Black-Robed Warriors!
After Lin Bai saw through Murong Chuan's intentions, he analyzed them for Jiang Xuansu. Jiang Xuansu's face turned ashen as she listened. She felt that Lin Bai's reasoning made sense. The reason Murong Chuan had remained in the Apex Celestial Palace was to gather all the Heng Province Alliance warriors there.
Once the Heng Province Alliance warriors had assembled in the Apex Celestial Palace, with Murong Chuan leading them, what force could possibly stand against the Heng Province Alliance?
As Heng Province Alliance warriors continued pouring into the Apex Celestial Palace and gathering around Murong Chuan, some unfamiliar warriors also arrived. Most of them wore black robes and bamboo hats that obscured their faces. Most were old men. After arriving and seeing Murong Chuan, they held themselves back and silently stood in an empty area.
Lin Bai looked at this group, a strange light in his eyes. None of them seemed weak. Every one of them radiated an intimidating might. Moreover, Lin Bai could tell that nearly all of them were Dao God Realm experts whose cultivation had been suppressed.
Yet after arriving, they neither joined the Heng Province Alliance's camp nor went to Meng Qi's Bear Province Alliance camp. They merely stood to one side in silence.
"They're your people?" Lin Bai thought for a moment before guessing that this group was very likely the powerful experts chosen by the Sect Master and Jiang Xuansu.
Jiang Xuansu nodded slightly. "That's right!"
The Eternal Devil Sect had more than a million disciples, including hundreds of thousands of inner disciples. Moreover, most warriors who had broken through to the Dao Venerable Realm or above spent years in secluded cultivation.
For warriors above the Dao Venerable level, seclusion could last anywhere from several years to several decades. Some even secluded