The disappearance of the second Dead Devil Lands was like a flame setting hidden fuses alight.
One invisible fuse after another slowly burned.
One piece of news after another spread among the upper echelons of the major powers.
The heads of the five Devil Sects held a secret meeting at Devil-Transforming Mountain, their first in many years.
No one leaked the contents of the sect head meeting.
A day later, most of the elders from the five Devil Sects gathered at Devil-Transforming Mountain for an elders' meeting attended by both sect heads and elders.
Afterward, some vague news leaked out.
Regarding the disappearance of the Dead Devil Lands, the Devil Sects felt more terror and shock than anger, but they still leaned toward preventing the Dead Devil Lands from vanishing.
The establishment of the Devil Alliance accelerated once again, and fewer and fewer voices opposed it.
The Devil Sect armies began expanding their recruitment.
On the day after the Devil Sect elders' meeting, the Four Great Academies, the Martial Dao Heavenly Pillar, Dao Sect leaders, the Fate Sect alliance, and many other forces held meetings in batches.
Within days, all sorts of rumors spread across the realm.
Everyone had tacitly agreed not to mention Li Qingxian.
The righteous factions feared praising Li Qingxian too excessively would kill him with praise, while the evil factions did not want to expand Li Qingxian's good reputation.
Even though both sides were certain that the disappearance of the two Dead Devil Lands had been Li Qingxian's handiwork.
Heaven's Mandate Sect.
Duan Tianji returned to Heaven's Mandate Sect alone, his face grave.
"Elders, the Dead Devil Lands involve too much. The mountain rain is about to come."
Everyone nodded heavily.
"I observed the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda for many days and discovered a very serious problem. The