Chapter 2529: Chapter 113: Mutual Bait, Mutual Hook (2)
Zhang Linchuan quietly watched him, without speaking.
Lu Yan was silent for a moment before saying, "Too much killing may harm heavenly harmony."
When he said this, he felt awkward himself.
Was this something a high-level member of the cult should say?
When had he ever cared about killing, or about any heavenly harmony?
"What I mean is... killing millions, tens of millions in this way might attract the Heavenly Will’s attention. The Sect Hierarch is someone destined for the Great Dao..."
Zhang Linchuan laughed, "In cultivation, you’re my senior by many years. But do you understand the Heavenly Will?"
Lu Yan hurriedly replied, "I’m just older, the Sect Hierarch is scholarly in the ways of the Celestial, I naturally don’t understand as much as the Sect Hierarch."
"Don’t be so serious," Zhang Linchuan smiled, "We should all know that living in this world means opposing the Heavenly Will, otherwise if thunder and rain are both gifts from the heavens, why would you need to dodge or avoid them?"
"Cultivation itself is an act against the heavens. Birth, aging, sickness, and death are the cycles of the Heavenly Dao, and you refuse to age, refuse to be sick, refuse to die, consistently breaking the limits of life... Is this what the Heavenly Will seeks?
The limit of life, yet cultivators don’t keep the limit in mind.
The more profound the cultivation, swallowing the Heavenly Mountain, exhaling the Divine Sea. With a single move, you move mountains and fill rivers. With every breath, you manipulate an immense amount of vitality. But what benefit is all this to the world?
I kill those who oppose the Heavenly Will, those cultivators who defy Cangtian, is it not fitting the Heavenly Mandate? Isn’t more better? I should be favored by the Heavenly Will."
In his mind, Lu Yan had already broken these words into pieces, not daring to truly listen to them.
Because he knew, Zhang Linchuan had his reasoning in it. Zhang Linchuan’s Great Dao was in there!
If he truly listened, it would be easy to lose himself, to abandon his path. And he wasn’t someone without self, seeking only power.
He dared not to take it to heart, so neither could he oppose it. Finally, he said with difficulty, "The Sect Hierarch has his own reasoning."
Zhang Linchuan indifferently spread his hands, "Besides, you see, I’m left with no choice. That Jiang junior brother of mine is too ruthless. I just wanted to plant a seed of evil in his friend’s heart, but he wants to kill my entire family. Oh no, the entire sect."
He lowered his gaze, his tone somewhat strange, "But it’s almost the same, my entire family has long been gone. The sect is my family... and now it’s all gone."
He grinned, "So it seems, Jiang junior brother and I have a feud of family destruction!"
At last, the conversation returned to a part Lu Yan was relatively familiar with.
Of course, high-level members of the cult killed like flies, committing all sorts of evil, naturally plotting conspiracies and sacrificing hundreds, thousands wasn’t a big deal. But "millions" of people... that was too many. He didn’t know how Zhang Linchuan intended to manage it!
In the past, for the scheme in Fenglin City, as a high-level member of the Bone Tao at the time, he had schemed for a long time. In the end, Zhuang Gaoxian, that person with a beast’s heart behind a human face, reaped the rewards, and the Bone Tao perished with it.
Such a great sin, he wouldn’t dare to touch.
"How does the Sect Hierarch plan to deal with him?" he asked.
Compared to the goal of slaughtering millions, dealing with Jiang Wang was much more specific.
Zhang Linchuan softly said, "You shouldn’t be asking that."
Lu Yan thus understood that Zhang Linchuan had his own ideas. He really couldn’t fathom how, in the current situation, with Jiang Wang using overwhelming momentum to suppress, like the blazing sun melting leftover snow, how Zhang Linchuan still had any chance to turn things around.
But this person was indeed Zhang Linchuan...
So he said, "Is there anything a subordinate can do to help?"
"Let me think..."
Zhang Linchuan gazed up at the dome above where there was nothing. After seriously considering for a while, he said, "It seems there isn’t."
Looking at this young sect leader in front of him, Lu Yan almost couldn’t remember the initial Bone Messenger who was respectful to him. Past memories felt as distant as smoke, submerged in a gray-white scroll.
But he always knew how to position himself, just like the piety he once showed to the Bone Demon God.
"Then I won’t disturb the Sect Hierarch anymore... I shall take my leave first." So he said.
Zhang Linchuan did not speak.
After Lu Yan performed a bow, he cautiously flew out.
"Wait." Zhang Linchuan suddenly said.
Lu Yan halted.
Slowly turning back around, "What instructions does the Sect Hierarch have?"
At this moment, he deeply regretted why he came to the underground palace and why he had thoughts of seizing an opportunity. He should have, like the other Dharma Kings, found a place to hide, conceal his name, and wait for everything to settle first.
He had been with Zhang Linchuan for so long, and this person still appeared like a ghostly thunderstorm, obscure, yet extremely dangerous. How could he have had any luck?
"Don’t be nervous," Zhang Linchuan once more reassured him, then said, "Do you still remember the Secret Technique I promised to give you? To safely enter the Netherworld, to search for your deceased wife."
Lu Yan almost suspected he heard wrong, but with surprise and joy, he said, "Of course I remember!"
"At a time like this, you still thought to come see me, which makes me very relieved, and you should be rewarded... We are old acquaintances after all!"
Zhang Linchuan spoke in a friendly tone, flicked his fingers, and a wisp of ghostly lightning exploded in mid-air, revealing a thin black booklet that flew into Lu Yan’s hand.
"This Secret Technique should suffice."
He smiled, "I’ve been thinking for a long time, and just now while sitting here, the final inspiration suddenly came."
If this was Zhang Linchuan’s impromptu creation in just that short time, Lu Yan wouldn’t be surprised, because he knew very well Zhang Linchuan’s talent in Dao Techniques.
