"You...how did you know I used the Turtle Breath Great Method? No...how was my seal broken? Wasn’t it supposed to open only when my life ended after I self-sealed myself?

Could it be that you broke my seal again? Who exactly are you? amitabha."

The Zen Old Monk said to Wang Yufan.

Wang Yufan looked at the Zen Old Monk and said with a smile:

"There’s something I’m not sure if I should say."

"Hmm? amitabha, benefactor, please speak your mind. It’s fine with this Old Monk."

Seeing the Zen Old Monk say this, Wang Yufan said uncertainly:

"Are you sure you want me to say it? After I say it, you won’t have any extreme reactions, will you?"

"amitabha, this Old Monk said that this Old Monk will not have any extreme reactions, benefactor, please rest assured," the Zen Old Monk said.

Li Qiye and the others, who were nearby, also perked up their ears and listened.

Wang Yufan cleared his throat twice, then took a step back and shouted loudly, "Hmph, demon! I can tell at a glance that you’re not human! What kind of monster are you? Why don’t you reveal your true form?"

Upon hearing Wang Yufan’s words, Li Qiye and the others were stunned, then quickly retreated towards the back.

When the Zen Old Monk heard Wang Yufan’s words, he was momentarily stunned. A scarlet, bloodthirsty glint flashed across his eyes, but it seemed to be suppressed by him extremely quickly. The Zen Old Monk then said:

"amitabha, this Old Monk’s monastic name is Zen Buddhist Monk Yichan, and I have lived for hundreds of thousands of years. The fact that this benefactor can tell at a glance that I am not a true human means that this benefactor’s strength is certainly extraordinary. I am actually a monk, the previous abbot of this Dao Realm Temple. However, this body of mine is the transformed skin of a great demon, and my divine soul resides within it.

For this benefactor to have sensed the demonic energy on my body just now is truly remarkable." 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

Hearing the Zen Old Monk’s words, everyone felt that it was very extraordinary. The fact that the Zen Old Monk’s divine soul could reside in the body of a great demon after it had transformed proved that the Zen Old Monk’s strength, when he was alive, had at least reached the God Emperor Realm.

Although Li Qiye and the others only half-understood the Zen Old Monk’s explanation, it was very clear to Wang Yufan.

"Hmm, then tell me how your Dao Realm Temple became like this. As far as I know, your Dao Realm Temple used to be a sacred place in the Dao Realm, even Liu Wuxie of the Jidao Imperial Court was very polite to it back then," Wang Yufan said.

"You actually know Liu Wuxie, the Old Ancestor of the Jidao Imperial Court? Benefactor, you truly open this Old Monk’s eyes. I wonder if you learned this from ancient texts or if someone told you. This Old Monk is not intentionally trying to probe your background, but what you know is not something ordinary people can understand. Even hundreds of thousands of years ago, this was quite a secret. Only a small portion of people knew about it; the rest were unaware."

Hearing the Zen Old Monk say this, Wang Yufan was a little puzzled. What was there to hide?

Seeing the expression Wang Yufan showed, the Zen Old Monk smiled and said:

"Forget it. Since this benefactor knows quite a lot, and seeing as we are fated today, this Old Monk will tell you a story.

It is said that tens of millions of years ago in the Dao Realm, a mysterious young man came to this Dao Realm. His arrival made Liu Wuxie, the overlord at that time, very displeased. Although he was a mysterious young man, his strength in the Dao Realm was unmatched.

At that time, Liu Wuxie had already reached the God Emperor Realm, but when he went to challenge him, he was directly beaten to the point of crying for his parents. In the end, the relationship between the mysterious young man and Liu Wuxie also became good because of that battle.

The mysterious young man stayed in the Dao Realm for a very short time. He only went to three places in the Dao Realm in total," the Zen Old Monk said.

"Which places? Zen Old Monk, hurry up and tell us," Li Qiye urged.

"Hahaha, young benefactor, don’t be impatient. The first place that mysterious young man went to was this Jidao Imperial Court. The second was the Li Shui Sect. As for the last one, it was this Dao Realm Temple behind me. And this Dao Realm Temple was his last stop. At that time, it was my Martial Ancestor who received him. I wasn’t even born back then; all these stories of mine were told to me by the previous abbot."

The Zen Old Monk continued to elaborate. Just at this moment, Wang Yufan suddenly transmitted a message to the Zen Old Monk, saying:

"amitabha, did that young man come to your Dao Realm Temple and meet your abbot at the time, your Martial Ancestor?"

Hearing Wang Yufan transmit these words, the Zen Old Monk was stunned. He didn’t know what Wang Yufan meant or why he transmitted his voice. But Wang Yufan’s next sentence almost made the Zen Old Monk go on a killing spree.

"Don’t worry, that was the young man’s last time in the Dao Realm. He gave a fragment engraved with ancient runes from his body to your abbot at the time and instructed him to keep it well, saying that even if the temple was destroyed, this fragment should not be lost, because someone would come to retrieve it." Wang Yufan continued to say to the Zen Old Monk.

However, after hearing these words, the Zen Old Monk’s mind exploded. This was the biggest secret to his current survival, and the young man in front of him actually knew it. The Zen Old Monk suddenly thought of a possibility.

