Death Game: Starting as a fraudster, pretending to be a god

#672 - Spider Demon, Liu Zhen, Xie Chong

"Senior is truly courageous," Lin Yu praised upon hearing the other party's words. "To actually come up with a method that could lead to complete annihilation with just one wrong step, Senior truly deserves to be called righteous!"

"It's just my duty; I can't just watch this Demon Lord wreak havoc on the world," Xuan Yunzi sighed. "But my cultivation is not deep enough. Even if I risk half my life and cripple my own supernatural powers, I can only block the four backup plans for its resurrection."

"And to quickly restore my cultivation and prevent accidents, I had no choice but to make a 'Dao Oath' that my cultivation can only be used against demons and monsters in the future."

As Xuan Yunzi spoke, Lin Yu nodded.

Shen Bingmiao's information mentioned the "Dao Oath." Among experts in magic and the Daoist sects, one can obtain certain improvements by making a "Dao Oath"—but it cannot create something from nothing or exceed one's ability limit, and it often comes at a great cost.

"No wonder Senior, you can't take action against those bandits."

Lin Yu said softly.

Xuan Yunzi sighed and said, "It is difficult and full of obstacles to do the right thing… Although I also want a perfect solution, I always have to make trade-offs."

After a conversation between the two, the remaining players no longer had any doubts about Xuan Yunzi.

Although this old Daoist was indeed suspicious, now that they had come to this Daoist temple, every doubt had been explained clearly.

This old Daoist is indeed a good person from a famous and upright sect, who cares about the world and its people.

Therefore, Snowy Owl also cupped his fist and stepped forward.

"I was offensive earlier, but I still have a question."

"What is the relationship between this Thousand-Eyed, Thousand-Threaded Demon Lord and Xie Chong and Liu Zhen?"

"I only know that the connection between the three is very close, but I don't know the specifics."

Lin Yu was very pleased to hear Snowy Owl ask this.

It was inconvenient for him to ask these questions directly, after all, Lin Yu's persona was already set.

He was also a patriot who came for Xie Chong's remnant body and the spider demon. Although he didn't understand the situation, if he didn't understand it to the point of being almost completely ignorant, it would be difficult to gain Xuan Yunzi's trust.

The two sides were mutually suspicious and probing—the players initially distrusted Xuan Yunzi, but Xuan Yunzi would also definitely have reservations about the players.

But he really needed to find out the truth from Xuan Yunzi—Snowy Owl's direct questioning of what Lin Yu wanted to know saved Lin Yu a lot of trouble.

Sure enough, Xuan Yunzi pondered slightly upon hearing Snowy Owl's question.

"It is indeed difficult for ordinary people to deduce the connection…"

"The connection between Liu Zhen and this Thousand-Eyed, Thousand-Threaded Demon Lord is because the founder of my Taiqing Sect first discovered this Thousand-Eyed, Thousand-Threaded Demon Lord, who was hiding in Liu Zhen."

"The Liu Zhen at that time was not the same as the Liu Zhen today—hundreds of years ago, Liu Zhen was the number one town in Fire Prison. Even in the entire Two Mountains and Six Prisons, it was a rare, rich, and prosperous town."

Lin Yu nodded. This point was not difficult to see from the architecture of Liu Zhen. That place was much more luxurious than Chenjiabao.

Xuan Yunzi continued, "At that time, when the Thousand-Eyed, Thousand-Threaded Demon Lord was born, the founder was invited to go and crusade against it. At that time, all the martial arts and Daoist experts, and even many heretical magicians, took action."

"They fought with the Thousand-Eyed, Thousand-Threaded Demon Lord for a long time, but every time they paid a heavy price to kill the Thousand-Eyed, Thousand-Threaded Demon Lord, they would find that it was just an avatar puppet!"

"Before long, the Thousand-Eyed, Thousand-Threaded Demon Lord would be born again."

"Although the heroes at that time had already deduced the 'Causal Thread' supernatural power of this Thousand-Eyed, Thousand-Threaded Demon Lord, they had not found a countermeasure…"

"Until my family's founder led the Taiqing Sect people to track down the true body of this Thousand-Eyed, Thousand-Threaded Demon Lord, which was hidden in Liu Zhen!"

"Originally, he planned to lead the Taiqing Sect people to retreat first and call for righteous friends to come and help, but he didn't expect that this intention would be directly seen through by the Thousand-Eyed, Thousand-Threaded Demon Lord, who immediately trapped the founder and the Taiqing Sect people in Liu Zhen!"

"The two sides launched a protracted great battle in Liu Zhen, which ended with the victory of the founder."

"However… the price was that the entire Liu Zhen sank underground, and no one in the town survived!"

The Taiqing founder hundreds of years ago and the current Xuan Yunzi would feel guilty for not being strong enough and not doing well enough when faced with the situation where they could not save more people.

Seeing this scene, Gao Shan seemed to think of many friends in reality, so he comforted Xuan Yunzi: "Daoist Priest also said just now that there are few perfect solutions in the world…"

As he said this, Xuan Yunzi then smiled bitterly.

"Indeed… And this is the origin of the Thousand-Eyed, Thousand-Threaded Demon Lord and Liu Zhen."

"Although the founder seemed to have made arrangements to prevent future disciples from unknowingly following the path of 'Causal Threads', there are no too detailed records. Based on the founder's brief records and instructions and my observations over the years, I also know… The Thousand-Eyed, Thousand-Threaded Demon Lord should have merged himself with the past of 'Liu Zhen'!"

"This is the reason why it cannot be killed—it has been operating silently for I don't know how many generations, has already manipulated the living souls of all the people in Liu Zhen, and rewritten the past of all of them, binding its life with the millions of people in Liu Zhen… And at that time, Liu Zhen, as the largest town, had causal entanglements that almost spread throughout the Two Mountains and Six Prisons."

"Therefore, to kill it, unless the concept of 'Liu Zhen' completely disappears—this is also the final order issued by the founder. He should have arranged manpower to erase all arrangements of this Liu Zhen in the world."

"And this… is also why this spider has been restless more and more frequently recently, because Liu Zhen is really about to disappear," Xuan Yunzi said here, and couldn't help but reveal a look of anticipation on his face, "As long as this continues, in another hundred years… no, perhaps in a few decades, it will completely lose all means of resurrection!"

"Especially since a senior also had 'Liuzhen' renamed 'Liu Zhen' hundreds of years ago, which should also have been done by someone who knew the secret of this matter back then."

Speaking of this, Xuan Yunzi paused: "However, that Thousand-Eyed, Thousand-Threaded Demon Lord is not an ordinary demon after all, so naturally it is impossible to sit still and wait for death."

"This also brings us back to that 'Xie Chong' who stirred up the Jianghu turmoil!"