Now, the person Lin Bai most needed to guard against within the Eternal Devil Sect was Young Master Lu. Lin Bai was certain that Young Master Lu would not let the matter go easily. Fortunately, Lin Bai had now stepped into the open, and Young Master Lu knew that it was Lin Bai who had taken the Devil Orb worth ten million. As the saying went, there was a head for every debt and an owner for every grievance; presumably, the other people from the Sword Hiding Hermitage would suffer fewer repercussions as well.
As for the Heng Province Alliance, ever since Lin Bai had sat before it and defeated all its Dao realm experts, news had spread that the Heng Province Alliance had gone so far as to assassinate Lin Bai's friends by hook or by crook. The Eternal Devil Sect had immediately erupted into a tide of opposition against the Heng Province Alliance. Its reputation had plunged to rock bottom, and from that day onward, none of its martial artists had come looking for trouble with Lin Bai again.
But Lin Bai did not believe the Heng Province Alliance would simply give up. The treasures of the Sword Hiding Hermitage were merely the fuse between the alliance and Lin Bai. Lin Bai's challenge before the alliance had caused it to lose all face, and Vice-Alliance Leader Wu had inevitably harbored resentment after being punished by the higher-ups. Many martial artists within the Heng Province Alliance hated Lin Bai to the bone.
There would inevitably be a battle between Lin Bai and the Heng Province Alliance sooner or later!
Over the next half a month, Lin Bai remained in the Sword Hiding Hermitage, stabilizing his cultivation realm until it was thoroughly settled at the Dao Venerable level.
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