"I probably won't be able to get out even if I return to Chu."
Lin Bai smiled bitterly inwardly.
If he returned to Chu, even if Emperor Chu and Crown Prince Chu Junyou did not force him to stay, the "living fossils" of Chu's Imperial Family would compel him to remain.
The reason was simple.
Back then, Lin Bai had been ordered to lead troops with Princess Chenxian and Chu Tinghan to reinforce the territory of the Seven Nights Divine Sect. Once he left Chu's territory, Lin Bai had lost the direct surveillance of Chu's Imperial Family.
That was what allowed the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace to take advantage of the opening and forcibly bring Lin Bai to Nine Underworlds City.
The Nine Underworlds Demon Palace had acted with astonishing speed. After capturing Lin Bai outside the Seven Nights Divine Sect, it had immediately used the "Space Node" to leap through space directly to Nine Underworlds City.
Of course.
Chu's Imperial Family must have reacted at the time. However, this place lay within the territory of the Seven Nights Divine Sect, and the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace had plotted for many years across this land. Although the experts of Chu's Imperial Family had wanted to provide aid, they had been powerless to do so.
When Lin Bai arrived in Nine Underworlds City, the higher-ups of the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace had openly and covertly informed him that their experts had already fought with the experts of Chu, and that Chu's experts had been defeated.
Thus, the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace had completely extinguished Lin Bai's hopes of waiting for Chu's Imperial Family to come rescue him. This was what had ultimately forced Lin Bai to join the Nine Underworlds Demon Palace for his own protection and become the Demon Palace's