A Lower Cultivator's lies meant nothing before a Celestial Person.
Making a lying Lower Cultivator tell the truth was just as simple. It took only a word from a Foundation Establishment Celestial.
"Tell me the truth."
Zhang Yuan spoke dispassionately, using his celestial person status to oppress Pei Leide's heart-mind and churn his sea of consciousness until he could speak nothing but the truth.
Pei Leide felt himself lose control. His mouth opened, and before Zhang Yuan, Xia Ying, and the other disciples of the Eastern Cen Palace of the Azure Sea, he laid everything bare, down to the smallest detail.
"That's right. I was responsible for what happened in Colorful Mist City. My natural talent was insufficient. The peak of Spirit Calamity was my limit. If I wanted to go any further and break through to Spirit Transformation, I had to blaze another trail," Pei Leide said.
Xia Ying and the others were shocked and bewildered, unsure whether to believe him.
Pei Leide was well liked in the Eastern Cen Palace of the Azure Sea, and he had always been decent in both his conduct and his dealings. None of them could believe that the culprit who had slaughtered Colorful Mist City and killed millions of innocent people was actually Pei Leide.
If Pei Leide really was the Demonic Cultivator behind this incident, why had he posted a mission to gather people to hunt down the Demonic Cultivator in Colorful Mist City? Wasn't that a thief crying, "Catch the thief"?
What was the point?
"That evil art-where did you get it?" Zhang Yuan asked.
Sacrificing a million people in a city to transform that city and the surrounding hundred miles of coast into something resembling a living creature-such a bizarre evil art hardly seemed to belong to the Boundless