Meng Zhao vaguely felt that the Heavenly Demon Palace Lord's search for the Supreme Scepter might not have been for the purpose of gathering the Hundred Clans' strength for his own use. Or even if it was for his own use, it was certainly not simply to counterattack the human race and leave himself neither fish nor fowl.
As for his exact purpose and what secrets lay within, Zhao Rulíng did not know. Naturally, Meng Zhao knew even less.
With insufficient information, no matter how wildly his thoughts soared, it was difficult for him to deduce the Heavenly Demon Palace Lord's intentions.
However, this news also sparked Meng Zhao's interest and stirred up some thoughts, causing him to sink temporarily into his own reflections.
The Heavenly Demon Palace Lord of the Arctic Ice Plains was searching for the Supreme Scepter. Tong Lie, the Savage Tribesman from the Arctic Ice Plains, not only possessed a Special Physique but also understood the Dutian God Fiend Bronze Man Scripture, a supreme cultivation art created by Ying Zheng, the human race's Supreme Great Emperor of the Divine Land. The connections were quite close.
Perhaps the person behind Tong Lie was the Heavenly Demon Palace Lord. As for why he had come to the Land within Divine Continent Passes, that remained unknown for now. But had the Heavenly Demon Palace Lord also had a hand in Tong Lie's suppression of martial arts in the Northern Lands of the Divine Land?
Maybe yes, maybe no. But what if he had?
Meng Zhao even went a step further in his speculation. What if, after Northern Lands martial arts had been suppressed by Tong Lie until they could not rise again, the Heavenly Demon Palace Lord obtained the Supreme Scepter and, in the body of a human, united