Although the Delusion Village Secret Realm was full of metaphors and hints, the stories that happened here, and the vast majority of its people, had truly existed. They had been living, breathing people.
Little Bad King could not use the Attendant Secret Method to forcibly kill Zhao Mi and then bring Delusion Village's foremost figure to Qingliang Prefecture, because the man might still be alive even now. Nor could two completely identical people with completely identical legacies exist in this world.
That would violate the laws of the Heavenly Dao and could never happen. Thus, Ren Ye could only test his conjectures with the utmost care. He successfully triggered the final Hidden Quest in this Heavenly Grace-level Secret Realm and, as the new young master, brought the Three Major Cases and the conflict between the Four Clans to a definitive close.
Earlier, the Heavenly Dao had announced that Ren Ye had triggered and completed the vast majority of the tasks...
That meant a small portion of the tasks in this Secret Realm remained incomplete or untriggered by Ren Ye. That was why he had entered the Heavenly Prison today, first meeting Zhao Haochen and the twenty-odd Clan Elders of the Zhao Family before drinking and talking with Zhao Mi.
As it turned out, Zhao Haochen and those twenty-odd Clan Elders made much the same final choice he had anticipated. They collectively chose suicide and revealed the truth, clearing Zhao Mi's name and leaving the Zhao clan with an outstanding, deeply responsible patriarch.
Although Zhao Mi no longer needed to sacrifice himself to uphold the law, his scheme for his family and his son had ended in utter failure...
Zhao Haochen had not died at anyone's hands, but in the course of defending the authority of the Delusion Law. Zhao Mi