The bald Universal Illumination looked behind him.
To his surprise, every single one of these cultivators was someone currently liquidating his assets.
These cultivators should have been using his assets to recruit assassins to deal with Flower-Scatter Daoist Wang Quan.
Yet now, why were they blaming him instead?
"You... why are you siding with Wang Quan?"
At that moment, the bald Universal Illumination could no longer hold back and blurted out the question weighing on his mind.
The cultivator leading them sneered. "If you could establish one safe zone after another for cultivators in the Second-Layer World, and if you dared casually tell everyone your most closely guarded methods, then we would side with you too."
"But what have you done?"
"You deliberately cultivated anomalies, researched them, and even released them to slaughter indiscriminately."
"Compared to Daoist Brother Flower-Scatter, your conduct is downright disgraceful!"
"If we don't side with Flower-Scatter Daoist, are we supposed to side with you?"
"Are you worthy?"
Those words left the bald Universal Illumination red-faced. "You... you've gone too far!"
"Heh..."
The cultivators sneered. Then their leader took out a token and contacted Wang Quan.
"Daoist Brother Flower-Scatter, this bald fellow still wants revenge on you!"
"We've caught him."
"Would you like us to dispose of him?"
Before long, an eyeball-sized spark appeared in the air.
The spark spun wildly, expanding to two or three meters across. Sparks revolved around its perimeter like a wheel of fire, while its interior became a huge mirror.
The bald Universal Illumination stared fixedly into the mirror and saw a cloud of multicolored smoke.
The smoke roiled, becoming seventy-two pillars that shot into the sky. Atop the smoky cloud stood an incense table, an incense burner, tea, and other things; a Daoist sat upright beside them.
The Daoist wore white