Is That All?

No need to think about it. These people must have been the price Zhang Ziliang paid when he founded the Heaven Group all those years ago.

Once the Heaven Group had stabilized, he removed them from its ranks one by one.

His methods were dishonorable.

Utterly dishonorable.

But he did it anyway. He could have chosen a gentler approach, but Zhang Ziliang did not.

Because that would have wasted too much time.

What humanity lacked most was time.

That was also why Zhang Ziliang had such a terrible reputation within both the Heaven Group and humanity as a whole.

He was like the Heaven Group's black glove in the human world. Every sin, every shadow, every ugly deed was carried out by his hand alone.

Meanwhile, Li Xinghe had been placed by him beneath the light, flawless and perfect, revered by countless people.

At that moment, Wang Ye felt he understood Zhang Ziliang more deeply.

Before Eternal Night, he had read a book with a passage in it.

"If there are no more torchbearers, then I shall be the only light."

"Should torchbearers appear, should the sun rise, then we shall gladly disappear and merge into the light." (Slightly altered.)

Perhaps that was Zhang Ziliang's belief, and the Heaven Group's as well.

But...

There was still no mention of Li Hongtian.

Li Xinghe seemed to still be reminiscing about that dark, bloody era. It had truly been a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

Thinking about it now, Zhang Ziliang had probably personally killed more people back then than the Heaven Group had sealed ghosts altogether.

During that era, he had been a demon from hell.

Many people had even said that Zhang Ziliang was the real ghost, that he was humanity's greatest threat. If he were allowed