Huolie's arrival marked the true beginning of Mietian and the others' plan!
In truth, the first time he met Jade Face, Huolie had wanted to show off. But Jade Face hadn't given him so much as a glance, and he had held a grudge ever since!
Then Huolie had gone to participate in Bai Zeyu's Prison Suppression Arena, only to be beaten so badly that even his mother wouldn't have recognized him.
In the end, if his father hadn't paid a fortune in treasures, whether he could have returned alive would have been another question altogether. When he passed through Seven Star City and saw that Jade Face could remain unsealed, his resentment had flared up again!
So after recovering his physical body and cultivation, the first thing Huolie wanted to do was find Jade Face and teach her a proper lesson!
And while he was at it, he could finish showing off.
But he had never imagined that his half-baked Demon-Subduing Sutra, while good enough against ordinary Heavenly Demons,
would leave him utterly outmatched against the unrestrained Jade-Faced God-Demon!
What was more, Mietian was also hiding in Seven Star City.
By then, Mietian had already reached the Microcosm Realm, and he had seized that idiot Huolie on the spot!
Mietian had then realized that this fellow could serve as an opening, helping them breach the Primordial Chaos Holy Land. So he had Jade Face use him to threaten that old bastard Huoyun directly!
Sure enough, Huoyun's only weakness in life was his son.
Seeing Huolie captured, he was bound to be as frantic as an ant on a hot pan, willing to agree to anything Mietian and the others demanded!
Coupled with the Microcosm Realm cultivation Mietian and Jade Face had displayed,
it had shaken Huoyun to his core,