Teaching him directly had not caused any catastrophes. At the very least, it proved that teaching in this kind of “gray area” manner did not necessarily violate any rules.0

Or perhaps it was something deeper: the rules existed, but the blind woman possessed the ability to bypass them to some extent without incurring any consequences. Clearly, she was not some passive artifact spirit bound to the tome’s laws. Her actions were simply too deliberate to deny her agency. Dragging people over from another world, for example, or even directly attacking someone back at Kunlun—if she truly were a mere treasure spirit bound by hard rules, there was no way she could have done any of that.0

Now that I think about it, back in Kunlun, that must have been the Dao Lord… It seems like they were an overwhelmingly powerful figure. I mean, even Yuxu had no choice but to appease him, and Ye Wuzong was so wary that he stayed as far away as possible, retreating to as far as Miaojiang. Yet, this supposed apex existence was casually smacked aside by the blind woman during a previous encounter. If the Dao Lord is a boss, then the blind woman must be something altogether beyond that.0

Even Xia Longyuan, whom everyone regarded as a boss-level target, had someone he regarded as a boss, someone he dared not cross even at the peak of his power. All he could do was write petty essays to disgust and provoke them from a distance.0

Now that’s the true boss.0

Zhao Changhe could not help but smile. If karma is involved, what kind of ripple effect might her decision to teach me now have in the future?0

The blind woman’s...0