A Name Before Death, Affairs After

In the corridor outside, the maid was comforting Zeng Ruyu.

Zeng Ruyu did not understand why, in his final moments, her father had chosen to see Zhou You first instead of his own daughter.

The father-in-law and son-in-law spoke in the study for a long while.

Zeng Ruyu wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, somewhat comforted to see that Zhou You and Master Zeng got along so well.

Inside the room...

Zhou You looked at Master Zeng with complicated feelings. This Fuji Dao Master had been ruthless and merciless. In pursuit of the ultimate secrets of the Great Dao, he had not hesitated to sacrifice the living beings of the six northern provinces. Aristocratic clans and commoners were all the same in his eyes.

The great war that had swept the shamans and the Central Plains had, it could be said, all been orchestrated by his own hand.

Countless people hated him so bitterly that they wished to eat his flesh and sleep upon his hide. That hatred had fallen upon the Fuji Organization, ultimately leading to the heroes joining forces to besiege it and its eventual destruction.

Yet at the same time, he had been a renowned elder of the Golden Immortal Path and an unmatched master of seal script.

The renowned seal-script masters personally trained by the Fuji Dao Master were too numerous to count. Zhou You was one of his disciples as well. The foundations he had laid for Zhou You were exceedingly solid, providing the source from which Zhou You later soared.

Yet a thousand calculations and ten thousand schemes could not withstand a single spear through the chest. When a man died, the lamp went out.

Master Zeng's aura was weak, but his eyes brimmed with hope as he looked at Zhou