The Heavenly Demon Palace Lord did not conceal anything from Meng Zhao.
"As for that Demon Master's Successor of the Demon Extremity Sect, I do not know his exact origins either. I merely vaguely suspect that he is connected to the Former Ming Imperial Clan. I just do not know whether he is a Descendant of Zhu San or a Descendant of Zhu Wu. Back when his demonic arts had first taken shape, he drew the attention of our Heavenly Demon lineage, and we paid him particular heed.
"Over the years, though he concealed his identity and his whereabouts were elusive, making it difficult for official figures like yourselves to spy on him no matter how extensive your network of eyes and ears, our Heavenly Demon lineage had long been prepared. Naturally, we gained more than others."
Meng Zhao was immensely astonished. He had never imagined that the Demon Master's Successor of the Demon Extremity Sect possessed the identity of a descendant of the Huangming Era.
Back then, when Great Ming collapsed into chaos, bandits sprang up everywhere and heroes rose together. In truth, several forces of Great Ming had also tried to hold things together, hoping to restore the rivers and mountains.
The first was Zhu San's line of Western Ming, descended from the third Prince of the Last Ming Emperor, King Heng's line. Yet after Great Ming perished, the Western Ming regime lasted less than sixty years before it completely collapsed and vanished into the river of history.
However, Zhu San was both good at enduring and swift at fleeing. Thus, there were tales in the martial world that not only had Zhu San survived and left behind many bloodline descendants, but that he had also remained hidden in the shadows, forever seeking to restore Great Ming's realm