In short, when Ruoku saw the cultivators Great Xia kept hidden in the shadows, whose cultivation routinely started at the Foundation Establishment Stage, he knew Venerable Shangshan had spoken the truth.
There was indeed something strange about Great Xia.
As a Chan cultivator from Zizai Continent, he had still managed to secure the court position of Grand Tutor despite the Great Xia Dynasty's extreme hostility toward outsiders.
Grand Tutor-as the name suggested, he was naturally the tutor to Great Xia's Crown Prince.
Coming from Zizai Continent, Ruoku naturally taught the Crown Prince some methods of Chan cultivation.
The Crown Prince had been only eight then, yet exceptionally bright. He grasped many Chan methods with the slightest guidance, and before long, Ruoku discovered that the child actually possessed an Innate Realm-he was clearly a promising candidate for Buddhist cultivation.
It really was just as Venerable Shangshan had said.
Ruoku had initially harbored many doubts, but as time passed, he became largely certain that the Crown Prince, Xie Xiyi, was exactly as Venerable Shangshan had described.
He sought an imperial audience and relayed everything Venerable Shangshan had said to Great Xia's emperor.
He also revealed that the Crown Prince bore a Demonic Heart from a past life and would inevitably tread through mountains of corpses and seas of blood to establish the Supreme Demon Kingdom.
Even at such presumptuous words, the emperor did not grow angry or blame him. Ruoku noticed the minute shift in his expression and understood-presumably, signs of this prophecy had already appeared somewhere.
After leaving the palace, Ruoku made discreet inquiries and soon learned of the evil deeds the eight-year-old Crown Prince had committed. He had frightened quite a few palace servants into madness, though the details had been suppressed and could not be learned. But when the