Zeng Anmin's voice rang out, high and swift.
He stared fixedly at the aged figure in the sky.
A crushing weight seemed to press down on his heart.
Still... too late!
His father's body in the air was old, steeped in deathly stillness, withered all over and utterly bloodless...
Nothing like the father he remembered.
"Why have you come back?!"
An unfamiliar voice rang out.
There was a trace of astonishment in it.
Zeng Anmin looked up.
In the courtyard, a goat demon with two horns atop its head was watching him.
Though this was his first time meeting the goat demon.
Zeng Anmin knew in an instant.
It was the Demon King Yangli Bifang had mentioned.
In other words, Qin Shouchang!
"Dean Qin."
Zeng Anmin pressed his lips tightly together.
The moment he saw Qin Shouchang.
Every train of thought became clear.
Bai Ziqing's disappearance must have been Qin Shouchang's doing.
The Vast Righteous Qi within him told him that the goat demon before him was, at the very least, a Fourth Rank Demon King.
The two times he had sensed demonic aura had not been illusions, nor had anything gone wrong with his Vast Righteous Qi.
Once had been at the Qin Residence, and once outside the Minister's Province.
At the Qin Residence, she must have been hiding in the shadows.
At the Minister's Province, it must have been when he attacked Bai Ziqing, leaving behind traces.
"Shouldn't you be in Two Rivers Prefecture right now??"
Qin Shouchang looked at Zeng Anmin with a bewildered expression.
"My father's trick of luring the tiger from the mountain was rather crude."
Seeing Qin Shouchang again.
Zeng Anmin's feelings were exceedingly complicated.
There was admiration, respect, shame...
Because he knew that at this point, the most crucial link had been Qin