The Mysterious Method

The moment Wang Qi spoke, everyone understood what he meant.

After all, the words had reached this point. Anyone who still did not understand might as well bid farewell to cultivating immortality with that IQ.

Zhen Chanzi frowned. "You mean Holy Emperor did not cripple the three of them by knocking down their cultivation, but... requisitioned their spiritual power?"

Wang Qi nodded. "I had always found it strange. Since Holy Emperor's ultimate goal was to refine the entire Human Dao, then the individual beings within this Human Dao should be as strong as possible—at least, that would be best for him. That was why I could not understand why he would knock down his subordinates' cultivation."

Zhen Chanzi nodded. "Indeed... if he merely wanted to restrict their breakthroughs, there were several methods available, such as seals, imprisonment, and forced labor."

Zhen Chanzi and Wang Qi did not avoid the Three Elders while speaking. The three from Luo Chen Sword Palace listened with pounding hearts. Ru Tianqi and Zhao Xiangshen stopped their sword duel, while Mei Sicheng anxiously asked, "This... Mr. Wang, what exactly does 'refining the Human Dao' mean?"

"Exactly what it says. You can understand it as... Holy Emperor wanting to use every cultivator on Linghuang Island in a single blood sacrifice, in exchange for powerful cultivation?" Wang Qi explained. "It is just that the power in your spiritual energy and even your essence blood is negligible to Holy Emperor, and he would not think much of such a primitive method as blood sacrifice. What he wants is probably Shenzhou's eighty thousand years of civilization?"

"Why would he do that?"

A trace of near-hysteria had entered Mei Sicheng's voice. He truly had not expected it. Holy Emperor actually harbored such a scheme.

Wang Qi rolled his eyes at him.