Lin Bai could easily tell from the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace Master's tone that cooperating with the martial artists of the Northern Region to capture the Holy Sons and Holy Daughters of the Eastern Region and deliver them to the Soul Refinement Sect was one part of their plan.
Going to the Soul Refinement Sect to rescue the Holy Sons and Holy Daughters seemed to be another part of the plan.
It looked complicated, but in truth, every step could be traced.
The Nine Underworlds Demon Palace and the Soul Refinement Sect had discussed capturing the Holy Sons and Holy Daughters and sending them to the Soul Refinement Sect in the Northern Region... using these Holy Sons and Holy Daughters to throw the State of Chu into internal turmoil.
But because of Lin Bai's actions, his desperate gamble had caused the State of Chu to publicly announce that the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace had been exposed ahead of time throughout the Devil Realm.
The die had been cast, but Li Guxian had promptly adjusted the plan, so it did not affect the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace's schemes.
At that time, the Holy Sons and Holy Daughters of the Devil Realm's Eastern Region had already been sent into the Soul Refinement Sect.
The Nine Underworlds Demon Palace's subsequent plan to rescue the Holy Sons and Holy Daughters sounded somewhat like "weaving one's own cocoon," but in reality, it was not.
Capturing the Holy Sons of the Devil Realm's Eastern Region was meant to plunge the Eastern Region into chaos and turn the State of Chu's imperial family and its many top forces against one another.
Rescuing the Holy Sons and Holy Daughters of the Eastern Region, on the other hand, was meant to reconcile the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace with the