His eyes were filled with cold detachment, his brow marked by ruthless resolve. Dressed in blue-green, Ouyang seemed like an entirely different person.
The moment this sea of Flowers of the Other Shore absorbed his so-called emotion of "joy," negative emotions began to influence him.
Creatures influenced by negative emotions would lose their will, yet Ouyang was precisely the opposite. When his joy was taken away,
Ouyang instead became extraordinarily calm, as though he had returned to when he first transmigrated, back to his childhood self, when he was still an orphan.
Back when he was the leader of the children in Maple Leaf City, he had a rather unflattering title:
"Tyrant."
Only brutality tempered by absolute calm could secure a foothold at the very bottom and let him tread on everyone else's heads.
Otherwise, why would anyone submit to a child only a few years old?
The present Ouyang seemed to have returned to that time, his mind governed entirely by absolute calm.
Every step he took would follow meticulous deliberation, yielding the judgment most advantageous to himself.
In his absolute calm, Ouyang connected every clue and arrived at the most correct answer. He let out a quiet sigh and said something seemingly out of nowhere:
"A Surname Without a Name? You really went to great lengths!"
Starting with the Heart-Questioning Scheme on the journey to Penglai Immortal Mountain, Hu Yun had been making plans to resolve the matter of his being a Surname Without a Name.
Just like Hui Zhi, who had likewise killed himself: since the one who was killed had come to the Nine Hells, only the Hui Zhi still at Great Spirit Mountain Temple could become the true Hui Zhi.
Such an elaborate undertaking to bring him to the Nine Hells probably meant there was