"Hahahaha! That's right, it was me!" Dense demonic qi surged from Dragon Bone Demon Venerable. He was no longer merely a Demon Race Venerable—he was a full-fledged Demon Lord!
"No wonder. No wonder!" Source Blood Dao Venerable gave a bitter, despondent smile.
At this point, he understood everything.
He had been the one controlling the demonic forces in Northern Savage Province all along.
Those people under Qin Zhen had been a smokescreen from the very beginning.
Dragon Bone Demon Venerable had sent them to attack East Mountain Island on purpose, so Xuanjizi and his daughter could witness the "failed sacrifice" at the Heavenly Demon Altar alongside Lu Yang.
Originally, the last remaining Heavenly Demon Altar on the Nine Provinces Continent had always been under Eternal Heaven's close watch. Any hint of disturbance would have brought strict surveillance.
But the resurrection of Blood Soul Demon Lord had drawn almost all of Source Blood Dao Venerable's attention.
Both beings had been born from the blood-path origin of the Nine Provinces. Compassionate by nature, Source Blood Dao Venerable had always been tormented by the sins of his "twin brother."
He didn't want Blood Soul Demon Lord to rise again and wreak havoc on the world, so he had laid a thousand-year plan to send his brother away once more.
To fulfill that long-held wish, Source Blood Dao Venerable and the full strength of Eternal Heaven had focused almost entirely on the Divine Mountain and Abyssal Ground during that period.
And because the Heavenly Demon Altar beneath East Mountain Lake had previously suffered a "failed sacrifice," it gave people the false impression that the demonic path had been "crushed" and "nothing would happen here again anytime soon."
That blind spot—right beneath their noses—caused Source Blood Dao Venerable, who prided himself on leaving no stone