"Your words are correct, my dear subject!" Immortal Emperor Gouchen praised. "This is a secret of our Immortal Palace; even the palace officials do not know of it. It is rare for your Nangong Family to have recorded it so clearly. I am greatly pleased!"
"Your Majesty!" Nangong Jingyin's expression changed slightly, and he hurriedly bowed again. "This subject knows this matter is a secret, but I dared not withhold it. The rise of the Demon Race is a calamity for our Human Race. This subject would rather receive Your Majesty's punishment than fail to report it."
"Hmph, I have not become muddleheaded to that extent!" Immortal Emperor Gouchen said with a cold laugh. "Speak freely, my dear subject."
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Nangong Jingyin remained neither arrogant nor rash as he continued, "However, this subject has a great doubt. I wonder whether Your Majesty might clear it up for this subject."
"Speak!" Immortal Emperor Gouchen commanded.
"This subject has just said that I am willing to make any sacrifice for the prosperity of our Human Race. Thus, I have ordinarily paid close attention to the movements of the Sacred Realm of a Thousand Demons and the Pure Land. This subject knows something of the Sacred Realm of a Thousand Demons' original Six Great Sages!" Nangong Jingyin said respectfully. "Yet this Heaven-Defying Thunder Phoenix—I have never heard his name before, nor did I know that the Phoenix Clan, which had long declined within the Sacred Realm of a Thousand Demons, had now produced such a Great Sage. This junior asks Your Majesty to tell me: from which demon realm does this Heaven-Defying Thunder Phoenix hail?"
Needless to say, while Nangong Jingyin was displaying himself, he also intended to flatter the emperor. Yet to his surprise, Immortal Emperor Gouchen answered blandly, "What