All of this had begun with one divination from the Primal Chaos Monitor.
During that divination, Chen Jingxuan had unexpectedly seen an extraordinarily striking bloodlight... If left ignored, that bloodlight would bring Great Chu an unimaginably painful lesson.
"Divination may glimpse the secrets of heaven, but it cannot know Heaven's mandate in full."
Chen Jingxuan said, "Merely seeing where that bloodlight belonged cost me three years of my lifespan... To root it out, relying solely on deductions from the Primal Chaos Monitor is impossible."
"So... that led to today's setup?"
Xie Xuanyi murmured.
"Correct."
Chen Jingxuan said calmly, "In the Carp Tide City scheme, Jiang Qihu was a chess piece, and the Bai Ze Secret Realm was also a chess piece. In a sense, I too was a chess piece. Everything I did was to make the Demon Kingdom believe... that within this secret realm, which had emerged through a fortunate coincidence, lay an opportunity connected to the Great Dao Brush."
There were now disputes within the Demon Kingdom as well.
Several Grandmasters were all digesting the legacy left behind by Grandmaster Mozhen.
Once the Demon Kingdom's Grandmasters learned this news, they would surely stop at nothing to seize the Great Dao Brush within the Bai Ze Grotto-Abode!
Xie Xuanyi frowned slightly. "So the Bai Ze Secret Realm was fabricated by you, and the so-called opportunity of the Great Dao Brush was fake too?"
"Not so."
Chen Jingxuan shook his head and chuckled. "How could Jingxuan possess such abilities as to fabricate, out of thin air, the grotto-abode secret realm of an ancient demon sage? This Bai Ze Grotto-Abode is real."
"Misfortune leans upon fortune, and fortune hides misfortune."
The Little National Preceptor said evenly, "In that divination, I saw the bloodlight, but I also saw the way to break