"Only just noticed? Jiang Ping'an, twenty years in seclusion have made you complacent."
Lianshan Jingcheng looked at the Domain Realm expert from Nine Heavens before him, Suo Yuanchu, known as "Ghost Step," with helplessness in his eyes. "Is there something wrong with you people in Nine Heavens? Heavenly Sword just finished testing me, and now here you are. Does Heavenly Sword know you're doing this?"
"Jiang Ping'an, drop the act. Since I exposed my identity to lure you out of Spring Revival Hall, naturally, I was already prepared to leave Nine Heavens. Whether Heavenly Sword knows no longer matters."
Suo Yuanchu smiled faintly. "If you admit you're Jiang Ping'an, you still have value alive. If you aren't, then I'm sorry."
"You want to kill me? No, you don't. Otherwise, you would have done it on the way. I'm a doctor who couldn't even truss a chicken. I'm hardly worth the risk to an expert holding a high position in Nine Heavens like you. You're after A-Xin, aren't you? Then you aren't from the Demon Cult. They wouldn't dare abduct me."
If "Ghost Step" Suo Yuanchu were confirmed to be a Demon Cult mole, Nine Heavens might well come out in full force and wipe out the entire Demon Cult in Jiangzhou.
Nine Heavens was willing to keep the Demon Cult around to play with because it set the current rules, and this Demon Cult was still relatively well-behaved.
If this Demon Cult broke the rules and dared target the families of Nine Heavens Members directly, they could simply replace it with another Demon Cult. Nine Heavens had done such things before.
Slaying demons still required evidence.
Fighting terror only required coordinates.
Throughout every dynasty, there had never been a shortage of ambitious men wanting to play the villain.
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