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Aobozu gazed at Sage Qingwei’s expression with his only eye, but all he saw was a calm face, utterly undisturbed.
The demon monk had no choice but to ask, “Sage, are you not curious as to why I transformed into a yokai?”
Sage Qingwei replied with a question of his own, “Is your transformation into a yokai the so-called secret of Fenglin?”
Aobozu said, “That is only a very small part of it.”
“There’s more?” Sage Qingwei asked.
Aobozu explained, “There is a rule in the mortal realm that those who are too powerful—whether Immortals or divine beings—cannot remain here for long. They are limited to a hundred-year stay. Unless they use divine power to construct a divine kingdom and hide within it, they will eventually be bound to this rule. But even then, after that hundred-year term, they cannot easily leave their divine kingdom and become no different from mountain gods. However, Fenglin seems to be an exception. Many beings—humans or yokai—who have long surpassed the century mark still roam the mortal world, like the great yokai Tamamo-no-Mae and the Yamata-no-Orochi.
“With the Daoist Order’s formidable power and its nominal rule over Fenglin for nearly a century, surely you’ve encountered many bizarre and inexplicable phenomena. Fenglin seems to be a...
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