Excessive ferocity due to caution

Ouyang Feng's surprise surprised Zhao Yi as well.

"Senior Ouyang seems to have some knowledge of this power as well?"

This is the unique ominous power behind the red lacquered wooden door; it does not exist in the outside world and can only be controlled by those who cultivate towards evil.

According to Zhao Yi's understanding, very few people in the Chaotic Realm are cultivating towards the Evil Realm.

Most people are striving towards the Dominator Realm.

Including Ouyang Feng.

So when Ouyang Feng sighed, Zhao Yi found it strange.

"I came into contact with it when I was researching a special project left behind by a foundation."

Ouyang Feng recounted the story in detail, without hiding anything.

"This strange power comes from a red lacquered wooden door."

Zhao Yi raised an eyebrow.

"foundation?"

"Is the red lacquered wooden door related to the foundation?"

Ouyang Feng propped his forehead with one hand, searching his mind for the important information.

"You can't say that. You can only say that the foundation has researched this thing before."

Do you know the truth behind the foundation's downfall?

Zhao nodded.

"Because of a drop of blood."

A long time ago, Zhao Yi learned about the collapse of some foundations.

It's related to red clothes.

"To be precise, it's because of a corpse floating in the deepest part of the universe."

Ouyang Feng unveiled the long-buried past for Zhao Yi:

"The Foundation is passionate about researching all the unnatural phenomena of this wondrous world and has built countless containment facilities for them..."

Zhao Yi:

"I heard that it was to ensure the safety of ordinary people's lives."

Ouyang Feng looked up and glanced at Zhao Yi:

"At the very beginning."

"But later, the leaders changed batch after batch, and the core members within the foundation also changed subtly..."

"One day, a group of people suddenly discovered that a powerful and mysterious meme could be extracted from many projects. More or less, these memes could grant the absorber great power, but they also possessed terrible corrosive abilities. If absorbed in this way, the absorber would soon undergo unpredictable mutations..."

"The foundation's people began working on how to eliminate the negative effects of these powerful, mysterious memes."

"Over a long period of time, they painstakingly carved out a path that seemed almost impossible, minimizing the impact of the meme."

"It was from this time that the Foundation initiated the meme-devouring project..."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Yi frowned and said:

"For power?"

Ouyang Feng added:

"And for eternal life."

"The boost that meme gave them was limitless; with that alone, they shattered the Foundation's millions of years of accumulated power!"

"From that time on, the original purpose of the foundation began to be abandoned little by little."

"They no longer care about the lives of ordinary people in their own civilization. In their eyes, they are no longer the same species as these ordinary people."

"In order to generate more memes and power, the Foundation has developed countless branches, leaving its own traces in many civilized places in the universe, searching for and absorbing people and things that involve supernatural phenomena, and investing in experiments."

"Not only do they stop protecting civilians, they even start using civilians for various docking experiments to investigate which memes can be consumed and which cannot..."

"Among the ruins left by the foundation, I found some ancient records, from an incredibly dark period..."

"In their pursuit of power and immortality, they did many things that outsiders would never even dare to imagine."

As he elaborated on these points, Ouyang Feng's tone became terrifying.

Clearly, what he saw in the records left by the foundation was beyond what most people could accept.

"This madness continued until the body wrapped in tattered red clothes appeared."

"The Foundation discovered it deep in the universe."

"The ominous aura surrounding that corpse surpasses anything the Foundation has ever witnessed in its millions of years of history, and it is entangled with countless causal forces that they would never even dare to imagine."

"The mad foundation was unwilling to let go, so at a devastating risk, they obtained a drop of fresh, still-wet blood from the corpse."

"And then... disaster struck."

Zhao Yi seemed to understand what Ouyang Feng was saying.

"The appearance of the red lacquered wooden door..."

"Is it because of that drop of blood?"

Ouyang Feng quietly examined the "Extortion" torture device in his hand, listening to the eerie music emanating from it, and replied:

"Yes."

That's all I know.

"Throughout history, countless brave men and outstanding individuals have attempted to cross that threshold, but almost all have failed. Those few who were capable of entering that threshold met with terrible misfortune in the near future..."

At this point, Ouyang Feng suddenly glanced at Zhao Yi.

Zhao Yi remained silent, a sense of inexplicable absurdity washing over him.

That red lacquered wooden door that almost cost him his life was actually related to his bloodline?

In a daze, Zhao Yi recalled the descriptions related to the red-clad bloodline—

That race bore the brunt of an entire era's misfortune.

"What exactly is Evil Comet?"

Zhao Yi fell into a long period of self-doubt.

"Where does that road lead?"

Ouyang Feng:

"However, of the few people I know who have stepped through that red lacquered wooden door, you are the only one who has been able to remain so clear-headed."

Zhao Yi:

That's a real shame.

"However, the number of people will increase in the future."

Ouyang Feng neither admitted nor denied it, but simply asked:

What's behind the wooden door?

Zhao Yi replied:

"All the evil in the world."

Ouyang Feng was stunned.

Zhao Yi and Ouyang Feng exchanged glances and laughed:

"It doesn't sound like much, does it?"

Ouyang Feng shook his head.

"No, it's quite scary."

"No wonder so many people have died on that road throughout history."

The chaotic world is already chaotic enough.

Ouyang Feng found it hard to imagine what a terrifying scene would be like in a world that harbors the worst evils of the world.

It would be a miracle if a normal person could survive in a place like that.

"I don't know how you survived in that kind of world, but it's truly remarkable."

He praised it sincerely.

With a flick of his wrist, the "Demanding" torture device transformed once again into a black box.

He was about to return it to Zhao Yi, but Zhao Yi waved his hand and said generously:

"This is a small gift for my senior; you don't need to return it!"

Ouyang Feng blew his beard and glared:

"You little rascal, you want me to research this thing for you, right?"

"They're quite shrewd in their little scheme!"

Zhao Yi spread his hands, looking completely innocent:

"Senior Ouyang, how can you slander someone's innocence out of thin air?"

Ouyang Feng sneered:

"But this old man is here, and even if I wanted to help, I'm powerless to do so. You should just take it..."

Zhao Yi:

"What do you need? I'll see if I can get it in for you."

Ouyang Feng:

"Hey! You're really something..."

"Can't you just let this old man have some peace and quiet?"

Zhao Yi pushed Ouyang Feng's rattan chair into the wooden hut next door:

"With great power comes great responsibility, senior."

"You can't always live in your comfort zone; you need to seek some change, so why not start now!"

"I'll come see you again in a few days to check on the progress."

Ouyang Feng glared:

"You're a real beast!"

"They don't even spare elderly people who are about to die!"

Zhao Yi:

"come on!"

PS: Here's one first.