Chapter 213: Countermeasures

Zhang Sheng was calm and composed, letting Wei Yuan retell the story again, this time not letting go of any details.

After reviewing, Zhang Sheng said, "There is still a glimmer of hope for this matter. First, the Shaman tribe probably doesn't know yet that you did this and will inevitably investigate carefully. Second, the Shaman tribe has to pay a huge price to cast the Causality Great Curse, even the largest tribes have to use the power of the whole tribe. Therefore, the Shaman tribe has always been extremely cautious in casting the Causality Great Curse; if they don't confirm that you are the culprit, this curse will not fall on you."

"So now we have to start from these two points. On the first point, be as flawless as possible and don't let the Shaman tribe know the truth. But this method can only delay time as much as possible; the Shaman tribe's curse methods are unpredictable, and perhaps there is some way to know the truth by side-attacking. So from now on, you must never reveal this matter to a third person; I will find one or two trustworthy people to discuss countermeasures together."

Wei Yuan nodded; after all, he had just graduated, and in terms of experience and connections, he was far inferior to Zhang Sheng.

Zhang Sheng continued, "The time gained on the first point is to prepare for the second point. Although the Shaman tribe's Causality Great Curse is terrifying, the price is also huge. The first price comes from the consumption of casting the curse; I don't know the specifics, but it consumes more than imaginable. The second comes from the backlash. The Causality Great Curse is also called the Land-Clearing Great Curse by us; it's not without reason."

"Thousands of years ago, a scholar deeply hated the Shaman tribe and wrote many poems and articles to curse the Shaman tribe. This person was a master of literature, and what he left behind were all famous works that survived in the world. Of course, some of the famous sentences are also worth pondering, such as 'The brave man eats Shaman meat when hungry,' which is very unreasonable. For ordinary people to eat Shaman meat, isn't it equivalent to suicide? It would be fine if it were changed to the Northern Liao mountain people, but these two tribes have no enmity with him."

Zhang Sheng habitually began to comment on historical figures.

Wei Yuan's life was at stake, so he coughed a few times, and Zhang Sheng realized it, hurriedly returning to the main topic: "This person's poems flowed into the Shaman tribe and were seen by a Heaven Shaman at the time. The Heaven Shaman was furious and launched the Causality Great Curse regardless of the consequences. As a result, in the hometown where the scholar lived, the population in several counties was less than one in ten, and it truly became a red land for ten thousand miles. The Heaven Shaman didn't expect that one curse would clear out several counties, and the backlash of the resentment and causality of millions of people dying cut off most of the Heaven Shaman's remaining lifespan."

Wei Yuan understood and said, "Does the disciple need to socialize more and make friends with big shots?"

"Just making friends is useless; shallow friendship has no causality; it must be deep friendship. I just pondered the experience of that scholar; he governed six counties at the time, and the people in the governed land lived and worked in peace and contentment, and the prosperity far exceeded the past, and the hearts of the people were directed toward him, only then was there causality."

Wei Yuan pondered, "Then if the people under his rule are living in misery, is there also causality?"

Zhang Sheng nodded, "Of course there is causality, and they will also be killed by the Causality Great Curse. Heaven and Earth are sometimes so unreasonable... Hmm?"

Zhang Sheng suddenly raised his head, the void appeared above, and pure heaven and earth energy poured down, falling into Zhang Sheng's body, letting the fourth immortal sword move from virtual to real, and the progress of warming and nourishing was greatly improved, already approaching perfection.

This was the heaven and earth gift from the Great Shaman, coming earlier than Zhang Sheng imagined, and there was also more of it.

But Wei Yuan beside him had no movement at all. Zhang Sheng was a bit strange and asked, "Did you not get Heavenly Merit?"

"The disciple got four hundred Heavenly Merit."

Zhang Sheng frowned slightly, "I got one thousand two hundred. What was given to you was indeed less, but it shouldn't be that there was no heaven and earth gift at all."

"It should be there, it was all given to Qingming."

This matter was strange, but it involved the affairs of heaven and earth, far exceeding the level of Zhang Sheng and Wei Yuan at this moment, so the two did not discuss it much.

Zhang Sheng said, "Actually, the best way is for you to hide directly in the palace. No matter how strong the Shaman tribe is, they won't throw the Causality Curse directly at the Grand Void Palace's mountain gate. Even if they dare to throw it, it's useless; an ancient Heaven Shaman's head is buried under the Grand Void Palace's mountain gate, and any Shaman curse thrown over will have its effect greatly reduced."

There was such a thing? It's just a pity that Wei Yuan's Dao Foundation was integrated with Qingming, and he couldn't leave unless it was a last resort. The master and apprentice were both people who had broken through countless storms and waves, and they would never do something that would abolish their own martial arts until the last moment.

