Yet at this thought, faintly strange expressions crept onto everyone's faces.
Although illicit worship among the common folk persisted despite repeated bans, and all manner of Unorthodox Path cultivators and fanatics who exalted antiquity while disparaging the present delighted in tinkering with bizarre, deviant arts, the origins of their Dao Paths imposed limits they could not transcend. Anything touching upon the Creation Dao, lifespan, and life itself remained exceedingly rare.
Such a Three-Aspect Ancient Demon seemed never to have appeared in the Spirit-Taming World.
Then how had Sun Zhuo... or rather, Venerable Fang behind him, learned of it?
Several Grand Elders immediately lost patience and voiced the question. They all belonged to the same sect, and with the doors closed for their discussion, there was no need to stand on ceremony.
Sun Zhuo smiled faintly and said, "My junior brother obtained this information from the Two Sects. When we breached the Inner Vista Grotto Heaven last time, we acquired quite a few rare ancient texts. Some happened to contain records concerning such matters."
Only then did everyone understand.
As it turned out, Fang Qianyuan had indeed gained a wealth of invaluable knowledge about Dao Paths from those texts, along with crucial insights into ancient and modern history.
During this campaign in the Zhilin World, he had unexpectedly encountered an Otherkin Great Shaman and sensed a vast aura emanating from him, utterly unlike that of ordinary spirit creatures.
Tracing it back to its source, Fang Qianyuan had "seen" the scene inside that cavern and recognized its origins at once.
That was what had prompted him to gather everyone covertly and discuss countermeasures in secret.
Clearly, Fang Qianyuan believed that this ancient demon-or the Demon God, the deity, as the Earth Demons saw it-held the opportunity for immortality and imperishability they had