Hearing this, Zhong Kui Youzhi's expression immediately turned suspicious.
Was Pei Ling's true challenge not the Five Righteous Sects, but the sect masters of the other eight great sects besides Chongming Sect?
There was something strange about this.
When Pei Ling had challenged him back then, he had said that he was doing so to pursue the Great Dao.
Since ancient times, the righteous and demonic paths had been utterly different, as far apart as heaven and earth.
Even if they admired one another's devotion to the Dao, neither side could possibly open its scriptures and cultivation methods to the other unless they had clearly renounced the darkness and joined the righteous path.
Pei Ling was unwilling to mend his ways. As a Holy Son of the Devil Dao, if he wanted to use a Righteous Path Cultivation Method to verify the thoughts in his heart, then he could only issue an open and aboveboard challenge.
But Innate Religion and Chongming Sect were both Devil Dao Sects. Given Pei Ling's status, he could easily have achieved his aim through more peaceful means, such as a trade or calling in a favor. There was no need to fight to the death.
Why, then, treat Innate Religion the same way he treated the Five Righteous Sects?
Still, Zhong Kui Youzhi soon recalled that although Pei Ling feared neither life nor death and was steadfast in his pursuit of the Great Dao, he was, in the end, a demon cultivator born and raised within the Devil Dao. His demonic nature ran deep; he was wild-tempered and utterly unrestrained.
He had even dared to disrespect the Sect Master's Wife of Chongming Sect in public. It was hardly strange that he would now go on to challenge the sect masters of his fellow demonic sects.