"Are you perhaps that outsider?" The Zen Old Monk said, then directly slapped a palm towards Wang Yufan.

Wang Yufan was a bit stunned by Zen Buddhist Monk Yichan’s action.

"Zen Old Monk, what do you mean by this? Are you going to attack without a word?" Wang Yufan said. He didn’t defend against Zen Buddhist Monk Yichan’s attack at all. Even if he didn’t make a move, Wang Yufan judged that this Zen Old Monk wouldn’t cause him any harm.

"This Old Monk has already guessed your identity. Since you know such a secret matter, you are definitely that outsider," the Zen Old Monk said again.

And hearing the Zen Old Monk say the words "outsider" again, he became increasingly curious. What exactly happened that made the Zen Old Monk think he was that outsider? Was the destruction of the Dao Realm Temple related to that outsider? Wang Yufan thought with some doubt.

Li Qiye and the others, seeing the Zen Old Monk suddenly attack Wang Yufan while speaking, immediately shouted.

"Master, be careful!"

"Master, be careful!"

As for Wang Yufan, he really wanted to know what happened after he left. Didn’t he clearly remember that after he left, Liu Wuxie was still alive? If a drastic change occurred at the Dao Realm Temple, he couldn’t possibly not know.

Looking at the charging Zen Old Monk Yichan, Wang Yufan directly shouted:

"Alright, stop."

As the words left his mouth, an extremely powerful divine soul force directly penetrated the Zen Old Monk’s sea of consciousness, causing Zen Buddhist Monk Yichan, who was originally attacking Wang Yufan, to retreat several steps.

"Let’s talk things over properly. I’m not the outsider you mentioned. Looking at you, it seems this outsider has a great grudge against your Dao Realm Temple. If I were, how could I be talking so much with you? I would have dealt with you long ago. You should be able to sense that I have such strength," Wang Yufan said.

Hearing Wang Yufan’s words, Zen Old Monk Yichan pondered for a moment and felt that it made some sense.

"You’re really not an outsider, are you? This Old Monk was a bit impulsive just now, and I hope benefactor will forgive me," Zen Buddhist Monk Yichan said.

Li Qiye, who was not far away, heard this voice and immediately said, "Look at you, you’re still a monk, yet you’re so fond of killing? What if my Master isn’t the outsider you speak of? What if my Master’s strength isn’t as good as yours? With that palm strike you just made, very few people could have withstood it. And you think a simple apology will make everything alright?"

Upon hearing Li Qiye’s words, Zen Old Monk Yichan felt that he had indeed been muddled by the outsider just now. It was truly because this outsider was their Dao Realm Temple’s eternal enemy, for they were the ones who destroyed the Dao Realm Temple.

"This young benefactor speaks wisely. This Old Monk will compensate this benefactor," Zen Old Monk Yichan said. After he finished speaking, Wang Yufan said:

"Alright, never mind. Just tell me what happened in the past. I want to know everything, including where that fragment is now. You must tell me."

Hearing Ni Chang’s words, Zen Old Monk Yichan transmitted a message:

"I can see that this matter must be of extraordinary importance to benefactor. So, I will briefly tell benefactor about it.

In the past, after your ancestor, that mysterious young man, disappeared from this Dao Realm, Liu Wuxie managed it for less than a year before going into seclusion. And the item that mysterious young man asked us to preserve, our Dao Realm Temple has always carefully protected it.

Because at that time, that mysterious young man’s strength was probably the strongest. It is rumored that he had already reached the Shenzun Realm. In the second year of our preservation of that fragment, three people claiming to be outsiders appeared out of thin air in Master Lingfa’s courtyard and demanded that we hand over the item here.

At first, Master Lingfa didn’t know what they were talking about. Finally, based on their description, Master Lingfa realized that what they wanted was precisely the fragment left behind by that mysterious young man."

"Then you gave that fragment away?" Wang Yufan transmitted.

"No, Master Lingfa said that our Dao Realm Temple did not have the item they were looking for. They also roughly searched once and did not find that fragment. At that time, the strength of those three outsiders had already reached the peak of the God King Realm, and Master Lingfa’s strength was also at the peak of the God King Realm. They left when they saw that there was nothing.

However, when I became abbot, those who called themselves outsiders once again descended upon the Dao Realm Temple. This time, there were a full hundred or more of them. They were all covered in black armor. I sensed their strength; they were all God King Realm, with two or three God Emperor Realm, and one above the God Emperor Realm.

They insisted that the fragment they were looking for was here. I also said there was none, and finally, it escalated into a conflict. Those hundred outsiders directly dug up the Dao Realm Temple from top to bottom. All the disciples of my Dao Realm Temple resisted with all their might, but they couldn’t withstand their large numbers and power.

In the end, my Dao Realm Temple, which had been passed down for millions of years, was destroyed like this. And I also fell unconscious under a palm strike from that mysterious Shenzun Realm expert. When I regained consciousness and woke up again, I felt that I was already in a soul state. Finally, I drifted to the demon race and found a dead great demon that had transformed into human form to serve as a vessel.

And my previous body had long become the nourishment of heaven and earth."