Everyone understood where His Majesty the Divine Emperor's anger came from.
If what had happened to the Azure Dragon really had something to do with the person Grand Tutor Liang had sent into the Demon-Suppressing Prison, then was this trouble stirred up by remnants of the Never-Old Forest, or was the prince's household trying to do something?
The prince's household had actually extended its hand into the Demon-Suppressing Prison. How could His Majesty not be angry?
There was another conjecture that now seemed the most plausible, the most terrifying, and the most likely to shock and enrage the Divine Emperor.
This was a conspiracy by the Zhongzhou Sect!
-they had sent a key figure into the Demon-Suppressing Prison, intending to feed the Nether Emperor to the Azure Dragon and thereby help the Azure Dragon ascend!
Feeling dozens of gazes fall upon him, Yue Qianmen's expression grew even darker.
If he could, he would rather have struck out and killed everyone present than endure those looks.
The Never-Old Forest messenger the prince's household had sent into the Demon-Suppressing Prison was already dead and absolutely was not the person who had escaped. He firmly believed this, yet could not explain it.
The crucial question was, why had the Zhongzhou Sect sent someone from the Never-Old Forest into the Demon-Suppressing Prison?
Yue Qianmen had once given the monk Du Hai an answer, but the other man had refused to accept it.
The Zhongzhou Sect could not reveal the truth-Prince Jing Xin had once paid a Never-Old Forest assassin to assassinate Zhao Layue, only to be threatened by the assassin afterward. If this answer became public, Prince Jing Xin would be completely finished. Even if the Zhongzhou Sect did everything in its power to keep him alive, how could he become the next Divine