Let's leave aside the undercurrents among the demons in the prison for now.
The group of exorcists who left the prison parted ways outside Penang and returned to their respective territories.
After everyone had left, Gu Daozi raised his deep eyes and looked thoughtfully in the direction of the prison, his face expressionless.
"Has Master Gu discovered something?" The one who spoke was Qi Feng from the First Dao, who, besides Gu Daozi, was the other person who remained in the same spot.
"I observed that Master Qi inspected the prison today; I wonder if he discovered anything unusual?" Gu Daozi withdrew his gaze and asked Qi Feng beside him.
Qi Feng smiled and said, "No, the formation is very solid, and there is no trace of it being disturbed."
Gu Daozi: "What are your thoughts on the Tengshe matter, Daoist Qi?"
Qi Feng paused in his smile upon hearing this.
He frowned and pondered for a while, then said, "There is something that my sect has kept hidden for a thousand years, but now it is time to tell."
Gu Daozi frowned and asked, "Is it about the Teng Snake? You and the other two are all from the Taoist sect. Master Qi, if you have something to say, please speak frankly."
Qi Feng lowered his voice: "Everyone in the Daoist sect knows that the formation of the Demon Prison originated from our sect, and that it's a fragment of a formation obtained by our sect's founders from a secret realm, containing the remains of a great demon. But actually, what our sect's founders discovered inside the formation wasn't the remains of a great demon, but rather..."
Qi Feng paused, his expression somewhat unclear, and then said, "What was imprisoned there was a dying Teng Snake. After our ancestors broke into the formation, the Teng Snake sighed, 'It is fate, it is destiny, and the will of Heaven cannot be defied,' and then it stopped breathing. After our ancestors took the Teng Snake's body out of the formation, the Teng Snake immediately decomposed into a skeleton."
Upon hearing this, Gu Daozi was immediately startled: "What? A Teng Snake? Could there be more than one Teng Snake?"
Qi Feng frowned and shook his head: "I don't know, but judging from the notes left by my ancestor, the Teng Snake race is probably more than one."
Gu Daozi's face was solemn: "Then why is it that apart from the Teng Snake under Nuwa's seat, there are no other legends about it?"
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