Huo Shentong actually relaxed upon learning that Lu Yun had come to the chaos and allied with Qiu Luoyu to obtain the sixth dao palace.

“Heh, Qiu Luoyu, you can stay here forever now that you’ve come. You were lucky last time and got away, but this time with the four origin lands working together… you’re dead without a doubt unless you become a sovereign.”

But if he ascended, those from the six sacred palaces would come take him away and the otherkinds would lose their last remaining heavyweight.

When large numbers of connate demon gods betrayed the realms and swore fealty to the four origin sacred lands, those of the chaos hadn’t truly accepted them. They’d treated the connate demon gods as bait...