Ever since Jia Shisi was released, Yu Ziqing suddenly realized that many things were completely different from what he had imagined.
It seemed that everything was completely different from what everyone else thought as well.
But as of today, the bow was drawn, and the arrow had to be shot.
Not only did Emperor Dui have no retreat, but they also had no retreat.
Now, it was not about letting Dadui return, but whether they could leave this place.
Of the seven people who sided with Emperor Dui, Yu Ziqing made two into ornaments, and two others encountered Jia Shisi and were killed easily.
There should be three left currently, but it was unknown whether they were dead or alive.
After all, when they encountered the Sect Master of the Duobao Sect, they likely died, and their identities were stolen.
As for those vanished City Gods at the prefectural and county levels, Yu Ziqing estimated they were also unlikely to have survived.
Their temples, lightly hit by filth, crumbled into dust.
Yu Ziqing had been puzzled about why this happened. After talking with Jia Shisi, Yu Ziqing understood that he probably took the blame for Emperor Dui.
Now, in Dingmao City, it was likely that a rumor would spread.
The evil was fierce and brutal. After killing the City God of Dingmao City, it slaughtered ten more prefectural City Gods. All the City Gods died at the hands of the evil.
Gathering all their strength, everyone rested and then headed to attack Dingmao City.
More than twenty Ninth Tier cultivators entered the archway. Such power, when used outside, could easily crush any sect or family in one go.
If facing the Three Divine Dynasties head-on, they could probably push through a third of its territory in a short time.
With just the court's power, trying to stop this group of Ninth Tier cultivators would likely require a heavy sacrifice.
Just like the current Dadui, except for Emperor Dui in Dingmao City, no one could stop them.
As for Emperor Dui...
Yu Ziqing didn't have particularly high confidence either.
He single-handedly blocked four Alien Power Meteors and didn't dissipate the force, causing Dingmao City to suffer heavy damage.
This was definitely not something a Ninth Tier Peak could accomplish.
He must have exceeded the Ninth Tier Peak by a significant margin. His actual power should have reached the Tenth Tier.
It was just that his Realm, mysteriousness, and so on were forcibly stuck below the Tenth Tier.
Yu Ziqing didn't know whether the dozen or so Ninth Tier cultivators here were a match for Emperor Dui.
Therefore, during the rest period, Yu Ziqing found Jia Shisi to learn about Emperor Dui from him.
Jia Shisi had worked as a Faceless Man all his life, taking over the position of Faceless Man leader from Jia Shisan. If anyone knew lots of confidential and non-confidential information, it would be him.
Getting sufficient information to reach the passing line shouldn't be particularly difficult.
But here's the problem.
Reaching a passing score of sixty triggered an evaluation, which yielded a strength limit of the Ninth Tier Peak.
This level of power was likely far from enough to confront Emperor Dui head-on.
If Emperor Dui had indeed devoured all those City Gods and transformed into the Earth Devil Venerate, he probably wouldn't care about whether the Divine Country was destroyed.
Trying to restrain him with Alien Power Meteors, making him attend to one thing and neglect another, would likely be challenging.
To obtain power beyond the Ninth Tier Peak, the completeness of the acquired information needed to score at least seventy.
Yu Ziqing had never successfully evaluated a score of seventy.
Either he evaluated himself and got a direct one hundred or possibly scored above one hundred with an additional bonus question.
Or it was like with the White Sun Holy Mother, where the score was at least over ninety. The power might not be extremely strong, but the mysteriousness reached a level Yu Ziqing couldn't comprehend.
Even so, he still had to ask the necessary questions.
As long as he could get a passing score of sixty, and if Emperor Dui transformed into the Earth Devil Venerate, it wouldn't be impossible to fight.
The innate restraint of a hungry ghost against Devils was enough to compensate for a large part of the power gap.
Emperor Dui gathered strength in Dingmao City, slowly strangling and devouring the strong practitioners of the Incense Fire Dao and Earth Deities.
Meanwhile, Yu Ziqing's side was resting and discussing how to respond to many situations.
Wen Lingyou held an extremely high position and had sufficient authority. His knowledge and character were impeccable. Even though he had not yet Entered the Dao, he could still control these people.
He organized discussions, allocated tasks, and created an unusually harmonious atmosphere.
Yu Ziqing had initially been worried that each Ninth Tier cultivator would have pride, individual thoughts, and strengths, and they might not follow instructions.
However, reality proved otherwise. If not all, at least the majority of those who reached the Ninth Tier were quite sensible.
They knew the best course of action when facing an issue.
Listening to some information from the Faceless Man and following Wen Lingyou's command as much as possible to coordinate everyone's strength to produce a result far beyond the Ninth Tier Peak was currently the best solution.
Rushing in recklessly, each fighting on their own, no one would be a match for Emperor Dui.
Even Jia Shisi was the same. In a one-on-one fight, he probably wasn't a match for the current Emperor Dui.
Sword Cultivators and Blade Dao's pure combat power were extremely strong, even strong enough to crush cultivators of the same Tier.
However, often, if the pure attack point was too high and had no specific target, it might not succeed in killing the opponent.
This was especially true against the Earth Devil Venerate.
A month quickly passed, and Wen Lingyou, leading the team, acted extremely steadily. Not aiming for victory, he considered the situation if they failed, how to save everyone, and how to start over.