From beginning to end, the Scarecrow never asked what the secret was, as if it already knew.
Gray Crow stared blankly at the Scarecrow's departing figure. Its body suddenly vanished, and when it reappeared, it was already headed toward another realm.
Sin Realm, Chen?
In the Sin Realm, Lu Yin waited for Zhan. .🅆.
And Zhan brought the news he had been waiting for: information about how the Dao of Karma controlled the realms.
"So far, what's publicly known is that the Dao of Karma fully controls seven realms capable of waging realm wars: Sin Realm, Hegemony Realm, Jia Realm, Wei Yun Realm, Forest Realm, Crossing Realm, and the recently exposed Heavenly Gate Realm."
"Four are among the Upper, Middle, and Lower Twenty-Seven Realms, while the other three belong to the Forty-Four Realms..." Zhan told Lu Yin what it knew.
Lu Yin hadn't expected there to be so few.
He had thought the Main Dao could control at least ten realms. That would make forty realms for the four Main Daos, and if the Dao of Consciousness and Dao of Death were included, the complete Main Daos would have controlled sixty realms at their peak. That would have made sense.
After all, the Seventy-two Realms had been created by the rulers. Who could compete with the Main Daos?
But after losing the Dao of Consciousness and Dao of Death, the Dao of Karma controlled only seven realms.
He believed there were more hidden ones, but there couldn't be many.
"Only this many?"
"Zhan replied, "That's quite a lot. The rulers established a series of rules governing the Seventy-Two Realms precisely to prevent anyone from unifying them. The more realms one controls, the greater the battle power one can bring to bear. It's impossible to truly threaten the rulers, of course,