'I think I've made a terrible mistake. I shouldn't have convened a secret council of the Five Races' Patriarchs back then; I should have held a full clan assembly. What on earth happened during that meeting? Why have all Five Races started acting so strangely?
Is this some kind of bizarre curse? What can I do to find the source of this corruption?'
...
'Hahaha!!! I killed the Patriarch! He actually had a mechanical bug growing in his brain, just like that Outer Realm Demon from before, only a little smaller.
This is a conspiracy from the Outer Realm! I wasn't wrong, I was right! If I hadn't acted, my Duan Family would have been doomed. All of our Five Races would have been wiped out.'
At this point in the notebook, the handwriting grew even more frantic. A crazed Dao Essence seemed to emanate from the very words, trying to corrupt Zhang Deming's Heart Spirit.
Zhang Deming fell silent and turned the page again.
