When Nine Infants left, its heads had already grown back, and its severed tail no longer looked so strangely fresh. Though it had not regrown, it had at least scabbed over.
The injuries within its body had also healed, and it had even made a breakthrough.
No one knew the extent of that breakthrough, nor did anyone understand the precise cultivation details of Supreme Purity and Creation. The people of the Celestial Palace only knew that after Nine Infants emerged from seclusion, its aura had surged by another measure. The anger it had suffered from its injuries in the battle over the World Tree and the losses from the battle at the Ten Thousand Dao Immortal Palace had all vanished, and it had once more become calm and refined.
The demon beast Zao Chi hurriedly flattered it. "Liusu and Yao Guang joining forces amounted to no more than this. Your Majesty was not even injured, yet you seized the Wood Origin."
Nine Infants gave a slight nod. "They still have some skill."
"Yes, yes, yes. It is only that Your Majesty is stronger."
Tian Panzi, Tianhong Zi, and the others glanced sideways at him speechlessly, saying nothing.
There was also a rift between the humans and demons within the Celestial Palace. Before Nine Infants had broken through to Supreme Purity, everyone had argued themselves into a tangled mess, without a single unified voice. Zhao Wuhuai had once said as much to Liusu.
Of course, they still broadly shared the same position: they wanted to rule the Three Realms. Yet each had their own ideas.
Only after Nine Infants broke through were they swiftly brought under one banner and assigned their tasks in a unified fashion. Then, naturally, the voices speaking over one another divided into two factions: humans and demons.