After listening to this, everyone silently performed their own calculations and indeed deduced that someone skilled at disguising and practicing Demonic Path Skills had infiltrated their ranks!

Shi Feiyang altered the Heavenly Number, making nine truths and one falsehood. By revealing the truth at this moment, the Gua Xiang divined by the other party actually pointed to him. However, he had first used the Heavenly Mirror to create a Blood Shadow to deceive Master Can Xia, leading everyone to believe it was Deng Yin!

And just before the "Blood Shadow Attack" occurred, it had been the trouble caused by Golden Cicada and the others sneaking out that no one could have imagined it was him—a person right under their eyes—causing the mischief!

The information expressed by the Gua Xiang was actually quite limited. In the end, it was just a complex formula encompassing time and space information. The process of divining was using this formula to apply to people and events in reality. Therefore, the calculation process included two parts: the first was casting the Gua, a purely mathematical calculation that was not valuable. As long as one's mathematics was sufficient, anyone could understand it; it was even done by computers later on. The difficult part was the second process of injecting the Gua Xiang into the observed world and conducting deductive reasoning.

Each person is limited by what they know and think. With the same Gua Xiang, the result of interpretation is different for each.

The more experienced a person is, and the more information they know, the more accurate their deductions!

Now, the people of the Emei Sect were led astray by Shi Feiyang's trap. The Gua Xiang they all calculated was the same, showing that such a person had infiltrated. Then, Shi Feiyang guided everyone to associate the Gua Xiang with Deng Yin, fitting tightly... He and Deng Yin were both skilled at disguising, both male, both had practiced the Demon Path Great Technique... The differences between the two men were in the details, all erased when Shi Feiyang altered the Heavenly Number...

People recalculated time and again, discussed time and again, and finally determined: indeed, someone had infiltrated, either it was Deng Yin, or it was a disciple of Deng Yin.

Deng Yin had three disciples who, like him, had peeled their skin to practice and had cultivated the Blood Shadow Divine Skill, also possessing this ability.

The Gua Xiang showed that only one person had come in, but where exactly they were hiding was chaotic and disorderly. Therefore, everyone kept the Liangyi Dust Formation active and the entire sect was in a state of high alert.

They split into three groups: Qi Shuming relied on the Emperor Mansion's Heavenly Imperial Writ to face even Deng Yin in a fight, so he went alone, counting as one group. Master Xuanzhen and Xun Lanyin formed another group, and the two elders from Song Mountain formed another. The remaining Ascetic Monk, who had not fully recovered his mana after reincarnation, stayed on Spiritual Jade Peak with Master Can Xia, Master Baiyun, True Master Yudong, Li Yuanhua, Tong Yuanqi, and Jian Bingru, ready to provide support at any moment.

Qi Shuming first used the Liangyi Dust Formation to isolate the Taiyuan Five Mansions and divide them into three hundred and sixty sectors, launching an attack on each sector, meticulously searching every crevice in the rocks.

It took over two months, every corner was searched, and nothing was found!

Because the Blood Shadow that attacked Master Can Xia was created by Shi Feiyang using the Heavenly Mirror and had dissipated afterward, where could they even begin to search?

After searching for a long time to no avail and divining through the Gua Xiang that the other party was still within the Taiyuan Five Mansions...

This could cost them their lives.

Then Qi Shuming and the others speculated, "Could it be that Deng Yin used the Blood Shadow Divine Light to take over someone else's body, disguising as that person and blending into the crowd?"

So, they brought out each individual for scrutiny and verification.

However, the Earth Evil Transformation performed by Shi Feiyang was far more profound than the Blood Shadow possession. These people could detect the Blood Shadow possession, but they could not see through the seventy-two transformations of the Earth Evil.

In this way, with much ado and commotion for months, they found nothing.

Among them, Golden Cicada, Zhu Wen, Sun Nan, the Smiling Monk, Yi Ding, and Yi Zhen, the six who had gone out, were repeatedly inspected, always suspected to be one of those whose body had been possessed by the Blood Demon.

