Disguising themselves as demonfolk meant not only evading the scouts' eyes and ears in the physical world, but also obscuring cause and effect on the level of the Heavenly Dao. In the unseen workings of fate, this naturally brought the benefits of turning calamity into fortune and finding blessings in adversity. Otherwise, obstacles would beset them at every turn, making things as difficult as before.
In the Age of Declining Dharma, the Great Dao remained hidden and the Heavenly Dao was incomplete. Even those who cultivated to the heaven tier realm mostly focused on wielding spirit essence and the power of the laws. Some refined their bodies and primordial spirits or sought the essence of the origin, but they often scoffed at notions of causality and fortune that could neither be seen nor touched.
There was no other reason-the Dharma-Ending Age prized materialism, nothing more!
But apart from Lianshan and Guizang, most of them hailed from ancient times and knew something of the many hidden mysteries.
Naturally, they also understood the weight carried by those words from Yellow Venerable.
Throughout the following month of February, the demonfolk Great Emperor "Qiandaluo," whom Celestial Pivot had transformed into, and his trusted attendant "Bo Jian," whom Lianshan impersonated, began taking sweeping action across the Lower Hill Plain.
Though they called it sweeping action, from beginning to end, Lianshan alone appeared in public.
Under the name of "Bo Jian," a demon king and attendant to the Demon Emperor, he led Zhe Guduo's former subordinates against those who refused to submit, while dispatching demonfolk armies to wage war in all directions and cow the hundred tribes.
For an outsider powerhouse who had newly ascended the imperial throne, this was perfectly normal. Even if word spread, it would be regarded as nothing out of the ordinary.