Group Growth

Mist Vine Gorge.

A black altar blazed with roaring black flames.

An invisible might spread out from the black fire, filling the entire stone hall.

Then a vertical eye appeared before the gathered demons. Though it was only a single eye, it carried boundless majesty.

All the fiends knelt at once and said respectfully, "Greetings, Sovereign!"

"Why have you summoned me?" Stone Serpent Sovereign's low, terrifying voice rang out.

The mere force of that single utterance could make cultivators below the Immaculate Realm drop dead on the spot.

Purple Leaf said, "Ning Ye is here!"

"Hm?" Rings of light radiated from Stone Serpent's vertical eye. Even the reincarnated great demons behind these demon cultivators found it difficult to withstand, shrinking back in fear.

"Ning Ye!" Stone Serpent Sovereign muttered the name it so hated. "So it was him... I understand... I understand..."

With merely one name, Stone Serpent Sovereign instantly understood everything that had happened over this period of time.

The vertical eye turned toward Purple Leaf. "Now that he knows the identities of you all, how do you intend to respond?"

Purple Leaf said, "I have a conjecture."

"Speak."

"Since Ning Ye was prepared, it means he must have known all of this long ago. Yet he still let us enter. That shows this man's ambitions reach far beyond this, so he is in no hurry to kill the chicken for its eggs."

"You mean he is raising you all in captivity? Hehehehe." Stone Serpent Sovereign laughed. "That does make sense."

The seductive female cultivator beside them immediately said, "We could use this as grounds to attack him. Perhaps we can bring Ning Ye down."

Purple Leaf shook his head. "Impossible. Matters like this are never uncommon. Now that Sixth has met with trouble, those nine old fogeys will