The cause of all this lay in the information the First Yama King and the other three had concealed.
They had hidden Li Qing's ability to slip silently into the Hell Mountain grotto-heaven. That had led Yuan Zhihui to a grave misjudgment.
And that was precisely what Li Qing intended to exploit!
He knew that once Yuan Zhihui realized he had summoned a Battle Soul Puppet, he would calculate and consider his next move.
But what the Ghost Path cultivators had concealed would inevitably lead Yuan Zhihui to the wrong conclusion.
Every part of it was unfolding just as Li Qing had foreseen.
Li Qing's Divine Body stood beneath a desolate mountain peak of the Demonic Path, gazing at the cluster of palaces with a thoughtful look in his eyes.
"Every Immortal Realm cultivator has left a hidden weapon at the seat of their Dao Lineage."
"Last time, my appearance during the Ghost Path battle was rather sudden. I'd only gone there to seize the Primordial Dharma Form, so I paid little attention to that hidden weapon."
"This time, my goal is to kill every Tribulation Realm cultivator of the Demonic Path. I won't spare the Ghost Path cultivators either."
"I have to eliminate the hidden weapon left by the Demonic Path's Immortal Realm cultivator ahead of time. Otherwise, it will interfere with my plan."
Li Qing pondered, a trace of deliberation in his eyes.
"But that hidden weapon is most likely inside the grotto-heaven. Getting in won't be so simple."
"Without using a Battle Soul Puppet, I can only probe it first."
By then, the Divine Body's duplicate had shrunk to the size of a bean under the Size as Desired spell.
The duplicate silently appeared at the summit of the Demonic Path headquarters.
There stood an incomparably sinister