Frankly speaking, if that Demon Child had not been so unlucky as to choose Nangong Jinghe as his first target, then among the prodigies on the second page of the Gold Ranking, at least two would have fallen to his poisonous hand.
They might not necessarily have died, but being severely wounded and having their Dao ruined would have been all but certain.
Had he truly succeeded, who knew what chaos might have erupted among the great sects of the Central Region of Canglan.
After this man returned to Demon Soil to report back, Bai Di changed his strategy accordingly. He abandoned such exceedingly risky assassination operations and instead fully activated the various death warriors he had cultivated over many years. Through all manner of channels, he sent them into the territory of the Canglan Righteous Path in batches and began a large-scale infiltration.
These Demonic Dao death warriors were not necessarily particularly powerful. Some were even several decades old and still possessed only Qi Gathering Mid-stage cultivation.
Yet their loyalty to Bai Di, the Demonic Path Young Master, was extraordinarily high. Like the three men Yang Yuanzhao had slain, they would rather die than reveal a single scrap of information.
Even if Yang Yuanzhao had not acted then, they would have taken their own lives to end themselves.
Beyond these demonic cultivators newly dispatched into Righteous Path territory, Bai Di had also planted quite a few hidden operatives within the Righteous Path over the past century.
With these people acting as insiders, the demonic cultivators entering Righteous Path lands to sow disorder could receive far greater assistance in their actions.
Since this was a full-scale infiltration of the Righteous Path, the other three borderlands naturally would not be spared aside from the Central Region of Canglan.
As the old