Shi Feiyang, in the midst of this process, had discovered how to open the prohibitions leading to the treasures of Spiritual Jade Peak. He also assisted in searching for Blood Shadow and identifying disciples, thereby deepening his understanding of the Liangyi Dust Formation and the mysteries of Spiritual Jade Peak. If given the chance, he planned to re-enter the treasure vault of Spiritual Jade Peak.

Last time he had visited, time was too pressing; he only took a cursory glance and left without taking anything.

There were plenty of treasures in the vault of Spiritual Jade Peak, but none that he deemed worth taking.

What caught his eye was a Jade Lotus pod, once handed over to Master Changmei by the Palace Master of the Stone God Palace, with the instruction to use it to control the Blood Demon should he ever bring chaos to the world.

Deng Yin practiced both the Dao and the Demon Path, and though Master Changmei's mana was formidable and he possessed the Liangyi Dust Formation, he wouldn't have been able to defeat Deng Yin so miserably. His repeated victories were only made possible by the power of the Jade Lotus pod.

Shi Feiyang speculated that the Good Volume of the Blood God Scripture must be contained within the Jade Lotus pod.

He calculated that Deng Yin would once again succumb to his Demon Nature and wreak havoc upon the world, yet he was unwilling to kill him in advance, before any wrongdoing.

Moreover, at Qiao Mountain Sacred Tomb, Deng Yin had shielded him from a major calamity—a tangible act. To add, Deng Yin's presence had strategically deterred opponents, invisibly averting many minor disasters.

Unwilling to kill Deng Yin, his only alternative was to attain the Good Volume of the "Blood God Scripture."

The reason the Palace Master of the Stone God Palace was able to maintain his humanity after practicing the Blood God Scripture, despite his innate strength of will and character, was through the cultivation of both good and evil.

From Master Changmei's perspective, whether it's the Good Volume or the Evil Book, both are part of the Demon Scripture. Once Deng Yin practiced the Demon Scripture, he would become Demonized, thus Master Changmei simply sought to subdue him. However, Shi Feiyang wanted to give Deng Yin the Good Volume to balance good against evil, to help him retain his humanity and suppress his Demon Nature.

Everyone possesses a Demon Nature which is, in essence, the manifestation of humanity's Beastly Nature.

Greed, laziness, and selfishness are all basic instincts of animalistic nature present in all creatures.

The Three Emperors established humanity above animal instincts, developing human nature as a form of civilized enlightenment.

Therefore, Shi Feiyang's solution differed from Master Changmei's. Master Changmei imprisoned Deng Yin for 365 years, forcing him to abandon the "Blood God Scripture" and focus solely on the "Nine Heavens Mysterious Scripture" in an attempt to maintain heavenly principles over earthly desires, completely renouncing one's animalistic instincts to ascend to immortality. Deng Yin couldn't do that; the more he suppressed, the harsher and stronger his animalistic nature became.

Shi Feiyang planned to give him the Good Volume of the "Blood God Scripture" and then guide him from beastly instincts back to humanity, maintaining his human nature on top of his innate beastly spirit. He believed this was the Righteous Skill!

Of course, his main purpose for coming to Emei Mountain wasn't this, but for the Primordial Spirit of Chi You. This was merely a convenience on the way, killing two birds with one stone.

Once he obtained the Good Volume, he would first comprehend it, removing any unsuitable parts, and then, according to Deng Yin's current situation, tailor a version of the "Blood God Scripture" for him to practice.

All the while, he would keep the specially made Jade Lotus pod at hand as a check against Deng Yin. If he were to fully fall to the Demon Path and cause harm to the world, Shi Feiyang would then take action to deal with him. If Deng Yin, like the Palace Master of old, were to achieve immortality through the complete "Blood God Scripture" with wisdom and perseverance, his acknowledgement as a "brother" wouldn't have been in vain.

Either way, it would all be under his control, ensuring nothing would go awry.

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