Fellow Daoist! That scoundrel has written a new book again.

Chapter 554 Frog in the Well

The leader of the Juque Sect had a hint of hatred in his eyes.

The woman with long hair covering her face suddenly calmed down and said in an extremely cold voice:

"All my promises have come true."

"Haven't the Juque Sect been glorious enough over the years?"

"You have only yourself to blame for being too greedy. You secretly raised demonic beasts for profit, so you let them eat people. The spirit ore I mentioned is indeed beneficial for refining weapons, but you did not restrain yourselves and instead levied exorbitant taxes."

"The limit I mentioned is a thousand years. If we act according to my advice, we can avoid this great calamity."

"And you, with your insatiable greed, want to complete a thousand-year plan in a few hundred years."

"It just so happens that we've run into this great calamity, making the Juque Sect the one to face it. Are you going to blame me for that?"

The leader of the Juque Sect roared, "Enough!"

He raised his hand and pointed at the person bound by chains, as if he wanted to devour him alive, but in the end he could not move and glared at the woman in front of him.

Now that things have come to this, how could he not know that the "Grandmaster" before him had ulterior motives, taking advantage of the Heavenly Way, the Great Calamity, and the greed in people's hearts?

It brought great prosperity and glory to the Juque School, but it also pushed the school into the abyss.

It's all for today.

She won.

The leader of the Juque Sect tried his best to calm himself down and said, "As you said, this person did indeed kill that Nascent Soul stage rogue cultivator. It was known to everyone in the world."

"So, this person may have realized that it was a trap set by the Juque Sect. Is this a threat or a provocation?"

The woman with long hair covering her face remained silent for a long time before letting out a sneer, a laugh filled with mockery, and seemingly asking with a hint of doubt:

Is that all you can think of?

"How exactly did you manage to secure your position as the leader of the Juque Sect?"

She raised her head, her appearance extremely terrifying, and her breath weak. Her eyes looked at her grand-disciple in front of her, seemingly genuinely puzzled.

In the passage above, for a diviner who can predict the future, isn't the phrase "known to all" the most important thing?

The limitations of this person's ability to foresee the future are blatantly obvious.

Firstly, the source of information depends on external factors. Unlike Fang Zhihui, who sat quietly observing the "sea," this person, who could foresee the future, needed external factors as a medium.

Secondly, it must be within a town. Otherwise, one could hide in the wilderness and learn about the world simply by stopping passersby, so why risk living in the city?

Moreover, in the previous tests, she tried to have the Juque Sect mislead this diviner, and he was not misled by the "one-sided information".

Third, the details are unpredictable and may even be delayed.

For example, the previous ambush was just a test.

The formation was incredibly imposing, but it was actually just a teleportation array. If she chose to break the formation, she could escape unscathed, but it would mislead the world into believing that she was seriously injured and missing.

Perhaps having foreseen the "future reactions and speculations of the world," this diviner actually believed that breaking the formation would result in injury.

Therefore, he chose to confront that rogue cultivator.

Ha... It was unimaginable that the rogue cultivator was skilled in using poison.

Because in the future this person observed, he believed he could relatively easily escape unscathed from the rogue cultivators, but if he chose to break the formation, he would be in danger of serious injury.

The actual situation is exactly the opposite.

The formation-breaking action is impressive, but in reality, it causes no harm; it's easy for rogue cultivators to escape, but they will suffer hidden losses.

But the divination couldn't figure it out, which is quite interesting...

Even the way to kill a rogue cultivator had to be done with such fanfare, making it known to the world.

Furthermore, after so many encounters and tests, she has discovered that this person seems to be able to predict the future in ten to fifteen days. If she pursues him too closely, making him unable to settle down or hide in the city for several days in a row, his predictive ability will fluctuate.

The woman has been trapped here for too long, so... she is unaware of the changes in the outside world.

Even with such a thorough deduction, it's impossible to pinpoint exactly what this diviner relies on.

She could only guess that perhaps someone had sent a message to the fortune teller.

For example, in various towns, this person has his own exclusive stronghold, which may be a secret intelligence network or a force that he is loyal to... He will write down the major and minor events that have been widely circulated recently, for him to read and predict.

Or perhaps it refers to sects and factions that specialize in selling information.

This person only needs to find the base to predict "information that will appear here in the future".

She was able to guess to that extent.

But no matter what she did, she couldn't guess what it was.

Even if she is incredibly intelligent, as long as she doesn't step out of the secret room, she will never be able to guess what she has never seen before. The times have abandoned the wise man in the cage.

Zhu Wuyao hid the water droplet in the ocean. She did not have her own "base and power"; it was a "base and power" shared by everyone.

Inside the secret room, the woman did not voice her guess.

She simply said, "Let two rumors spread about the Juque Sect. One rumor is that the Juque Sect should firmly admit to it, but the world won't believe it. The other rumor is..."

Only after explaining what needed to be done next did the woman continue:

"I am trapped in a cage, like a frog at the bottom of a well, and this is all I can do."

"If you want to get rid of this person completely, you must unlock my chains and let me see... the outside world. I can promise that within a month, this person will be seriously injured."

"Of course I will protect the Juque Sect."

I will protect... my Juque Sect...

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I have been feeling uneasy lately.

Because the last robbery was too targeted, you could even say that it was the first time she had ever stumbled.

From that day on, the frequency of the pursuit seemed to increase dramatically, and the purpose was not to kill her, but to make her keep running away.

Is this a strategy to wear down the enemy?

Perhaps not entirely.

Zhu Wuyao vaguely sensed that the person behind the scenes who was targeting her seemed to be testing the waters little by little, and even... many times, she had to wonder if the person behind the scenes had already guessed the meaning of "Ten Thousand Book Reviews".

However, if they had guessed that it was "Ten Thousand Volumes of Book Reviews," the Juque School would have surely wiped out all Mohen Bookstores.

This will stop the circulation of tabloids.

But the Juque School did not do so.

Therefore, Zhu Wuyao was unable to fully believe the information in "Ten Thousand Book Reviews".

This gave her a sense of urgency.

She didn't know whether she had overestimated or underestimated the person behind the scenes, and she couldn't even be sure if such a person even existed.

"Zhu Wuyao, let's go fishing by a stream deep in the mountains. Running around like this is so tiring..."

"Speaking of which, why did you beat me up in public last time? Didn't that give away your whereabouts?"

"Or is there another reason?"

Of course, there are other reasons.

She hoped that if there really was someone behind it all, they could shift their focus and concentrate on how she could take down a Nascent Soul cultivator outside several cities, instead of constantly scrutinizing her sources of information.

But Song Kezi's guess gave her a headache.

Imprisoned... If the person who delivered the news was rather foolish, and didn't even mention that she was beating up Song Kezi, thinking it was just trivial news and something to amuse herself...

Wouldn't all her actions be like flirting with a blind man?