Master of Strange Dao

Seeing that Human Devil, Yu Ziqing grinned, his figure instantly vanished, grasping the other's neck, pinching it in his hand.

"So, it's a naturally born Human Devil, no wonder the Heart Demon erupts so strangely, against all logic.

You could manipulate Prefectural Governor Kang because he's straightforward, but I'm different."

"What are you?" The Human Devil was utterly terrified, but his power was completely suppressed. Having separated from Kang Xiangyu, he wasn't that strong.

"A hungry ghost that feeds on Devils."

Yu Ziqing opened his mouth wide, suddenly enlarging it until it was bigger than a human head, swallowing the Human Devil's head whole.

Yu Ziqing furrowed his brow, opened his mouth, and spat it back out.

It was even less palatable than an ordinary Devil Thought.

It was like compressed fake biscuits made from shredded waste paper, moldy, with a messy, foul, and pungent taste.

"Rubbish, far inferior to a Heavenly Demon, no, not even as good as a Devil!"

Yu Ziqing's eyes shot out two blood-red flames, igniting the Human Devil.

Yu Ziqing just held him like that, allowing him to burn and scream in his hand, shrinking until he finally turned into nothingness.

As the Human Devil burned into void, the Demonic Qi in Kang Xiangyu also dissipated, and his breath fell from the Tenth Tier back to the Ninth Tier Peak.

"It's not that the future is too strong, it's that you are too unique."

Kang Xiangyu looked at Yu Ziqing, sighed, and came to a conclusion.

If the future were this strong, he wouldn't have stayed here until now.

He felt some regret. He wanted people of the future to be like Yu Ziqing.

Unfortunately, he understood this was a delusion, having one like Yu Ziqing was already a stroke of luck.

Yu Ziqing smiled, not expressing an opinion.

"The Devil disaster has been resolved, your wish can be considered fulfilled."

"Yes, resolved."

"Can you do me a favor?"

"Whatever it is, just say it."

Yu Ziqing waved his hand at the distance, collecting the remaining relics of the late Dean Wu.

He took a ring among them and handed it to Kang Xiangyu.

"Help erase the imprints on it, if there are other things, erase them too if possible, I haven't gone through Qi Refinement, not too skilled at this."

Kang Xiangyu chuckled, took the ring, casually wiped it, and handed it back to Yu Ziqing.

Yu Ziqing looked at the contents of the storage ring; it had a large space, numerous treasures, and even a Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure.

Yu Ziqing didn't care about those treasures, instead, he took out the books, Jade Scrolls, and Gold Foil Jade Scroll for inspection. After confirming nothing was amiss, he put them away.

He also stored the Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure emitting spirit light, ignoring the other Magical Treasures.

Magical Treasures were the easiest to tamper with.

Especially a Token among them, a Token from Langya Institute, which Yu Ziqing didn't even touch or take out.

The world began to rewind, Yu Ziqing rolled up the unconscious Yang and casually stuffed him into a Storage Bag.

He certainly knew why Yang did it, he didn't want to witness the scene. Deep inside he had a suspicion, but it was merely uncertain. Without seeing it with his own eyes or personally confirming it, the suspicion remained Schrödinger's cat, possibly real, possibly false.

If Yang had seen Yu Ziqing transform into a formidable hungry ghost, the concept was entirely different from seeing Yu Ziqing's Yin God normally.

So, whether Yang believed his suspicion was true or false, it was correct for him either way.

Yu Ziqing's secret would never be revealed by him.

No method could accomplish that, because he didn't know, wasn't sure, only suspected.

The world rewound, turning into a page of a book, Yu Ziqing handed the red pen to Kang Xiangyu.

"You do it."

Kang Xiangyu looked at the records on An History Book, holding the red pen, his expression somewhat dazed.

"Jiazi Year 1800, Jiazi City.

The Devil Mirror became tainted, causing the Heart Demon to rampage, the Devilized numbering thirteen thousand eight hundred.

Jiazi City's Prefectural Governor Kang Xiangyu embraced all demons into himself. Upon reaching the Tenth Tier, he destroyed his Dao path and sealed ten thousand devils."

After a moment of silence, he added to it.

"The ten thousand devils formed into a Human Devil, scheming and disrupting Dadui, Dingwei City's Prefectural Governor Qing Ziyu slew the Human Devil."

Completing the writing, he stamped it with the Big Seal, watching as the blood-red letters slowly turned into black and white on paper, settling as dust.

He returned the red pen to Yu Ziqing, and also handed over Jiazi City's Prefectural Governor's Big Seal.

"This is now yours, no one is more suited than you."

"Thank you."

"No, I should be thanking you."

"All I can do is give you a dignified death, I cannot save you." Yu Ziqing shook his head.

With Yu Ziqing's words and the settling of that history, Kang Xiangyu's body began to shatter, turning into void.

"It's enough, it's already enough..."

He smiled with immense joy, a bright smile, yet his body crumbled with the wind, turning to void.

Yu Ziqing stood there, looking at those records, his power slowly dissipating, returning to normal.

Kang Xiangyu never wished to take credit, countless years of perseverance summed up in one brief sentence, without even his name.

Yu Ziqing had long known this outcome.

Because Kang Xiangyu had already abandoned his Dao path back then. When he entered the Sealing, his cultivation was actually long lost.

Only within the Seal, preserving that segment of calamity, could he maintain his former strength.