The heavy hall doors slowly closed.
After the last attendant disappeared beyond the doors, Qing Chen lightly tapped his armrest.
Azure-black formation patterns lit up in succession around the hall, finally converging at the dome into a faintly visible Mystic Womb Demon Lotus.
Hum!
The formation sealed completely.
All sound from outside vanished with it. Even a Nascent Soul True Lord's divine sense could not penetrate this restriction.
Only then did Qing Chen lean back against the Black-Gold Throne, his expression much more relaxed than before.
"Within this hall, there is now no prince of Persia and no Northwestern Governor-General of Great Jin, only fellow disciples of the Origin-Initial Devil Sect."
"Second Prince, there is no need to stand on ceremony. Say whatever comes to mind."
Altai immediately felt a little closer to him.
With things put that way, he naturally stopped weighing every word as carefully as before.
"Since you wish to know, Deputy Branch Master, I shall begin with the arrangement of the branches."
"The Great Black Heaven Ancestral Court of the Origin-Initial Devil Sect currently has six branches: the Other-Transforming Heavenly Devil Branch, the Yellow Springs Devil Branch, the Primordial Magnetism Devil Branch, the Worship Fire Devil Branch, the Profound Yin Devil Branch, and the Rakshasa Devil Branch."
"All six branches have their own legacies, devil halls, main peaks, and branch-protecting grand formations. Unless a great sect war breaks out, or the Origin-Initial Heavenly Devil personally issues an order, the branches generally do not interfere much in one another's affairs."
Outwardly, Qing Chen merely nodded slightly, but inwardly, he had already committed these names firmly to memory.
The Six Branches were finally more than a vague notion.
Altai continued, "Among the Six Branches, there is a further distinction between the Upper Three Branches and the Lower Three