Each Has Grown

The greatest difference between cultivators and ordinary people was probably that a person's actions were often tied to the arts and Dao they cultivated.

As the saying went, the Dao lay in one's words, one's form, and one's very foundation.

Only when every word and action accorded with the Dao could one be considered to walk the orthodox path.

Under Ning Ye's guidance, Wolfbane, Ye Gu, and Xuanyuan Long had all thoroughly followed their own Dao onto a peculiar road.

Ye Gu cultivated the Dao of Illusion, so he often showed himself through illusions. He used deception in daily life, and deception in battle as well.

Day after day, year after year, Langya Pavilion soon produced a superlative swindler.

He would use every sort of method to trick people—fake spirit stones, fake magical treasures, and later even fake identities and fake cultivation levels. In short, Ye Gu carried the word "deceive" to its fullest possible extent.

At first, his Dao of Illusion could only confuse some Hualun Realm cultivators; he could not even fool those who possessed arts of true knowledge. Later, he could deceive people even when they used methods of true insight and perception.

Every time Ye Gu failed, he would study and comprehend the matter, refining his craft ever further. His swindling skills improved by the day.

Thus, Ye Gu raised the level of his targets and began tricking Myriad Laws Realm cultivators.

The shops in the lower city suffered as a result, and quite a few merchants were swindled by Ye Gu into grievous losses. Yet those losses were not impossible to recover. After all, just as in the Evergreen Realm, most cultivation shops had powerful figures backing them.

They might be successfully deceived at the time, but once they returned and took a closer look,