Inside the Demon God Palace, Prophet Demon Master Ba Yan, who had returned looking like an ash head, was being sternly rebuked by the Demon God Palace's master, Prophet Demon Master Bayu.
"Junior Brother, what did I tell you before you left? When dealing with Ye Zhen, you had to be like a lion hunting rabbit and go all out. How could you..."
"Ah, even if you didn't take the words of me, your senior brother, seriously, surely you listened to Master's words?"
"Do you know that, all these years, Master has never hated anyone except this Ye Zhen?"
"All these years, this was the first time Master had directly ordered us, explicitly commanding that we must kill Ye Zhen!"
"Do you know that, leaving everyone else aside, Junior Brother Qi Hong, whom Master once regarded as capable of inheriting his position as Great Prophet—Junior Brother Qi Hong, who had already begun to grasp the Time Law—died miserably at Ye Zhen's hands? Do you know how much pain Master carries in his heart?"
"And yet you, not only did you fail the mission and suffer enormous losses among our elite, you even lost the Ancient Demon God She Wa you took with you. Her fate is unknown... Ah..."
Creation Realm Divine King Ba Yan, having been sprayed all over the face by Bayu's scolding, kept a dark expression. This time, he had lost face spectacularly.
Normally, although Senior Brother Bayu was the master of the Demon God Palace, he had no authority over him. The two were essentially equals, yet today, he had been scolded miserably.
All the reprimands he had escaped for the past thousand years had landed upon him today.
Prophet Demon Master Ba Yan hated it. It was all because of that bastard Ye Zhen that