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"": "Cloud Dream Taoist Grounds, Main Hall.
Tang Gaoji sat in a high-backed chair, with nine elders before him.
"Heh, so what if he cultivates gu? He hasn't even mastered the Yin-Yang Arts, yet he wants to learn the Gu Arts? He's only making a fool of himself."
"If poison can't kill him, can't I have a Dao Corpse kill him instead?"
"He already trusts me completely." Tang Gaoji lightly tapped the back of his chair, looking utterly pleased with himself.
Most of the elders wore faint smiles, brimming with confidence.
Two of them, however, still wavered.
"What if... I mean, what if he really is the so-called perfect person?" one of them asked.
"Then that depends on whether the Ten Commandments Dao Corpse retains a trace of lucid Daoist awareness. If he is, and if he isn't fated to die, then naturally, he'll survive." Tang Gaoji narrowed his eyes.
"But Venue Master, you're going to give him a fake sword."
The other wavering elder sounded a little uneasy.
"Do you really think he is? He's steeped in ghost aura. Tang Yu might not notice, but can't you? Making gu, refining poison, harboring ghosts-could someone like that possess benevolence and righteousness?"
"It's only because poison couldn't finish him off, and I feared his ghosts and gu would harm the other disciples, that I decided to use a corpse to kill him. Once we get the ritual artifacts he carries, we can trace their origins and acquire more. Then some of us will be able to leave Cloudmist Mountain."
"The Dao Corpse cannot be destroyed. It is a barrier, as well as a deficiency affecting all of Cloudmist Mountain."
"What fills becomes full, and what is full overflows. Life mustn't become too comfortable or too free of