After sitting down, Xu Taiping looked toward the Golden Scale Platform again and asked Dugu Qingxiao with some curiosity:
"Second Senior Brother, why would a Chaos Demon Mother appear in the Lower Realm?"
Dugu Qingxiao immediately frowned.
"After that Heaven-Demon War, the passage restrictions between the outer heaven chaos power and the Lower Realm vanished completely."
"From time to time, chaos demonic beasts appear in the Lower Realm."
Lü Daoxuan chimed in:
"It's just that today's Whale Demon was far stronger than any that appeared before."
Dugu Qingxiao nodded.
"Most of the chaos demonic beasts that appeared before were true aspect-level beasts that wouldn't actively attack cultivators."
Fairy Lingyue also frowned.
"Today's Whale Demon was indeed rather unusual."
Otherwise, with their combat power, they would not have been caught so unprepared.
Hearing this, Xu Taiping merely knitted his brows and murmured:
"To drive a high-ranking, karmic obstacle-level chaos demonic beast like the Whale Demon here, the person behind it must possess half-immortal-level cultivation and combat power."
Dugu Qingxiao looked puzzled.
"Now that the scourge of the Nine Abysses has been completely eliminated, what other faction would deliberately stir up trouble like this?"
For a moment, everyone sank into thought.
Xu Taiping interlaced his hands and casually blinked his left eye.
In an instant, the lotus within his Left-Eye Lotus Pupil began to bloom slowly.
Let me take a look with the Lotus Eye first.
With this thought, Xu Taiping greeted his Little Martial Aunt and the others who had come to watch the battle in the pavilion, while discreetly activating the Lotus Eye's great deductive power.
With the Blade of Guicang suppressing it, the Lotus Eye gave off no aura even after its great deductive power was activated.
Just then, the Golden Scale Ranking's voice suddenly rang out:
"The contest