After establishing the Demon Race and riding the tide of its merit to sever their corpses and attain Quasi-Sainthood, Di Jun and Tai Yi were free of the gloom that had weighed on them. With two Quasi-Saints—both wielders of Innate Supreme Treasures—the Demon Race was now unquestionably among the Primordial World's top powers.
Tai Yi had still been brooding over his defeat at East King Duke's hands. Now, though, he was brimming with confidence, eager to defeat Supreme Yang Dao Lord and wipe away the humiliation he had suffered.
East King Duke's failure to sever his Good Corpse and attain Quasi-Sainthood seemed to give everyone—especially the newly ascended Quasi-Saints—the illusion that they could push him around. Only when the first person wound up badly beaten did they realize that Supreme Yang Dao Lord was already on another level.
If Ancestor Dragon, who guarded the Sea Eye of the Four Seas, and the long-destroyed Luohu Clone had been there, they would surely have told them, "We all thought the same thing back then."
Among the current Quasi-Saints, Taiqing Laozi and Daoist Jieyin had severed their corpses right there in Purple Heavens Palace through their own insights. They were naturally the strongest, worthy of being the Innate Divine Demons with the highest Nascent Soul grade.
Queen Mother of the West and the two from the Demon Race, however, had relied to some extent on fortune and merit. Though the spirit treasures they used to sever their corpses were all supreme treasures, their Good Corpses were still somewhat weaker than those of Taiqing and Jieyin.
After the second lecture, the three thousand Mortal Guests returned to their respective abodes, each seeking the chance to sever a corpse and attain Quasi-Sainthood. Several of the top Innate Divine Demons had both the cultivation and the