After the Lord of Jiuli Nether submitted to the Immortal Court, he broke free of the shackles of the immortal path. Not only had he cultivated into a Spirit Immortal, he had also obtained the higher Heavenly Immortal fruition.
By relying on the method of admitting hundreds of millions of Soul Ghosts into his body, he could even forcibly raise his cultivation to a level comparable to a great Heavenly Immortal, his strength far surpassing that of ordinary Spirit Immortal realm experts!
The several seventh-rank Demon Soul Generals fighting the Lord of Jiuli Nether had their souls scattered time and again by his blows. Fortunately, when they advanced to the seventh rank and merged themselves with the Dao, they had imprinted their Great Dao upon the Soul Refining Banner. Even if both body and soul were utterly destroyed and they vanished from the world, so long as the Soul Refining Banner remained intact, Shen Mo could expend massive amounts of mana and heaven-and-earth spiritual energy to gather these Demon Soul Generals anew.
Relying on this trait, as well as their divine ability to transform into heart-demon tribulations, those seventh-rank Demon Soul Generals forcibly held back the Lord of Jiuli Nether, preventing him from aiding White Saint of the Yang Side in Shen Mo's battle against the latter!
Now that White Saint of the Yang Side had been cast into the Ghost Realm, the Lord of Jiuli Nether alone was no match for Shen Mo and was swiftly suppressed by him with overwhelming force.
His evil ghost possession art was broken, and hundreds of millions of Soul Ghosts and boundless ghost qi burst forth, falling back into Jiuli Mountain.
Afterward, Shen Mo forced the Lord of Jiuli Nether to swear a Dao oath, then planted layer upon layer of restrictions within