Zhang Tianle fell silent.

really.

He never underestimates human solidarity, but he also never overestimates the moral bottom line of a small group of people.

They are willing to sacrifice everyone for their own benefit; as long as they are doing well, they can abandon all basic human decency.

"Therefore, Master Zhang, please do not inform the public. We cannot afford such consequences. Once the Divine Path Great Wall is destroyed, the entire region will suffer immense devastation."

King Qin Guang didn't say one more thing: the Way of Heaven has been restored.

Does that mean that the top experts have also awakened?

Or perhaps they have already unraveled the mysteries of that foreign land?

This is just his guess, and he won't reveal it until everything is settled.

Unless one day, their goddess Houtu returns to the underworld.

This was just one of his hopes.

"I understand." As King Qin Guang looked forward to that day, Zhang Tianle nodded in agreement.

"Then I won't bother you any longer." King Qin Guang stepped out and entered the bronze door that appeared in front of him. After the bronze door closed, he completely disappeared from Zhang Tianle's sight.

After King Qin Guang left, Zhang Tianle sat down at his desk to process the information King Qin Guang had shared.

Have most of the gods transformed into the Great Wall of Gods?

What about King Qin Guang and other deities?

Was it because their cultivation level was too low, or because they were indispensable and therefore stayed behind?

"Senior brother!"

As Zhang Tianle was thinking about these things, Liu Yiyi came in carrying a bowl of soup: "What are you thinking about? You seem so engrossed in your thoughts. Have you encountered some difficulties?"

Liu Yiyi's words interrupted Zhang Tianle's thoughts. He smiled at her and said, "No. I ran into a little trouble, but it's nothing serious."

"That's good. You can have your soup first, then come down for lunch. I still have a vegetable dish left to cook." Liu Yiyi put down the soup bowl and turned to leave.

Distracted by Liu Yiyi, Zhang Tianle suddenly remembered something.

When his master left, he said that if he had the opportunity to become a Celestial Master in the future, or if anyone in their lineage became a Celestial Master, they should go to the mausoleum of their tenth-generation ancestor and use a special magic seal to open the tomb. There, they would find some magical artifacts left by their ancestor and some things to be told.

He's been busy with all sorts of random things lately, and has completely forgotten about this matter.

Now that he's at least a minor Taoist master, he's curious to see what's in the mausoleum of his tenth ancestor.

After lunch, Zhang Tianle set off for the mausoleum of his tenth master.

Fortunately, the mausoleum of his tenth grandmaster was not far from Shundao Hall.

It's only ten miles away.

He took a taxi to the cemetery, found the tomb of his tenth-generation master, and made hand seals in front of the tomb according to the hand gestures taught by his master.

After the hand seals were completed, a slight tremor came from the tomb.

The next second, a door shimmering with bright yellow light appeared in front of him.

He went inside.

As soon as he stepped inside, the door behind him closed.

Everything in front of him turned pitch black.

At the same moment Zhang Tianle took out the Haoran Ruler, a phantom appeared in front of him, sitting cross-legged in the void, its body radiating a faint yellow light.

"Who's here... Holy crap!"

The illusory figure, which originally appeared to be a wise and powerful person, flickered twice and then flashed directly in front of Zhang Tianle, its gaze fixed on the Haoran Ruler in his hand.

"This...this terrifying aura of righteousness, where did you get this ruler? Good grand-disciple! Quickly tell your master."

Only his disciples and grand-disciples were allowed to enter his tomb.

Otherwise, even if others form hand seals, they will not be able to enter his tomb.

After all, his tomb was built with a great deal of effort, and it is hoped that their lineage of the Great Dao can uphold the Daoist heart and protect all living beings.

"This is a secret." Zhang Tianle looked at the Haoran Ruler in his hand.

He couldn't very well tell this tenth grandmaster that the Righteous Ruler was a reward from the system.

If he said that, even his tenth grandmaster, who had already turned into a phantom, would probably jump up and curse him, and might even expel him from the sect on behalf of his master.

The tenth patriarch was silent for a moment, then sighed and smiled: "If you don't want to say it, then you don't have to. That's fine too. It's good that you came. It's just that now that you have a magic weapon of this level, you might look down on what we old bones have left behind."

The tenth patriarch glanced at the Haoran Ruler in Zhang Tianle's hand, his eyes full of envy: "To get back to the point, many years ago, our third patriarch glimpsed a bit of the secrets of heaven, which was passed down to my generation. He discovered the weakness of the extraterrestrial gods and demons."

Zhang Tianle: "???"

Is it true or false?

The third-generation ancestor discovered something that none of the immortals and gods, including the top-tier ones, had noticed.

He didn't receive any help from extraterrestrial gods or demons, so how did he discover this?

Zhang Tianle was skeptical of the claim that he was the tenth grandmaster.

Zhang Tianle's suspicious gaze was too direct, so direct that it was not concealed at all. The Tenth Ancestor glanced at him: "I was just like you at the time, and I was skeptical of this view. After all, the great powers of the Heavenly Court, the Buddhist Realm, and the Underworld did not discover this loophole, and they all used their bodies to fill the Great Wall. What merit does our Third Ancestor have to discover the point that those great powers did not discover?"

But as it turns out, my suspicions were wrong.

These are the points I've been seeking verification on, as well as the weaknesses your third-generation master mentioned. Take a look for yourself!

This thing cannot be told by word of mouth, otherwise it will be detected, and you will have to bear the consequences.

If you don't believe me, you're welcome to verify it.

The tenth patriarch flicked his finger, and a bright yellow light landed on Zhang Tianle's brow.

This bright yellow light entered Zhang Tianle's brow, and Zhang Tianle almost had his head explode from the information hidden within it.

When Zhang Tianle was processing that information, the tenth-generation grandmaster merely frowned and didn't react much. He stroked his beard, a look of satisfaction on his face.

It seems that a promising successor has emerged from their lineage.

"Hmm? Something's not right!"

The tenth-generation grandmaster looked at Zhang Tianle's face and was stunned.

This child is acting very strangely.

Very strange.

"This is clearly a fate of being cut short in mid-air, and has already overdrawn its lifespan several times. It should have been taken away long ago, but it has been lingering on until now."

No! It's not just a matter of barely clinging to life; this fate is also off.

After doing some calculations, he gasped in shock: "What the hell! How did he steal over four hundred years of lifespan?!"

At this moment, even the tenth generation master was numb.