Had it been anything else, Hou Ba would naturally have chosen to yield. But with an opportunity for Dao Verification laid before him, no matter how confident he was in himself, he still would not mind having one more chance of success.
After all, Hou Ba was only your follower and had no right to cultivate the Cold Abyss Divine Palace's secret arts. Thus, he had only one chance. If he failed, he would meet the end of body and Dao vanishing alike; he did not have the possibility of trying again like Han Liang.
You too wanted to find a solution that would satisfy both sides and locate another Prove the Dao Treasure. Yet such things were increasingly precious. Especially after Qinghe Heaven and Earth had advanced in rank, the better cultivation environment had lowered the difficulty of breaking through Bottlenecks considerably. The various major forces did not have many beings at the Peak True Immortal Realm, but accumulated across many eras, their numbers were not small either.
Among these people, those who originally had no hope of breaking through their Bottlenecks gained even a one-in-ten chance after the world's advancement, further intensifying the scarcity of Prove the Dao Treasures. Buying one within a short period had become far more difficult than before. You had people inquire for several million years, and only came across Ling Yunzhi's Death Intent Three-Colored Flower.
Speaking of Ling Yunzhi, you had him to thank for finding this Life Lotus Immortal Realm in the Western Territory, one that concealed a great treasure. Since you had seized his weakness, so long as Ling Yunzhi did not want the news to spread and reach Qin Huang's ears, causing Qin Huang to fly to the Western Territory and cut him down, he had no choice but to