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Blood Nether City, Karik Tavern, Courtyard 14.

At this moment, Andre was calmly preparing Soul Poison. Normally, God-level experts who cultivated the Death Law needed an extremely secluded environment to prepare Soul Poison or create Soul Gold Beads.

Naturally, this was also to prevent enemy interference during the process.

However, at Ailin's request, Andre worked only in an utterly ordinary room, while Ailin usually remained there to "observe."

Andre had been extremely nervous at first, but fortunately, aside from observing, Ailin did nothing else. Gradually, Andre relaxed and focused on preparing Soul Poison.

Ailin had no requirements regarding the type of Soul Poison he prepared, so Andre began with the most basic kind.

Though the auxiliary materials differ, the principle behind turning soul power into poison should be similar. Why does it keep failing?

Ailin had been watching Andre prepare Soul Poison for a month. During that month, he had completely sealed off Courtyard 14 and refused all visitors.

Meanwhile, his Death God Avatar had also been conducting "experiments" on the Brinia Plane. Yet even when following Andre's process, he still could not succeed.

He could vaguely sense where some of his problems lay, but it was as though a sheet of paper blocked the way, one he could not pierce no matter how hard he tried.

Ever since his Death God Avatar had reached the Mid-level God realm, this was the first time he had felt so close to becoming a High-God.

Yet the temptation of refining a Sovereign Spark had made him somewhat impatient.

After another failure, Ailin let out a soft breath and looked at Andre, sighing inwardly. I'm still too impatient. If breakthroughs were this easy, there wouldn't be so few High-Gods.

Still, compared to before, he had gained some direction. It was a good start.

At that moment, Ailin noticed Ek outside the courtyard and stopped observing Andre's preparation of Soul Poison.

After removing the courtyard's Magic Array, Ailin allowed Ek to enter.

"My lord."

After entering, Ek bowed and said directly, "I have purchased the Prefect's information."

He had actually obtained the information earlier, but the courtyard had remained "sealed," and he had not dared disturb Ailin. Thus, he had waited here the entire time.

"Oh? Let me see it."

Ailin's eyes brightened slightly.

"Yes."

Ek answered, then took a huge metal chest from his Space Ring. "My lord, all information concerning the Prefect is inside this chest."

What he had purchased was the most detailed information available. Besides several Floating Shadow recordings, it even included rumors related to the Prefect, including information about the Prefect's relatives, friends, acquaintances, and the like.

Naturally, some of those rumors could not be verified as true or false.

To purchase this most detailed dossier, he had spent a full hundred thousand Nether Stones. Fortunately, he had bought it through certain "channels." If he had purchased it from the Sovereign's Castle, this dossier would likely have cost ten or even a hundred times more.

After obtaining the information, Ailin did not continue observing Andre's preparation of Soul Poison. Instead, he returned to his room and began examining the materials.

Although he was no longer observing Andre prepare Soul Poison, Ailin's Death God Avatar continued preparing Soul Poison anew according to the process he had previously observed. He did not waste any cultivation time.

Andre could only be considered a fairly accomplished Death Law cultivator within Blood Nether City. If Ailin could not achieve a breakthrough through him, then seeking stronger Death Law experts would become almost necessary.

Therefore, before his Death God Avatar broke through, he still intended to Challenge the Prefect. Only by becoming a Prefect could he use a Prefect's authority to find more powerful experts who cultivated the Death Law.

Ailin took several recorded documents from the chest. They were not records on every Prefect in the Netherworld, so there was not much to examine.

"The Prefect of Blood Phantom Prefecture is a supreme expert who cultivates the Fire Law. She has been the Prefect of Blood Phantom Prefecture for countless years."

Ailin raised his brows slightly, his tone growing solemn. "No one has been able to shake her position as Prefect since she took office for countless years? Her strength truly is formidable."

In the Divine Planes, Prefects varied in strength. The powerful ones could rival Paragon High-Gods, while figures like Mosi were almost impossible to dislodge from their positions.

Furthermore, after countless years of challenges and replacements, even the weaker Prefects were likely not much weaker than Ailin was now.

Thus, Ailin naturally treated such a challenge seriously.

More importantly, in his view, most of these Prefects likely possessed several drops of Sovereign's Might. That was the most troublesome matter.

It was precisely because of this that he had not directly challenged the Prefect of Blood Phantom Prefecture. With his current strength, victory in a challenge against a Prefect was not guaranteed.

Ailin then took out another crystal sphere and sent his Divine Sense into it.

Though the dossier on the Prefect of Blood Phantom Prefecture was detailed, it contained only five Floating Shadow recordings of her battles.

When Ailin saw the scene inside the crystal sphere, he was slightly surprised. "The Prefect of Blood Phantom Prefecture is actually a woman?"

In the Divine Planes, there were fewer female God-level experts than male ones. Female Prefects were even rarer. Ailin had subconsciously assumed that the Prefect of Blood Phantom Prefecture was male.

Yet through this Floating Shadow, he learned that the Prefect of Blood Phantom Prefecture was a female High-God!

Still, this only surprised Ailin briefly before he resumed watching intently.

Before long, Ailin had finished watching all five Floating Shadows, and his brow furrowed slightly.

Of the five Floating Shadows, four were complete battle recordings, showing powerful experts challenging the Prefect of Blood Phantom Prefecture over countless years. The remaining one was incomplete and unclear, recorded from an extremely great distance. One could only infer that it might be the Prefect of Blood Phantom Prefecture based on the occasional outline of a figure and the law techniques used.

Among the four complete recordings, the weakest challenger had been a Seven-star Demon, while the strongest was likely already at the level of an Asura. Yet the strength displayed by the Prefect of Blood Phantom Prefecture was strange.

No matter which challenger she faced, she seemed to fight them evenly. She could kill some of the stronger challengers, yet sometimes allowed weaker ones to "escape."

It felt as though her strength was wildly inconsistent.

However, in the most recent challenge, involving the strongest of all challengers, the Prefect of Blood Phantom Prefecture had displayed terrifying strength. She killed her opponent with a single move. It was likely this challenge that had truly made others regard her as someone who could not be provoked.

This woman might be far stronger than anyone imagined.

In Ailin's view, there was a high chance that the Prefect of Blood Phantom Prefecture had concealed her strength in those earlier challenges and had never used her full power.

As for that incomplete recording, even Ailin could not determine whether the person in it was truly the Prefect of Blood Phantom Prefecture. It was too blurred, and one could only make a rough judgment based on the figure's build. Yet in the Divine Planes, one could alter one's appearance at will, so that could not be taken seriously.

The reason it had been included in this dossier was that the person also cultivated the Fire Law and possessed terrifying strength. During the battle, the person effortlessly tore apart space, creating horrifying spatial rifts.

There were only a limited number of supreme experts in the Netherworld with such strength. Coupled with the possibility that the person was also female, there was a great chance that she was the Prefect of Blood Phantom Prefecture.