Inside the great hall.
Everyone watched the black-robed young woman counting down in the water mirror.
All remained silent.
In truth, most of the elders still had no idea how Formless Mountain had provoked her... After all, only Hanxian True Person knew why Cangxuan had taken his disciples to Great Tang alone.
"Why did she demand Demon Emperor Hunyuan the moment she opened her mouth?"
The white-bearded old Daoist's brows were tightly furrowed, as though he simply could not fathom the crux of the matter.
What was Demon Emperor Hunyuan, anyway?
Nothing but a dog from Spirit Mountain's Eighteen Caves.
Yet this madwoman had crossed ten thousand miles for such a creature, attacking the Dao Orthodoxy's gates outright?
One elder pondered aloud, "Could it be... that this beast stole something important from her?"
The ill-tempered old Daoist glanced at the old dog, who looked ready to curl himself into a ball, and said indifferently, "What could a stray dog from Spirit Mountain steal? Don't tell me he stole the eldest princess's intimate undergarment, making her hunt him all the way here from ten thousand miles away?"
The atmosphere in the hall immediately turned strange.
The conjecture was truly absurd.
But on further thought, a young woman having something intimate stolen by an old dog, then storming his doorstep in humiliation and rage...
That did seem... quite reasonable.
After all, who could fathom a woman's thoughts?
Feeling everyone's suspicious gazes upon him,
Demon Emperor Hunyuan trembled and hurriedly waved his hands. "I wouldn't dare provoke her..."
The ill-tempered elder sneered. "If you didn't provoke her, why would she come looking for you?"
"..."
Demon Emperor Hunyuan sighed helplessly.
How was he supposed to know why she was demanding him by name...? He had only met this harbinger of doom once, and