Cultivation begins in Qingfeng Market.

He hesitated for a moment, but still managed to have his main body send the message again through the soul connection.

This time, True Lord Qingyuan finally returned, but his message was very short, consisting of only a few sentences.

The first sentence: True Lord Xuanyang has gone to the Endless Demon Sea and will participate in the hunt for the young Hou.

The second sentence: Let Lin Zhao do it.

The third sentence: Anyway, the outcome won't change.

Lin Zhao frowned. What did that last sentence mean?

Anyway, the outcome won't change—does True Lord Qingyuan already know the final result?

He had previously suspected that True Monarch Qingyuan might have comprehended the rules of time, and now his suspicions had deepened.

That's it.

Do your own thing.

That person may be a bit unreliable in small matters, but is never ambiguous when it comes to important ones.

Letting him do it means there won't be any major danger.

Over the next few days, the three of them used their respective backing forces to gather intelligence on the Qingyu Clan while also verifying each other's cultivation levels and combat coordination.

Of course, there was plenty of casual conversation.

The secret disciples of the three dominant forces sat together, talking about secrets and gossip that ordinary cultivators would never have access to in their entire lives.

Bai Jing drank her blood wine, and once she started talking, she couldn't stop.

She said that a Nascent Soul elder of the Nine Nether Demon Sect cultivated Blood Luo Demon Qi and forcibly transformed himself into a cloud of blood mist, which he could never change back to.

The worst part is that he can't use fourth-tier magic weapons, so he became the lowest-ranking elder in the Nine Nether Demon Sect, specifically responsible for cleaning up the mess.

All the dirty and tiring work that no one in the sect wanted to do, dealing with out-of-control monsters, and cleaning up contaminated areas.

He was in charge of everything; a dignified Nascent Soul True Monarch had been reduced to a menial job for the Nine Nether Demon Sect.

Then she dropped an even bigger bombshell.

It is said that her master had an affair with a Nascent Soul Celestial Lord of the Heavenly Law Divine Sect.

At that time, neither of them were any big shots. Later, that person actually advanced to the Nascent Soul stage, and their old feelings rekindled. He even came to see her master several times.

After listening, Tianhao showed a very complicated expression on his face. In the end, he said nothing and just picked up his tea and took a sip.

Lin Zhao's expression became somewhat subtle.

The Heavenly Law Divine Sect—the sect with the most rules in the cultivation world—has been a mortal enemy of the Nine Nether Demon Sect and the Myriad Beasts Spirit Venerable Palace for countless years.

As it turns out, the Nascent Soul Heavenly Lord of the Heavenly Law Divine Sect had an affair with an elder of the Nine Nether Demon Sect, no wonder the Nine Nether Demon Sect could never be destroyed.

I've learned something new.

Tianhao put down his teacup, looked at Lin Zhao, and said calmly, "Your Yunhai Cangming Sect isn't much better."

The Supreme Elder of Biluo Palace, one of the five major Nascent Soul power forces in the Western Wilderness Continent.

Azure Heavenly Lord

She was born into the Yunhai Cangming Sect, but she betrayed the sect due to some events and established the Biluo Mansion in the Western Wilderness.

I heard that she and your sect's only Nascent Soul Heavenly Lord, Dao Yi Tian Lord, were a couple in their youth. Dao Yi Tian Lord played a significant role in her advancement to Nascent Soul.

Lin Zhao was dumbfounded.

What is Dao Tianjun's status in the Yunhai Cangming Sect? Who would dare to spread rumors about his romantic affairs in his youth, let alone someone like Biluo Tianjun who has already betrayed the sect?

This gossip is something absolutely no one in the sect would dare to spread.

Only in such circumstances, when the secret disciples of three different overlords gather together, can they hear this level of secrecy.

Bai Jing doesn't tolerate Tian Hao's behavior.

She slammed the bone gourd on the table and said coldly, "That Heavenly Law Divine Sect's Great Array of the Heavenly Divine Abyss is said to be invincible at the Nascent Soul stage—I wonder about the twelve fifth-tier celestial beasts that make up the array."

How many were captured from outside, and how many were transformed from disciples of the Heavenly Law Divine Sect itself?

Tianhao couldn't respond to this; he couldn't say it, it was inappropriate to say it, and he didn't want to say it.

