Innate Virtue blended into a single hue, with golden lamps bobbing up and down and lotus petals drifting through the air. They clustered around Gu Xiaosang, who was as divine as an immortal. Lowering her eyes, she gave a soft laugh and said meaningfully, "Some great figures may have sensed the existence of the Heavenly Dao Monster long before."
She had answered a different question entirely, not mentioning at all the possibility that the Heavenly Dao Monster was the "mastermind behind the scenes."
Some great figures had sensed the existence of the Heavenly Dao Monster even before the fall of the Heavenly Court... It gave off a chaotic, sinister feeling, as though that were its nature. It seemed not to be rational at all times, despite being skilled at plotting. Even when it had watched calmly from the sidelines during the Heavenly Court's fall, there had been a sense of madness and disorientation about it... Meng Qi was first taken aback, then a host of impressions surfaced, and he formed a certain conjecture.
If one delved deeply into certain events of antiquity, one might indeed discover traces of the Heavenly Dao Monster, though it had probably been used as well.
Meng Qi nodded thoughtfully. Seeing that Gu Xiaosang did not wish to elaborate for the time being, he changed the subject. "What exactly is Lu Ya plotting? Was his move this time merely to take down Yuan Hong?"
Gu Xiaosang opened her delicate hand. A scarlet peach, glistening as if with fresh blood, appeared in her palm. It was translucent, filled with blood vessels and meridians, and gleamed with an uncanny light.
She gently rubbed the surface of the Demonic Blood Peach with her thumb and said with a faint, enigmatic smile, "Lu Ya is the son of Haotian Shangdi,