Pill Ancestor's Past, Demoting Gods and Exalting the Net

"Senior Brother, you must know more about this than I do." Flying Leopard smiled stiffly. "After all, when you left Donghua for another continent, wasn't it to gather people to lend a hand?"

"Oh? I didn't expect you to remember that. Not easy." Flying Dragon glanced at Flying Leopard with slight surprise, his words uncertain whether they were praise or mockery. Then his brows knitted tightly. "But don't change the subject. Tell me truthfully, how did you end up like this? You even used up the Three-Eyed Life Substitution, became a Ghost Path cultivator, and..."

As he spoke, light blossomed in his eyes, condensing into something tangible and shooting forth to sweep over Flying Leopard. "You actually took the Divine Path. The road of ghosts and gods is not easy to walk. Without a deity's protection, many people become meat on the chopping block, fought over by others and unable to control their own fate. Speaking of which, how did Flying Tiger look after you? Did he toss every word that Eldest Senior Brother and I said before leaving out of his mind?"

"As expected, I couldn't hide it from Second Senior Brother. Don't blame Third Senior Brother either. He was busy answering tribulations, searching for a place that could shelter the entire sect's Fortune, constantly running about outside. It was only natural that he overlooked some things. Besides, I was deceived by someone, and I kept it from Third Senior Brother from beginning to end." Flying Leopard gave an awkward laugh. Knowing he could not evade the matter, he stirred a thread of thought and conveyed his experiences in a few simple words. "Oh? The World-Troubling Copper Furnace? The Pill Ancestor? The Furnace Daoist?" Daoist Flying Dragon pondered the information, his frown deepening. "So you're saying that your fall