The big strategy was decided, and Zhang Sheng found Seeing Ji Liuli over; it seemed the Eldest Senior Sister was the person Zhang Sheng trusted most at this time. After Wei Yuan finished telling the whole thing, Seeing Ji Liuli also took a long time to recover, and then her divine sense went around in Wei Yuan's Sea of Consciousness. Her talented Dao Foundation was special and could glimpse the inside of Wei Yuan's Dao Foundation to a limited extent.

After looking, Seeing Ji Liuli fell silent and didn't speak for a long time.

A moment later, Seeing Ji Liuli came back to her senses and sighed, "It really is Yin-Yang! It's only one step away from the chaotic Great Dao when heaven and earth hadn't opened. This is facing the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth! It makes me want to reincarnate and recultivate."

Zhang Sheng broke her fantasy, "Even if you reincarnate ninety-nine times, you won't be able to get this Dao Foundation in this life."

"That's true." Seeing Ji Liuli put away her thoughts and said seriously, "Now we still have to work hard on the first step. The Shaman tribe will definitely calculate, and Yuan'er himself is not afraid of calculation. If I ask the Grandmaster to take action to cover up the heavenly secrets, then the Shaman tribe will be even less able to calculate. But as far as I know, there are very few human race members entering the Nether Cold Realm at present, so the Shaman tribe will sooner or later investigate Little Wei Yuan. At that time, not being able to calculate will be the biggest flaw."

"So I will take action, and Little Wei Yuan will cooperate, appropriately covering up, letting the Shaman tribe spend great effort to crack it, and see what we want them to see, which will instead clear the suspicion. I just went to Little Wei Yuan's Dao Foundation to look, and that Laurel Immortal Branch given by the Tinghai Xianjun not only recovered its vitality but also gained spirituality. Oh, it just stole the heaven and earth gift just now; if you have time in the future, Little Wei Yuan, you must manage it well."

Wei Yuan was stunned; he thought the heaven and earth gift was eaten by Qingming, but he didn't expect the Laurel Immortal Branch to intercept it this time.

Zhang Sheng nodded, "This plan is very good..."

"Little Wei Yuan has grown up, speak human language!" Seeing Ji Liuli interrupted Zhang Sheng.

Zhang Sheng hummed and stopped dropping literary terms, saying, "This method is not bad! The Laurel Immortal Branch has a high enough status and is powerful enough; it was also used to kill a Great Shaman before, and its origin is clear. Even if it suddenly glows with vitality, there are many ways to explain it; of course, the most important thing is that if it is really stimulated by the Yin-Yang Dual Qi, it will be far more than just this bit of vitality."

Seeing Ji Liuli said, "Hmm, after the Shaman tribe successfully probes the Laurel Immortal Branch, they should shift their attention to other directions. Although this matter cannot be told to the Grandmaster, I can ask the Grandmaster to take action to bless Little Wei Yuan with good luck, which can delay for another period of time. Little Wei Yuan, you should seize this time to strengthen your strength and make wide connections with evil fate!"

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The three discussed some details for the next step carefully and then went to arrange them separately. This matter stopped at Zhang Sheng and Seeing Ji Liuli; the Eldest Senior Sister repeatedly emphasized that one must never trust anyone, not even Behind Bao Yun.

Yin-Yang is almost the Dao, and its status is too high; even the Immortal Lords cannot avoid greed. It is different from Wei Yuan's Dao Foundation, the Ten Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains, which has never been seen before, but except for Wei Yuan, others simply cannot control it, nor can they learn from it. If someone else completely practiced according to Wei Yuan's method, it would be hard to say whether they could spend one hundred thousand taels of immortal silver.

But for something like Yin-Yang that is purely close to the Great Dao, there is a glimmer of possibility of being plundered. Even if it is snatched and cannot be used, just learning from it can benefit a lot.

The reason why Zhang Sheng trusts Seeing Ji Liuli, besides knowing her character after many years of getting along, is mainly because the Demon-Suppressing Nine-Fold Pagoda is special enough, and its future potential is infinite. If Seeing Ji Liuli snatched Yin-Yang and reincarnated to recultivate, the probability of achieving a Dao Foundation not as good as the Nine-Fold Pagoda is very high, and the chance of truly forming the Yin-Yang Taiji does not exceed ten percent.

Seeing Ji Liuli is proficient in calculation and naturally will not give up the ready-made Nine-Fold Pagoda to gamble on an ethereal opportunity. Otherwise, Zhang Sheng really wouldn't dare to gamble on her character.

Wei Yuan returned to his room and sorted out his thoughts. The first step was temporarily unrelated to him; now he had to work hard on the second step.

So Wei Yuan prepared pen and ink, took out a piece of jade paper, raised his pen and pondered for a moment, and wrote on the paper:

"Brother Li Zhi:

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