Death Game: Starting as a fraudster, pretending to be a god.

As Lin Yu expected, the Taoist temple that Xuan Yunzi mentioned was exactly the one that Haiou and the other two had seen.

This made the snowy owls, seagulls and mountains feel confused and alert.

"Master Xuanyunzi, this bandit stronghold is right next to your Taoist temple. Why have you sat back and watched for so many years?"

Gao Shan was the most straightforward person when it came to this kind of thing, so he asked directly.

After all, Xuan Yunzi came from a famous and upright family, and it was his responsibility to eliminate demons and defend the way of justice. In addition to eliminating demons, he should not have sat idly by and watched evildoers like bandits who were causing trouble to the people.

Xuan Yunzi sighed: "The reason for this matter is also related to why I am alone in this mountain. You will understand it after you get there."

Xuan Yunzi said, "There are over three hundred Taiqing Sect disciples currently roaming between these two mountains and six prisons. Do you know how many twelve-string level demons there are in these six prisons?"

Naturally, none of the six people could answer the question, after all, they didn't know much about the Prison Mountain Realm.

As long as Old Zheng didn't say anything and Shen Bingmiao didn't mention it in the little secret book he gave her in advance, Lin Yu naturally didn't know.

Seeing that the six people were unable to answer, Xuan Yunzi continued, "According to the counts of the four major sects, there are already three thousand twelve-string level demons who are still active and have been confirmed to be alive!"

After hearing Xuan Yunzi's words, everyone who had already prepared themselves mentally for the possibility that the number might be quite large was still shocked.

"Three thousand?!"

A demon with twelve strings of cash is no ordinary little demon. Even Sanyang, who commands a group of demons and occupies a mountain, only has seven strings of cash!

Even though the Prison Mountain Realm is extremely vast and has numerous mountaintops, these three thousand twelve-string demons... are still too many.

"How did the humans in this world survive?"

Li Nian couldn't help but mutter and ask.

"From what I've observed along the way, not many of them survived."

The seagull said something with some black humor.

Taoist Xuan Yunzi said, "Yes, this is one of the reasons why I am the only one guarding the area near the Twin Saw Mountains right now... Because even though the seal on the Twin Saw Mountains has loosened, compared to the entire Two Mountains and Six Prisons... it really isn't a major emergency."

He sighed, "Deqing Temple has already sent people twice before, but unfortunately, they are a second-rate sect after all, and the people who came were not at a high enough level of cultivation, so they didn't see any clues... The Thousand-Eyed Thousand-Threaded Demon Lord is no ordinary demon. He is good at hiding and his nature is extremely sinister."

On the way, Taoist Xuan Yunzi talked slowly and they soon arrived at the Taoist temple.

"Everyone, we're here!"

Xuan Yunzi said this and then stood in front of the Taoist temple.

Lin Yu raised his head and took a look at the Taoist temple.

Not surprisingly...

"This Taoist temple is exactly the same as the one we saw before!"

Fei Dao couldn't help but speak, with some doubt in his tone.

"What...what's going on?"

Feeling that something was strange, Fei Dao stood at the door and was unwilling to go in.

Lin Yu also spoke up: "Indeed, Senior Xuan Yunzi... We saw an identical Taoist temple of yours in Shuangsaw Mountain not long ago."

Xuan Yunzi looked at Lin Yu and didn't seem surprised: "Sure enough, you also found the Taoist temple in Shuangsaw Mountain."

"Don't worry, my friend. This is my method of restraining the Thousand-Eyed Thousand-Threaded Demon Lord," Xuan Yunzi said with a calm smile. "There are five Taoist temples like this one, located within Shuangsaw Mountain and the four surrounding mountains."

"Although the Grandmaster's methods are exquisite, I dare not tamper with the original formation, but I can still create a new one on top of this one," Xuan Yunzi said, feeling a little ashamed. "But the effect of this formation is only to restrict the movement of the Thousand-Eyed Thousand-Threaded Demon Lord... Over the years, many caravans and residents in this area have been killed."

Xuan Yunzi said this and pushed open the door of the Taoist temple.

Lin Yu nodded and followed Xuan Yunzi in.

After all, he could feel that Xuan Yunzi was not lying or acting, and there was no ill will towards him and his group in his mind.

The scene inside this Taoist temple is exactly the same as that one, even the damage to the statues and the wear and tear on the floor are similar.

Lin Yu calmly walked around to the backyard, where there was indeed a corpse wearing a tattered Taoist robe sitting in the yard!

Seeing the corpse, Lin Yu asked again.

"Senior Xuan Yunzi, I'm afraid you didn't build five Taoist temples. They are indeed the same one, right?"

Xuan Yunzi nodded: "My dear friend, you are very observant and have good understanding... These five Taoist temples on different mountains are indeed one."

"I only built one Taoist temple within the Twin Saw Mountains. The remaining four temples...were built because I calculated the Thousand-Eyed Thousand-Threaded Demon Lord and used the demon's own abilities to counter it."

"I'm sure you've already seen some of the abilities of the Thousand-Eyed Thousand-Thread Demon Lord. Besides releasing those spider silks and the spider demons that belong to him, his most core ability is to make people disappear silently and then turn them into puppets."

"Although the records of this incident within the Taiqing Sect are unclear, I've dealt with it in these mountains for decades and have roughly grasped its core ability," Xuan Yunzi said solemnly. "That's the innate magical power known as 'Cause and Effect Silk'—this demon can rewrite a person's past through spider silk."

"The deeper your karmic entanglement with it, and the shallower your own karmic connection, the more vulnerable you are to its effects. The only way to resist is to stay true to your heart. If you discover your memory is distorted, you must immediately recall your true past and re-examine your karmic connection."

"Although it doesn't actually modify a person's past experiences, it can deceive the Heavenly Dao and others... It's like overlaying the false past on the truth."

"And this magical power also consumes the human soul. Once it completely overwrites the past, the soul will become a puppet at its mercy."

"This is also why I didn't report this to the Taiqing Sect, and I didn't even dare to spread the news too much. This is because the Thousand-Eyed Thousand-Threaded Demon Lord has been trying to free himself by modifying his past over the years."

"Revising the past is truly against the will of Heaven. To do this, it requires a large number of living souls... The closer the souls are to those who were imprisoned back then, such as those of us from the Taiqing Sect, the more effective the revision will be."

Xuan Yunzi said this, and then said: "And I took advantage of this... I didn't resist at all, and actively let the demon devour my past."

"What it didn't know was that I had also cultivated my innate magical power, 'Qi Transformation into External Body'. After it devoured 'Xuan Yunzi'... I immediately activated my external body, causing my original body to perish and simultaneously activated the formation I had set up!"

"In the end, 'Xuan Yunzi', who was made into a puppet by it, died immediately, and the formation activated at the moment of death covered the four loopholes in the 'past' formation it had created for itself!"