[Plot Quest Complete, a Sudden Upheaval, a Dao Master Strikes, Farewell for Now to the Land of Sin]

[You asked Zhuo Zhao why she had preserved those Dark Supreme Venerables' ranks.]

[By all rights, there was no need for it.]

[Zhuo Zhao replied indifferently, "Merely making full use of everything."]

[She explained:]

["All the natives of the [Longevity Realm] carry small amounts of origin essence and fortune to some degree.]

[Thus, I am also happy to see the Dark Supreme Venerables harvest all living beings, accelerating the gathering of origin essence and fortune."]

[You accepted that explanation for the time being, then ordered Zhuo Zhao to reclaim the portions of her rank she had distributed and eradicate the Dark Supreme Venerables who were frantically testing the waters.]

[After all, the [quest requirement] was to quell the Dark Turmoil.]

[Now that you had the mastermind under control, killing these Dark Supreme Venerables, who had unleashed the Dark Turmoil and deserved every bit of their deaths, became the most urgent task.]

[Under the absolute control of [I Am the Mastermind], Zhuo Zhao could only obey.]

[As the last Dark Supreme Venerable fell, the [plot quest] was declared complete.]

[Yet for some reason, a powerful sense of danger had suddenly arisen in your heart just moments earlier.]

[It was faint, but it was undeniably there.]

[If you had to pinpoint when it first appeared, you felt it must have been when Zhuo Zhao appeared.]

[But it had been very faint then, and you had assumed it was because Zhuo Zhao herself was powerful as the greatest mastermind in the [Longevity Realm].]

[It was only natural that you would sense danger.]

[Now, however, things were different. You had already controlled Zhuo Zhao with [I Am the Mastermind], yet that sense of danger remained.]

[And it was growing stronger!]

[But looking across the [Longevity Realm], this shattered realm domain, where could there