Taking the USB drive from Pei Yan, Gu Shenghui smiled and said, "Sending you was indeed the right choice. I didn't expect you to make such a significant breakthrough in such a short time."

"Short? I've been here for over a whole month!" Pei Yan, who was narrating the situation until his mouth was dry and his head was spinning, subconsciously stretched lazily.

"But in real life, we've only been apart for just over a day!" Gu Shenghui said with a smile as he put the hard drive into his pocket.

Pei Yan, realizing this, shook his head to clear his mind and said, "Damn time difference. So my intelligence transmission work is done. What do you guys think?"

After Gu Shenghui exchanged glances with Elder Lin and got his nod of approval, he looked at Pei Yan and said, "In the one day you were away, or rather before you left, we had already started a joint comprehensive investigation with other planes. The intelligence in your hands perfectly fills in our blanks." As he spoke, Gu Shenghui looked up at the dark red sky and muttered, "Is this the 'red disaster' you mentioned? It seems that when we entered last time, the reason we didn't encounter such a large swarm like you did was probably because, as you learned from Sifuer, Guxin led a breakout that exhausted the enemy's living forces. Does this red disaster really suppress superpower users that much?"

"That's also my confusion. According to Lin Junzhao, Origin Superpower Users are not suppressed because their attributes are like twins with the Disaster Legion's origin. But why aren't you affected?" Pei Yan asked Gu Shenghui in puzzlement.

"Yeah, how am I different from other superpower users?" Gu Shenghui stroked his chin and fell into deep thought, after a while, he and Pei Yan seemed to come to the same conclusion and simultaneously raised their heads to say in unison, "That fruit!"

"What fruit?" Wang Wenze, who was listening in bewilderment from the start, couldn't help but interject.

"Yes, yes, yes! That mysterious fruit!" Gu Shenghui clapped his hands and said. If there's anything different about him compared to other superpower users, it's that he ate an odd fruit acquired from the body of Elder Zong at the Celestial Sword Manor, which forcibly seizes other people's powers. He ate it, and so did Pei Yan, but to this day, he still doesn't know the origin of that fruit. Now, he has some guesses in his mind.

He paced back and forth, his mind racing, then suddenly stopped and looked at Pei Yan, "I remember you just said the Disaster Legion had started infiltrating the Hell Plane before officially invading, and when the Hell Legion and the Disaster Legion officially engaged, these infiltrators suddenly turned sides and played a decisive role?"

"That's right, you mean!" Pei Yan immediately understood Gu Shenghui's meaning.

"Yes, unless there's a lure of profit and a powerful threat, who would betray their own plane? For us, this fruit allows us to seize other superpower users' powers; then what effect does it have on people from other planes? We don't know for sure, but at the very least, it allows those who have eaten the fruit to remain unaffected by this red disaster; this provides these people with the basic conditions to work for them in the future!"

Pei Yan's eyes widened as he muttered, "If what you said is true, the Disaster Legion has already extended its hand to the Daoist Realm? That Elder Zong from the Celestial Sword Manor, who you mentioned before, is one of those they bought!" Saying this, Pei Yan felt utterly powerless and sat down on a relatively flat stone.

If their conjecture is true, the battle between Gu Shenghui and Elder Zong at the Celestial Sword Manor happened fourteen or fifteen years ago, which, according to time conversion between the two planes, would mean nearly five hundred years. The Disaster Legion has been laying out plans in the Daoist Plane for at least five hundred years.

In the entire scene, only those who knew the inside story like Elder Lin and Elder Zuo knew how shocking this information was, so their faces became quite unpleasant. After a moment, Pei Yan raised his head and looked at Gu Shenghui, murmuring, "Does the Celestial Sword Manor still exist?"

"Yes, they are one of the top sects in the Daoist Realm and a strong competitor of the Six Palaces of the Immortal Palace. Last time, they were exposed for inhumane behavior by their elder in the Foundation Plane, becoming a laughingstock of the entire Daoist Realm and losing the chance to be selected by the Immortal Palace. Now, nearing the time for the Six Palaces' reelection, they want to challenge the current status of the Clear Wind Talisman Transformation Sect and replace it."

Hearing Gu Shenghui's words, Pei Yan inhaled sharply and said, "If our guess is true, allowing the already infiltrated and corrupted Celestial Sword Manor to enter the Immortal Palace would make the Daoist Plane the next Hell Plane!"

"Realizing this now is very advantageous for us." Gu Shenghui said, looking at Pei Yan with a relaxed smile, "Actually, the situation isn't as bad as you think. At least it's not irretrievable yet. Even before this, the origins of the other three major planes had already formally issued notices to their affiliated forces, initiating comprehensive cooperation to thoroughly investigate the dark forces within their planes. It seems that their intelligence systems also received the current state of the Hell Plane, greatly alarming these high-ranking officials. From all indications, if these dark forces' schemes have nothing to do with the Disaster Legion, I wouldn't believe it even if I were beaten to death."

As a listener, Wang Wenze swallowed nervously and said, "Then, do you think our world will also be infiltrated?"

"It's hard to say. We're different from other planes. According to them, we're an energy desert." Gu Shenghui said as he lit a cigarette in self-mockery, "They can't use the red disaster Pei Yan mentioned here. In our world, the real things that can deter the enemy have never been us superpower users. But we can't let our guard down. Regardless of whether or not we've been infiltrated internally, there's this mysterious God Desire which has close dealings with other dark planes, and that always-hidden, eerie Candle Dragon, which is hard to fathom!"

After hearing Gu Shenghui's explanation, Pei Yan sighed and said, "These things are too much for my current capabilities. I now have a few questions. First, you mentioned that all planes have begun to purge the dark forces. What about the Vlad Clan? What about Old Vlad? Is he still alive?"

Concerned about Ye Jiumu's life, this was one of Pei Yan's primary worries. Hearing this, Gu Shenghui shook his head and said, "Unfortunately, he's still alive. The dark forces have been able to contend with the officially established forces supported by the local origin for so many years without being wiped out because they have effective countermeasures. The purge has just begun and won't show results so quickly."

"That's fine!" Pei Yan said, lifting his head with a fierce look in his eyes and saying, "Some grudges still need to be avenged personally to relieve the hatred in my heart!"