When he was another man, Shi Xiang loves a woman.

However that woman only brought him misfortune and misery. When he was enlightened, he cut himself completely from the woman who cut herself from his life.

And yet when one of his greatest benefactor asks him to make amend with that woman, Shi Xiang does not know what to do. He does not know why the sect master asks that of him either, the only thing he knows is that the man could do no wrong.

In his mind, master Zheng Jie and master Yan Yu are already his masters. The masters of this life that is.

Right now, that woman continues to cause him grief.

The horrified man that just got his throat ripped out by Shi Xiang was the head butler from the Hu family. Shi Xiang does not know why he is here, he does not know why the man attacked him either. He just kills.

There was a moment of clarity on the other's face before it turns horrified.

Another life lost due to the scheming of this cruel world.

If only there was a way to escape this vicious cycle, but if he wants to live, Shi Xiang has to fight, and he has to kill.

That is the nature of the world. If only there was a better way.

During the midst of this bloodied fight, with one bloodied arm, Shi Xiang taps the system interface. The one whose opinions he care about are on the system interface right now.

"Senior Yan Yu, at night I was attacked by man from the Hu family again."

"What? Did you at least kill them?"

"Yes senior."

"Good. Leaving any alive would just make your future harder. Any karma has to be cut right from its root."

There was many times where Yan Yu left a victim alive.

A child of one of the cultivator perhaps. However, this is the world of cultivation, karma are always vicious. That child would come back years later, and the karma that Yan Yu sowed that day always come back to bite his ass.

Of course with his talents, power and knowledge, with such fledglings, he always exterminates the threats. However that lead to a dilemma.

If you kill a man and left his family alive, that man's family would come back and seek revenge. If you kill them too, the revenge seekers' dearest would be looking for revenge. The effect propagate until suddenly you are against the world.

The answer is then to leave no trace of karma left.

Of course, another cultivator from a certain different faction may disagree. Their answer is to not commit any killing in the first place, leaving no karma.

Of course both answers have the same result, there are no karma left.

Shi Xiang just nods as the perfect sponge of knowledge that he is, absorbing Yan Yu's knowledge.

"First check their body to see if there is any strange sight, judging by this situation, something is amidst."

Shi Xiang did as he was told, and with supernaturally keen insight, manage to discover a non-noticeable needle jam up each and every single of their spine, in the neck area.

They were non-noticeable for anyone not name Shi Xiang that is. Without even trying, he immediately found them, a needle thinner than a strand of spider silk. With the hair on their back, it is almost impossible to find. With the thinnest of the needle, one could not feel it, let alone trying to find it.

"There really was something there."

Shi Xiang says, picking up the impossible needle. It was not by luck that he happens to find them.

At this point, his insight, his intuition are raised immensely. There was many particularities about Shi Xiang's body, but this is not one of the more important change.

"If there is something there, turn on your 'livestream' for me to see"

This 'livestream' feature, even though he didn't say it out of pride, it was immensely satisfying for someone like Yan Yu. Imprisoned for thousand of years, never once did he see the sunlight outside. He wants to rush Shi Xiang to complete the mission to see if anything more profound appears, however the incident with Yating happens and Yan Yu was cut off since.

However, that was not the only reason Yan Yu is interested in the sight of outside.

With the sight of the outside, he could start to scope the place out, find the place with important dragon veins and so on. Even if he is imprisoned, if possible, Yan Yu could still affect the world in a way.

With his vast knowledge of formation, Yan Yu could borrow someone hand to create a high level formation even if Yan Yu is not there. Thing could be interesting.

Now if only he could borrow Shi Xiang's hands without the system getting on his case, but one small step at a time.

Now though, he has a small mystery to solve. Currently, Yan Yu is trekking on a bony road. It was made from blackened cultivators' bone. From the mountain of flesh full of treachery to a road made of blackened bone, Yan Yu really needs to do something to relax during this difficult trek.

It has been months but the end is still nowhere in sight.

Luckily, with the Heavenly Dao Discussion, he has something to distract. And not just to distract him from the boredom of course, it was distract him from the immensely disturb feeling looking at his minimap system.

On the map, everything surrounding Yan Yu is green.

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It was not like the all consuming red of Zheng Jie, it is green.

