Master of Strange Dao

"Revealing your true colors, aren't you?

Still trying to impose those rotten ideals on me?

If no one comes to entertain me, I'm leaving."

Just as Yu Ziqing was about to sever the connection, he saw a bubble rise in the blood sea.

From the churning blood sea, a small girl, barely half a person's height with thin arms and legs, slowly emerged.

"What exactly do you want to do?"

The little girl seemed somewhat annoyed.

"You're asking me? It's not about what I want to do, it's about what you want to do.

You're the one painstakingly corrupting Yakou's ideals, right?

You deities are so amusing, how come none of you can rest in peace even in death?

Wouldn't it be better to just die completely and honestly?

Oh, sorry, I forgot, you bastards can't even manage that yourselves.

And you specifically choose this form, just to elicit sympathy?

This tactic is too low-level, you'd be better off assuming your monumental true form, terrifying and grasping my neck to force my consent."

Yu Ziqing started with a burst of sarcasm, and the little girl stared at him with a calm face for quite a while.

"This is how I appear to humans.

Descendant of the Primordial Lord, you needn't disguise before me.

You people, what you think, what you do, it's never truly aligned with your actual goals.

Let's talk openly."

Yu Ziqing's eyes slightly narrowed, his mind quickly filled with various thoughts.

How does this guy know I've studied the Dayan Preface?

Can this Dharma Method be discerned from the surface?

Or did this dog already know about me beforehand?

"Disguising what? I've never disguised.

There's nothing to discuss, the Great Mistake can no longer be stopped, nor do I wish to.

Besides, neither I nor my people have many Qi Refining cultivators.

Worst case, we all transition to Body Refinement."

"I merely wish to return, and the only way for me to do so is through the portal.

My true form has long been destroyed, my rank shattered, and my power nearly exhausted.

For my return, the Great Mistake needs to be exhausted, and you all can dispel it.

This is also a trial, an immensely beneficial trial.

Even if I return, I pose no threat to you.

By your human standards, my power might only be Seventh Tier.

Are you truly willing to risk everyone's inability to refine Qi to stop my return?"

"It's not us, it's me. If I say nothing, no one else will even know about this."

The little girl's expression froze immediately.

Who's stirring up trouble here?

She just wants to come back, and the pervading Great Mistake is merely a process; once she's back, it will disperse.

Yet seeing Yu Ziqing's demeanor, he's clearly prepared to say nothing, waiting for the spread to doom all Qi Refining cultivators without stopping.

This was completely outside all expectations.

"If you want to talk, at least show some sincerity by introducing yourself, rather than appearing as a little girl to lower my guard."

"What I say is true; here I can't even lie..."

Yu Ziqing didn't listen to the rest; he turned and left, severing the connection without another word.

Opening his eyes, Yu Ziqing glanced at the Evil Dao youth still holding onto life, and grinned.

"Thank you for your concern, I'm fine, I haven't inherited those rotten ideals.

Since you're not dead yet, it's perfect; you tried to harm me, so I'll borrow your life for a bit, no problem?"

The rusty sword in Yu Ziqing's embrace had completely shed its rust.

Yu Ziqing didn't immediately make a move; he was pondering that unknown deity he just encountered.

Even if what the other party said was true.

First, the other party's form, it looks weak, but it's just appearance.

As for the realm, the so-called only Seventh Tier, Yu Ziqing had something to say about that.

Because having cultivated in the Dao Court, Yu Ziqing was still stuck at Seventh Tier.

The plan was to wait until the Dao Court also reached Seventh Tier Peak before advancing together.

So these words about tier level comparisons, Yu Ziqing never took seriously.

On Jinlan Mountain, strength and danger are not evaluated by realm alone.

Second, this guy knows Yu Ziqing.

For a once-deity who lost its true form and shattered its rank, it's normal to know Yu Ziqing.

After all, Yu Ziqing rescuing people from the Mud Sea of the Muddied World was well-known.

But needing the Great Mistake to open the portal for return, that's very different from the bastards in the Mud Sea of the Muddied World, vastly different.

The current state of the other party must be a severely restrictive state, possibly worse than the former Yang-destroying Devil.

Just relying on some insignificant Evil Dao, there's no reason for them to know him and seem quite familiar.

This level of familiarity has surpassed publicly available information.

Third, from start to finish, unwilling to reveal identity, true name, etc.

It only proves that this former identity is particularly sensitive, and revealing it would ruin big plans.

Having sorted out these doubts, Yu Ziqing glanced at the stubborn Evil Dao youth unwilling to accept that Yu Ziqing hadn't inherited the ideals.

He sealed him up.

This was an excellent trophy, and in the inheritance, there was naturally a part that belonged to this Evil Dao youth.

One could even say, when the inheritance was on the Evil Dao youth, it was a part of him.

This time drawing the sword would definitely be a high-score judgment.

This had been verified from the encounter with the White Sun Holy Mother back then.

Yu Ziqing glanced at the nearby Yang-destroying Devil.

"Did you sense anything?"

"No, weren't you asking me to witness something?"

"You didn't sense anything? Just now, another deity contacted me, and you didn't sense it?" Yu Ziqing asked in disbelief.

"I'm not omnipotent." The Yang-destroying Devil replied as a matter of course.

"Alright then, let me ask you, do you know of such a former deity."

Yu Ziqing described the doubts he had extracted as characteristics to the Yang-destroying Devil.

Adding everything like the Great Mistake and the portal as traits as well.

After listening, the Yang-destroying Devil shook its head.

"I have no impression, I can't recall, my memories are all incomplete, and I am incomplete as well.

The only one who might know these things is that one in the Void.

But listening to what you said, going to such lengths for a return, it's definitely not an ordinary minor deity.

It must've been a presence among the ranks of all gods from back then; which one exactly, I'm not sure.

Because now and then might be completely disconnected.

Just like me."

Yu Ziqing was silent for a moment.

"I want a list of all gods, can you list them all without missing anyone?"

"I'll have to think about it, because some folks really did have their methods found and were killed, obliterated to the point where not even their names remain."

"It doesn't matter if their names are forgotten, random code names and introductions will do."

"That's simple."

The Yang-destroying Devil had no psychological burden selling out its former teammates.

This list, perhaps in the earliest time, wasn't a secret, but now, it's a great secret itself, and people who know this list could probably be counted on one hand.

The Yang-destroying Devil didn't say it out loud, instead transmitting substantial information directly to Yu Ziqing, listing the ranks of all gods.

Whether with names or just once-known names.

He wasn't sure who the other party was, so he would use the most cumbersome elimination method.

The Yang-destroying Devil could be certain the other party was indeed among all gods, that was sufficient.

On the first pass, Yu Ziqing excluded more than half of the targets from the list.

For example, someone like the Seven Yin King, surely at first glance, was immediately excluded.

And the Cliff Divine King, sitting there squatting, was definitely also excluded.

The Yang-destroying Devil itself was certainly excluded as well.

Others like the Heavenly Devil King, under the ground cave, taking the Mountain Lord's blows, were obviously excluded too.

In the end, what remained, with a slight possibility, was less than five.

Looking at the remaining names, Yu Ziqing furrowed his brows slightly, got up to send the Yang-destroying Devil back to the small temple, and headed to the ground cave again; he wanted to have a chat with the Mountain Lord.