As the barefoot giant carrying a blood gourd stepped out of the spatial gate, Immortal Palace City first fell deathly silent. But in the next instant, countless cultivators erupted in cheers that surged straight into the clouds like mountains roaring and seas crashing.
"Blood Gourd Old Devil! He actually came back—heavens!"
"What, Fellow Daoist, do you know who this Spirit Transformation patriarch is?"
"Indeed. My family's patriarch once told me of this devil. Blood Gourd Old Devil was a rare Rogue Cultivator, with exceedingly high cultivation talent, but he was exceptionally savage and vicious. In the East Sea, he slaughtered hundreds of fellow cultivators in the Blood Sea and was hunted and besieged by countless enemies, nearly unable to remain in the East Sea cultivation world. Later, he received the protection of a magnate from the Heavenly Demon Alliance and joined the alliance, barely managing to survive. No one expected that this devil would break through to the Spirit Transformation realm within a mere three hundred years of life. A thousand years ago, he went to the Southern Demon Continent and vanished completely from the East Sea."
"Then the Heavenly Demon Alliance once did him a tremendous favor. It seems Blood Gourd Old Devil won't stand idly by."
"Magnates and elders of the Heavenly Demon Alliance, together with the East Sea cultivators, welcome Patriarch Blood Gourd's return to the East Sea cultivation world!"
On the Star Observation Platform, the elders and sect masters of the Heavenly Demon Alliance were also whispering among themselves, their faces overflowing with wild joy as they all bowed in welcome.
The elders of the Heavenly Dao Alliance looked at one another. Though they were equally delighted, the feeling in their hearts was inevitably somewhat bitter, and their expressions were complicated. The one who had returned