CHAPTER 623: CHAPTER 114_9

But when I saw you appear, I knew I was mistaken.

A person who could set up an array with a Yin Yang Array Eye must have profound mastery of arrays. How could they make such a basic mistake in setting up an array meant to suppress evil spirits?

Unless, it was intentional.

You intentionally targeted this demon here, choosing to suppress but not destroy, because you had your own agenda."

Li Zhiyuan raised his head and looked at the sky, which was dark above him within the array.

"Yu Xuzi, if I’m not wrong, did you set up this array to deceive the Heavenly Dao?"

Yu Xuzi remained silent.

"You have your own plans for this demon, you want to merge with it, but you are afraid of divine punishment, so you deliberately set up this situation to explain it to the Heavenly Dao.

This way, you can accumulate merit while achieving your goal without delay.

Honestly, I’ve seen a few people who try to deceive Heavenly Dao, but you are the first I’ve seen who is willing to invest so much.

But what I don’t understand is, the life energy of this fish is almost depleted here, are you merging with it so slowly? Has it really taken you this long?

Like this time, as sixty years are about to pass, you sent those fish out, attempting to eradicate the descendants of your three disciples who remained there, preventing them from performing the blood bowl ritual.

But Zhengmen Village has been in decline for almost three hundred years, even if you had completed the merging fifty-nine years ago, it still took you over two hundred years.

Does it really take that long?"

Yu Xuzi spoke, "Since my self-imposed confinement here, I only spent forty years mastering the merge with the demon, making my consciousness dominate over its."

"Forty years and you succeeded? Then logically, after the first sixty years, you should have been able to break the seal. Couldn’t you communicate with the outside then? Your three original disciples should not have all died yet? Even if they had, their second-generation descendants should still remember you, the Grandmaster."

This array, based on a cycle of sixty years, only needed to prevent those three disciples and their descendants from performing the next round of the blood bowl ritual, and the array would cease functioning, no longer suppressing the demon.

That means, Yu Xuzi had twenty years to communicate with the outside world, even if he couldn’t send direct messages, he could dispatch those small fishes.

Yu Xuzi: "Forty years later, those three rebellious disciples were still alive, all living nearby, but when I sent them messages, they thought it was the demon impersonating me, bewitching them."

"You didn’t tell those three disciples your real intentions? Oh, right, if you want to keep something from the Heavenly Dao, the less people know the better.

And then, since they mistook you, their master, for a demon, as their master, you probably wouldn’t show mercy, would you?

Like those fish, certainly, it wasn’t the first time they were sent out."

"The three rebellious disciples still had some skills; they dealt with the fish themselves."

At this moment, Li Zhiyuan thought of the three mountains, and the special nature of Xue, Zheng, Zeng three families in Min’an Town.

"It seems, not only did they deal with the fish you sent to harm them, but they also took it as a warning, setting up more mechanisms for future generations to continue the cycle of this Sixty-Year array.

Let me guess, was there a long period when you couldn’t locate any of the three families?

It appears they no longer live here, having moved away long ago. However, every sixty years, their descendants would appear with the blood bowl, effectively renewing the sentence for your prisoner, right?"

Yu Xuzi was silent.

Li Zhiyuan knew, he had guessed correctly.

"Daoist, this is where you went wrong. If you were only performing to deceive the Heavenly Dao and thinking of eventually getting out, why would you arrange for three such competent disciples to undertake this task?"

Yu Xuzi answered, "When I came here, I intentionally brought my three most mediocre and untalented disciples."

This time, Li Zhiyuan fell silent.

Yu Xuzi laughed.

In his laughter, there was sorrow, helplessness, anger, reluctance, and a bit of satisfaction that came with being a master.

He made a mistake, having brought the three most foolish disciples thinking he could easily escape from here.

But unexpectedly, the three most foolish disciples, ultimately had a late blooming of significant talent.

The setup by their ancestral tombs, prompting dreams to descendants, even Li Zhiyuan found novel.

And the concept of dividing one Min’an Town into three, each family situated in different Min’an Towns, impressed even Li Zhiyuan, making him feel honored.

That was why the three of them intended to stay here to seal the demon, requiring their descendants to also root here to inherit the responsibility of the seal. Otherwise, these three families at their peak were truly qualified to make names for themselves in the Xuanmen array circles, and he, might even be able to find their array manuscripts in the basement of the Grand Master’s House.

It’s truly a pity, an even greater pity that they couldn’t escape the cyclic law of history, with their families gradually declining, and their closed and secluded family rules only accelerated this decline.

Like Xue Liangliang, he had no idea that his ancestors were also from the Xuanmen.

Otherwise, when he initially went to meet the Bai Family’s Lady by the river, he might have been able to discuss seniority.

The decline of family inheritance is one aspect, the new societal lifestyle is also a significant driving factor.