The Devil Lords had extracted the essence of the Nine Hells? Jiang Hao was stunned. How had they dared to do something so reckless?
The essence of the Underworld was like a plane's origin: its very core. Extracting it could, at best, cause a catastrophe. At worst, it could make the plane collapse into fragments scattered across the Outer Void.
The Nine Hells had been formed from the Evil Serpent and were extraordinarily powerful. They would not collapse even with their essence extracted, but they could not possibly escape unscathed. The Devil Lords who had harmed the Nine Hells would face a backlash from them, even with their status as Lords of the Underworld.
He knew "he" ought to know about this, so he kept his expression steady and smiled.
In the early days of the Blood War, many powerful beings had joined the fighting. Devil Lords and Demon Lords were common sights on the battlefield. There had even been occasions when several gods descended to purify Demons and Devils.
But after one Demon Lord had the misfortune of being killed by a newly born Demon, who then took his place as a new Demon Lord, the Demon Lords and Devil Lords tacitly began withdrawing from the Blood War Battlefield.
After all, killing other Demons on the Blood War Battlefield offered them only the slightest increase in power. Advancement for Devil Lords and Demon Lords depended far more on rising in status. They had joined the Blood War in person largely to savor the thrill of slaughter, but once they realized that pleasure could cost them their lives, they gave it up.
The gods had left the Blood War Battlefield too. They had discovered that absorbing the power of the Abyss and the Underworld corroded and corrupted their divine essence.