On second thought, though, that was normal. Although he had stumbled into killing several senior members of the Holy Spirit Cult while rescuing Professor Mo Fang, destroying its Mingdu branch along the way, only a small number of people within the academy knew about the organization at present, and most of them were Elders.
Under these circumstances, the name Holy Spirit Sect and its members' ruthless methods alone were indeed not enough for Wang Dong to guess exactly who their opponents were.
"Older Brother Chen, are you saying the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy was sent out to walk through the minefield? Just to sound us out for that Holy Spirit Sect?"
At this point, Huo Yuhao, who was also a Prospective Pavilion Elder of Shrek and knew quite a bit about the Holy Spirit Cult, immediately caught the implication in Chen Ping's words.
Even the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy had to serve as the Holy Spirit Sect's weapon to probe the strength of Shrek's team this year. One could imagine just how much influence the Holy Spirit Sect wielded within the imperial family!
For a moment, Huo Yuhao looked deeply worried.
Although Chen Ping did not know exactly what Huo Yuhao was thinking, he could more or less guess from the worry in his eyes. He could only smile helplessly at that.
Just how much influence did the Holy Spirit Sect wield within the Sun Moon Imperial Family?
In ancient times, people took thieves as their fathers; now, someone had taken evil as his mother!
The reigning Crown Prince and Regent, Xu Tianran, had long since shamelessly acknowledged Ye Xishui-that madwoman who had slaughtered who knew how many tens of thousands of people along her path-as his adoptive mother, keeping her in his own imperial palace