"Oh, I know! It's that servant called Gu Ming. He's really obedient, and he often practiced martial arts with me. He was the punching bag, and he could really take a beating. No matter how hard I hit him, he never died. I actually miss him quite a bit. He's gone to Duke Yan's Residence now."
Liu Zi Xing blinked as he spoke.
Zi Mu nodded after hearing this, then shifted his gaze toward the bookshelf beside him and said slowly, "So it was him. I remember he was pretty easy to talk to."
"I shared my mung bean soup with him, and he told me about the culture and history from a thousand years ago. He explained everything so convincingly, as though he'd experienced it himself. Later, he even volunteered to scrub the chamber pot in our courtyard. So he's the new servant at our little sister's side."
Daoist Qianyun was utterly stunned. He asked in disbelief,
"Are you sure this friendly, down-to-earth servant you're talking about is called Gu Ming?"
Gu Ming was the Demon God's Left Guardian!
The historical records of the Azure Cloud Temple still recorded how, during the great war between the Demon God and the Mortal Army, Gu Ming had led hundreds of thousands of troops from the Evil Spirit Army into the Southern Yue Cities. Southern Yue's soldiers and commoners had fought desperately to resist.
Yet Gu Ming alone had bewitched every one of their hearts, causing them to harbor resentment toward the world.
And that resentment had been just what the Demon God, Gu Ming, and the other great demons needed to absorb and grow stronger.
Gu Ming had stormed the Imperial City alone. With his strength alone, he had wiped out all the Daoists and sorcerers gathered from across Southern Yue