Gu Qingshan raised a hand and gently pressed it downward. "Keep your voice down."
After all, this was the Settlement Area for the officers. It was best not to cause trouble.
Mountain and Sea Qixia understood. Lowering her voice, she spoke quickly:
"That's impossible. Who are you, exactly? But whoever you are, you can't kill the War Priest."
A look of confusion crossed her face. For a moment, she couldn't even think what she should do.
He'd seen through her.
He knew what she had done.
If this man was the War Priest, she had killed his wife. He would surely skin her alive and torture her mercilessly before finally killing her.
With the War Priest's strength, she had no chance of fighting back.
But if he wasn't the War Priest, and was instead an ordinary person who had killed the War Priest—
That was even more impossible!
Gu Qingshan smiled and asked in return, "Didn't you also kill the monster that wanted to replace you? Why could you do it, but I can't?"
Mountain and Sea Qixia looked at him and simply admitted, "I could do it because I was the one chance all the humans in the Ten Thousand Beasts Deep Cave had. They concentrated all their strength, even paying with my father's life, just to get one opportunity to ambush the invader."
Gu Qingshan had already seen the whole process in her memories. Now he praised them, saying, "So you really had noticed long ago. It's a pity those monsters are so powerful. Otherwise, you wouldn't have had to pay such a terrible price."
Several thousand years ago, some human experts had sensed that people were being possessed. But since they were no match for the monsters, they could only endure in silence while searching everywhere for