Southwest, deep within the hundred thousand Miaojiang Mountains!
The Gu Sect Headquarters, where Sect Hierarch Zhuang Bifan had recently taken a particular liking to climbing trees.
To indulge his hobby, he had actually planted a large tree right inside the council hall.
When the Gu Sect elders came to report matters, Zhuang Bifan would listen while perched in the tree, even at times, hooking his feet around the trunk, hanging upside down to receive reports from his subordinates.
More than that, when Zhuang Bifan drank water, he would do so by licking it up with his tongue.
Xiao Taizhen and the other elders of the Gu Sect all noticed that something was amiss.
Because these actions were clearly those of a monkey or a dog.
Yet despite multiple attempts to persuade Zhuang Bifan, they urged him to examine the Gu worms he controlled.
But the truth that everyone understood was that Zhuang Bifan was completely oblivious.
"Hmph! Trash... all of them are trash..."