Old Ghost had once gone by the title Netherghost King, but ever since the upheavals of Variable Fate had swept through the world, he had returned to calling himself Old Ghost to avoid even the slightest entanglement in Cause and Effect.
Now, hearing Heart Fox expose the truth,
he could not help narrowing his cold eyes.
"Heh."
Beside them stood a woman in blood-red robes, half her face resembling a bare skull, while the other half was a profile as beautiful as a heavenly immortal.
Half fairy, half demon.
It was Ghost Madam who suddenly gave a soft, tittering laugh. "You two Dao Companions, why get so worked up?"
"Orders have already come down from above. This is not something we can brush aside. Those three lords are practically never at Deathless Manor."
"Old Ghost, there is no need to speculate about your avatar now. He must have received the Devil Master's attention. Having drawn the gaze of such a towering figure of the Demonic Path, I suspect that reincarnation may not be the only one."
"Ghost Madam, what do you mean by that?"
For all these years, the devils who openly held their ground in Deathless Manor had remained the same few as before.
In the past, they had set their sights on the Heavenly Domain, but that place was clearly a bone too hard to chew.
It was also a place that concealed its true depths. The secret contingencies the Demonic Path had planted there had cost them considerable manpower and inflicted substantial losses.
Still, they had eventually managed to sever one of the Seeking Dao Immortal Sect's arms.
But as the signs of the Era of Variables' arrival grew increasingly apparent,
a faint shadow had begun to rise in the hearts of the devils who had