At the Twelve Emperors' place, they flew back to the Daoist Secret Realm, the Imperial Mausoleum Ancestral Land.
The war in the Outer Realm had entered a stalemate phase.
While inside the realm, Tao Qian's situation grew increasingly dangerous.
If not for Zhang Jinluan and Si Xixin, these two individuals refraining from openly stabbing him in the back, Tao Qian would probably have perished by now.
Even so, he couldn't hold out much longer.
The Forbidden Law Barrier that originally enveloped six provinces had been forcibly seized, with one province lost.
One would think that faced with such a situation, nearly a situation of certain death, Master Tao should be quite panicked.
He should surely have lost his composure, at least a bit.
But curiously, that was not the case.
