What could an Image-Recording Pearl do? Naturally, it could only record images, replaying certain important scenes.
Why had Master Shou taken out an Image-Recording Pearl before that unfathomable Dao Hall Master? Naturally, it was...
No, there was nothing natural about this, was there?!
One could even say that this move was utterly incomprehensible! The people before the Dao Transmission Mirrors across the Five Domains were completely unable to figure out why Master Shou had taken out that pearl.
Had he seized some compromising evidence?
Had he recorded the Dao Hall Master cultivating in the Relics of the Gods and discerned the fatal flaw in his cultivation method?
Or had the Dao Hall Master been plotting some conspiracy behind the world's back, something like a racial extermination plan, which Master Shou had recorded?
Surely it could not really be what Master Shou had jokingly said—"I have your nude photos," could it?
Actually, perhaps the crux of the matter was not Master Shou's Image-Recording Pearl, but the Dao Hall Master's attitude?
The Dao Hall Master could simply deny it!
Master Shou had only produced an Image-Recording Pearl unilaterally. No matter how explosive the scenes it played next were, would not one sentence—"I didn't do it"—settle everything?
How could "evidence" unilaterally produced by the Saint Slave's second-in-command count as evidence? Yet the Dao Hall Master did not do that. On the contrary, he was terrified and desperately trying to stop it... Did he not know the phrase "the more one tries to cover it up, the more it shows"? No! The Dao Hall Master was so clever that he surely knew everything.
Since he knew all that and still feared this Image-Recording Pearl so much, it meant that it contained some "great terror" even he could not control! "Perhaps it isn't an Image-Recording