With him in control of their Divine Positions, even if an alliance leader dies, he can forcibly maintain the lives of the members of the alliance. Therefore, thanks to all of the preparations he made, even if none of the alliance leaders succeeded in advancing and he failed to get one Rank 9 Dao Initiate from the 21 of them, he would still have 126 Rank 8 cultivators to show for his efforts.
Clearly, he had a lot of good things planned for himself and these divine beings. But for Heavenly Eye, nothing about what he was doing was good.
Her true body was far away from this place, but as the Dao Lord of the Rank 8 deceiver, she could sense that he was dying a little bit every moment.
"How odd," she said in confusion. "What could be killing him a little bit at a time?"
She sensed his Divine Positions dying every second or so. It was odd to her because if something was killing him, it should kill him instantly.
