After organizing and sorting through the information in his mind,
Gu Cheng sat up in bed and slowly opened his eyes, his handsome face looking rather solemn.
He had thought Zheng Tianlu was the culprit behind everything, and that killing the old bastard would settle the matter once and for all.
He had never expected that what he had encountered was merely the tip of the iceberg.
The true mastermind behind it all was someone else.
According to the information provided by the Wolf Demon King's remnant soul,
between Master Zheng and the demons, there was also a Gray-robed Holy Envoy of the Rebirth Sect, responsible for making the arrangements.
The reason the two great Demon Races of Black Wind Mountain and the Bai Family of Fox Demons had offered their help
was that Zheng Tianlu had promised them that if he could complete the corpse-transformation ritual and successfully become an Innate Corpse King,
the Gray-robed Holy Envoy would open the Rebirth Sect's Inheritance Secret Realm and lead the demons of the Mortal Breaking Realm to search for treasure there.
As for what exactly was inside this so-called Inheritance Secret Realm, the Wolf Demon King itself didn't know much.
It had only heard the two fox demons say
that the Rebirth Sect's Inheritance Secret Realm was filled with countless treasures, and that any one of them could easily help the demons ascend to the Innate Realm!
How could the two great demon kings of Black Wind Mountain resist such an enormous temptation?
They had not only set aside the grudges between their two clans for the time being, but had wagered the lives of their entire clans, young and old alike!
Unfortunately, with the enthusiastic help of a certain passing "Demonic Grandmaster,"
their gamble had ultimately ended in failure.
"Ugh,