Master of Strange Dao

In truth, all of you have been used.

Even if that one's rank is fragmented, with just your power, do you still wish to possess it, to turn it into your own strength?

Let me tell you the truth, that one intended to use your natural bloodline connection to gather the rank.

Yet you foolishly condensed a part of it, only to come here to die.

Bit by bit, you worked for nothing, helping them recover.

That is a devil, the most supreme Great Devil.

Extracting the yang energy of the world, turning this place into an Extremely Cold Forbidden Land of the Great Devil!"

As Yu Ziqing spoke, the blood-colored runes on the foreheads of Wei Jing and Wei Tai suddenly cracked with a fissure, and then the runes shattered with a boom.

Yu Ziqing understood; the Big Zombie he saw in that Frozen World was indeed created by the Great Devil to deceive him.

The Great Devil revealed the secret himself, and once Yu Ziqing exposed it before the Wei clan, the contract was voided.

That Bloodline Curse must be part of the contract's content, or else it couldn't be invalidated.

"Previously, I was wondering, apart from that one throwing people out personally, there seemed to be no other way to leave that ghost place. How did you start the family business?

Now it's clear, your ancestors made a deal with that Great Devil, signed a contract, and sold all your descendants.

Your family business was a pit from the start."

Wei Jing regained clarity, his heart filled with despair as he listened to Yu Ziqing, without hesitation or thoughts of needing Yu Ziqing's death.

At the moment the curse manifested, he knew Yu Ziqing was right.

His mindset collapsed; the belief he held firm all his life, even in the face of death, crumbled completely.

"Before... I'm sorry, I..." Wei Jing wanted to say something, but didn't know how.

The original family business seemed impossible to continue, and the core cultivation of the family might have to be abandoned. He felt confused and lost, not knowing what to do.

"Do you have anything to say?"

"After meeting the old family head, I heard the old family head telling me in my mind that you are the opportunity for our family business, telling me to find a way to freeze you here.

But the one speaking to me wasn't the old family head, right?

The old family head's corpse wasn't left from his Divine Soul departing, but because all his life's power was sacrificed, leaving only the body, right?"

Yu Ziqing didn't speak; Wei Jing closed his eyes in pain.

Without the curse to bind and confuse him, once enlightened, he understood better than anyone.

A moment later, Wei Jing suddenly spoke.

"Don't you want to know what happened in the northern Wilderness back then?

Specifically, I don't know; the Wei clan indeed wasn't involved.

But over a hundred years ago, a dean of Langya Institute came to me, wanting me to act as a guide to the Extremely Cold Forbidden Land.

I refused at the time, because in such a place, I couldn't take care of a Dao Cultivator who hadn't Entered Dao; it was too troublesome.

A few years later, the northern Wilderness, or more precisely, the area where the Wilderness and a large ice field of the western Dazhen bordered, suffered the disaster of the Great Sun Dominating the Sky."

"That dean later fell in the Wilderness, right?"

"Yes."

Yu Ziqing understood, that must be Yang, but Yang never mentioned such a thing, there's only one possibility: Yang doesn't remember.

At this time, the silent Wei Tai spoke softly.

"Family head, you're talking about the second person who came to find you, but there was another dean who came the first time."

"A first dean? Why don't I remember?"

"At that time, I was sealed underground, about to break free, and I heard you call him Dean Ji."

"At that time, you..." Wei Jing didn't finish speaking before seeing chains appear in the void, and three talismans bound by the chains sealed his mouth.

Wei Jing's eyes instantly became hollow, unable to recall anything further.

Yu Ziqing's eyes narrowed.

"Silence Divine Spell?!"

He turned to look at Wei Tai.

"Did you hear clearly? It's Dean Ji?"

Wei Tai looked shocked and a bit panicked.

"The sound was definitely 'Ji,' but I'm not sure which character it is.

At that time, I was cultivating the family's Secret Technique, sealed underground; no one noticed my existence.

This..."

"Did your family head go to the Extremely Cold Forbidden Land back then?"

"This... I don't know, but the family head then went into seclusion for several years."

Up to this point, Yu Ziqing understood that Wei Jing definitely led the first group to the Extremely Cold Forbidden Land.

And years later, when Yang came to him again, he refused Yang.

But by then, Wei Jing didn't remember taking people to the Extremely Cold Forbidden Land, regardless of how he negotiated the deal back then, whatever irresistible benefits were promised, ultimately he was surely swindled again.

This family was truly miserable, exploited by the one in the Extremely Cold Forbidden Land, sold by their own ancestors, and later swindled as guides.

Yu Ziqing could now confirm it. The changes in the Wilderness today are definitely related to the Extremely Cold Forbidden Land, related to the being in the Forbidden Land.

And associated with Langya Institute... No, to be precise, related to a dean, since Lihuo Institute also has a dean.

Indeed, it was a man-made disaster.

Yu Ziqing clenched his teeth in anger. Regardless of anything, he had to find a way to kill the being in the Extremely Cold Forbidden Land.

He is pursuing the power of death? Then send him to die.

"Do you know anything else?

This matter, I can overlook, and if your information team provides significant help, I will even find a way to find a new path for your family."

Wei Tai shook his head; he didn't know anything further.

At this moment, Wei Jing spoke in a deep voice.

"Not a single predecessor from the Wei clan for more than ten generations who fell in the Extremely Cold Forbidden Land underwent corpse transformation.

The previous old family head was the first one.

And about this transformation into a zombie, I recall a record left by a long-gone family head.

He said he once saw a zombie named Li Qiu, who possessed a power very similar to ours."

"What was it called?" Yu Ziqing was taken aback.

"Li Qiu, the 'Li' of parting and 'Qiu' of autumn."

Yu Ziqing exclaimed, Ruan Renwang?

He suddenly remembered Ba...

Hiss, Yu Ziqing felt as if he had discovered something incredible, what does this mean?

Do all Big Zombies originate from the same source?

Did the collapse of that being's rank in the Extremely Cold Forbidden Land open the way for the Big Zombies?

Who was the first Big Zombie?