After hearing Hai Wei's account, Shou Chen immediately let out a string of seemingly crazed shrieks of laughter. "Yue Qianchou, Yue Qianchou! You really are something, Yue Qianchou. Your determination to destroy me truly never died. You actually guarded against me to such an extent. Does this mean you fear me? Dread me? Hahaha!"
It turned out that after the battle at Lingfang Valley, Yan Zhuixing's defeat and refusal to stay dead had left Yue Qianchou deeply wary. Yet after mobilizing all his forces to search the entire Cultivation World, he had not found a single trace of Yan Zhuixing. Yue Qianchou could not tell whether Yan Zhuixing was truly dead or not, because that demonic art was simply too sinister. Then came the disappearance of Man Hu and the others from Great Snow Mountain, which immediately left a huge knot in Yue Qianchou's heart.
Yue Qianchou had a powerful feeling that this matter was far from over. Yet he truly could not find Yan Zhuixing, nor could he stop doing everything else just because of him. After repeated deliberation, he reached a conclusion: Yan Zhuixing was already someone everyone in the Cultivation World wanted to beat to death. Ordinary people would not dare help him in the face of Yue Qianchou's overwhelming power in the Cultivation World, unless they had a death wish.
That made Myriad Demon Palace and Hundred Flower Palace his primary suspects. Yan Wuchen of Myriad Demon Palace was Yan Zhuixing's grandfather, while Hundred Flower Fairy of Hundred Flower Palace was Yan Zhuixing's mother. If anyone in the entire Cultivation World would risk death to help Yan Zhuixing, it would undoubtedly be these two factions.
After much thought, in order to avoid making too much noise and alarming the snake in the grass, Yue Qianchou sent