Jiandan had already reached an agreement with Lord Yama, and the Yama lords of the other eight halls had also swung into action, quickly beginning to search for that trace of hidden soul essence. Since they started checking from the year the soul tree went missing, and the workload was massive while they couldn't let their subordinate ghost guards interfere, the eight Yama lords grew visibly irritable, occasionally revealing their ferocious faces and terrifying the on-duty ghost guards so much that everyone was trembling with fear, terrified that any misstep would cause them to be swallowed by a Yama lord. Tazhuo was fortunate enough to catch a glimpse of the First Hall Yama's true form once, and, scared out of his wits, he immediately went to find Jiandan, demanding to leave this dangerous place. Only after being pressed with questions did he stammer out the reason.
"Rest assured, the Yama lords are ghost cultivators to begin with. It's just that at their level, they have already cultivated physical bodies out of nothingness, yet they remain accustomed to their previous ghost cultivator states and only reveal them when occasionally relaxing.
Just pretend you never saw it. After all, they are putting their all into helping you find your lost soul fragment, so you shouldn't be nitpicking about such things."
Chapter 2045