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Gu Wufang frowned. "That much of a coincidence?" How was the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion involved too?

"We don't know whether it was a coincidence. Quite a few aristocratic clans from other cities were staying in the same area as him, and when it happened, the demon devoured many of them. It seemed to harbor a particular hatred for aristocratic clans. A handful of cultivators who escaped also said it felt a peculiar loathing toward them."

The demon had no reason left, so it had not even spared his own child. But he himself had come from an aristocratic clan. Why would he especially loathe them?

"How did Zhou Zhongling offend the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion?"

Time had been too short. All the Heaven-Shattering Sword Sect had managed to learn was that Zhou Zhongling had been caught coveting a secret treasure of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, after which the pavilion had publicly called him to account in the street.

They were all sect masters, and Gu Wufang immediately sensed something amiss. "There must be something fishy about this, but there's no time to investigate it now. Tang Ji, get to the point."

"The point is, I suspect this man's demonic transformation wasn't an accident. Someone planted a demon seed in him."

Everything had happened too quickly, without any warning whatsoever. It just happened to be during the Five Sects Assembly, he just happened to be staying beside cultivators from aristocratic clans, and he just happened to have offended the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion. Every condition lined up so neatly that it looked precisely calculated. Of course, the most suspicious thing was that Zhou Zhongling was simply too ordinary.

Everyone who had undergone demonic transformation in the past had been a fiendish genius, blessed with the concentrated essence of heaven and earth. Even if