The gray-robed junior minister and the others exchanged startled, doubtful looks. There was only one person who had founded the Demonic Path: the Devil Ancestor. Could the master she spoke of be the Devil Ancestor?
Then they recalled the elder's earlier exclamation that this person had two intelligences within her. The one before them clearly did not seem to be Zhen'er's. Combined with everything she had said, it was not hard to draw a few guesses. Could the other intelligence truly belong to someone from the Demonic Path, someone who even knew the Devil Ancestor?
Could an intelligence belonging to an ancient figure from the Devil Ancestor's era have possessed her?
Remembering that Zhen'er had come from the Divine Fire Domain, and that many ancient mighty cultivators had vanished after entering it, they grew more alarmed the longer they thought.
Seeing their prolonged silence, the bald elder rebuked them. "Why do you not answer?"
The gray-robed junior minister asked tentatively, "We have never heard of the Demonic Path having a master. We have only heard of the Devil Ancestor who founded it-ancestor as in forefather. May I ask what honored name your master bears?"
"The Devil Ancestor? The Devil Ancestor who founded the Demonic Path?" the bald elder murmured doubtfully. He, too, felt there could hardly have been a second founder, and "Devil Ancestor" was indeed an honorific. Thus, he offered a tentative answer. "Yin!"
At those words, the four exchanged looks again. Wearing an expression of confirmation, the gray-robed junior minister said, "Then there is no mistake. The Devil Ancestor who founded the Demonic Path was indeed Yin, the very same person you call your master."
"Oh, he has already been honored as an ancestor." Understanding dawned on the bald elder. Then he swept his cloak aside and waved