Master of Strange Dao

"Not just my goal, but the goal of all of us.

I didn't intend to quell chaos with killing, I merely wished for Langya Institute to return to its original form.

If things are beyond my control, if I can do nothing to stop it, then don't blame me for picking up the executioner's blade.

I don't mind using the final means, becoming an executioner."

"Then you must live well, the pressure you will face will be enormous."

The old man nodded slightly again, hunching his body, and left slowly.

Cheng Jing stood alone in the empty conference room, gazing at the vacant seats, muttering to himself.

"If there really comes a day like that, don't say I didn't give you a chance..."

...

In the unknown secret chamber.

A faint candlelight illuminated the table, yet it also formed a partition, dividing everything around.

A few people sat around the table, their auras all severed by the corona of light.

"Dean Wu is dead, the old guy from the Shi family is dead too, four people have already died."

After a moment of silence, someone spoke.

"Have you not noticed that what we've done has actually been quite effective?"

"How so?"

"Jolting Dadui has already yielded results.

Though the Heavenly Monarch Luoge in Sorrow Cave Heaven is dead, he was still above the Ninth Tier.

Last time, when that person's incarnation was destroyed, it encountered a hand from beyond above the Ninth Tier and almost fell.

After the anomaly in the Southern Sea, the last time Emperor's Liquid descended, there was also a strong presence in the Southern Sea gathering the Emperor's Liquid across thousands of miles.

I peeked, but found no results. It should have been a Tenth Tier before.

This time, in Dadui's seal, we encountered a Tenth Tier Devil again.

Do you not feel that in these mere decade or so, the appearances above Ninth Tier exceed those in almost ten thousand years before?

And the most recent time before this that approached above the Ninth Tier was over two thousand years ago.

Even when Emperor Zhen became devilic, only half a step was taken into the Tenth Tier."

In the darkness, everyone remained silent.

Objectively speaking, it was indeed the case.

"Indeed, Dadui's seal is difficult to grasp; unexpected events are within reason.

A token is merely a token, which cannot guarantee entry into the chosen one.

Moreover, you all overlooked one point, two people went from the Shi family.

The old guy from the Shi family died, but his son's soul lamp wasn't extinguished."

"Did you bring him back?"

"Brought him back, his cultivation utterly ruined, yet he knows what happened."

No one spoke, waiting for the person to continue.

"They did not enter the seal recorded, but entered a seal from several hundred years before.

And within that seal, one of the ancestors of the Shi family still held the position of Prefectural Governor.

The old guy from the Shi family was killed by a Big Ghost, which isn't suspicious.

The seal was merely the sin of that ancestor from the Shi family. Once the Big Ghost avenged, the resentment and obsession dissipated, and the so-called disaster was over.

I deduced that the so-called token was merely a catalyst, not the true token; the bloodline is the real token.

There was nothing unexpected about them not entering the target seal.

None of us anticipated that within a mere few hundred years span, there would still be an ancestor from the Shi family.

However, precisely because of the seal where that ancestor from the Shi family resided, it confirmed one thing.

The seal of Dadui is not exclusively for sealing so-called disasters.

The real deployment still requires people to perform."

Everyone understood; something requires humans to undertake it, regardless of the rules, there is always room for negotiation, for exploiting loopholes.

They needed a base point to move Dadui.

Seeking someone from Tomb Ghost Cave Heaven was to this end.

Later a new path was found, and the Shi family was the easiest base point found so far.

Not only was there a bloodline connection, but their descendants were people from Daqian.

If the seal could be resolved and they could be brought out, a Prefectural Governor of Dadui would be most suitable.

The benefits therein were numerous.

Alas, human plans fall short of heaven's, yet it fell short because of another ancestor from the Shi family.

Who could have thought that within a few hundred years, the Shi family would have two ancestors who did terrible things?

Moreover, after such matters, the ancestor from the Shi family could still continue holding the Prefectural Governor position of Dingyou City.

The decay at the End Dadui exceeded their imagination.

Fails in such matters left nothing more to say.

"I remember that the west of Daqian included quite a few territories that were once Dadui.

And many people there, their ancestors were from Dadui, some likely had ancestors who once held official positions in Dadui as well."

Someone voiced an opinion.

Given how strong the bloodline connection is, using descendant bloodlines as tokens, which is better than ordinary catalysts, it's naturally preferable to go for the better option.

"Has the situation at Jinlan Mountain been abandoned?" someone else asked.

"Do you know the director of the Qintian Bureau of Daqian stepped down a year ago?"

"Heard he was advanced in years, and so was allowed to step down, a new director hasn't been selected yet."

"He indeed was advanced in years, but didn't step down because of it, he died instead.

He intended to use the Celestial Sphere one last time, illuminate the stars, and perform a divination for Daqian.

And then, while also peeking at Jinlan Mountain, he was killed by backlash on the spot.

But before he died, he left a sentence, something slumbering in Jinlan Mountain won't ever emerge this lifetime.

That evil God was also thrown into the depths of the pit by the people of Jinlan Mountain.

It's impossible to appear again.

Rather than focusing on Jinlan Mountain, better set sights on Old Emperor Zhen."