As the incense fire Taoist recounted legendary past events, in Zhou Xuan’s Secret Realm, the doors of the City God Taoist Temple swung rhythmically, meanwhile, the Fei Yue beneath the temple spun excitedly.

The Blood Well seemed to be boasting: How about it, isn’t your Brother Jing amazing?

"Now that I have the Tripod Lid of the Flying Star Tripod, where should I look for the body of the tripod?"

Zhou Xuan asked the incense fire Taoist.

The incense fire Taoist spread his hands and said, "You know, such treasures and opportunities of Heaven and Earth are beyond someone of my stature to meddle with; my level is not high enough."

But then he changed his tone and said,

"However, everything in this world cannot escape the word fate. The appearance of the Tripod Lid means that the body of the tripod will likely also appear soon. Just wait, the most important thing right now is how to get rid of the Heavenly Dome’s kill order tonight. I don’t have any good solutions here..."

Zhou Xuan raised his hand, interrupting the incense fire Taoist, pointed at the Starry Sky Scroll, and said, "Old Incense, don’t worry, tonight, the people under the Heavenly Dome won’t be able to kill me... this batch of pills will be better than the last one."

"Are you that confident?"

"Take a look at what that scroll is doing? It’s absorbing the ’Seven Emotions and Six Desires’ in this theater stage. These materials were originally used for refining Human Pills..." 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

"Human Pill, Qi Pill, dual pills combined?"

The incense fire Taoist immediately understood, twirling the whisk’s bristles, and said, "Zhou Housheng, if that’s the case, then the Heavenly Dome really won’t be able to kill you, you’re a tough one."

"Whether I’m tough we’ll see later, but I’m very confident about this batch of pills. It’s them that’s giving me some headache."

Zhou Xuan pointed sharply at the Buddha Country people and said.

"What’s the headache in that, they’re just Buddha Country people, just cut them down directly." The incense fire Taoist said.

"Whether they can be cut down isn’t the important part, it’s how they came to Mingjiang Prefecture that matters."

Zhou Xuan said, "As far as I know, the passage between Buddha Country and Jing Country is very narrow, not a spacious path. How did these Buddha Country Warriors appear here? These Buddha Country Warriors are not alone."

"Then we should capture them alive and interrogate them properly."

The incense fire Taoist said.

"No need to capture them, we’ll know soon enough."

Zhou Xuan said.

"Are you confident about this too?" The incense fire Taoist asked again.

"This theater stage was set by me, and the rules within the stage are also determined by me. Of course, I’m confident. Since you’re here, come and watch the play as well."

Zhou Xuan said with his head held high, "Once I announce the second rule, those in Jing Country who collude with Buddha Country will be unable to hide."

The incense fire Taoist’s face changed immediately upon hearing Zhou Xuan speak, and he said, "You suspect there’s a big figure from Jing Country behind these Buddha Country Warriors? That people from Jing Country and Buddha Country are colluding both inside and out?"

"We’ll see."

Zhou Xuan said.

...

Within the theater stage of the battlefield, the internal strife and killing among the Tunnel Armor Sect continued,

The scene was already a mess, severed limbs all over the place.

The six Tunnel Armor Grandmasters, covered in blood, had a fierce look in their eyes.

"Tunnel Armor Grandmasters, no wonder you are revered as the second Taoist sect in the world, you’re all so ruthless. Even if the situation forces your hand to kill your disciples, you should at least leave a few intact bodies."

Zhou Xuan cupped his hands together and shouted to the Hulu Taoist, "I’m a kind-hearted person; once things are settled and if by chance I show great mercy, it would be much easier to give you a proper burial with intact bodies,

but in this state, tut-tut, burying you is impossible, severed arms and legs, I don’t even know whose they belong to."

The six grandmasters all looked at Zhou Xuan with malicious eyes.

With just one rule, he made the Tunnel Armor Sect members kill each other. Such a person dares to call himself kind-hearted?

Nonetheless,

Zhou Xuan’s first rule set was—Each side cannot field more than four fighters, but there were already six Tunnel Armor Grandmasters,

The cruel internal strife was not over yet.

"We agreed earlier, didn’t we? Divining hexagrams, whoever’s hexagram is worst, dies."

Ranked third among the six grandmasters, Yun Mei Daoist shook his robe and used a handkerchief to wipe the bloodstains off the plum blossoms and cloud patterns on his robe, nonchalantly reminding the other grandmasters.

Yun Mei Daoist, who eagerly brought up the matter of divining hexagrams, did so because his approach differed from the others.

The disciples of the Tunnel Armor Sect follow two streams, the first of which focuses on ’divining hexagrams,’ known as Tunnel Armor Heaven Calculation,

In the Yellow Field Prefecture’s Turtle God Water Village, ’Turtle Thousand Years’ and Zhou Xuan both follow this stream,

The other focuses on ’arrays and talismans,’ known as Tunnel Armor Grandmasters.

Among the six grandmasters, all are Tunnel Armor Grandmasters, however, the third Yun Mei Daoist has profound insights in ’Heaven Calculation,’ with a depth of research that is far more exquisite than his other brothers.

When it comes to divining hexagrams, a common person relies entirely on fate, but in ’Heaven Calculation’ it’s not the case.

They are proficient in controlling hexagrams, adept at it.

Because he is very confident in divining hexagrams, Yun Mei Daoist urged the other brothers to quickly divine hexagrams to decide life and death.

After all, the ones dying are others, not himself.

Among the six, the Hulu Taoist stood at the forefront. When he heard Yun Mei Daoist’s words, his eyebrows drooped.

He lowered his gaze, not lamenting that among the six brothers someone is going to take a step forward today,