Chen Jingu...
Wasn't he the Golden Core eunuch who nearly decapitated Li Fan all those years ago? Indeed, as the first person he personally killed, the memory was still fresh in Li Fan's mind. Could it simply be a coincidence of name and family name?
No, a eunuch nurtured in the Taiping Temple, who stealthily involved himself in so many crucial affairs on Mo Zhu Mountain unnoticed, must be Chen Jingu's trusted confidant, a death soldier, puppet, vessel, experimental subject, or something of the sort.
If he hadn't died young as a Golden Core, he probably would have been assigned a code number eventually, and transformed into a demon spawn...
Li Fan fell into a solemn reverie. Luo Fu, a former bailiff and the leader of the Six Doors, naturally observed his expression and inferred his thoughts.
"Is it really him? I knew there was something suspicious about that man.
