When Daoist Zhi Ji saw Daoist Qing Shuo's jade ruler strike down, he could not help but be startled. He thought Qing Shuo had discovered that he had absorbed Daoist Zhi Ji's experiences and memories.
Instinctively, he circulated his cultivation, leaving behind an almost tangible figure where he stood, while he himself transformed into an unsteady, illusory streak of light and fled into the cave abode.
Yet as he fled, his mind blurred slightly. The confusion and astonishment in his eyes abruptly receded, replaced by a gloomy, profound darkness.
It was as if, in that instant, he had changed into another person from the inside out.
He secretly fumed, It seems I still failed to deceive Celestial Xia. I thought that, by making the covenant here, Zhang Tingzhi would not come in person, and I would have an opportunity. I never expected the one who came to be so troublesome still.
The situation just now had seemed as though the Outer God believed it had devoured him, but that was not the truth at all. Rather, he had turned the tables and used the Outer God.
To make it easier to devour Outer Gods, he would sometimes deliberately make them think they had absorbed his experiences and memories. Once they had fully accepted them, he would then devour and assimilate them. At that point, there would not be the slightest resistance.
In a certain sense, it was not wrong for the Outer God to believe itself to be the dominant party, for before he completed the full devouring, that was indeed the truth.
Thus, he had used the Outer God to establish the Fate Seal. Since it was not his original self, even if the oath were broken, it could not implicate him.
But this could not be concealed for