But before the three of them had gone far, they heard the low murmur of discussion rise around them again.
"The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion is probably about to make a big move. After all, the Long Family is one of their vassal clans."
"That man wiped out the Long Family. Isn't that tantamount to slapping the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion in the face? Given the way those bastards at the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion do things, I doubt they'll let this matter end here. The Demon Suppression Pass has only just regained peace. I hope the turmoil doesn't spread inside the pass."
"Heh, I'm not so sure!"
A warrior who seemed to know the Long Family's situation well wore a strange expression. "Listen, the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion hasn't made a big show of announcing that they're hunting down the culprit behind this."
"They've even been deliberately suppressing the news, to keep too many people from finding out. Maybe the person who struck this time belongs to some major power, and even the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion doesn't dare offend them lightly."
"Or maybe there's something fishy behind the Long Family's destruction. The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion is in the wrong, so they don't dare make a fuss."
"What could the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion have been doing with the Long Family to be so much in the wrong that they don't even dare investigate the culprit?"
The others clicked their tongues at the news. Could a top power like the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, which controlled a whole stretch of Human Race territory, really have been feeding warriors' flesh to demons?
But that was a thought they only dared entertain in their minds. They didn't dare say it aloud.
If the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion found out that they'd been gossiping about them behind their backs, not