Chen Nianzhi stood quietly where he was, his heart filled with boundless emotion.
For Daoist Qing Yin to cultivate the path of a ghost immortal in the mortal world, he was destined to bear immeasurable karmic burden and tribulations. This was fated to be a dead end.
There was almost no future to be seen on this path. More likely than not, he would end up with his soul scattered and spirit dispersed, unable even to reincarnate.
In truth, given Daoist Qing Yin's cultivation and attainments, he had a great chance of returning to the cycle of reincarnation.
But once he abandoned Heavenly Expanse Island and went alone to the Netherworld underworld, the hundreds of millions of wronged souls of the Heavenly Expanse Island Chen Clan would be left without protection and would inevitably suffer the fate of having their souls scattered.
The resentment on Heavenly Expanse Island in those days had been far too terrible. Hundreds of millions of humans had perished overnight, and the incomparably vast resentment had trapped them all upon Heavenly Expanse Island, unable to return to the underworld and enter reincarnation.
To send their souls back into reincarnation, their towering resentment first had to be calmed.
There were only two ways to soothe the resentment of hundreds of millions of wronged souls. One was for a Half-Immortal Patriarch to deliver them through a supreme scripture; the other was to avenge them.
The first method was extraordinarily difficult. A technique capable of delivering hundreds of millions of wronged souls was, in itself, cleansing endless karmic burden. Only supreme methods such as the Daoist Scripture of Deliverance and the Buddhist Kṣitigarbha Sutra could accomplish this.
These two scriptures had been passed down from the lineages of "Buddhas" and "Dao Venerables" at the Daluo Golden Immortal level. The