In fact, if this place had been the cave abode of a Human Race cultivator, this sort of thing would never have happened!
But this was a place where the Demon Race lived.
The Liulan Dynasty upheld equality among all living beings. At its academies, all races were taught the same range of knowledge without distinction.
However, the Demon Race—especially high-ranking demons with unusual bloodlines—got nearly all their most powerful abilities from their bloodline inheritance. Even if outsiders learned them, they would be of no use.
Thus, most high-ranking demons studied general knowledge alongside humans and other races at academies during their youth. Once they grew a little older, they returned to their own clans, where blood-related elders taught them their clan's abilities.
Over time, the Demon Race formed settlements within the dynasty that were much like the human clans.
Outsiders were forbidden from entering such places. Even members of the same bloodline could not wander about freely, since these settlements held a race's core inheritance.
And because of this, after repeated petitions from ministers of other races, the dynasty eventually agreed not to monitor the locations of their inheritance grounds in any way.
This cave abode was the secluded cultivation site of Yin Shengl Ling, the ancestor of the Five-Colored Python clan. It was also where she taught her descendants. The Cicada Tower's spies were exempt from its restrictions, but all other races were forbidden from investigating or keeping watch.
At this thought, the Cicada Tower Branch Lord gave a slight shake of his head.
His Majesty wanted to see Chi Yan, He Shu, Chen Tun, Yin Shengl Ling, and Tong Chang Shou. Now that Yin Shengl Ling was dead, his task was not to continue investigating the cause of her death. He needed to take the other four