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"": "After several minutes of silence, Qin Tianqing gave a faint sigh, his expression conflicted. "I simply hadn't expected the demons' numbers to have dwindled this much. I'm afraid they're all hiding and fleeing."
Zhang Yunxi said nothing. He kept his eyes on Qin Tianqing's, quietly waiting for an answer.
Luo Bin could not speak. He could only watch and listen.
Qin Tianqing glanced at Luo Bin before finally beginning to explain.
His first few sentences covered what he had already told Zhang Yunxi about Heavenly Gate Demon Suppression. Only then did he get to the point.
Many years ago, before that generation's Heavenly Mechanism Diviner went to change Four-Rules Mountain's fate, something had happened on Heavenly Mechanism Mountain.
Two disciples of the Mountain Gate had a child together, and the baby was born malformed.
There was a hole that went straight through the baby's chest.
At first glance, the child seemed to have no heart.
But the baby was alive. An examination revealed that he did have a heart. The hole in his chest was a different kind of deformity.
The Mountain Gate was delighted. The Heavenly Mechanism Taoist Grounds already accepted Heaven-Cripples as disciples. For its disciples to have children was a blessing in itself, especially when the child was born like this. He was practically the Heavenly Mechanism Taoist Grounds' "chosen one."
In time, the malformed child grew into an adult.
Then the very thing the Heavenly Mechanism Taoist Grounds least wanted to see happened. Most people with deformities like his had intellectual disabilities, and some could not even care for themselves.
Of course, the Heavenly Mechanism Taoist Grounds selected those whose minds were sound. Such people were often more intelligent than others.
But this malformed child clearly had not inherited that intelligence.