A Premonition of Turmoil (2)

An elder with graying temples could not help but suck in a cold breath. His withered fingers gripped the armrest tightly, and his voice trembled with disbelief. "If this information is true, then..."

"Every word is true." Hua Wuyi cut him off without hesitation. With a light tap of her fingertip, the floating jade slip slowly rotated before her, its green glow waxing and waning.

"The All-Knowing Network has stood for six hundred years on the four words 'genuine goods at honest prices.' The intelligence they dared not sell was not necessarily intelligence they did not possess; but anything they put a price on had never been off by even a fraction."

"These sects and aristocratic clans usually had their own disputes, some even refusing to associate with one another until death. Yet now, it was as though they had reached some secret agreement, all turning their spearheads toward the forces of the demonic path lurking in the shadows. Could that possibly be a coincidence?"

Zhu Yaoyao's clenched hands gradually loosened without her noticing. Gazing at the flickering words, she said softly, "They are guarding against something, yet every one of them is keeping their lips sealed. They will not let even the faintest whisper slip."

"Precisely." Hua Wuyi nodded, a cold glint flashing through her eyes. "It is only natural that righteousness and evil cannot coexist. But so many top forces acting at once, each concealing their tracks—there was no way this was over some ordinary demonic threat. They must have sensed an enormous crisis that we know nothing about."

Any news capable of setting top sects such as the Profound Heaven Sect and the Primordial Unity Sect, along with the Three Imperial Dynasties, into motion at the same time had to be of utmost importance.

"There has been