The Demon Abyss. The Demon Flower!
Those were names the Youth's father had given them based on what he had found there.
Chen Changan could roughly guess the rest of the story without the Youth saying another word.
After the Youth's father returned to Heavenly Dao City, he would naturally have reported what he had found and handed over what he had brought back.
And once Su Tiandao learned the secret, he certainly had not killed the Youth's father right away. Otherwise, the Youth would never have had the chance to learn it from him.
Most likely, Su Tiandao had sent the Youth's father back to the Demon Abyss with more people to continue exploring it.
But as the exploration went on, Su Tiandao must have realized that Heavenly Dao City alone could not uncover the Demon Abyss's secrets.
So he needed to draw more people there and use their strength to achieve his goal.
But no one could be allowed to learn of the Demon Abyss beforehand, much less know everything about it.
That meant Su Tiandao had probably silenced everyone who knew about the Demon Abyss. The Youth's father had been one of them.
"If I'm not mistaken, your father wasn't the only one who died this time, was he?"
"Why did your father tell you about it in advance?" Chen Changan asked curiously.
"Because my father had a premonition. He once told me that if he ever died suddenly for no apparent reason, I was to take the box from beneath the stone slab at home. I had to read what was inside, destroy it as soon as I finished, then leave Heavenly Dao City and go as far away as I could."
"Because of his warning, the moment I learned the Demon Abyss's secret, I knew