50,000 years ago, Hell was destroyed because of too much Foul from the resentment of the souls that later turned to Soul Eaters and devoured everything in their wake, leaving nothing of Hell. The gods above in Heaven, in order to take care of the newly-died souls, created the Afterlife Department comprised of grim reapers. Huo Ling was delivering food that day when he met Yi Bing and the guy gave him a warning. When he arrived to the customer's unit, he was killed. Huo Ling: you set up a death flag for me! Yi Bing: I'm a grim reaper. I'm the flag myself. Let me help you solve the mystery of your death. Huo Ling: your sister! Alternative title: The Different Ways I Died at 23 Update: daily
Lower Heaven, Afterlife Department.
"The rock might not be identified yet, but look at what I found for now." Sha Jiu spoke with his one hand inside the deep pocket of his white laboratory coat. He leaned down and, using his other hand, he turned the rock that he placed on Gu Shi's table earlier.
There, on the surface of the rock which still has some dust and rough which the color is deep brown, was a symbol that Gu Shi saw just earlier on a page of the diary that Huo Ling and Yi Bing brought back with them from Collapsed World 444, which was owned by the disciple of the second fortune-teller that conducted that heinous evil ritual, that triggered an apocalypse, killing all the people in the Collapsed World 444.