Deadly Enmity
"His 'fatal flaw' was something I deduced only after personally reporting to the Ancestor from tens of thousands of miles away through the Flying Sword Hua Book, begging the Ancestor to act..."
"The Ancestor also said this was the only opportunity..."
"This man's karma runs unfathomably deep. He harbors hidden calamities; he cannot be looked upon, cannot be spied on, cannot be stolen from. Ordinarily, there are no flaws to be found in him."
"Only some time ago, he had a matter as vital as his very life to attend to. His mind and spirit were wholly restrained by himself, and he had let down his guard against outside affairs. That was how we gained this sliver of an opportunity, allowing the Money Mouse to follow the shallow layers of karma, lock onto his location, and gnaw away at his Dao body... At such a critical moment, ruin his Dao and take his life. At worst, it should have damaged his cultivation and left his realm trapped in stagnation..."
"But even so... we still could not do anything to him?"
"Even the Celestial Pivot Money Mice died clean out in an instant? Even the original sculpture of the Money Mouse Statue shattered?"
"This man... could he truly be the 'Divine Shaman'? Is there a god dwelling within him?"
Elder You's brow was deeply furrowed.
He was an elder of one of the Dao Court's Great Clans, inheritor of the Dao Court's "orthodox" legacy. In the past, he had mostly scoffed at matters of the Divine Path, considering them superstitious nonsense, mystification, and tricks to beguile the hearts of men.
The reason he had joined the Demon Sect in Ganxue Prefecture and pretended to "worship an Evil God" was merely to "do business."
As long as there were profits