100: Your religion is so evil and unprofessional! Look at me fooling her!

Let's rewind time to half an incense stick ago.

A dull rumble was heard.

Boom! Crackle crackle—!

The heavy door opened. Xiao Qingyuan deactivated the Restriction and entered the secret prison.

The woman in the cell was still the same, her eyes as still as an ancient well, as if nothing in the world could stir her heart.

A bottle of Qi Cultivation Pills was thrown through the bars, landing on the chest of the woman in white.

“Sigh, it seems hunger is useless against you too.”

Xiao Qingyuan sighed. This time, he brought a stool, preparing for a long battle with her.

After all, overt enemies are easy to deal with; it’s the threats hidden beneath the surface that are truly terrifying.

At the very least, he needed to understand some of the enemy’s strength.

The woman remained silent.

“Come on! Let’s debate. Tell me about your doctrine. Since you believe you are showing benevolence to the world and saving humanity.

Me!”

Xiao Qingyuan pointed to himself: “I honor my parents, care for my wife and children, am friendly to others, and excel in virtue, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor. I am practically the best young man in Qingxuan.

Convince me. Preach your doctrine.

If you can recruit a Foundation Establishment cultivator like me, who is nineteen years old, into your organization, wouldn’t you be able to expand your ranks better and achieve your incredibly noble dream?”

The woman’s eyes flickered, and a ripple appeared in her desolate pupils.

“It is benevolence to humanity, saving the world.”

“Alright!” Xiao Qingyuan said, sarcastically: “No problem, I understand. After all, you calculating against my woman actually had no ill intent; you just wanted to save the world!

Right?”

The woman was startled by his words.

She always felt that what he said sounded very wrong!

But she didn’t know how to explain it.

She could only say dryly: “We do not kill people; we merely guide them back to the correct path when their fate deviates from its course.

Under Heavenly Mandate, all are ants.

Humans have their own fate. To replace the Heavenly Heart with one’s own heart is precisely to ensure the normal operation of Heavenly Mandate, so it must…”

“Stop! I’ve been listening for so long, my ears are calloused.” Xiao Qingyuan quickly raised his hand to interrupt, counting on his fingers:

“Your doctrine, in fact, has only two parts: one is called Heavenly Mandate, and the other is called fate.

These two things occasionally clash, but whenever an individual’s fate conflicts with the Heavenly Mandate above, you must erase the incorrect fate. Is that what you mean?

And you generally believe that Heaven creates all things to nourish humanity, but humanity has nothing to repay Heaven.

So, whenever there’s an opportunity to do something for Heaven with the life of an ant, it’s like ancestral graves emitting green smoke.

One must be grateful and kowtow twice, then immediately slit one’s throat, right?”

The woman opened her mouth again at his words.

She really wanted to refute, but she always felt there was some truth to it. What was going on?

She suddenly straightened up at his words.

Her delicate brows furrowed in thought, and she pondered deeply.

Before she could figure it out, Xiao Qingyuan quickly spoke:

“Crude words, but not crude reasoning, right?”

“As you said, Heaven creates all things to nourish humanity, but humanity has nothing to repay Heaven. Is it not right to serve Heavenly Mandate?”

“Clap! Clap! Clap!”

Xiao Qingyuan quickly clapped his hands and gave a thumbs-up.

“That’s right, that’s right, exactly! I completely understand you, and now I know your doctrine.”

The woman in white believed Xiao Qingyuan had recognized her doctrine, and a faint smile involuntarily appeared on her stubborn face.

The next second, however, Xiao Qingyuan successfully made her expression freeze.

“Is that all?”

A wicked smile appeared on Xiao Qingyuan’s lips.

This counts as a doctrine?

Are there even three sentences?

At least give me a divine creation of the world, or benevolence to humanity!

Failing that, a Silent Old Mother, a Vacuum Homeland would also work!

I have to say, on the path of cults, these people are completely unprofessional!

So Xiao Qingyuan cleared his throat: “But what I want to say is, your doctrine is merely a small righteousness, not the ultimate great righteousness.

Therefore, your doctrine cannot convince me yet!”

At these words, the woman finally became a little anxious.

“How can that be? Is there anything in this world more noble than Heavenly Mandate?

You don’t understand our ideals!”

Xiao Qingyuan shook his finger rapidly.

“No, no!”

“I said this is a small righteousness, not the true great righteousness.”

“Do you understand what Heaven is? As the saying goes, the Great Dao has fifty, Heavenly Dao deduces forty-nine, and humanity escapes with one.

Have you heard of variables? Have you heard of Heavenly Dao? Have you heard of the Great Dao?”

Xiao Qingyuan spread his hands like a bear: “See! You know nothing, so how can you say this is the most, most, most… ultimate nobility?”

“Tsk tsk tsk tsk… pitiful!”

