Ning Xiaochuan's heart stirred. He said solemnly, "You know about this too?"
"Of course I do."
Zi Zhui'er said, "Although the Demon Emperor forbade anyone from mentioning it, everyone still talks about it in private. I heard that the previous generation's Demon Sect Saintess was the Demon Emperor's daughter, yet she fell in love with a Little Marquis from some Marquis Mansion. For love, that Demon Sect Saintess did not hesitate to sever the father-daughter bond with the Demon Emperor and resolutely married that Little Marquis. But that was all twenty years ago. The younger generation only knows the matter vaguely."
"I heard that eleven years ago, the previous Demon Sect Saintess and the Little Marquis were both sentenced to death."
Ning Xiaochuan said, "So according to you, that Demon Sect Saintess severed her father-daughter relationship with the Demon Emperor twenty years ago?"
"Right!"
Zi Zhui'er said, "But how could a father-daughter relationship be so easily severed? People are emotional creatures, after all. I heard that because of this matter, eleven years ago, the Demon Emperor even led Demon Sect experts and slaughtered their way into the Imperial City."
Ning Xiaochuan said, "What happened afterward?"
"Afterward... afterward, I don't know. I only know that after what happened eleven years ago, the Demon Emperor ordered all Demon Sect disciples never to enter the Imperial City again, nor discuss that matter. Then he went into secluded cultivation himself. That seclusion lasted ten years."
Ning Xiaochuan thought to himself, No wonder the Demon Sect's influence is so immense, yet not a single Demon Sect cultivator can be seen in the Imperial City. What exactly happened in the Imperial City back then? Why did the Demon Emperor order all Demon Sect disciples under heaven not to enter the Imperial City? What was the reason?