With all these thoughts flashing through Qin Ye's mind, he was barely able to contain his own excitement, but he had to keep calm here. Anubis was walking at the forefront of the three pillars' representatives, and he smiled as he extended a paw toward Qin Ye. "Long time no see, Yanluo Qin."

"Indeed, long time no see," Qin Ye replied with a genuine smile. In the instant that the two of them shook hands, there should've been some faint chatter at the back, but instead, there was an eerie silence on this occasion.

The nameless god of death and Peter the Great were seated on their chairs, looking at the handshake with complex expressions. 

Similarly, all of the other ruler death gods were also looking on from their chairs, and no one even offered any applause for the arrival of the three pillars. Heavenly Pillar City was like a giant rock weighing down directly on all of their hearts, and the only sound in the hall came from the flashing image capture crystals as the journalists frantically took photographs of the handshake.

Right as the two of them were about to withdraw their hands, a hint of surprise appeared in Anubis's eyes as he exclaimed in a low voice, "You're already a mid Yama-King?"

"Indeed, but it was all down to luck," Qin Ye replied with a modest smile.

Anubis's pupils contracted slightly as he nodded and withdrew his hand.

It had only taken him 10 years to progress from a nascent Yama-King to a...