"I do know a thing or two, but that is all intelligence from forty years ago," Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman softly explained. "Forty-three years ago, I was running amok all over the world. Along the way, I passed through a village in the eastern region of China. At that time, the entire village had been subjected to a cruel Blood Sacrifice by someone, leaving not a single living soul. It was done deliberately to manufacture resentment and condense a Resentful Ghost. This is the method of evil-path Ghost Cultivators."
"In my fury back then, I made a grand oath that I would wipe out those evil-path Ghost Cultivators root and branch. Afterward, I tracked them for a long time. Unfortunately, I only managed to kill a few insignificant Ghost Cultivator underlings. However, I found the Three-Claw Beast-Head Mark on their bodies."
When Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman was young, he had been a man with a strong sense of justice—the excessively strong kind.
Moreover, he had possessed a fiery temper in his youth. Whenever he encountered injustice, he loved making grand oaths.
Just like with the evil-path Ghost Cultivators' massacre of that village: he had made a grand oath, taking heaven and earth as witness, swearing to wipe out the evil-path Ghost Cultivators who created Resentful Ghosts root and branch.
He had made nearly a thousand grand oaths like that in his youth.
Now, he had a little notebook in his hands specifically for recording the grand oaths he had made when he was young.
A cultivator's oath had heaven and earth as witness and could not be made lightly. Once made, one had to do one's utmost to fulfill it. Otherwise, one's heart could not reach perfection, and a Heart Demon would arise when one advanced in the