Chapter 544: They wanted to kill someone with a borrowed knife

Over the past year, we have repeatedly conducted a deep analysis of what is happening now, from the initial Four Great Ferocious Beast Formation Array, to the Great Witch, to Dìluán, and then to Dìshì.

But in fact, it was only now that I truly understood everything.

Everything originates from this 'evil bone'.

Dìshì was once only one step away from ascending to become the Solar Divine Bird.

If he had not created killing karma back then, when the first golden true feather grew, continuing to rely on the Ancient Feng Clan's incense offerings and merit blessings, perhaps his second and third true feathers would have already grown.

After all, Dìshì is also a member of the Ancient Feng Clan.

For such a united clan, if there is hope to produce a Solar Divine Bird, who would not be willing to lend a helping hand?

If Dìshì had not chosen the wrong path, he would have received the support of the entire Ancient Feng Clan.

He would become the Solar Divine Bird, a god looked up to by all, towering above the mundane world.

What should have been a sure-win situation was ruined by his poor play of a good hand.

Precisely because he had once been extremely close to that moment, yet missed it with great regret, Dìshì feels this unwillingness and will use every means to try to obtain it again.

This is Dìshì's obsession.

But many things are like this—once easily obtained, once lost, regaining them is as difficult as climbing to heaven.

Without the support of the Ancient Feng Clan, he not only has to cultivate the remaining two golden true feathers himself, but more importantly, he must find every way to suppress the huge influence the evil bone exerts on him.

He used the evil bone to shape a Dìluán, promoting him to become the Right Protector of the Feng Clan, continuing to receive the Feng Clan's incense offerings and merit cleansing.

In the Zàng Qū, he created conditions for Dìluán to receive Buddhist instruction, purifying the great evil and wickedness of the evil bone.

He even set his sights on the White Dragon's eighth po and the Dahui Chan Master's eighth po; I think, if conditions were suitable, these eighth pos would all become vessels for the evil bone.

And now, he has found a vessel better than the eighth po… the little guy in my belly.

After settling the evil bone, what Dìshì needs to do next is to enact the scene depicted in the carving on the back of the screen wall in the underground cave.

How did that formation array come about?

Seven Halls Yama said that back then, he suffered Dìshì's retaliation precisely because he had investigated this matter.

The confidant who had been lurking beside Seven Halls Yama at that time was probably an emanation of one of Dìshì's avatars.

He is truly omnipresent.

Seven Halls Yama said that at the time he discovered that the Feng Clan had a team that had researched a prescription, and that prescription, as seen today, should be exactly what is depicted in that carving.

In short, it's about gathering corpses to compound medicine.

It requires extracting a phoenix fetus, yin bone, cinnabar spirit bone, Buddha's bone relic, etc., and through some witchcraft method to cleanse the great evil and wickedness of the evil bone.

Where did this prescription come from? What was it researched based on?

Now it seems that it was derived from the ancient witchcraft that Dìshì awakened from A Cheng's mind.

Including the five chapters of the dream-weaving witchcraft that he cultivated, as well.

However, he is ultimately not A Cheng; lacking A Cheng's talent, he only learned half of it, causing him to produce such great side effects on the victim's main body when tampering with memories.

Dìshì has already reached the final step; wanting to stop his scheme from the source is fundamentally impossible.

Then let's 'praise-kill' him.

Let's gamble and see whether heaven will accept Dìshì or choose us.

A Cheng looked even more troubled after hearing my words.

I took A Cheng's hand and said, "A Cheng, first come back with me to the Feng Clan; I'll first take you to see my aunt, then we'll go together to see Seven Halls Yama, after which I'll bring you back to Dang Pu, the place you've been to, which is my home now and also yours."

A Cheng was willing to leave the small mountain with me.

But what I didn't expect was that, when I said goodbye to my aunt and was about to meet Liu Junyan, A Cheng refused to go with me.

He said, "Older sister, I don't like crowded places; I'd rather stay in the Feng Clan, and I still need to look for eyes every day."

Eyes are the carrier A Cheng uses to maintain his memory.

But I know this is just his excuse; his bag already holds an unknown number of eyes, so in the short term he doesn't need to work so hard to find more eyes.

Perhaps he's used to being alone and for a while still can't adapt to our communal life at Dang Pu.

Fortunately, he is willing to stay by my aunt's side.

Tang Xun took A Cheng's hand, smiling and saying to me, "A Cheng wants to stay in the Feng Clan; let him stay, Xiao Jiu—I'll take good care of A Cheng."

I nodded repeatedly: "Okay, aunt, after we work out the next steps with Seven Halls Yama, I'll come back."

Leaving the Feng Clan, I went straight to Hu Shan.

My aunt said that Seven Halls Yama had sent word over, and he and Liu Junyan are currently at Hu Shan.

Seven Halls Yama has already taken the second Diyin pill, and his overall condition has basically returned to normal.

Feeling his fierce aura, I again recalled my aunt's evaluation of Seven Halls Yama: she said he is now 'very crazy'.

Where is he crazy? He looks perfectly normal to me.

Perhaps only in front of those closest to him does he reveal his innermost side.

Seven Halls Yama did not choose to discuss the upcoming matters with us in the Seven Halls Yama Hall; I realized that during this period he must have been striving for something, perhaps encountering a setback, so now he also has defenses against the Seven Halls Yama Hall.

The Seven Halls Yama Hall belongs to the Nether Realm, while Hu Shan has only one hegemon.

"A few days ago, I sent up several memorials exposing the matter of Wǎngsǐ Chéng from back then, but after sending them out there was no news at all; I can't even be sure whether the superiors received my memorials."

The 'superiors' that Seven Halls Yama referred to likely means the Five Direction Ghost Emperors and the Dongyue Great Emperor, etc.

The various forces in the Nether Realm are intricately intertwined, forming their own system.

Once Seven Halls Yama's memorial is accepted, it will pull the whole body into motion.

If the matter of Dìshì could be suppressed by just one faction, he would not have survived to today.

I asked, bewildered: "What on earth is Dìshì's background? Why does it feel as if the entire Nether Realm is protecting him?"

From top to bottom, it seems only Seven Halls Yama is a 'thorny one'; the rest, over thousands of years, have tacitly chosen to turn a blind eye to Dìshì's affairs.

It feels that moving against Dìshì would have an impact on the Nether Realm that is even greater than the current impact.

You should know, Dìshì's true body is trapped on the execution platform of Wǎngsǐ Chéng, and after a period of time he will encounter heavenly tribulation, releasing a Fēnshēn.

Although the vast majority of Fēnshēn vanish upon appearance, this matter itself is enough to stir the entire Nether Realm, right?

Liu Junyan said: "The Nether Realm not moving against Dìshì might still be related to the evil boneheads; they aren't unwilling to act against Dìshì, but want to borrow a knife to kill someone……"