"Sect Leader Yuqing."
Zou Qishan, leader of the Lingyun Sect, which also belonged to the Heavenly Domain, spoke up. His brows were drawn into a tight knot, and his voice carried a heavy gravity, along with an anxiety even he had not noticed.
"Do you know what you're saying?"
The question was forceful enough to count as an accusation. Yet no one present thought he was wrong to ask it-after all, it voiced the fear they all shared.
The powers of the Lingshu Heaven Domain, especially the great sects that stood alongside the Profound Heaven Sect, all harbored some degree of resentment toward it.
The Profound Heaven Sect was so powerful and so renowned that it left almost every other faction struggling to breathe. Resenting it was only human.
By rights, an internal crisis that shook the Profound Heaven Sect's foundations should have been good news for its rivals.
Yet there was not the slightest trace of a smile on Zou Qishan's face, only an unrelenting gravity.
No one wanted the Profound Heaven Sect to be the first to falter in a matter that threatened the survival of the Nine Domains.
It had nothing to do with friendship, much less righteousness-simply put, if a behemoth with foundations as deep and rules as strict as the Profound Heaven Sect had already been infiltrated by the Demonic Path at its highest levels, with the infiltrator remaining undetected for a hundred years, how much better could the other sects' situations be?
This was not the Profound Heaven Sect's problem alone. It was a sword hanging over everyone's head.
True Person Yu Qing glanced at Zou Qishan. His gaze was as still as stagnant water, yet unfathomably deep.
"Three years ago, as soon as the matter was verified, our sect launched a thorough investigation