Master of Strange Dao

When they first learned that Yang had been afflicted with the Silence Divine Spell, they had discussed it.

At the time, they were quite optimistic, after all, the first three layers of the Silence Spell are quite difficult to conceal.

People cursed with the Silence Spell can remember the secrets they're supposed to keep, they just can't speak them out loud.

Similarly, they know that they have been cursed with the Silence Spell and are aware of who cast it on them.

Under such circumstances, finding loopholes isn't much of a challenge; there are readily available methods as long as one is willing to implement them.

Only the highest level of the Silence Divine Spell will cause one to forget they have been cursed, as well as the secrets they are meant to keep.

The process in between these states leaves traces that can be followed.

Someone who has mastered the Silence Divine Spell can hardly keep it completely hidden.

Moreover, there are not many people in the world who have mastered this Divine Spell; a simple process of elimination should suffice.

However, Yang had been ruled out as a possibility from the beginning.

The person they were looking for was someone who had mastered the Silence Divine Spell but never used it before.

Yu Ziqing always felt that this claim wasn't very rigorous.

So he was quite puzzled by one thing: if it had never been used, how could one practice it to the highest level?

Could it be that there exists a spell with levels that doesn't require one to grind for proficiency?

Unfortunately, he considered himself uneducated and, though he found it strange, he couldn't argue against it.

After all, he himself was someone who didn't care for reason, and he had seen plenty of unreasonable people.

Maybe there really were such people who could cheat the system.

Now it seems that the target, or more accurately, the target is someone who has mastered the Silence Divine Spell but has never used it openly.

As long as no one knows he has mastered the Silence Divine Spell, it's almost as if he has never used it.

And the organization of the White Water Egg, obviously, is all too suitable for practicing proficiency.

No one outside would know what they were up to.

Thinking along those lines, it indeed seems plausible.

Nevertheless, Yu Ziqing still felt there were some parts that didn't quite make sense, although he couldn't articulate them at the moment.

It's not a big problem, anyway; they have to figure out a way to deal with them, adding new grudges to the old ones.

Yu Ziqing's thoughts raced as he raised his head to look at New No. Ten.

New No. Ten seemed rather dejected, a light sigh as if he had said everything.

"Think of it in a positive way,

it's definitely not because of the Silence Divine Spell that your True Name and face are missing.

This indeed might be difficult to reclaim, so don't think about going to extremes; there might be a way in the future.

But your experiences from the first half of your life, and some other things, if they have been lost due to the Silence Divine Spell,

then the chances of reclaiming them are much higher than the former.

If you restore your memory, even if you can't find your True Name and face, it will be easier to recover them from other directions or indirectly.

If it isn't because of the Silence Divine Spell that you lost them, then finding the object of the Silence Divine Spell's Sealing could be of even greater value."

Yu Ziqing consoled him in few words.

New No. Ten shook his head.

"Whether it is or not, it's the same to me. I used to think that casting the Silence Divine Spell on us was meaningless.

Now that I think about it, they probably never trusted us from the start.

It's quite normal for them to not want us to remember something particularly important after we've finished the task."

New No. Ten seemed quite at ease with the idea, but given his current state, it wasn't an issue.

Those people could commit murder and silence witnesses with ease, using someone up and then discarding them.

Adding a Silence Divine Spell is no big deal.

Maybe they intend to keep using the person and so they add the Silence Divine Spell; or, if they feel it's about time to let go and the person has no further utility, they just proceed to murder and silence them.

Yu Ziqing stroked his chin, pondering, and if we reverse-engineered this line of thinking,

the original Ten had done quite a bit, but the organization of the White Water Egg hadn't killed Ten to silence him.

In theory, New No. Ten and the original Ten must have been assigned similar tasks.

Yu Ziqing had been secretly sabotaging their plans from the inside.

The original Ten, far from being silenced, was actually given a task to kill Eight.

Upon reflection, given the current intelligence, the most obvious distinction is the Qiguang Trading Company in the eastern region of Dali.

He had also investigated; Qiguang Trading Company had a large business in the eastern region of Dali, with commercial interactions with the court in the east.

Some of the eastern frontier army's supplies were even procured from Qiguang Trading Company.

To have business operations of such scale, even if their power didn't match top-tier sects, it was on par with second-tier large sects.

Moreover, in some aspects, a trading company could have advantages over large sects.

Current speculation suggests the original Ten was the biological son of the big boss of Qiguang Trading Company.

With such a person involved, the organization of the White Water Egg could tie Qiguang Trading Company to their chariot with a little maneuvering.

Therefore, they hadn't considered silencing the original Ten even for a moment.

Reversing this train of thought, could it be that, aside from his inherent value, New No. Ten no longer holds any additional value?

Just like Number Seven—the hungry ghost—who was said to have made a grievous mistake that warranted execution, yet they played good cop, bad cop, ultimately sparing his life and sending him to infiltrate the ranks of the hungry ghosts.

Is it because Number Seven—the hungry ghost—holds some kind of additional value beyond his abilities, which made the organization of the White Water Egg spare his life?

"Let me ask you something; roughly when did you become like this, and what Dharma Method have you practiced, what Secret Technique do you specialize in, and what tasks have you completed before? You should be able to recall and speak about the things you remember, right?"

"There's really nothing I can't talk about anymore." New No. Ten was very open.