As Saint Elder Lei Qin had said, the First God Child's mistake could be treated as either big or small—it all depended on how the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace wanted to handle it.
Handled as a minor matter, all the First God Child had to do was admit his mistake at the Council of Elders. With Saint Elder Shi Renshan saying a few words on his behalf, the matter could be brushed aside just like that.
At worst, the First God Child would receive a stern reprimand in public and be told not to make the same mistake again.
But Lin Bai's words had now elevated the matter to an entirely new level, directly increasing its severity to "pushing the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace, which had only just rebuilt its mountain gate, into an abyss of eternal ruin."
Once those words were spoken, the matter became far too serious.
One had to know that a hundred thousand years ago, the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace had been utterly destroyed by the martial artists of the Devil Realm Eastern Region. Over the past hundred thousand years, it had taken the joint efforts of hundreds of generations of martial artists, the wholehearted assistance and cooperation of dozens of generations of Saint Elders and Palace Masters, and the united struggle of countless martial artists to finally reach the day when the Devil Palace could see the light of day again.
Today, the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace had rebuilt its mountain gate in the Huang Long Thousand Provinces. This was absolutely not merely a plan spanning ten thousand years. Behind it lay the painstaking efforts of hundreds of generations of martial artists.
By saying this, Lin Bai had directly elevated the matter to the level of the First God Child having betrayed the efforts of