After speaking, Su Jiu glanced at Silver Snow again. "You should be grateful you never faced him head-on."
At this point, Su Jiu briefly recounted what had happened on Goddess Mountain all those years ago. Only then did Silver Snow gain a proper understanding of the Fortune-Transferring Pearl.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. Siphoning other people's fortune for your own use? That's downright vicious."
"Then again, when you Dao cultivators decide to turn bad, you really are far more terrifying than demonic cultivators."
Su Jiu did not argue, because that was indeed the truth. Some Dao cultivators who entered the evil Dao were even more adept at scheming than demonic cultivators. Their evil crept in silently, and cases of them trapping and killing their own kind were everywhere. They concealed their identities, using the face they presented to win their fellows' trust, then delivered the deadliest blow when the time was right.
"Speaking of which, wouldn't using methods of the demonic heretical path invite a backlash from the Heavenly Dao?
"The amount of fortune in the world is fixed. If someone gets more, someone else must get less. What Zheng Qilong is doing should count as violating the Heavenly Dao's laws...
"Normally, shouldn't someone like him have been struck dead by heavenly thunder long ago? How can the Heavenly Dao have tolerated him prancing around for so long?"
A rather cold curve formed at the corners of Su Jiu's lips. "Because he's the Child of Destiny. In the Heavenly Dao's eyes, no amount of heaven-and-earth-defying troublemaking is too much for its Child of Destiny."
Su Jiu had noticed how absurd this was long ago. Now, she even had a faint feeling that the Heavenly Dao of this world might have developed a consciousness of its own.
Otherwise, why did each incident on