His expression suddenly became agitated, as if he felt a fanatic's faith had been tainted.
"Why is it impossible?" Fang Xiu said calmly.
"That's a god, the Cloud God. How could a god be corrupted?"
Why can't God be corrupted?
The Prince of Zhennan was stunned. Fang Xiu's words filled him with fear. He dared not even think that the God of Clouds had been corrupted, as this would be tantamount to the collapse of his faith.
"If I say it's impossible, then it's impossible! Besides, the hundreds of cases of qi deviation you mentioned haven't happened yet. Maybe you've miscalculated?"
Fang Xiu shook his head slightly, not intending to discuss the topic any further; you can never wake someone who is pretending to be asleep.
Then he pulled out a list with nearly a hundred names and places written on it.
"This is a list of people who will go mad in the next month. Time will tell if I've miscalculated."
The Prince of Zhennan took the list of people, and the more he looked at it, the more his brows furrowed, because it was written in such detail that it included names, cultivation levels, and residences.
This made him secretly alarmed. If everything on the list was true, then this Master Zhou was absolutely perfect. He was no longer just a divine strategist, but a master strategist of divine wisdom!
While the Prince of Zhennan was still in shock, Fang Xiu had already stood up and strode outside: "Arrange a place for me to stay. I will be staying at the Prince's residence for the next month."
Zhou Bai, standing to the side, was dumbfounded. This Master Zhou was truly arrogant and conceited. Did he think the prince was an innkeeper?
This is a royal palace! How dare you order around a prince who is a Celestial Emperor in a royal palace? Don't you want to live?
The Prince of Zhennan was also at his wit's end. In the Liuyun Immortal Dynasty, apart from the current emperor, no one dared to be so disrespectful to him.
But he couldn't lash out, because if the list was real, then the other party seemed to have the right to be arrogant.
And so, Fang Xiu settled down at the Zhennan Prince's Mansion, beginning a life of seclusion and focused cultivation.
Meanwhile, the Prince of Zhennan's side sent people to secretly observe the people on the list, and those who were weak and had no background were arrested and investigated.
He never believed that Yun Tianshen was the one with the problem; he thought that there must be some hidden force that had tampered with these people.
So he arrested some of the weaker individuals on the list and conducted a thorough investigation of them.
Half a month later.
In a secluded place of confinement, the Prince of Zhennan sat upright, seemingly petrified, staring intently at the list of names in his hand.
The list, which contained hundreds of names, had already been crossed out by nearly half of them; those who had been crossed out were all people who had gone mad with evil.
Suddenly, he spoke, his voice low and hoarse.
"Which one is it?"
A voice came from the darkness: "Your Highness, two more people have gone mad from their cultivation today, making this the fifty-eighth."
The Prince of Zhennan trembled: "Fifty-eight already? Nearly half of the names on the list have been crossed off. I never imagined... I never imagined that Zhou Qingfeng's prediction would be so accurate. There is such a diviner in the world who can calculate so precisely!"
On the one hand, he was amazed by Fang Xiu's accurate calculations, and on the other hand, he became increasingly fearful.
The story Fang Xiu told him about Yun Tianshen being corrupted took deep root in his heart like a nightmare, and it grew deeper and deeper with the passage of time.
Over the course of the past two weeks, he arrested dozens of people on his list, imprisoned them in a secluded location under strict guard, and personally examined each of them to ensure that nothing had been tampered with. He then allowed them to cultivate normally every day, and the result…
These people, right under his nose, went mad and turned into demons.
There was no tampering; he simply practiced normally but still went into a state of demonic possession. All the evidence seemed to prove that Yun Tianshen had been corrupted.
"No, no matter what the source of the problem is, now is not the time to dwell on it. The most urgent task is to deal with these people who have gone astray. However, His Majesty is currently in seclusion, so it seems we can only discuss this with the princes and ministers first."
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