【Spirit-Transformation-realm Gold-Winged Nine-Striped Fierce Tiger slain — total lifespan 96,000 years, 21,000 years remaining — fully absorbed】

As the last notification swept past his eyes—

Three great demon emperors had between them offered Shen Yi seventy-two thousand years of lifespan.

【Remaining Demon Lifespan: 88,000 years】

Shen Yi picked the Nanyang dharma-robe up off the ground and threw it on hanging open. Counting the ones taken from the deer demon and the serpent demon, he now had three precious elder's robes.

"……"

He stripped the two demons bare and looked at the black robe in his hands, smoother than silk, running his fingertips lightly over the Nanyang pattern.

Something puzzled came into his eyes.

The more he learned, the less the Nanyang Sect resolved into clarity. If anything it grew stranger.

The first robe could still be explained: a steward had prepared a birthday gift in advance, disaster fell without warning, and it was never delivered.

But how was he to explain these?

Dharma-robes were hardly everyday clothes, to be changed and washed.

Even allowing for a few spares, it was hardly so lavish that every demon should have one apiece.

And all those spirit-treasures and pills. The sect was on the point of being wiped out — and they were left in the storehouses gathering dust?

Even the cave estates the disciples left behind held treasure enough for outside cultivators to pick over for tens of thousands of years, and had fed countless powers great and small.

Under normal circumstances, should they not have brought everything out and fought with all they had?

And if the enemy truly could not be matched, they should have taken it all and run.

What it looked like instead was a crowd of sect cultivators eating hotpot and singing songs, then evaporating in an instant, leaving behind an immortal sect deathly silent and entirely intact.

Even the sect-protecting grand formation was still undamaged.

"The Dao token…"

Shen Yi stood in the Fourth Den and mused a moment.

Then he raised his eyes and looked around him.

Since the Dao Palace had reached its limit,…