Chen Yang understood what this Demon Soil deity intended to do. This fellow had most likely formed an alliance with some high-ranking cultivator within the Demonic Dao.
In order to weaken the righteous path, these people of the Demonic Dao had used this method to mark a great number of prodigies representing the rising generation, as well as powerful True Persons who formed the backbone of the righteous path.
Then, when the right moment arrived, they would use other means to send all of them into some Blessed Land or Secret Realm that had long been prepared.
It was not hard to imagine that such a Blessed Land or Secret Realm would surely be a place that transformed into calamity, one fraught with immense danger and an extraordinarily high risk of death.
In that way, even if these righteous-path prodigies and great True Persons were not wiped out to the last man in that place of calamity, at least more than half would be killed or wounded.
As for the Demonic Dao, they could also put forth some of their own people as sacrifices and then pass the whole matter off as an accident.
Since the existing methods of the immortal path could not detect any clue, even if the righteous path grew suspicious, they would have no conclusive evidence that the Demonic Dao was behind it.
"What a formidable method. Looks like I've finally met an opponent."
Chen Yang pondered inwardly.
Although he did not know the identity of this Demonic Dao cultivator, he could be certain that this person held an extremely high position within the Demonic Dao and was very likely the hidden commander behind this great war.
Otherwise, it would have been impossible for him to distribute such a method so widely, placing it in the