected on the dead and since Kiro was still alive, though not physically torn, he felt the rip of his flesh which caused immense pain.
Kiro kept looking at him and replies
"I see how this is". And he mutters the same thing which Yānluowáng muttered.
And suddenly fleshes of Yānluowáng ripped apart, he could feel the pain but his body remained intact as well.
This was now a battle between Dead and Alive.
Yānluowáng screamed in agony as this was the first time he felt such immense pain.
The other 9 screamed in pain as well, and their heads wobbled as they screamed.
He held on to his right hand, looking down at Kiro.
— "You dare enter my own Kingdom and insult me"
He gets up from his thrown and starts to levitate, black waters surrounded him.
Those waters were not basically water but blood which was millions of years old.
As he prepared to attack with the blood surrounding him.
Kiro channels his mana, imitating Yānluowáng, he hovered in the air.
His divine mana surrounded him, glistening with gold.
His divine mana helped him imitate the powers of anyone with some risk of the powers devouring him, Yet this was not a time for him to think about those risks, since he was at the Hall of Death himself.
The 9 kings screamed, as Yānluowáng
And Kirk prepared to attack one another.
A certain someone hits the Throne and The the balance of powers begins to weigh.
The Weight scale also known as the balance shows up.
The balance was an entity that kept control over the realms in balance. Hypothetically if Kiro were to defeat Yānluowáng here, the underworld would have been doomed, releasing all the souls back to earth.
Yānluowáng looking at this entity floats down to his throne surprised. Kiro steps down into the ground as well. The balance, in the form of weightage scale, gold in colour with four wings appeared at the middle. Light appeared behind him, completely eliminating every shadows of the hall.
All the 9 kings bowed at his appearance.
Kiro was surprised at the sight of this, even Yānluowáng stood in silence.
The appearance of The Balance meant that the weightage of powers were being distorted, here at this very realm.
This meant that Yānluowáng and Kiro had the same potential with either one going down. Kiro did not understand of this Entity yet he knew that it was someone who surpassed the 10 kings gathered here.
The balance spoke
I shall be the judge here and none shall supersede my judgement.
Kiro spoke about how he ended up here to save Jin who was Punished here for thousand years through the unfair contract.
Yānluówáng spoke about the contract being fair and that Jin has breached his contract and for that matter he was being punished.
Kiro stood up and screamed—"But that doesn't justify hi—
"SILENCE!!!" Says The Balance and Kiro is forced to kneel on the ground.
Kiro looks at The Balance and wonders if he could imitate his powers.
Do not think of it! whispers the balance through telekinesis.
Kiro's heart starts to beat faster. This was something that was out of his grip, he was getting on his high horse just because he could imitate Yānluówáng. He learned that he was just a fraction infront of this Entity.
The Balance speaks and silence follows throughout the underworld, the screams turn into a dead silence as though they were being relieved from their torture.
Kiro could hear the winds and for the first time, the fiery flowers stopped to burn.
"Having carefully heard from both sides, Kiro is hereby found guilty, he shall be punished in this underwolrd for a hundred years".
Kiro's eyes widened after hearing this, he cannot imagine the treatment one is faced here.Yānluówáng starts to smile looking at him.
"However, one cannot overlook the fact that Jin is placed here through the injustice done by the contract and hereby is due to be released at the time of Kiro's release"
After hearing this Kiro's mood became lighter since Jin was to be released at the same time as his. He knew knowing that he would face the consequences.
Yānluówáng stands up from his thron—"But your greatness, this is unfair!"
The Balance opens its eyes above the scale, it was a huge eye with flames, this flame was capable of annihilating any Celestial. He was placed in charge of judgement by THE ONE.
His eyes gazed at Yánluówáng
—" Are you questioning my judgement?"
And he quickly falls to his knees, apologising.
And The Balance Disappears, and the screaming starts again.
Chains start to come up binding Kiro, who was now to face 100 years of imprisonment in the underworld.