Facing High Person Wenyuan, Chu Liang could temporarily let down his guard. After spending a long time together, he had come to trust Shushan's current headmaster quite deeply. In a sense, High Person Wenyuan had filled part of the void left by Chu Liang's master.
At the very least, this headmaster's heart was surely with Shushan.
Of course, Chu Liang had not told him about the White Tower within him. Mainly because he still did not understand why the White Tower had fused with him, nor did he know whether it could be stripped from his divine soul. In any case, he had tried long ago. Whenever he wanted to summon the White Tower's physical form himself, he could not do it.
What if he told him, and High Person Wenyuan, upon hearing it, decided that for the Demon-Suppressing Tower, for Shushan, for the righteous path of the world, he should tearfully behead Chu Liang? Where would he go to reason then?
It was not that Wenyuan was a bad person. Rather, once someone reached the level of a Nine Heavens headmaster, they had little personal selfishness or private interest left. More often, they acted for their ideals and ambitions. If recovering the Demon-Suppressing Tower were possible, let alone sacrificing Chu Liang, even if High Person Wenyuan himself had to be sacrificed, he probably would not blink an eye.
"This disciple previously happened to find a strange beast, a Heaven-Devouring Worm. That Demon King captured me because of it..." Chu Liang said. "Fortunately, the Heaven-Devouring Worm is no longer on me, so they did not find it during their search. But only I know where it is."
Afterward, he also explained how the Demon Race had been searching for the Heaven-Devouring Worm in order to create a vessel for the