"Outrageous! Qin Huaian simply has no regard for our Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land!"
Inside the grand hall, a middle-aged cultivator roared with an ashen face. The other cultivators in the hall all lowered their heads, unwilling to provoke his wrath.
This man was none other than Zhao Gang, the Grand Elder of the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land.
The Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land's branch in the Parasol Tree Domain was located north of the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele, amid a range of mountains rich in spiritual qi less than a hundred million li away.
The news that Qin Huaian was cultivating at the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele reached Zhao Gang's ears at once, filling him with fury.
Now, the enmity between the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land and Qin Huaian had grown deeper and deeper, and its root lay with Zhao Gang.
Back then, although Zhao Gang suspected that Qin Huaian was the murderer of his son, he had not been certain.
After all, danger lurked everywhere in a secret realm like Golden Glow Island. Whether it was the cultivators who entered it or the Umbral Panthers within Golden Glow Island, killing Zhao Pengcheng, who had not even reached the Golden Immortal Realm, would not have been particularly difficult.
Not to mention Zhao Pengzhan—even many experts at Golden Immortal Great Perfection had fallen on Golden Glow Island.
The main reason he had targeted Qin Huaian was Qin Huaian's cultivation speed, which far surpassed that of ordinary people.
Zhao Gang suspected that Qin Huaian possessed some treasure or secret and wanted to claim it for himself. That was why he had insisted that Qin Huaian was the murderer of his son.
Yet what he had never expected was that the ant-like existence in his eyes back then had, in merely a