Ever since learning that Chan Master Xiaoyue was coming, Shi Feiyang had been divining the advantages and disadvantages.
Logically speaking, Shi Feiyang had released Deng Yin all those years ago to protect himself, which was why he had kept strengthening Deng Yin.
Now, he was fully capable of protecting himself and no longer needed Deng Yin to draw fire for him. Instead, he needed to keep weakening Deng Yin, to restrain this Blood God Son and prevent him from bringing disaster in the future.
Thus, he should not let Chan Master Xiaoyue take the Heavenly Demon Immortal-Slaying Sword away.
Yet the hexagram revealed many hidden signs, tangled and complex: tug a single hair, and the whole body would move.
The most important of these was that the Good Book of the Blood God Scripture in his possession had some inexplicable connection with the Evil Book of the Blood God Scripture in Deng Yin's hands.
If the two books met, Deng Yin would certainly go mad, and something terrible and unpredictable would happen. But keeping them apart would trigger another calamity as well.
The Heavenly Demon Immortal-Slaying Sword was much the same. If he did not give it to Deng Yin, the hexagram showed that Grandmaster Taiyi Hunyuan would successfully obtain Chiyou's remaining One-Third Primordial Spirit.
If he gave it to Deng Yin, Deng Yin would obtain that portion of Chiyou's primordial spirit and head toward another extreme.
It was a troubling dilemma, but in such matters, one could only weigh two evils and choose the lesser.
He told Chan Master Xiaoyue, "I've already blasted Heart-Piercing Monk to pieces. There isn't so much as a hair left of him now. You can't take the Heavenly Demon Immortal-Slaying Sword either. If you say it belongs to your senior martial uncle, tell him