Master of Strange Dao

Yu Ziqing extended his hand, and a black fire appeared between the fingers of his middle finger, quietly burning.

This is the external manifestation of the Divine Skills - retribution.

At this moment, Yu Ziqing felt a sense of irony, it truly was retribution.

If it weren't for Old Emperor Qian secretly causing trouble, affecting those mortals he'd never lower his head to look at, causing large-scale celestial changes, triggering disasters, leading to famines, and starving countless people.

Back then, the situation was dire within tens of thousands of miles, even hundreds of thousands of miles, everything withered.

With the Wilderness not under the Divine Dynasty's control, panic spread, further exacerbating the disaster's impact.

Yu Ziqing, a mere mortal, how could he possibly survive when even the bark and grass roots were gnawed away by the starving people and animals, and then walk out of the thousands of miles on foot?

And with Yu Ziqing not starving to death, naturally there wouldn't be any hungry ghosts appearing.

Yang hadn't Entered Dao at that time, had nothing at hand to use, and no strong guardian to protect, to those powerful, he was just an ordinary mortal, Yang must have been doomed to die back then.

And without Yang, even if Yu Ziqing managed to live upon reaching Jinlan Mountain, he would be just a mortal for a very long time, and couldn't start successfully.

Ultimately, it wouldn't have developed into what it is now.

Their narrow escape from disaster was Old Emperor Qian's retribution.

Yu Ziqing is certainly going to personally beat Old Emperor Qian to death in the future.

He probably wouldn't think in his dreams that the root of everything was those senselessly dead mortals he'd never looked down at.

Yu Ziqing gazed at the black fire on his fingertip, grinning strangely.

He believes in retribution, at least he hopes there is retribution, otherwise he wouldn't possess such Divine Skills.

Thinking of the suffering back then, hungry to the point of scratching the gut, eventually unable to even breathe easily, as if giving up breathing would make it a bit easier, and finally struggling desperately between eating meat and starvation.

Just slightly recalling it, Yu Ziqing found it hard to control himself as his emotions began to churn violently.

Even recalling it afterward, Yu Ziqing couldn't understand how back then his will could maintain a shred of sanity, could endure it.

He could only conclude that it was due to the numerous people like him at that time holding on, supporting one another, even coercing one another, that they could persevere until they could no longer do anything.

Such immense hatred, only now, after so long, could Yu Ziqing maintain his sanity.

"If you can't control it, I'm going to die..." A weak voice from Gou Dan came from nearby.

Yu Ziqing opened his eyes, the pressure in the room was immense, the air was like solidified, Gou Dan was sticking to the corner of the wall, his face turned pig liver colored, he was about to suffocate.

The formation set up here was on the verge of collapsing, about to be burst by Yu Ziqing's leaking energy.

Yu Ziqing took a deep breath, controlled the boiling Qi-Blood in his body, and slowly calmed down.

He looked at Gou Dan, with so many questions he wanted to ask.

"He went to all this trouble just to negotiate with the Yang Devil? Doesn't he find it too much trouble?"

"I only do the tasks given to me. You wouldn't think just because I used to be his incarnation, he would make everything known to me, right?"

"Just answer my questions."

"Then I don't know, actually I also feel that merely negotiating with the Yang Devil is indeed not worth making such a big fuss."

"He even planned in advance the manner and location of the fallen Body Cultivator Dao Guardian, does he also know about the chain reactions to follow?"

"He never mentioned." Gou Dan answered very cautiously: "However, personally, I feel that he has clearly planned everything in advance."

Yu Ziqing knew he asked an obvious question, he just wanted to hear a definite answer.

Calming down, noticing Gou Dan wasn't in good condition, ultimately he was just a mortal.

After a moment of silence, Yu Ziqing spoke slowly.

"I still have many questions I want to ask, and these may not be fully answered in a day or two.

Rest well.

If you want to live, I can tell you as long as you answer all my questions.

I won't kill you, nor intentionally disclose your information to your enemies.

But if you expose yourself and someone wants to kill you, I won't stop that either.

Even if I might lose some answers to my questions.

Do you understand?"

"I understand. Before I opened my eyes, I never thought of using these matters to coerce you into doing anything.

Many things, actually only after becoming human now, can I truly understand.

Before then, I couldn't truly feel, couldn't truly comprehend.

Thus, if I want to walk the human path, I must truly become human.

When I answer all the questions, and you kill me, I would still fear and resent.

But, I can understand why."

Gou Dan spoke sincerely, Yu Ziqing didn't say anything, he dug out a bottle of low-grade Pills from years ago, and gave a Pill to replenish Qi-Blood to Gou Dan.

Gou Dan took the Pill, looking exhausted, he fell onto the bed and quickly fell into a deep sleep.

Ultimately, he is a physically weak mortal youth; enduring under Yu Ziqing's spilling momentum without dying already shows a firm resolve.

Yu Ziqing wanted to get to the bottom of Old Emperor Qian's matters at once, but unfortunately, if he pushed further, this guy would probably dare to die in front of him.

Yu Ziqing sat on the chair, thought for a moment, extended his hand, and controlled the disordered room to return to its original state, took away what was destroyed, and cleaned up the leaked energy, only then did he remove the formation of the secret chamber.