Qu Jianlei could not be blamed for worrying, because he knew that the compass at the core of Ugly Tree Root was not the Fate Compass.
What lay within the compass was a true meaning even higher than fate. Otherwise, the Evil Spirit might not necessarily have... become evil and strange.
When he realized that, he was especially glad he had opened the Array Plate inside the Abode.
At the time, he had hardly dared believe his own guess, but even divination produced no result, which basically allowed him to confirm it.
Aside from the elusive and intangible Creation, what kind of existence could make even the Dao Stele grow restless?
As for why the compass had anything to do with Creation, Qu Jianlei had a slight guess, but he was not very certain.
In any case, he did not want to reveal this gain.
Then he kept half of Ugly Tree Root as well, feeling that doing so was enough to give everyone an explanation.
Unexpectedly, these True Venerables had sharper eyes than the last.
The compass had not been very large to begin with, a little over two meters in diameter, and its edges had been tightly wrapped in dense tree roots.
The nearby tree roots had already been steeped in the compass's aura. For that reason, he had even dug out a cavity twenty meters in diameter.
What Qu Jianlei had thought was that as long as he collected the roots contaminated with that aura, the matter would be settled.
Even if everyone guessed there might be something fishy here, perhaps some unknown treasure, who could really argue over it?
He had taken out half of Ugly Tree Root and divided a share among everyone, which should have been a happy ending for all.
Yet he had