High in the heavens beyond Azure Sea Lake!
Yanli, Venerable Blood Extremity, Jiao Xiu, and Yu Liuli from the Seven Mysteries Gate.
Four Fruit Status cultivators!
With Yu Liuli's declaration, the one backing Gu Changqing was revealed to be-
The Heavenly Devil Master!
Who would have imagined that an eighth-tier cultivator in Azure Sea Lake had ties to the Heavenly Devil Master?
Moreover, Yu Liuli had apparently come bearing the Devil Master's spoken decree. If Gu Changze and Gu Changqing fought today...
If the two fought to a draw, Gu Changqing would secure his position as Dragon Monarch. After all, he had the Devil Master's support.
Even if Gu Changze won, he would have to show the Devil Master some respect. The Fruit Status cultivators present could hardly intervene, and Gu Changqing would still be able to preserve his life.
However, by interfering in the affairs of Southern Shu's Demon Race, the Devil Master had rather overstepped his bounds.
But!
With the Heavenly Devil Master's current might, no one in Southern Shu dared utter so much as half a word of dissent.
Within the Seven Mysteries Demon Gate was another Fruit Status cultivator, the eldest disciple of the Devil Master's lineage.
His fruit status possessed the ability to listen in. If anyone dared voice dissatisfaction with the Devil Master, he would descend upon their sect and destroy their Dao lineage.
Back then, Southern Shu had been swept by bloody rain and foul winds. Even Dao lineages of the Demon Race had been destroyed, while the previous Demon Emperor could only stand by and watch.
Above all, the name Heavenly Devil Master had held Southern Shu beneath its weight for nearly three thousand years.
A thousand years earlier, Gongyang Yu of the Northern Region had fought an earth-shaking battle against the