With a soft crack.
A concealed door suddenly opened on the left side of the hall, and a beautiful woman with skin like snowy jade emerged, her expression cold.
She cast a long look at the cavern beneath the seat of honor, her eyes flickering with a hint of complexity.
After a spell of utter silence.
Qiao Ting finally raised her head in a daze and said:
"Only today did I learn that Chen Heng had such a background... but wasn't his grandfather the reason my father died back then?
If Chen Yu had been willing to let him see the combined cultivation method, how could my father have been driven into a corner and sought out the Great Ease Heavenly Demon King? Why would he have recklessly sacrificed living beings to the demons and rakshasas to derive a new combined cultivation method..."
Years ago, after Qiao Zhijie had traveled all the way to Void Sovereign Heaven to seek the scripture and method from Chen Yu and been refused.
On his return journey, the Great Ease Heavenly Demon King had appeared and tempted him into practicing demonic arts.
He had rashly offered blood sacrifices to the demons and rakshasas, pooling their wisdom to deduce a new combined cultivation method.
But after he had slaughtered every living being on a Landmass, Qiao Yubi, despite his grievous injuries, had faintly sensed it.
One had fled and the other pursued, until they finally reached Zhu Jingtian.
After repeated attempts to save and dissuade him proved fruitless.
Qiao Yubi had finally unleashed his sword, destroyed Qiao Zhijie's Dao Fruit, and ruthlessly slain him.
Several years had passed.
When Qiao Ting brought the matter up again.
Even Qiao Yubi's gaze briefly froze before he slowly shook his head.
"And it wasn't just Chen Heng's grandfather.