Southern Wasteland.
Deep within the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.
"We were all deceived by that bastard, the Seven Kill Demon Lord!"
"After obtaining the Divine Stones that had been nurtured to near perfection, he hid inside the secret realm and left us in danger."
"If we hadn't possessed means to save our lives, those hypocrites of the righteous path would have wiped us out in one fell swoop!"
The Great Yin Demonic Sect's leader, Yin Yuangui, was in terrible condition. He looked far older, and one of his arms was already gone. Clearly, he had paid a tremendous price to survive.
The Seven Kill Demon Lord's sudden retreat into the secret realm that had appeared within the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains had caught the leaders, sect masters, and gate masters of the major demonic sects completely off guard.
By the time they reacted, they could only flee in every direction.
Those who reacted too slowly were surrounded and killed by the righteous factions along the way.
At the outset, the Seven Kill Demon Lord alone had held back six or seven Blood-Changing Martial Saint experts from the righteous path, all experts at the eighth or ninth transformation. Without the Seven Kill Demon Lord keeping such experts occupied, the situation could be overturned in an instant.
Every surviving demonic expert had paid a heavy price. That was only because the major righteous factions' ultimate target was the Seven Kill Demon Lord. After hunting down demonic experts, most had charged into the secret realm in search of him rather than continuing to pursue them.
Otherwise, even fewer demonic experts would have survived.
Throughout the entire affair, they had all been led into a pit by the Seven Kill Demon Lord.
His retreat into the secret realm had simply been too abrupt.
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