It was Zhou Shan!
"Hehe, looks like waiting for you here was the right call. Otherwise, your great-uncle's old bones couldn't have taken all the trouble you'd put me through." Zhou Shan looked at me with a beaming smile, removed his mask, and walked toward me.
"Zhou Shan, stop pretending. What bad deed are you planning to trick me into doing this time?" I had no goodwill toward him at all. Although he had given me the second ancient book at the last conference, he still couldn't escape suspicion of plotting against me. After reading the second volume, he already knew I was supposed to fill the coffin, yet he had still given me the book. Wasn't that deliberate? Didn't he care whether I lived or died?
"The grand formation in Yinfeng Town has been almost completely destroyed, and the Blood Cloud Coffin has grown even more powerful. You've practically consolidated your Dao Entry stage cultivation, haven't you? How about going to rescue your grandmother? Your grand-uncle and I can join forces with you. Together, we'll certainly come up with a foolproof plan." Zhou Shan spoke.
"No. You want me to fill the coffin, don't you? Until I find a solution that satisfies both sides, I'm not going. Since you knew the contents of the books yet still sent them to me without hesitation, the Aristocratic Clans' concession at the conference auction was your doing too, wasn't it? Your solution is for me to fill the coffin, so you persuaded the Aristocratic Clans to help you do evil, didn't you?" This time, I didn't bother playing along with him. His injuries had fully healed, and somehow he had already entered the Dao, but even so, he wasn't all that powerful.
"Huh? How could I harm you? And why do you