As a seventh-rank member of the Demon Race in the Southern Wilderness, the Golden Elephant Demon King commanded an enormous power there. He had more than ten sixth-rank demons under his command and governed an exceptionally vast territory.
The sudden death of such a seventh-rank powerhouse caused a tremendous uproar throughout the Southern Wilderness.
For reasons of his own, the Soaring Serpent Demon King did not conceal the cause of the Golden Elephant Demon King's death.
News that Gao Xian had slain the Golden Elephant Demon King swiftly spread across the Southern Wilderness, stirring panic among its many high-ranking demons.
In the past, Gao Xian had operated within the Nine Provinces. Only Demon Race members and Demonic Cultivators who invaded the Nine Provinces would suffer misfortune.
The high-ranking demons and Demonic Cultivators had therefore all known enough to stay far away from the Nine Provinces.
This time, however, the Golden Elephant Demon King had been killed in his own lair, the Divine Elephant Palace. Naturally, this left those high-ranking demons and Demonic Cultivators deeply alarmed and uneasy.
Only powerhouses who had reached the seventh rank and understood Gao Xian's path of cultivation knew that he had killed the Golden Elephant Demon King to seize the earth-element Creation Golden Talisman seed.
Bai Kui, White Azure Dragon, and the other six—a total of eight seventh-rank powerhouses—had all perished at once. The various powers had already suspected that Gao Xian was responsible.
Yet considering that Gao Xian had only just entered the seventh rank, they found it impossible to believe that, no matter what peerless divine ability he possessed, he could kill eight seventh-rank powerhouses in one stroke.
The overwhelming majority of high-ranking powerhouses remained highly skeptical. Most believed someone had deliberately spread such an outrageous rumor in order to frame Gao Xian.