Inside a private room aboard the Scattered Alliance Spirit Ship.
When Qin Ming learned that even Huo Qianqiu, the chief alliance leader, had fallen, he could not help asking, "Huh? Alliance Leader Huo fell too? Could it be that a Tier 3 Demon King appeared as well?"
Li Yuanqing had someone bring spiritual tea, then personally poured Qin Ming a cup before sighing, shaking his head, and asking in return:
"Fellow Daoist Qin, do you still remember the greatest culprit behind the upheaval on Thousand Leaf Island back then?"
"That would naturally be Zhao Wuyang, Zhao Wuji, and the other Zhao Family remnants." Qin Ming answered almost instinctively.
The moment he said that, realization suddenly struck him!
"Could it be that the demonized Zhao Wuyang has returned?"
Li Yuanqing nodded. "That's right! And this 'Zhao Wuyang' is no longer the same 'Zhao Wuyang.' He was not merely demonized."
"He was parasitized by a Tier 3 demonized aberrant species. Its strength is terrifying beyond measure; no one in the Immortal Cultivation World of the Spirit Rest Archipelago can withstand it. If not for the reappearance of this Demonic Plant, even in the face of an even greater Beast Tide, our Scattered Alliance would not have been defeated and forced back so quickly."
"Elder Zhou Ping and Alliance Leader Huo encountered this demon during a defensive battle. That was how they met with disaster and ended up in its maw."
Qin Ming was secretly alarmed upon hearing this. He had personally seen the possessed Zhao Wuyang back then. His unfathomably eerie abilities and strength had allowed him to slaughter even a Pseudo-Core Ancestor with ease. He was simply not someone ordinary cultivators could resist.
Still, this was more or less what Qin Ming had suspected at the time. Zhao Wuyang had actually