Chapter 183

"Reporting to Master and the venerable elders: these are all of Zhou Zhongling's movements during his time in Four Directions City. Everyone suspicious he came into contact with is listed here."

As the head of an aristocratic clan, Zhou Zhongling had spent much of his time entertaining guests and negotiating deals when he wasn't handling affairs at his residence. There was little to discuss there: he had already devoured most of those people. The few still alive had been tested with Demon-Testing Talismans, and none carried a Demon Seed.

"He even entered the Heaven-Shattering Sword Sect? And the Heaven-Shattering Divine Sword didn't react?"

Tang Ji's expression grew uglier. That meant any Heaven-Shattering disciple might have been seeded with a demon. Demon-Testing Talismans hadn't been needed in centuries; where were they supposed to find enough? "And he went to see your Junior Martial Uncle Wen. Gu Wufang, you..."

Gu Wufang looked no better. "How likely do you think it is that he slipped past your sect's inspections and brought a Demon Seed inside?"

That was hard to say. Besides, who would pay attention to the head of a minor aristocratic clan? No one knew when the Demon Seed had been planted in Zhou Zhongling. Perhaps it had happened on his way to the Five Sects Assembly, or perhaps after he left the Heaven-Shattering Sword Sect. He was dead now; there was no way to investigate.

They couldn't even determine whether Zhou Zhongling himself had known he was carrying a Demon Seed. When cultivators were driven to extremes, they were capable of anything.

"Sorry, Old Gu. I can't judge." After all, even the Heaven-Shattering Divine Sword had shown no reaction.

Seeing the atmosphere turn so heavy, Ding Jieyou spoke up. "Things haven't reached such a bleak point yet."

Gu Wufang, however, was