Go find Yao Guang... You said that as if you knew where Yao Guang was.
Yes, they really did know.
They even knew that Nine Infants was most likely headed for tragedy...
When Heavenly Mystery Child and Nine Infants had fought over the gate, Nine Infants had decisively chosen not to get entangled there. It had flown back to the palace, intending to seize control of its final line of resistance.
Qin Yi had launched a massive counteroffensive, splitting his forces along many routes and making breakthroughs on every front. In less than the time it took to drink a cup of tea, far too much had happened. Qin Yi had recovered the stone tablet, the sect before the gate had withered away, the great battle at Kunlun was nearing its end... and Nine Infants had clearly encountered a different problem as well.
Before marching on the Netherworld, it had left its trusted subordinate, Demon Beast Da Feng, behind to guard the palace. This had been a crucial arrangement.
As an integrated layout whose very pond names could not be altered, the Heavenly Palace naturally contained immense might. It was the true fortress and divine throne of the Heavenly Emperor. All heavens paid court there; its divine majesty was imposing. One could say that so long as one controlled the Heavenly Palace, even if Qin Yi's whole family besieged it for a year, they might not be able to break in—and would not dare attack recklessly.
Qin Yi's "troops" were no troops in the ordinary sense. They were all his wives; he could not possibly bear any casualties.
Then there would be much room for negotiation. Perhaps they could even flee to the outside world and build the furnace anew.
It swiftly approached the Heavenly Palace and swept it with