Master of Strange Dao

Yu Ziqing thought for a long time and observed for a while but did not find any problems.

It might be because he hadn't come across anything new on the path of Refining God for a very long time.

Having now witnessed that brilliant road and seen Cliff Divine King Zhan Dao, he felt as though he'd turned back into a young novice just starting his journey, which was understandable.

Everything seemed just as it used to be. Yu Ziqing, carrying the Book of Human Faces, entered a Dadui Seal, unlocked the sealing of the golden book, and carefully examined what was inside.

The former aliases of Cliff Divine King had all been destroyed; what remained weren't aliases, and Yu Ziqing was afraid that the guy had buried traps inside.

While researching here, if anything goes wrong, at worst, he'll simply destroy everything in this seal.

The seal he chose was inherently a disaster seal targeting individuals, originally designed to annihilate the sealed targets through violence.

On every page of the golden book, there was a face with closed eyes.

Quickly, Yu Ziqing noticed something different.

Some faces were peaceful, lively, and appeared like living people when looked at.

Others were filled with death qi, but through sensing, it felt as though these faces burdened more mysteries.

Yu Ziqing carefully sensed for a while and roughly confirmed.

The former were White Water Eggs still alive, while the latter were already dead.

The ones with vitality seemed, like sleeping faces, to only carry what they had been before turning into White Water Eggs.

Those filled with death qi, appearing like corpse faces, didn't just carry their past before turning into White Water Eggs but also their entirety.

After turning into White Water Eggs, and dying, everything would be sacrificed according to the rules.

It's the imprint of life, but the power has been thoroughly consumed, leaving only a "corpse" behind today.

A living being's entirety has turned into power, consumed by the Cliff Divine King.

No wonder Cliff Divine King was so pleased; most faces here were dead faces, accumulated perhaps over countless years.

Living White Water Eggs constituted a small proportion among all White Water Eggs through the ages.

Without the value of being used as aliases, Cliff Divine King likely ignored them.

The last type might be the only one Cliff Divine King cared about.

It was a semi-transparent face, and Yu Ziqing recognized it at once — that was the face of the New Emperor Qian.

It seems that the New Emperor Qian used his face as Painted Skin on the surface, but that face wasn't complete.

His visible face has form without spirit, so he can only use it as Painted Skin.

As he flipped through, Yu Ziqing again came across a transparent face, though it was also filled with death qi, with the power inside long absorbed and depleted by Cliff Divine King.

In the next moment, Yu Ziqing's pupils suddenly widened, and he leaned back in shock.

He examined the face for a long time, becoming increasingly astounded as he looked.

This face was identical to Shi's.

How could it be? How could Shi's face be here?

If this were Shi, how could Cliff Divine King give it up so easily?

No, even if it weren't Shi, a semi-transparent face of this kind wouldn't be handed over so readily by Cliff Divine King.

Why? Why is this?

Yu Ziqing was utterly bewildered.

Was this a trap? Was this face not really Shi's but a pit set by Cliff Divine King?

Or... was Cliff Divine King unaware that he had this semi-transparent face in his possession?

He just traded all "faces" and pasts according to the transaction content?

This face, which he might have forgotten about, was also encompassed in "all of them."

If this were indeed part of a trap laid by Shi, asking Shi himself should yield answers.

Yu Ziqing calmed himself a bit, then turned the page.

He couldn't go see Shi; ever since he had one interaction with Shi, Yu Ziqing hadn't gone back, even though he'd cultivated the Dayan Preface to the fifth Great Realm. He didn't go.

Just like Dayan Preface itself was reminding him or resisting him.

Since Shi hadn't truly perished, does Cliff Divine King also know this fact?

Was this semi-transparent face intentionally handed over as a trap?

Yu Ziqing could only temporarily suppress this matter; without understanding it, he wouldn't act rashly.

If something went wrong, it might turn into an irreversible major issue.

First, he followed the routine, contemplating whether New No.5 and the others wanted their faces and pasts back.

As for what to return to the New Emperor Qian, wait a bit more; it's not time yet. It's not that easy to give it to him.

Yu Ziqing wanted to first see if he could glimpse the pasts carried on these faces.

If by chance the New Emperor Qian's past was filled with familial love and devotion, returning those might lead him to awaken and betray, which would be a disaster.

Yu Ziqing found a very young face, likely turned into a White Water Egg not long ago, perhaps among the last batch of White Water Eggs.

Touching its brow, attempting to glimpse its carried past, finding only a haze and chaos.

There were just some intense emotional fluctuations inside.

After pondering slightly, Yu Ziqing closed the golden book, resealing it, and left An History Book.

Upon coming out, An History Book seemed to be throwing a tantrum, closing the booklet with a loud bang.

"I have been forced to start borrowing Divine Dynasty's power for cultivation; don't you think things have gotten severe to the point that I barely have time to pay you heed?"

Yu Ziqing sighed heavily with sincerity.