Golden Shadow Brings Auspiciousness to Aid the World, Cloud Heart Doubts Blood Butcher's Edge

The old Daoist's eyes widened as he stared blankly at the radiance on the wall.

Within that radiance, he vaguely seemed to see countless figures laughing and working, fields stretching endlessly together, cities rising in clusters—a scene of peaceful lives and thriving livelihoods.

The old Daoist's entire body jolted. His face was filled with disbelief as he cried out, "This... this is the merit portent of 'opening heaven and earth, benefiting all people'!"

"What?!"

The room instantly erupted.

"How is that possible?!"

Everyone looked at the glowing tortoiseshell, then turned suspicious looks toward the old Daoist holding it.

Their meaning was plain: Could you have calculated it wrong?

Benefiting all people?

You were saying that demon benefited all people?

What a joke!

Yun Miao shot to her feet. Her skirt swept across the table, knocking over a teacup. Tea spilled across the floor, but she did not notice at all. She only stared fixedly at the glowing tortoiseshell. "Martial Uncle, you said... this divination says it benefits all people?"

Yiqing and Lecheng exchanged a glance, each seeing shock and doubt in the other's eyes.

Lecheng could not help saying, "Martial Uncle, could you have made a mistake? That Zhao Cheng is Blood Butcher Yama. How could he... how could he possibly have anything to do with 'benefiting all people'?"

The blue-robed elder also furrowed his brow. He reached toward the tortoiseshell, and the instant his fingertips touched the radiance, he felt a warm, mellow force flow into his body—absolutely not the aura of vicious balefulness.

Yet he still shook his head. "Could this tortoiseshell have been tainted by an evil art? Zhao Cheng possesses evil arts, after all. Perhaps he can interfere with divinations."

The old Daoist held the tortoiseshell in both hands, its radiance casting his entire face crimson.