Kong An had an extraordinarily tenacious mind. Once he decided to do something, he would accomplish it at any cost.
Just like that time, when the Underground Palace and Six Yin Mountain had hunted them down and cut off their escape. Faced with Dai Zhixiong, Luo Bin and Xu Lu had been driven into a dead end. Kong An had dragged himself over on two broken legs. Later, without legs at all, he had even walked on his knees!
There had been only one reason.
Luo Bin was the Chief Seat Kong An had chosen, Xu Lu was the Deputy Chief Seat, and Bai Xian was the Bright Consort.
To preserve the foundations of Black City Monastery, Kong An had to keep all three of them alive.
Back then, Kong An had been far weaker than Dai Zhixiong. He had relied on a deity to trap Dai Zhixiong, then attained enlightenment and undergone empowerment and reincarnation.
That deed alone demonstrated Kong An's immense resolve.
But looking closely at everything-even just what Luo Bin knew-that resolve was steeped in unspeakable horror.
Kong An had flayed Miao Miao's grandmother and extracted her bones, turning her into a Corpse-Stripping Relic.
The Spirit-Relocation Lineage of Three Perils Mountain had been almost entirely wiped out by Kong An.
In the old Golden Peace Temple, those human-skin drums, the children trapped beneath the walls, all those shattered bones-how many innocent people had become grudge ghosts and lost souls within the temple?
Rinpoche had been killed twenty-seven times!
Kong An's atrocities were too numerous to record!
That viciousness, combined with his immense resolve and his persecution of Rinpoche, brought Luo Bin a glimmer of understanding. He looked at Shangguan Xingyue again and said gravely, "Mr. Xu mentioned that Zhan Si had been stripped of his position as