For Ancestor Minghe and Old Ancestor Kunpeng,
they were willing to stake their fortunes on Di Jun.
They could even be said to have shoved everything onto the table in one all-in bet!
After all, no matter how anyone explained it, one fact could not be changed about Di Jun, Minghe, and Old Ancestor Kunpeng.
The three of them were newly risen Sages.
And unlike the Northern Yin Son of Heaven, who had likewise become a Sage through the Ghost Path,
they faced a deeply awkward problem.
They had no powerful backing.
Ancestor Minghe truly was a lone commander without an army. He himself was the biggest boss in the Netherworld Blood Sea.
Striking out on his own sounded impressive, but among the newly risen Sages,
he was clearly being subtly shut out.
That was because Ancestor Minghe himself only possessed the strength of an early-stage hunyuan taiji daluo golden immortal.
In the eyes of many veteran Sages of the Heavenly Dao, they could take on two "newborns" like Sage Minghe at once!
And beneath the Demon Path's outward splendor lay its own untold bitterness.
First, there was Nuwa.
She had originally been the Demon Tribe's Empress Wa.
But after she became a Sage, because she had created the Human Race,
both the Heavenly Dao's faction and the world's faction had assigned her directly to the Human Path.
This was plain to see.
Some ordinary members of the Demon Tribe in the Primordial World had once refused to believe it. They thought the Human Race was, after all, food Empress Nuwa had created for them.
And so, those demons who slaughtered humans in great numbers discovered
that they had actually incurred Empress Nuwa's displeasure!
Then, during the War of the Witch and Demon Tribes, when the final battle was already