What Are the Three Dao Ancestors Really Looking For?

The Daoist sects' morale was soaring, not merely because the Three Dao Ancestors had appeared, but more importantly because the earth fissure had halted the Buddhist sects' assault, buying them incomparably precious breathing room.

As for the sudden earth fissure, the Daoist sects naturally believed it was the doing of the Three Dao Ancestors.

Little did they know that their every move was influenced by the Jailer Hall and the Three Dao Ancestors. They could not even control their own deaths.

The Daoist sects gathered the populations of every city and town together while relocating spiritual veins wherever possible, intending to build an incomparably sturdy fortress.

Although the Black Goat herds were terrifyingly numerous, once a fortress had been established on the foundation of formations, sustaining themselves for a long time would not be much of a problem.

With Zhou Zuosan's arrangements alone, the Daoist sects' dead chessboard had been brought completely back to life, buying at least two hundred years for Ren Qing's closed-door cultivation.

Yet Zhou Zuosan felt no joy whatsoever. He was even faintly worried.

Cultivators who had mastered Turtle Longevity could predict omens of fortune and misfortune. According to the divinations they provided, the situation would instead worsen.

Feeling the helplessness brought by the limits on his computational speed, Zhou Zuosan immediately began the fourth stage of brain modification without stopping for breath.

Aside from the brain, his body also had to undergo artifact transformation, becoming entirely dedicated to assisting his mental calculations.

The five viscera and six bowels in particular would become organs that supplied nutrients to the brain, and would be modified using the Eerie Fetus Artifact Forging Method.

Under such circumstances, Zhou Zuosan was effectively abandoning his physical body entirely, turning his flesh, bones, Three Souls, and Seven Spirits into part of an