The Fifth Item

Chen Ping'an put away his four Destiny Items and asked, "What's your real name?"

Wu Die was obviously a name this Outer Heavenly Demon had made up. Even You Yu and Du Shanyin hadn't believed it.

The white-haired boy fell silent for a moment, then said, "Frost's Descent."

"Surname?" Chen Ping'an asked casually.

He asked because of the demons imprisoned here. The five Great Demons of the Upper Five Realms, for instance, used the aliases Yun Qing, Qingqiu, Dream Weaver, Bamboo Joint, and Hou Changjun. Only the last, an exceptionally gifted Immortal Realm Great Demon, had a surname. The rest had none, even in their aliases. As for their true names, they would never reveal those lightly.

The demons of the Middle Five Realms were the same. Whatever aliases they used, Nian Xin could learn their true names from the Golden Cores and Nascent Souls she stripped from them with the Cloth Sewer's methods only as they died and their Daos perished.

Among the Pure Martial Artists of the Vast Heaven and Earth, choosing a master was like choosing the womb one would be born from. For the Demon Race, true names had likewise been a matter of life and death since ancient times.

Bai Ze had compiled the Map of Mountain Search, exposing the Great Demons' true names and origins, then handed it to the Sage of Ritual. Together, they had cast great cauldrons atop towering mountains. This had been one of the crucial reasons for the Demon Race's defeat and retreat.

If the Savage World breached the Sword Qi Great Wall and invaded the Vast Heaven and Earth, every Destiny Word held by the Confucian Sages would become a barrier to the Demon Race.

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