Xuanxi wasn’t a river god born out of the rituals held for the Dusk River. She’d been a genius of the shark spirit clan and Aoxue’s maid, becoming the Dusk river god only after acquiring its divine decree.

She shouldn’t have been able to claim the Dusk River with just her own power. But now that Lu Yun was an immortal and the ten Yama Kings of the Ten Halls assumed their rightful places, the Tome of Life and Death had granted Xuanxi, one of the ten Yamas, an exponential boost to her talents and strength.

As the Dusk river god, she exercised full control over the river and could take it as her own. Lu Yun had kept his hands off the river up until now because he believed...