Just as Lin Yu was about to restart the Twelve True Palaces, a Daoist priest named Changshou appeared.
Lin Yu simply did not believe that he had absolutely no connection with the Twelve True Palaces.
So after hesitating for a moment, Lin Yu still asked, since he couldn't guess what the Longevity Daoist was planning, so he might as well ask directly.
Lin Yu had no intention of wasting any more time here with irrelevant people. If this Daoist of Longevity really only wanted to see him, then he had already achieved his goal.
For a moment, the Longevity Daoist looked at Lin Yu with a rather complicated expression.
Lin Yu's heart skipped a beat; he seemed to sense that this Daoist of Longevity knew what he wanted to do.
"I think you're planning to go somewhere in the Twelve True Palaces to restart this little world, right?" The Longevity Daoist spoke slowly, even his snow-white beard trembling.
"That's right. What advice do you have, senior?" Lin Yu frowned. It seemed that the worst was about to happen. This Daoist of Longevity didn't just want to see him; he intended to stop him.
However, Lin Yu believed that such a highly respected elder would not make this decision without reason.
"You can't do that." The Longevity Daoist sighed and said, seemingly noticing the resentment in Lin Yu's eyes. Before Lin Yu could question him, the Longevity Daoist spoke again.
"No matter your motives or who asked you to do it, you cannot do this."
"You probably don't know, but this place is a prison in the entire fantasy world, holding the greatest demon in the entire fantasy world. If you restart this place, an extraordinary catastrophe will occur in this world."
"Ordinary cultivators might not know this, but because I've lived long enough, I naturally know the secret behind it."
"Young man, if you truly intend to wipe this place out, you must understand that this will destroy not only the cultivators of the Twelve True Palaces, but also countless cultivators in the surrounding area!"
"If that monster were released, the consequences would be unimaginable; the entire fantasy world would face an extremely terrifying catastrophe!"
The Daoist priest said in a serious tone that he could not possibly lie about such a matter.
Lin Yu finally understood after hearing the explanation from the Longevity Daoist.
No wonder he had always vaguely felt that the Twelve True Palaces were similar to Yin Jing, but he couldn't quite put his finger on what was different.
It turns out that the entire Twelve Palaces was actually a prison!
Previously, the Peerless Daoist had said that his world was transformed from the ruins of a previous era, but he did not specify what those ruins were.
In retrospect, it may just be the site of a prison!
"I wonder if you could explain it more clearly, senior. The Lineage of these Twelve True Palaces have imprisoned countless cultivators here and harmed countless lives. Every cultivator who enters from the outside is at risk of being persecuted."
"The only way to end this tragic fate is to restart the entire world through an array."
"Hehe, who told you that?" After hearing this, Daoist Changshou did not pay attention to Lin Yu's anxiety and simply left behind this sentence.
"The Peerless Daoist, the cultivator who created these Twelve True Palaces." Lin Yu frowned, sensing that a huge mystery was hidden behind this.
When the Longevity Daoist heard Lin Yu say this, he did not show any surprise. Only a faint trace of melancholy appeared in his weathered eyes.
"You're still just a child; you don't understand what the Twelve Palaces are all about."
"The birth of the Twelve True Palaces was merely a coincidence. They were not created by any single cultivator, but rather by twelve cultivators who painstakingly built them up using their own source techniques."
"Those twelve cultivators gave their all, not only their physical strength but also their spiritual strength; they dedicated everything to the Twelve True Palaces."
"And all of this, just to imprison a single prisoner."
"The cultivators of the entire Twelve True Palaces are nothing but ashes in this disaster, utterly insignificant."
"Compared to the overall catastrophe in the fantasy world, the cultivators who have sacrificed themselves are nothing."
The Daoist priest spoke calmly, but with an indescribable coldness and cruelty in his voice.
When Lin Yu first heard what the Longevity Daoist said, he was completely bewildered, because the current situation was completely the opposite of what he had learned.
But he soon understood what the Daoist of Longevity meant.
According to the Daoist of Longevity, the Twelve True Palaces were created to imprison a demon, and this demon itself possessed evil attributes, thus arousing malice in the hearts of others.
"Didn't you ever wonder how those fools from the Lineage could possibly master such exquisite puppet-making techniques?" The Longevity Daoist seemed to know what Lin Yu was wondering and spoke again.
These words were like a wake-up call, and Lin Yu suddenly understood.
Indeed, the puppetry technique seems crude and primitive in its method of extracting spiritual power, but the most exquisite aspect of puppetry is not in extracting the spiritual power of living beings; that is actually only the first step.
The most important aspect of puppetry is control!
Control is the essence of the entire puppetry technique!
How could the cultivators of the Twelve True Palaces possibly master such a complex spell on their own?
Lin Yu had tested the cultivators of the Twelve True Palaces multiple times before, and he found that these guys were idiots in every sense of the word!
But how did they discover the secrets of the barrier and utilize them, and how did they comprehend and apply puppetry techniques?
Lin Yu had previously assumed it was something their ancestors had come to understand, but now, thinking about it, it was clearly something someone had done on purpose.
Lin Yu felt his back gradually becoming soaked with cold sweat. So this was how it all happened...
The Twelve True Palaces were essentially a prison. The imprisoned demonic beasts first attracted some greedy individuals with their powerful strength, which then aroused their inherent greed.
The so-called imprisonment was merely a means to fully expose the "evil" in their character!
"Those twelve people who sacrificed themselves are like twelve locks. Any evil attribute related to 'that person' will be imprisoned in this land," the Longevity Daoist continued.
Lin Yu's heart pounded, and he couldn't help but ask, "Senior, who exactly is this 'person' you're talking about?!"
Upon hearing this, the Longevity Daoist did not respond, but instead gazed at Lin Yu with a complex expression, his meaning unspoken.