Blood God Child was actually True Person Long Eyebrow's junior brother, the martial uncle of Emei's current leader!
This truly caught them unawares!
"Honored elders, this junior has a question."
As the accomplished Daoists sat with troubled faces, Cheng Xinzhan broke the oppressive silence.
"Please speak, Xinzhan."
Daoist Nengyue replied with a kindly expression.
"What exactly did True Person Long Eyebrow mean by this? He suppressed Blood God Child Deng Yin without killing him. It would be understandable if he could not bear to kill his junior brother, but why did he also suppress Demon Corpse Gu Chen without killing him?
"Also, I once traveled through the Southern Borderlands. During a casual conversation, friends in the Miao Borderlands mentioned something: the Southern Demon Cult once had a Five Poisons Heavenly King who possessed Five Poisons Gu Insects and was extraordinarily formidable, as renowned as the Northern Faction's Five Ghosts Heavenly King. True Person Long Eyebrow captured this fiend alive and suppressed him in an underground cavern.
"When I traveled through the northern borderlands, friends from the Heavenly Mountain Sword Sect told me that True Person Long Eyebrow had also suppressed a great fiend beneath a snowy mountain there, known as Snow Enchantress, with another fearsome name: Seven-Fingered Evil Fiend.
"After I went overseas, I heard that the Overseas Demon Cult had once had a Ninefold Fierce Devil Lord, a Nine-Eyed Insect that had assumed human form and entered the demonic path. True Person Long Eyebrow had suppressed him beneath the sea as well.
"So this junior wishes to ask: what exactly was True Person Long Eyebrow trying to do? Was this long-renowned sword immortal truly formidable or not? He could suppress all these notorious fiends, but why would he not kill them?"
Cheng Xinzhan was deeply puzzled.
As the accomplished