Li Ling left the Ancestral Hall much differently from how he had entered it.
When he had first stepped through those doors, he had been a rising star of the Six Paths Demon Sect.
The champion of the lower-layer tournament.
A monstrous genius whose talent had already made countless factions begin recalculating their future plans.
A new personal disciple of Sect Master Ming Yue.
A young cultivator who had just been granted the Daoist title Demon Emperor before the highest authorities of the sect.
When he walked out, however, he was something else entirely.
Humiliated, publicly slapped, rejected by the Grand Ancestor, and sent toward an impossible mission with execution hanging over his head should he fail.
The transformation had happened so quickly that even Li Ling himself found it faintly absurd.
More importantly, one question still lingered in his mind.
Why?
Not only in his mind.
