"..."
Gu Xiangzhu's head was buzzing a little. 'I was just asking casually, did you really learn it?'
'How long has it even been?'
She shook her head and said softly, "I went back to the sect's Main Altar today. I didn't find out anything, but there were signs of a cover-up. It looks like they are indeed hiding something from me."
Zhao Ci's heart tightened slightly. "Has anything major happened within your sect recently?"
Gu Xiangzhu no longer hid it from him. "The Demon Monarch has returned!"
'It really is the Demon Monarch!'
"The Demon Monarch?"
Zhao Ci feigned surprise. "The one who nearly tore through the Imperial Palace on his own and killed my father the Emperor?"
"That's right!"
"Where has he been all these years?"
"I don't know."
"What did he come back for?"
"I don't know. I haven't even seen him."
Gu Xiangzhu gave Zhao Ci a general account of the Demon Monarch's return, only skipping over details that involved the Demon Sect's confidential secrets.
