It was unclear what the old man was doing. He would leave and return intermittently; sometimes he would be gone for a month or two, and other times he would shut himself in his room for days on end.
Occasionally upon his return, he would bring Cheng Zongyang some Jade Scrolls, which recorded the Demon Race's counterattacks against the Human Race.
More than half of the nearly one million members of the Demon Race had mobilized, launching a full-scale war against the Human Race! The Ape Demons in particular had seen an increasing number of powerful individuals emerge within their ranks. They continuously decimated human cities and slaughtered the Human Race, all to force them into releasing their leader.
The old man, however, did not intervene, nor did he pay it any mind. Reading this news, Cheng Zongyang felt a complex surge of emotions.
Days passed one by one.
