This time, Su Xin was naturally heading to the Nine Prisons Demonic Sects to settle matters with the Great Heavenly Demon Venerable.
In truth, the relationship between Su Xin and the Great Heavenly Demon Venerable was the genuinely troublesome kind. They were not enemies, but neither could they be called allies.
When the Great Heavenly Demon Venerable had first returned to the world, he had known little about the affairs of the Jianghu, so he had naturally chosen to join forces with Su Xin. Yet their relationship had extended no further than that; they had no other personal ties. Thus, the Great Heavenly Demon Venerable could not possibly hand over the opportunity of the Heaven-Connecting Realm to him as readily as Ksitigarbha and Meng Jingxian had.
In the past, if soft methods failed, he would resort to hard ones. Su Xin might have chosen to strike directly at the Great Heavenly Demon Venerable—but now, it seemed he had some other ideas.
At present, the Great Heavenly Demon Venerable's demonic sect headquarters lay within Youzhou. The Heavenly Demon Palace, Phantom Demon Path, and the other sects of the Nine Prisons Demonic Sects still retained their respective names. However, anyone wishing to cultivate had to come to the demonic sect headquarters, and even other martial artists who cultivated demonic techniques could join it.
In Su Xin's view, the Great Heavenly Demon Venerable was simply imitating Buddha's methods at Spirit Mountain—the loose, simplified version, at that. He had merely copied the rough framework.
And that was indeed the case. Though the Great Heavenly Demon Venerable wished to develop the Demonic Path, he truly was not particularly adept at such matters. So he had simply modeled the demonic sect's rules after those of the Buddhist sects.
Still, it was not that the Great Heavenly