Shi Feiyang had worked out Ancestor Haha's thinking: the ancestor knew he was no match for him in single combat, and going after his disciples would achieve little. Not only would it be beneath his dignity, but they would still have to fight in the end.
After their last encounter at Savage Mountain, Ancestor Haha had indeed wanted to capture Shi Feiyang's disciples. That urge had grown stronger when Shi Zhu was born and four of his own disciples were killed.
But he had once "watched with his own eyes" as Shi Feiyang fought Old Man Withered Bamboo inside the Grand Void Illusory Realm. Old Man Withered Bamboo had captured Mo Zhui and his brothers to lure Shi Feiyang to Great Wilderness Mountain, only to suffer a crushing defeat in the end.
Thus, Ancestor Haha felt that attacking Lin Han, Shi Sheng, and the others would not accomplish his goal. If things went badly, he might court his own destruction just as Old Man Withered Bamboo had.
After several years of preparation, he decided to take another path: to use heaven and earth as his chessboard and begin a new game against Shi Feiyang.
Shi Feiyang had eight or nine million points of merit protecting him, enough that even the great figures of Buddhism and Daoism dared not touch him. Then he would destroy that merit!
Ancestor Haha discovered that Shi Feiyang was teaching his disciples an immortal art called the "Purple Ying Immortal Scripture." He found two other experts, and together the three laid an immensely complicated web of interlocking schemes. Creating a false "Purple Ying Immortal Scripture" to throw the martial world into chaos was only the first step. Many deadly moves still lay ahead.
Shi Feiyang lived secluded in the mountains year-round, paying no attention to worldly