Crackle! Crackle! Crackle!
Lightning suddenly coiled around the already Five Colors Ten Thousand Poisons Pearl.
Yet as the lightning leaped, it seemed to extinguish poisonous thoughts and cleanse the Mysterious Pearl.
"You sacrificed your own blood kin to condense five Yin Deities, then used the incense offerings of thousands of commoners to worship them into incense deities. You assigned them to the Five Elements, condensed a breath of Divine Qi, and refined it through breathing. What a bizarre method! But the Incense Way isn't a path from Primordial Antiquity. You call yourself orthodox, yet clearly you've borrowed and improved on other traditions. There's nothing wrong with that. Times change, and one ought to keep pace. But you claim other people's work as your own, call yourself orthodox, then lecture everyone else? That's downright shameless. Your skin is far too thick!"
Chen Cuo watched the pearl, sensing the changes within it. He tapped it lightly, and five streams of light flowed out, slowly taking shape.
"Deities forced into existence through worship have their own wills erased from the start. They're puppets in every sense. However much they're worshiped, they're only making wedding clothes for someone else. But you alone need five deities to cultivate. If every cultivator in your sect uses Legalism to cultivate, generation after generation, with the deities left behind, will you end up with thousands? Tens of thousands? A million deities packed into one corner of the world? I'm afraid they'd turn heaven and earth upside down!"
"You!"
Chu Zhengdao struggled, but the more he struggled, the stronger and fiercer the Heart Plague within him grew!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Rays of rosy light burst from all over his body!
The Heart Plague was spreading. His thoughts had fallen into chaos, and the Spirit Light and Magic Power within