Bodhi Patriarch, seated atop Mount Fangcun, watched the entire process as Zhang Chen and the others made their way to the Sunken Ghost Realm and met with Ghost Mound.
With the outer barrier of the Sunken Ghost Realm shattered, Bodhi could now clearly see, without any effort, that the four of them were attempting to open the seal he cared about most within the Sunken Ghost Realm.
"Master, aren't we going to stop them? You specifically instructed us that, before the great war ended, no one was to touch anything inside the Sunken Ghost Realm."
An older disciple beside Bodhi Patriarch, whose beard had likewise turned white, asked the question.
"A master can change his mind. At first, I believed that the thing once suppressed by the Ghost King posed enough of a threat to move even Azathoth. Azathoth would not dare bring it out lightly, either. Otherwise, the Death Spirits would easily suffer the backlash of that dark thing.
"However, not long ago, while dreaming, my Great Evolution Method happened to reach a transcendent state. Taking that opportunity, I made a deduction regarding the dark thing and vaguely saw that the substance filled with darkness seemed to have countless ties to Zhang Chen."
"Master, didn't you say Zhang Chen was the Ghost King's reincarnation? Wouldn't it be inevitable for them to be connected?" the senior disciple pressed.
"Not so, not so! The connection I speak of is not one of suppression, and Zhang Chen is not absolutely the Ghost King's reincarnation through normal means. As you can see, Zhang Chen does indeed resemble the former Ghost King, but there are also fundamental differences between them. Since Zhang Chen has already reached the level I anticipated, and has several people helping him, he will surely have a way to deal