Before the internal war erupted within the Seven Nights Divine Sect's territory, Lin Bai had already deduced that the Northern Region and the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace were inevitably involved. What happened afterward proved Lin Bai's guess.
The Nine Underworlds Demon Palace's scheme was to rise again and openly establish its sect headquarters in the Devil Realm Eastern Region.
Although the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace now possessed strength no weaker than that of the four Flourishing Sects of the Eastern Region, they could not walk beneath the sun. They could only skulk in the shadows and secretly make trouble.
They had none of the bearing a Flourishing Sect should have.
The main reason for this situation was that, over the past hundred thousand years, the four Flourishing Sects of the Devil Realm Eastern Region and the Eastern Region's martial artists had ceaselessly "demonized" the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace.
After a hundred thousand years of brainwashing, the Eastern Region's martial artists had come to believe completely that... the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace was an utterly demonic sect. If the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace were allowed to rise again, it would surely bring disaster upon the Eastern Region.
This idea had already sunk deep into the hearts of the Eastern Region's martial artists.
Therefore, if the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace forcibly established a sect in the Eastern Region's territory now, it would likely once again ignite the fury of the Devil Realm Eastern Region's martial artists. By then, the great battle that had destroyed the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace at the hands of the Eastern Region's martial artists a hundred thousand years ago would be replayed.
When the State of Chu held its grand banquet at the Star Plucking Platform, the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace had sent God Child Lu Yunzhe of