Green are loyal subordinate. Red are disloyal subordinate or enemies.

And now, during this dangerous journey, the most dangerous of all in the Hell dimension, the map is showing that all around him is green.

It is not like the all consuming red of Zheng Jie, covering everything either. It is just a big dot, that is all, roughly ten billion miles in diameter.

An empty desert in the middle of the Hell dimension where nothing grow.

And yet all of it is green, just like that of Zheng Jie. However, in Zheng Jie case, he was cultivating the heaven path method, and with the vast resource outside, he manages to reach that state. This is not outside, just who made it this far under Yan Yu's nose?

And it was green.

The whole desert is alive.

Yan Yu pretends that nothing has happened while keeping his composure, the next few days are going to be rough.

However, green or red, it does not matter.

In the end, no matter what that thing is, as long as it dies under Yan Yu's hand, Yan Yu's cultivation will evolve further.

In Hell, it is eat or be eaten, you devour other to use them as your resource.

In his heart, there was always schemes.

With reluctance remembering Princess Yating, Shi Xiang turns on the 'livestream' feature.

On the other side of the screen, Yan Yu was thinking

'Ah, here it comes'

This feeling, this sight, this sound. It is definitely the feeling of the outside world. It is the yearning of a prisoner to be free.

The Video Replay System is not normal. It captures an extremely accurate vision of the world. It is not the normal sight mortals see, it is a world that even cultivators can be surprised by.

The sound that Yan Yu could hear was thousand of miles away. The details he sees was amazing to his eyes. Seeing further, he could feel the heartbeat of a bird in the sky. It was a sight for sore eyes.

In the Hell dimension, except for vicious inedible beasts, there was no animals. The plants are poisonous. A young devil path cultivator would starve to death first before even meeting someone stronger. It was extremely harsh.

The other side is a different world.

It was a sight for sore eyes. And with that sight, Yan Yu has a genuine smile rarely seen on the face of the Black Devil.

In hell, everyone knows of the Black Devil, no one knows of Yan Yu. Whenever the Black Devil smiles, it is impossible to discern what is going on in that head. And whenever he smiles, something horrible is going to happen to his enemies.

This sight, even if the denizen of hells would pay for it 100 life time later, they would still pay.

The sight of the Black Devil smiling genuinely.

What Yan Yu was smiling at was extremely simple, it was nostalgic.

"Ah, it seems even when I'm gone, the world did not change that much."

It was a simple device, a small white needle, smaller than a spider's strand of silk, place directly into the spine.

It was an extremely rudimental hidden weapon with the capability of controlling another action or causes them to go berserk.

It was an extremely low level weapon, only used by the clandestine scoundrels. At higher cultivation, most cultivators could simply push it out, put it would still be costly.

But what made Yan Yu smiles was the fact that the method didn't change even after all that time. It was nostalgic. Even Yan Yu did something like that before. Thousands of years later, people are still doing it. An extremely simple yet effective thing.

"It's a hidden weapon. Most likely the fools didn't even know when they die. After that, the strings emit a poison that makes them extremely susceptible to command. First of all, you have to get out of there. Whatever third party out there trying to manipulate both parties, they should probably send the Hu family there next."

It was an extremely simple tactic, set up the scene, cause both parties to come into conflict, and then escalates it further. With Shi Xiang's position, both parties will come to harm, then only the fisherman who threw out the bait will benefit.

"Also, Shi Xiang, on your left, around 300 meter away, 50 centimeter from the ground, next to the lily, do you think you could throw the needles there?"

"Yeah...?"

"Throw them as hard as you can."

In the distance, a certain old man observing the scene has a rude awakening. He may have been a master not found in this world, but there was greater expert at play in the whole scenario.

And thank to Yan Yu's instruction, the hidden weapon went for the most fatal spot, the old man's weakness was discern at a glance.

"What was that for senior?"

Shi Xiang asks over the livestream. Slowly, taking every moment, Yan Yu types out.

"You should run. Now."

In the distance, an old man whose life was momentarily threatened start becoming extremely angry. However, he knows that if he did anything, his daughter will be extremely angry at him!

So he starts to give chase while the other party has an extremely powerful expert giving instruction on how to make a fool out of this mysterious old man.

With the Heavenly Dao Discussion, Yan Yu never runs out of amusement.