"I'm not joking!" Hong Yi shook his head. "Yes, the Heavenly Demon Sect no longer exists, but as I said, many sects whose lineages have survived from those days have hidden themselves in the mountains and forests. By now, almost no one knows they exist. But there is one thing I do know: these sects descended from the Heavenly Demon Sect have never abandoned their plans to revive it. Each considers itself the orthodox successor and wants to absorb the others. Unfortunately, none of them seems to have gained the strength to utterly suppress the rest, so they haven't been able to unite the sects. Now that the Heavenly Demon Canon has surfaced, these hidden sects will certainly make their moves. Quite apart from its significance as the symbol of the sect master's position, obtaining the Heavenly Demon Canon would allow them to learn the Heavenly Demon Sect's orthodox cultivation methods. That is the key to unification, and an opportunity for the Heavenly Demon Sect to reappear in the Jianghu."
"Since the Heavenly Demon Canon symbolizes the sect master's position, and Zhang Hu has obtained it, shouldn't he be the Heavenly Demon Sect's master according to its rules?" Huang Xiao asked.
"You're still too naive, Brother Huang. Rules are dead things, and this sect doesn't even exist anymore. A title alone is useless. Think of the puppet emperors throughout the dynasties. Without real power, what good does being emperor do you? Deposing or enthroning them rests on a powerful minister's passing thought. Even their lives are in someone else's hands," Dugu Sheng said.
"Brother Dugu is right. If the Heavenly Demon Sect still existed, the Heavenly Demon Canon would certainly be passed to the disciple with the greatest aptitude or the highest cultivation. He would then naturally succeed as sect