With Zhang Kui alone branded a demon cultivator, there was still room to maneuver. But once the entire Heavenly Gang Sect was implicated, it truly meant the sect's destruction!
Wait!
A flash of inspiration suddenly crossed Gu Chengfeng's mind.
Recently, more than a dozen sects in the Eastern Region had vanished without a trace overnight.
"Could it be that those sects hadn't suffered divine punishment or encountered some great terror..."
"But were secretly investigated by the Emperor Pavilion for consorting with demons, then erased by imperial decree?!"
The more Gu Chengfeng thought about it, the more plausible the theory seemed.
Only that could explain why those sects had disappeared so completely, leaving no clues behind.
Across the entire Eastern Region, who could make more than a dozen Top-Tier Sects evaporate overnight? Apart from the Emperor Pavilion, there was probably no other force capable of it.
The Emperor Pavilion was far more mysterious than the world imagined.
They might never show themselves, but once they struck, it was usually with the crushing force of thunder.
Never mind a sect-even a sacred land would face certain death, with no chance of survival.
At this thought, Gu Chengfeng could almost see the Heavenly Gang Sect's fate.
The Emperor Pavilion's army would descend and seal off the entire sect grounds.
Fire would rain from the heavens, burning the sect inside and out for months.
Or perhaps they would cast some great soul-destroying curse, wiping out the divine souls of all two million-plus disciples of the Heavenly Gang Sect, denying them even the chance to reincarnate.
The more Gu Chengfeng thought, the colder his back grew.
But just then, the terror on his face suddenly vanished.
Chun Xiaobai happened to catch that change, and his heart jolted.
Not good!
If someone was merely afraid, the