Ni Hong was actually an evil fiend.
Long ago, he had seized this body and remained hidden aboard this ship ever since.
His task was to find Nether Moon Palace Immortals with decent talent so his clansmen could seize their bodies.
Over the long years, they had seized the bodies of quite a few people.
When he saw Jiang Ping An display such formidable combat strength, Jiang Ping An had become his target.
At the same time, Ni Hong was wary of Jiang Ping An.
Some time ago, many evil fiends who had infiltrated Nether Moon Palace could no longer be contacted. He suspected that Nether Moon Palace had purged those evil fiends and noticed that something was wrong with this route.
Thus, Ni Hong believed that Jiang Ping An had likely come specifically to search for their evil fiends.
After all, there was no need to send two powerful prodigies to guard an ordinary Merchant Ship. That was far too abnormal.
So, Ni Hong probed Jiang Ping An for his purpose in coming here and used the evil fiends within Nether Moon Palace to investigate.
According to the intelligence, Jiang Ping An truly had come here, as he claimed, to accompany Yue Liuying while she was being punished.
To be safe, Ni Hong observed Jiang Ping An for another hundred years.
During that time, aside from cultivating, Jiang Ping An had not inquired about evil fiends or anything of the sort.
Only then did Ni Hong finally determine that Jiang Ping An had not been sent by Nether Moon Palace's upper ranks to investigate the evil fiends.
In truth, even if Jiang Ping An really had come to investigate them, it would not have mattered.
Before their evil fiend race's Body Seizing, any Immortal below the True Immortal Realm