Red Heart Patrols the Sky

Chapter 2554 - 120: Life and Death Six Harmonies, Flawed White Jade

Just as Jiang Wang had speculated.Zhang Linchuan actually had some imagination regarding the current state of the Bone Respecting God.

He was born in the Bone Tao, proficient in its ways, and later occupied the Bone Holy Body, mastering the divine skill that connected Yin and Yang, compiling the "Unborn Sutra," and creating the Unborn Mysterious Art...

His vision was broad, not that of ordinary people.

He always had a general sense of the state of the Underworld.

A few years ago, when The Calamity of No Life concluded, he felt an immediate sense of relief, completing his control over the Bone Holy Body, thus making some guesses about the current state of the Bone Respecting God... but due to the cause and effect with the Bone Respecting God, he dared not personally enter the Underworld to verify.

As years passed, with his cultivation continuously advancing and the World Without Life strengthening, he persistently attempted to seize the divine authority of the Bone Respecting God... yet faced no resistance.

He believed the Bone Respecting God either perished unexpectedly or had completely eliminated the hidden dangers of the Heavenly Will, successfully reincarnating in the present world.

Regardless of the possibility, in the short term, the Bone Respecting God could hardly affect the Underworld again.

Therefore, Lu Yan entering the Underworld to search for the soul of his deceased wife was not inherently dangerous.

But after the fall of the Church of Lifeless, he still insisted that Lu Yan probe the Underworld to ensure that the Bone Respecting God was indeed no longer there.

Moreover, to set up a scheme using tens of thousands of souls from Late Mulberry Town, inviting Master Dongfang from Wei Country or some other Gua Dao True Man or even a True Monarch, to further explore the foundation of the Bone Respecting God for him.

He dared to plot against a deity, but he definitely would not underestimate those above the Absolute Summit.

He knew that even beings of a revered divine position could err. Because opponents above the Absolute Summit are often themselves there, the Bone Respecting God had to play against the will of the present world.

This was the premise for his daring to plot against a deity.

However, the Bone Respecting God had the qualification to err; he did not.

Only when he was sure of absolute infallibility would he consider venturing into the Underworld.

Killing a Neifu Cultivator in the Wildman Forest thus buried a great opportunity.

Now, being at odds with the world, as Zhang Xun put it, was "destined to a dead end."

On one hand, he exhausted his life’s intelligence to open a path for survival in this desperate situation. On the other hand, he also prepared a final retreat for himself—

If things did not work out in the present world, he planned to enter the Underworld, walking the path of a Netherworld God.

If all his struggles in the present world ultimately failed, he would emulate the Bone Respecting God, fighting fiercely in the Underworld and later devising to return to the present world, becoming a present-world deity.

This fallback path had to be absolutely safe, which is why he repeatedly probed.

The setup in Late Mulberry Town eventually came to nothing. The Dragon Tiger Altar Master, Master Dongfang, personally intervened, not causing even a ripple in the river of destiny. Jiang Wang, who pursued him relentlessly, circled in Wei Country and then left.

The souls he sent to the Underworld went to the source pond, without any ripples.

Thus, he confirmed once more that the Bone Respecting God had already left the Underworld or had reincarnated in the present world!

Therefore, after killing that Wei Country general, he skillfully used the divine skill Qian and Kun Cable, traversing the Underworld without a trace, arriving undetected in Dan Country.

Due to his natural caution, he still did not formally enter the Underworld but risked much by traveling through the gap between the Underworld and the present world, avoiding the world shadows that could swallow and assimilate at any moment, successfully resisting "The Other Shore."

Even so, this was the closest his true self had been to the Underworld.

Having mastered the divine skill Qian and Kun Cable for so many years, possessing the ability to freely travel between the present world and the Underworld, he had never touched the Underworld, not even coming close. All was due to his dread of the Bone Respecting God.

After leaving Wei Country, he set his sights on Dan Country, not merely because "Dan Country was bold on the surface but lax within," which was relatively minor.

No matter how lax, a country that is on guard is always relatively harder to maneuver.

In terms of the probability of success of his actions, he would rather choose Yue Country.

However, Dan Country had an irreplaceable aspect that greatly attracted him—the previous uproar over the "Human Pill Incident" made him realize that Dan Country, plagued with severe issues, was riddled with holes.

Others naturally believed that the Church of Lifeless committed all sorts of evil deeds, and refining humans into pills was not surprising. The Bone Tao had done so before.

But as the Unborn Sect Founder, he knew his own affairs. To refine a human pill, one must know alchemy! The Church of Lifeless had no experts specialized in this art.

Zhang Xun, who personally settled the matter and captured the Dharma King of the Church of Lifeless, naturally warranted Zhang Linchuan’s scrutiny and opportunistic action.

However, even Zhang Linchuan did not expect that the problem lurking behind Dan Country had accumulated to a terrifying degree, ready to collapse at any moment.

If he had known earlier, his main focus should have been on Dan Country. This country had both abundant resources and astonishing wealth, and historically, it had produced several True Monarchs. He could have there reformed old ways, opened new heavens, and as a revivalist lord, turned Dan Country into a God Kingdom...

Unfortunately... as of today, it is a lamentable regret.

Of course, Zhang Linchuan would not give himself much time for regret. He only considered how to maximize the use of these secrets.

So he decisively set off this chain reaction, releasing the "deer of Dan Country" for the world to chase!

This huge piece of fat, he hadn’t taken a bite.

And by killing Zhang Xun, Zhang Jing, destroying Dan Country’s top prestigious family, and triggering the explosion of Dan Country’s decades-old malignancy... the originally unavoidable life-and-death crisis of his third calamity passed quietly due to Dan Country’s sudden collapse.