The same was true!
Back when Cheng Buzheng confronted Sha Minghong...
Though he had not exposed the truth in public, he had already understood clearly in his heart:
The disappearance of the entire Purgatory Clan and the High Priest's bizarre death—both secrets traced back to Sha Minghong.
Thus, he laid his plans step by step and applied pressure with precision, until at last!
He successfully forced Sha Minghong to withdraw from this world.
From the moment Sha Minghong left this realm, the entire Forbidden Sea had fallen completely under Cheng Buzheng's control.
After painstaking investigation, he unexpectedly discovered a hidden flaw:
On the surface, Sha Minghong had taken away nearly all the blood baleful qi before departing, leaving behind no future trouble, but in truth, an enormous amount of blood baleful qi still remained.
Having been scoured by endless years, this residual blood baleful qi was like a stubborn chronic disease, branded deep into the seabed rock layers and the veins of the seawater, hidden so deeply that ordinary methods could not eradicate it at all.
And now, this dharma body he had left here was meant to borrow the supreme might of the ancient Langya Great Array to pull out these deeply hidden, stubborn blood-bane afflictions once and for all.
Above the sea, the blood mist rose ever more swiftly.
An unending stream of scarlet baleful qi surged up from beneath the deep sea, and the blood mist filling the sky gathered and swirled through the air, its baleful qi growing increasingly dense and violent.
Its cold, bloodthirsty aura continuously eroded the surrounding air, and the oppressive feeling over the entire sea grew ever heavier.
Who knew how much time passed...
At the formation eye high in the sky, Cheng Buzheng's dharma body abruptly changed the hand signs forming