Chapter 190

"I didn't mean anything by it. I was just saying—that's the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion! Do you understand how I feel right now? Its old pavilion master died years ago, and nobody even noticed. How is that not terrifying?"

"...Don't bring it up. Just thinking about it gives me the creeps. Heaven knows whether the one running the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion these past few years was a person or a ghost. Doesn't the pavilion claim it can divine everything under heaven? How did it not notice someone had stolen its own home out from under it?"

"It's disturbing, anyway. It's even made me a little afraid of the Five Major Sects. Hey, why are you shoving me—"

"Because you deserve it! What did the Five Major Sects ever do to you? The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion is the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, and the Five Major Sects are the Five Major Sects. Don't drag up ancient history! You just want to bring up that mess with the Celestial Human Sect!"

"Hey, enough. Stop arguing..."

"You get out of the way too. Keep trying to stop me, and I'll hit you as well!"

And so a perfectly good gossip session turned into a brawl of spells and fists. In the end, they won themselves a one-day stay in the Langyuan City Lord's Office detention room.

Even cultivators at the foot of the mountain who knew nothing of the truth were arguing this fiercely. Those who knew something were more frightened still. A single Demon Seed had sent the once-peaceful Cultivation Realm into an uproar. It had not reached the point where everyone feared for their own life, but... no one wanted to become a stepping stone for fiends invading the Cultivation Realm.

The Zhou Household of Nanfeng City was an Aristocratic Clan of some