Fortunately, it wasn't.
Well, probably not.
It wasn't that Ji Jue underestimated Jianyuan's methods or capabilities. Rather, expecting that old bastard Jianyuan to lower himself and deal with him like this examiner did—that would be a pipe dream!
That old thing only knew how to force a horse to drink, stuff a duck until it burst if it wasn't fat enough, and refine good material and fine jade to death. When had he ever bothered with so many inexplicable matters?
But if the examiner had nothing to do with Deepdark, then the waters of this association were way too fucking deep, weren't they?
Why tell life-threatening secrets like this to an innocent little kitten like him?
Ji Jue restrained his physical reactions, Pretending not to care and acting as though he hadn't understood. He Bowed His Head and concentrated on examining his sample.
This rock... well, it sure looked like a rock.
And the examiner, apparently, did not care either.
"...In short, something like Good and Evil Transformation may be exaggerated, but that doesn't mean it can't be done. It's just that very few people can do it. And those who can, aren't willing to do it.
"And those willing to do it aren't allowed to."
"Why?"
Ji Jue asked instinctively.
"Whose sewer doesn't have a check valve installed? What if it backs up?"
The examiner's voice turned teasing. "Imagine it: one day, the great evil beneath the vortex suddenly rises into the present world... No, perhaps there's no need to imagine it. Didn't you nearly witness such scenes yourself?"
Ji Jue said nothing.
The last guy who had tried to open a direct pipeline through a weak fissure into the present world was already dead beyond dead.
Lu Changsheng!
And even in death, he refused to stay gone, leaving