Infernal Affairs

"It has been over a thousand years since we last gathered, hasn't it? After so long apart, I truly have missed you all..."

The voice rose and fell as though chanting a song, carrying an indescribable ethereality and emptiness as it echoed through the moonlight of the Moon Palace.

Heavenly Demon swept his gaze around the area and gave a light laugh.

"To think that after a thousand years, the eight of us could gather again. It is only a pity that Taiyin, Yimu, and Elder Jian left us one step ahead. It truly is... regrettable."

"How they died—don't you know? Elder Jian's fall was absolutely your handiwork, and Taiyin's descent into demonhood undoubtedly had something to do with you as well." Hunyuan Dao Master stared coldly at Heavenly Demon. "Why put on this cat-weeping-for-the-mouse act here now, pretending to be so compassionate? Don't you find it laughable?"

The blow dealt to the Immortal Alliance by a Heavenly Lord falling into demonhood had been unprecedented, and it was the first such occurrence in a million years. After all, at that realm, aside from the hope of Dao Integration, nearly every path and resource had to be explored personally or transformed from chaos. Thus, a Heavenly Lord could not possibly fall into demonhood for so-called benefits.

Yet this impossible event had happened. Moreover, according to the intelligence gathered in the past, the only one capable of accomplishing it had been this Heavenly Demon.

For this, Hunyuan Dao Master hated him to the bone.

Had Celestial Venerable Taiyin not fallen into demonhood, the previous-generation Heavenly Lord of the Hunyuan Five Elements Sect would not have perished together with him. In that case, the Hunyuan Five Elements Sect would have become the first immortal sect in a million years to possess two Heavenly