Ying Huaixu and the others were living quite comfortably now.
But the Outsiders were having a headache, and were even growing irritable.
They had originally planned to take advantage of the Heavenly Dao's slumber and use its automatically operating rules to burden the Divine Firmament Sword Sect's people with karmic retribution.
If this plan succeeded, it would not matter even if they failed to destroy the Divine Firmament Sword Sect.
As long as the Divine Firmament Sword Sect was entangled in karmic retribution, nothing in the Hongmeng World would be worth fearing when they descended in the future.
The plan had originally been perfect.
All they needed to do was properly nurture the dogs they kept in the Hongmeng World and send them charging in.
But now, they were still raising their dogs.
Yet Ying Huaixu had suddenly marked every last one of them.
That instantly brought all their efforts to nothing.
And that was not all.
If they sent these people to bite the Divine Firmament Sword Sect now, they would not be attacking the sect. They would be handing it benefits.
Anyone bearing a mark would earn the Divine Firmament Sword Sect's people a reward of merit when they killed them.
That absolutely could not be allowed.
Heavenly Dao power absolutely could not fall into these people's hands.
Moreover, if word spread about the uses of the power of merit, they feared that even the rogue cultivators of the entire Hongmeng World would kill their people for it, without anyone else needing to act.
They would flee if they could not win and kill if they could.
Failing that, they could launch sneak attacks or gang up on them.
The situation had reversed so abruptly.
So abruptly that even these mighty Outsiders felt caught off guard.
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