In the Jade Capital, within the Imperial Palace.
"He wants to venture deep into the Demon Land and find the Demon Abyss?" Xuan Haoji was stunned to hear this.
Back then, Gu Yuanqing's hunting of chaos heaven deathless great demons had been surprising, but it had hardly been a momentous matter to the Great Hao Divine Dynasty. Its own experts had done the same.
What the Nine Domains Divine Continent truly feared were the Devil Masters, not the other heavenly demons. Even void immortal heavenly demons such as Wujian and Eclipsing Moon could be dealt with somehow, or at least did not need to be feared.
The place he had visited last time had been no more than ten or twenty million li from the Human Race's defensive lines, far from any Devil Master. This time, however, Gu Yuanqing actually intended to go to the Demon Abyss. Those were two entirely different propositions.
Ling Yi nodded slightly. "That appears to be the case. I have already had people compile the records concerning the area around Demon Lord Xuan You's Demon Realm, and I intend to hand them to him in three days."
Beside them, the eldest prince, Xuan Mingjin, said, "Does this Gu truly have no fear of death? He is only at the chaos heaven immortal level, yet he dares provoke a Devil Master? Or does he have someone else backing him?"
Xuan Haoji's gaze settled on Ling Yi, and he said slowly, "Daoist Friend Ling, is there something else you wish to say?"
Ling Yi pondered for a moment before saying, "When Gu Yuanqing came this time, he did indeed have a woman with him—his dao companion. Moreover, she appears to intend to accompany him deep into the Demon Land."
"A dao companion? Someone from the otherworld?" A