I Am Loaded with Passive Skills-Chapter 3340 - 1673: Pupil Control Two Saints Arrow Delay, Big Night Sleep Beast Feeding

"It’s him again, the Five Decays of Heaven and Man!"

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On the First Viewing Platform in Feng Family City, Dao Qiongcang, who was still monitoring the battle at Sacred Mountain Gui Zhe, showed a rare flicker of emotion in his eyes when he saw the uninvited guest turn to look his way.

To be honest, Dao Qiongcang was deeply apprehensive about this person.

This "apprehension" was not fear or terror.

By birth, combat strength, strategy, and resources, Dao Qiongcang had no reason to view the Five Decays of Heaven and Man as an equal opponent.

But it was precisely this person—less accomplished in every aspect, even inferior to Dao Qiongcang himself thirty years ago—whose abilities provoked a deep unease within him.

In all his years as Hallmaster, Dao Qiongcang had rarely been forced into humiliating situations.

Abyss Island counted as one instance; Bazhun’an gained the upper hand. Yet, that time could be considered a mutually beneficial arrangement—an inherently losing situation in which he still managed to secure many of the benefits he sought.

The Divine Relics incident and the subsequent Xu Xiaoshou moment were another instance, but through various confrontations, Dao Qiongcang, instead of remaining Xu Xiaoshou’s adversary, successfully positioned himself on Xu Xiaoshou’s side.

In retrospect, every time he suffered setbacks, Dao Qiongcang could always "exchange equal value" for tangible advantages and hidden benefits—whether directly from those involved or elsewhere.

But the Five Decays of Heaven and Man...

Since the night at Qingyuan Mountain when he received that individual’s bow, Dao Qiongcang still couldn’t confirm whether the curse left on him had truly been resolved.

Objectively speaking, after using the golden cicada shell technique, the demi-saint incarnation that had been bowed to was already dead.

Logically, the curse should have no further effect on him.

But subjectively, the feeling was entirely different!

"I’m unclean now."

With this thought, every time Dao Qiongcang encountered misfortune since that bow, he couldn’t help but wonder.

Was there lingering curse residue on him? Had he inherited Death’s Guidance? Would he have achieved more if he hadn’t accepted the bow and lost his fortune at that moment?

The mark of the Great God Descending Technique was branded on the other party, yet it could not strike him down. Simply approaching him already constituted pollution; after merging into one, no amount of cleansing could rid the stink.

The "equal exchange" principle failed for the first time on this person. Dao Qiongcang had even planned a grand revenge involving Mo Mo’s soul fragments to deal with the Five Decays of Heaven and Man, but Xu Xiaoshou caught wind of it midway!

"Was it because Xu Xiaoshou was too clever?"

"Would my own luck have suppressed Xu Xiaoshou’s Great Path of Will, preventing him from even remembering, if only I hadn’t accepted that bow?"

"Would things have been simpler without that bow, with the Divine Relics resolved and Mo Mo alongside Feng Yujin falling into my hands?"

"Would I have been able to step down gracefully and hide more effectively—without suddenly transferring the sacred mountain to Dao Xuanji and now struggling to conceal it, dragged into the open by Xu Xiaoshou?"

When Dao Qiongcang once again saw the Five Decays of Heaven and Man, all the petty thoughts that usually lingered during idle moments quickly connected.

He deeply regretted it.

He regretted casting the baitline with incense to lure the big fish, only to allow the fish to self-destruct after it had taken the hook.

"Was it because the Five Decays of Heaven and Man was too decisive?"

"Would the situation on Abyss Island have been different if I hadn’t traced back to the battlefield’s remnants and contaminated myself with the initial misfortune—preventing me from misjudging the ’decisive moment’ and letting the big fish slip away?"

"Was it due to that slip—being too close to him—that the misfortune intensified, eventually forcing me to accept his bow, leading to a vicious cycle escalating into the current predicament?"

A thousand-mile dam can be breached by an ant nest.

Ordinary people might not overthink in this way, but the Heavenly Mechanism Brain doesn’t overlook even the smallest detail.

Dao Qiongcang initially believed there was a sixty percent chance he was overthinking.

What harm could a mere Five Decays of Heaven and Man do simply by proximity? How could he so easily destroy my Heavenly Mechanism dream?

When he saw through the Dao Imparting Mirror that everything downhill of Sacred Mountain Gui Zhe turned ashen and withered following a mere passing of the Five Decays of Heaven and Man, he no longer thought so.

"Body of Devour, Immortal Body—still unknown."

"Body of Decay—free and controlled, fully mastered."

Without this, there was no way to explain why Lu Ke and Feng Zhongzui remained utterly unharmed.

Dao Qiongcang even deduced that the Body of Decay had only recently reached full maturity.

Anyone who had long been in contact with the Five Decays of Heaven and Man might have faced misfortune due to malignant eruptions upon the ultimate mastery of the Absolute Body.

Dao Qiongcang raised his gaze to the sky, his expression somber. His inference wasn’t without precedent.

"Huang Quan hasn’t returned yet..."

The Chief Yama was a mysterious figure, always acting for the sake of the Lei Family’s Eyes, resolute in his goals, never wasting efforts on empty pursuits.

But upon reviewing Huang Quan’s journey to the Divine Relics, one could effortlessly conclude that he "came away empty-handed."

Alliance with Yue Gongli? His ally shattered...

Entering All Time Forgotten Sorrow Pavilion? Trapped there...

He seemed to meet obstacles everywhere, gaining nothing—as if he had gone to the Divine Relics for mere sightseeing and then headed home.

But now, the Divine Relics bore Xu Xiaoshou’s name, and there was no sign of Huang Quan—not even a trace of him at "home."

At the very least, Dao Qiongcang couldn’t locate the branding he had left on Huang Quan anywhere in the Shengshen Continent, proving that Huang Quan was "not in the five regions."

"Both possess spacetime attributes—what’s the connection between Huang Quan and Kong Yuhen?"

"Did he truly renounce his desires, wanting nothing? Or was it some kind of ’curse’ influencing him to become unlucky, leading to an ultimate..."

Dao Qiongcang examined the situation afresh.

To Huang Quan, the Divine Relics seemed like a sprawling web.