Xiao Qingyuan was filled with grief and indignation.

“So, think carefully, isn’t what I said true?”

“The Great Dao has fifty, Heavenly Dao deduces forty-nine; the Great Dao has fifty, Heavenly Dao deduces forty-nine…”

The woman’s eyes finally changed.

Xiao Qingyuan had spoken casually, but each word, falling into her ears, was like a great bell, striking heavily in her heart.

Suddenly, she clutched her head with both hands.

She screamed.

“The Great Dao has fifty, Heavenly Dao deduces forty-nine, ah!!!”

Xiao Qingyuan was startled by the sight.

Is this woman playing a trick on me?

But very quickly, she actually spat out a mouthful of fresh blood.

And just like that, she fainted dramatically.

Xiao Qingyuan’s expression froze.

He realized she was genuinely injured.

“Holy crap!”

“Do these few words have such great power?”

…Xiao Qingyuan grumbled as he exited the prison.

He was still planning to tell this woman about the Three Pure Ones, the Five Elders, the Six Emperors, and the Nine Luminaries Star Officials!

A small fry who wasn’t even at Foundation Establishment.

She was meddling in more affairs than the Jade Emperor himself.

He was just about to mock her properly later.

But this woman just fainted?

Is she faking it?

“Damn it, it’s all for nothing!”

“Who the hell are you?!”

Xiao Qingyuan thought silently, preparing to try again in a few days.

He would try his best to trick her into submission!

But just as he was about to step into the courtyard.

He suddenly noticed something as he turned a corner.

A disheveled Taoist priest with a full beard, appeared before him, he didn’t know when.

Xiao Qingyuan was startled.

He instantly flashed back several tens of meters.

His heart pounded.

He didn’t know this person.

The clan protection array hadn’t activated, and the Restriction hadn’t been triggered at all.

Xiao Qingyuan didn’t even know when someone had gotten so close.

He only noticed him when he spoke.

Terrifying!

Horrifying!

He almost squealed like a pig.

“My sin~~ my sin!” But the old Taoist priest, with a fawning smile, trotted over: “Hehehe, this humble Taoist, Old Honest Taoist, is new, new… Guest Elder, at the fifth level of Qi Condensation Realm.

I just have some means of concealing my Aura, and I specifically came to pay my respects to the Venerable One.

But I didn’t expect to frighten the Venerable One.

It truly is a sin, a sin!”

As he spoke, he also released his Aura, and it really was at the fifth level of Qi Condensation.

Xiao Qingyuan felt a little relieved.

But he didn’t completely let down his guard.

The power of the Five Elements condensed beneath his feet, ready to escape at any moment.

Although there had indeed been Immortals coming to pledge allegiance recently, and he was originally supposed to vet them.

He didn’t want to do it, so he threw the matter to Eldest Cousin to handle.

There was indeed such a thing.

It’s just that he always felt that this Old Honest Taoist was somewhat off.

What kind of Aura concealing technique is so powerful that it can evade his Heavenly Foundation Establishment’s perception?

But when he activated his spiritual eyes, he found that he really was only at the fifth level of Qi Condensation.

Only then did he finally relax a little.

If he could avoid spiritual eye detection, what Realm would that be?

Foundation Establishment certainly couldn’t do it.

If that were truly the case, there would be no need to struggle.

He would just lie flat.

“New here?”

“And fortune-telling?”

“This humble one was indeed a Taoist priest before cultivating, hehehe, just trying to make a living!”

Xiao Qingyuan muttered in his heart:

【My sin, my sin? Is this really not a monk?】

He also saw the banner standing in the corner.

Unlike the fortune-telling signs seen in previous life’s films and television, such as: “Communicate with the unseen, predict good fortune, meticulously analyze the six lines, inquire about good and bad omens, one reading a day,” etc., which looked very appealing… This banner read: “Iron Mouth, Straight Prediction, One Reading Five Coins.”

Below it was written: “Immortal Points the Way, no charge if inaccurate.”

Strange!

Too strange!

His behavior was strange, the banner was strange!

His demeanor also didn’t resemble a proper Taoist priest; instead, there was a lot of shiftiness about him.

Xiao Qingyuan couldn’t help but murmur in his heart.

Which proper Qi Condensation fifth-level cultivator would casually tell fortunes for people, and only charge five coins?

And fortune-telling?

Isn’t the Heavenly Mystery Dao only cultivatable at Golden Core Realm at the very least?

Are swindlers also popular in this world?

Or swindlers with cultivation?

What for?

The more Xiao Qingyuan thought about it, the more suspicious he found this guy.

So he rolled his eyes, feigning a sigh of relief and nodding: “Coincidentally, I hadn’t thought of it until you mentioned it. I just happen to have something to discuss with Eldest Cousin. You were recruited by Eldest Cousin a while ago, weren’t you?”