Bai Zichen was alarmed to realize that being on the mainland wasn't necessarily safe. It all depended on the price the Dragon Monarch was willing to pay.
When his desire for the Holy Beast Essence Blood outweighed his fear of the Human Race's Divinity Transformation Cultivators, the Dragon Monarch could easily conceal his cultivation, slip into Black Mountain, capture him in a lightning strike, and immediately return to the Outer Sea.
As long as he acted quickly, didn't cause too much of a stir, and didn't linger on the mainland, the Divinity Transformation Cultivators—sequestered in their Grotto Heaven Secret Realms to prolong their lives—might not even have time to react.
Bai Zichen was confident that even against the Dragon Monarch, he wouldn't be captured without a fight. He could certainly cause a massive disturbance.
But he wasn't about to entrust his safety entirely to the whims of a few Divinity Transformation old-timers.
