Lu Yun couldn’t help but tremble violently. He’d viewed the three hundred and sixty-five nihil powerhouses as heroes, marveling at their sacrifice for the greater good. It now looked like that was the furthest thing from the truth.

Few were those that the young man fully trusted. Other than his dao partners and son, there were only Fuxi, Mo Yi, and the Dao King. He didn’t doubt what the Dao King said—or rather, he had no reason to suspect anything the man said. He even knew that the Dao King wouldn’t blame him were he to turn around and leave right this second, taking his people into the world of the Tome of Life and Death and never getting involved in the affairs of existence again.

The man wouldn’t even...