Since Then, Old Hatreds Began to Fade (Combined Chapter)

"Mystic Yang, Supreme Elder—"

Lu Congji bowed respectfully.

Ever since Liu Dongqing had stormed into the Netherworld and begun the second killing tribulation, this old acquaintance had greeted him with the same deference whenever they met.

Times had changed, and so had the people.

Yet Liu Dongqing remained true to his old self. He spoke warmly.

"Junior Brother Lu, you are a Nascent Soul Dao Lord too. We stand at the same level, so we can simply call each other brothers."

That was what he said.

But no matter how gentle his tone, it could not erase the image lodged in Lu Congji's mind—and in the minds of countless other cultivators—of a peerless demonic cultivator possessed of boundless authority and a chillingly sinister nature.

That gentleness even left Lu Congji painfully at a loss.

He hurried past the pleasantries and, to Liu Dongqing's desolation, presented the "results" of his preliminary investigation into the eight Aristocratic Clans.

First came a vast quantity of minor cultivation resources: introductory manuals, rubbings of Foundation Establishment Dharma Rhyme true forms, and even some heavenly treasures bearing demonic traits, plainly obtained during this killing tribulation.

The moment Lu Congji offered them,

Liu Dongqing declined and sent them back.

Not to Lu Congji, nor to the Aristocratic Clans.

He had Lu Congji distribute them among the common-born prodigies who had once gathered under his command.

They were to go to those ordinary prodigies who still followed Lu Congji and had firmly taken a stand against the Aristocratic Clans.

This would be a new beginning.

Through this sweeping upheaval, the eight lineages' Daoist teachings, once locked tightly away by the Aristocratic Clans, would finally pass into the hands of ordinary prodigies.

Inheritance would turn away from bloodline succession and toward genuine transmission from master to disciple.

With authority