Moon Hook Island was quite a powerful island, and the old Golden Core Tier island master had been renowned for being a tough nut to crack. However, Yu Gui had betrayed the old island master and damaged the island's protective array, thereby creating an opening for Liu Zhimao and Gu Can to exploit. 0

All of the Moon Hook Island cultivators were caught completely off guard and suffered extremely severe casualties, with Yu Gui becoming the main beneficiary, harvesting a huge number of souls from deceased cultivators of the Middle Five Tiers. It was rumored that he was very likely to become the next new Nascent Tier cultivator of Bamboo Scroll Lake. 0

On top of that, he had taken the old island master's concubines and daughters for himself, and he had been leading a blessed life for the past year. During the celebratory banquet on Cyan Gorge Island, even Liu Zhimao had jokingly remarked that Yu Gui was the most enviable person in all of Bamboo Scroll Lake.0

During the same banquet, Gu Can had given Yu Gui a big thumbs-up, in response to which the latter had hurriedly risen to his feet and proposed a toast to the former.0

Gu Can barely ever displayed any benevolence toward any of the guest elders of the island, so this was a very rare honor, indeed.0

Upon reaching the shore of the Moon Hook Island, Chen Ping'an pulled out his Day and Night Wandering Deity True Body Talisman and summoned the pair of wandering deity puppets, then stepped ashore completely unannounced.0

This was a very Bamboo Scroll Lake way of doing things, and he was no longer the innocuous accountant who was polite and friendly to everyone that he met.0

Yu Gui had originally intended to put on a bit of a show of authority, but he was so frightened by this gesture from Chen Ping'an that he had immediately come scurrying out to meet him.0

He had been terrified that Chen Ping'an had come to exact a killing spree for whatever reason on his island, so he was very relieved to hear that he had only come here to purchase some unimportant yin entities. At the same time, he also gave Chen Ping'an many justifications for his past actions in a roundabout manner. 0

For example, he spoke about how abhorrently the old...0