The Great Array of the Divine Abyss of the Heavenly Laws Sect is one of the sect's most important secrets, and the origin of the twelve celestial beasts is the sect's top secret.

The so-called celestial beasts, like the Hou, are essentially manifestations of beings at the level of holy sons.

As for how they transformed into celestial beasts—that's a good question.

Seeing this, Lin Zhao spoke up to smooth things over.

He steered the conversation toward the Myriad Beasts Spirit Lord's Mansion, mentioning that he had met the Myriad Spirits Holy Son when he was in the Foundation Establishment stage—at the time, he thought the other party was powerful, but now, looking back, it seems that he was somewhat undeserving of the reputation.

Tianhao perked up and took over the conversation: "The Myriad Beasts Spirit Venerable's Mansion actually has two Holy Sons. The Myriad Spirits Holy Son, and the Spirit Venerable Holy Son."

The two parties are not of equal rank; they are in a subordinate-superior relationship.

The Holy Son of All Spirits is merely the one publicly acknowledged; the truly terrifying one is the rarely seen Holy Son of the Spirit Lord.

He paused for a moment, then said, "My Heavenly Law Divine Sect has three Holy Sons—Heavenly Law, Heavenly Punishment, and Heavenly Hao."

The previous generation of the Holy Son of All Spirits was killed by my senior brother, the Holy Son of Heavenly Punishment. This generation of the Holy Son of All Spirits has only recently taken the throne and is at the bottom of the rankings.

But the Holy Son of the Spirit Lord—”

Tianhao's tone turned serious, "Even the number one ranked Tianlu Saint Son of our sect is wary of him."

Bai Jing also became unusually serious and interjected, "In the history of the Nine Nether Demon Sect, many holy sons have also fallen into the hands of the Spirit Venerable Holy Son."

Not only us—historically, all the remaining dominant powers have had figures of saintly caliber die at his hands.

Lin Zhao silently memorized the name.

The fact that the Holy Sons of the various overlords are so wary of him suggests that the Holy Son of the Spirit Venerable is probably not just an ordinary prodigy; he likely possesses some kind of special inheritance.

Bai Jing drank too much wine, and her face flushed slightly. She became more and more unrestrained in her speech: "The Heavenly Law Divine Sect and the Cloud Sea Cangming Sect are no good. They are always scheming against my Nine Nether Demon Sect."

Our sect's first Demon Lord was killed by the schemes of the three first patriarchs of the Cangming Sect.

Lin Zhao was completely bewildered.

He really didn't know anything about the first patriarch of the Cangming Sect; the sect's records of the first patriarch were pitifully scarce.

Tianhao interrupted Bai Jing, his tone unusually serious: "Why don't you say that the so-called first Demon Lord wasn't from the Cangyuan Immortal Cultivation World at all, but came from the Demon Realm?"

In the end, it was only through the betrayal of two demon lords from the Nine Nether Demon Sect that he was knocked down, thus forming the present-day Western Demon Abyss.

During the process of the world's destruction and rebirth in the previous era, the first patriarchs of various sects, in order to survive the great calamity,

In this process, a great deal of external power was borrowed, including a demonic lord at the peak of the Void Returning Realm, known as the Nine Nether Demon Lord, who was brought in from the Demon Realm.

Although the first generation of grandmasters broke through the limitations of the Nascent Soul stage and advanced to the Void Returning stage during the special period of world annihilation,

However, he was still no match for the Nine Nether Demon Lord, who was at the peak of the Returning to the Void realm. He was defeated and forced to retreat. Most of the Cangyuan cultivation world fell into his hands, and countless cultivators were led astray into the demonic path.

In the end, the two demon lords who originated from the human realm "abandoned darkness and embraced the light."

Only then did they reverse the tide of the battle, and the two demon lords made great contributions, establishing the later Nine Nether Demon Sect.

Bai Jing scoffed at his version and slammed the gourd down on the table: "You underestimate him too much, thinking that a mere backstab can defeat the Nine Nether Demon Lord."

The Nine Nether Demon Lord seized a large amount of the world's origin during that great calamity, and has already broken through the Void Returning stage and advanced to the Dao Integration stage.

He even successfully created a demonic world and became a true master of the Dao.