"But what would he gain from killing us? None of the Nine Immortal Lands can be missing even one. If anything happened to us, Donghuang might not come out ahead either. The immortal lands are densely populated, and their people are fiercely loyal to their respective Immortal Venerates," Liudao Che said.
"Heh. I imagine the Liudao Immortal Venerate from the era of the First Yunshang Immortal may have said the same thing as you, Miss Liudao. And what happened in the end? Besides, back then Donghuang possessed the ruler, scroll, and vortex as one. That treasure could name any immortal family, and whoever was named was probably inevitably dismantled along their meridians, right?" I said with a laugh. If those three treasures were combined into one, their function would become immediately apparent: the ruler located and calculated, the scroll dismantled meridians, and the vortex captured and controlled people. That naming divine artifact would have been unimaginably powerful!
Even my eighteen meridians certainly would not have been beyond the ruler's ability to measure. At that point, it could truly kill someone from afar, without needing anyone's consent at all.
Of course, that naming object must have had limitations back then. Otherwise, Donghuang would not have been discovered in such a sorry state, only to be besieged by the other eight families.
As for why he had ultimately dismantled this naming object, I could basically guess the answer now. Donghuang was playing an enormous game of chess. Otherwise, he could not possibly have wasted so many years conducting reincarnation experiments, or even cultivated Qing Limo and Liudao Che.
They might very well be the key to unlocking his unrestricted use of this supreme treasure.
"You're right. So what should we do now?" Yunshang Immortal asked.
"Let me think it through." I racked