The Man Behind the Theft of the Primordial Ancestor's Treasures: Zhu Hong at Four Gates Mountain!

Zhu Hong had been a disciple of the Primordial Ancestor of the Wutai Sect. Though he had studied at Wutai for just over twenty years, he was naturally intelligent and skilled at currying favor, so Grand Ancestor Taiyi Hunyuan had taken a great liking to him. In private, he taught Zhu Hong many arts and personally helped him forge the Three Yuan Sword. He even allowed Zhu Hong free access to his own Alchemy Room and secluded inner cave. That was how Zhu Hong had found the chance to steal the inherited scriptures and the protective treasure, the Taiyi Five-Smoke Net.

The Primordial Ancestor had searched everywhere for him, but before he could find him, the Sword Duel between Emei and its enemies began. Without his protective treasure, Grand Ancestor Taiyi Hunyuan was surrounded by the Three Immortals and Two Elders. Hard-pressed on all sides, he was struck by a Formless Sword wielded by the Bitter Tou Tuo, and in the end, he had no choice but to undergo Body Dissolution and pass away.

Given Zhu Hong's actions, anyone who didn't know the truth would have thought Emei had deliberately sent him to Wutai as a spy.

But Zhu Hong wasn't one. The fact that he dared to use human lives to refine the wicked Six-Six True Essence Gourd made it clear that he wasn't on the Righteous Path.

Both Wutai and the Mount Hua Sect hated him for stealing the Primordial Ancestor's protective treasure, which had led to the Primordial Ancestor's defeat and death. As a result, people from both the Righteous and Demonic Paths couldn't stand him and wanted him dead.

It was only because Zhu Hong had remained obscure before the theft, and then hidden himself away in a remote place with scarce spiritual energy, that he