Shi Feiyang was still somewhat wary of supreme masters like the Monk Bai Mei, just as he feared Yan Yingmu enough not to dare retrieve the treasures from Mao Gong Altar himself. Others toiled bitterly for decades or centuries to forge magical treasures on the level of nuclear weapons; this monk could casually unleash the destructive power of a small nuclear weapon.
He remained hidden among the clouds rather than descending, silently working through his divinations to discover what the old monk had come to the capital for.
Once he had finished working it out in his mind, the hexagrams revealed that the Monk Bai Mei had come to deliver his eldest disciple, Zhu Youmu, into Reincarnation.
Zhu Youmu's magical power and supernatural abilities were first-rate as well. He, too, could wield Spells with the power of small nuclear weapons, and with the Monk Bai Mei as his mighty backer, no one in the world could kill him. He needed to reincarnate because his bloodlust in his previous life had been too great, leaving him with many karmic debts. This time, he had willingly repaid those debts and forfeited his life, leaving his master to bring his primordial spirit into the mortal world to be reborn.
Ordinarily, someone in his situation should have reincarnated into a poor family in a remote region—the fewer ties to the mortal world, the better. Unfortunately, Zhu Youmu had been far too formidable in his previous life. He owed debts to everyone, while hardly anyone owed him anything. Only Prince Lu, the younger brother of Emperor Wanli in the capital, had shared certain karmic dealings with him, so the Monk Bai Mei had brought him here to be reborn.
Zhu Youmu had also accumulated too much killing karma. If he had come alone, enemies would