You don't want your secret to be revealed by others, right?

In the Innate White Bone Mountain.

In a dimly lit space, Lin Yue was seated cross-legged. The invisible might of the entire Innate White Bone Mountain concentrated on him, rendering him immobile.

Such oppression was intense, so much so that even the strongest Great Cultivator of the Eighth Layer at Tianxia Building couldn't resist even a bit.

However, for Lin Yue, this sense of pressure was meaningless; it could barely bind beings who had reached the Saint level, to him it was like a light breeze brushing his face.

The Innate White Bone Mountain was notorious merely by its reputation, but fame didn't always equate to power.

"Rushing to one's own lair? It seems the Twelfth Prince might indeed come."

Although Lin Yue was imprisoned within the Innate White Bone Mountain, the Ultimate Path derived from the mountain could penetrate the void, allowing him to see the outside world.

The Innate White Bone Mountain could be used both to suppress and imprison or as a warship-like Magic Treasure.

At that moment, the Demon Lord was piloting the Innate White Bone Mountain towards the Far East, evidently heading back to the White Bone Palace.

Given the Demon Lord's timidity, he naturally wouldn't dare to kill him. At most, he would confine him for a few days, not daring to truly punish him severely. However, taking him back to the lair for imprisonment changed the nature of the act.

A direct disciple of the Main Hall Master of the Ancestor Hall, a Seventeenth Prince of the Xiahong clan, being taken by another power to their lair for imprisonment involved the face of the Imperial Family and the Ancestor Hall.

Even if the Main Hall Master was unlikely to lower himself to strike at the Demon Lord, and would not directly intervene in the affairs of heaven and earth, the Demon Lord wouldn't dare to bet on whether the Main Hall Master would take action. Wasn't this directly offending someone?

Unless... it was the intent of the Twelfth Prince.

The Demon Lord feared the Main Hall Master and the Xiahong clan, but the Twelfth Prince did not.

The Twelfth Prince was also a prince, backed by the Third Prince.

"Everything is going according to plan."

Lin Yue sat cross-legged in the dim light, recalling the secrets between the Demon Lord and the Twelfth Prince, "As long as the Demon Lord is eliminated first, there is enough assurance to kill the Twelfth Prince."

...

After a while.

The Innate White Bone Mountain quietly settled on the top of the White Bone Palace, and then, one by one, the bones disassembled themselves and then reassembled, forming a bone prison.

Within this prison, Lin Yue sat cross-legged.

Daylight sifted through the gaps in the prison, and Lin Yue slowly opened his eyes, calmly scanning his surroundings.

"It must be your first time being a prisoner under the steps."

The Demon Lord stood outside the cage, smiling, "But Your Highness can rest assured. Stay quietly here for seven days, and I will let you go."

Lin Yue glanced at him and said lightly, "So this is White Bone City? It's a bit different from what I expected."

"What did Your Highness expect this place to be?" the Demon Lord asked with a smile.

"A city of decayed corpses and a forest of skeletons?" Lin Yue casually said, "Isn't this the largest gathering place of the White Bone Demon Path?"

The Demon Lord slowly shook his head and said, "I thought Your Highness, as a such a peerless genius, might have different notions from ordinary people. It's unexpected that you are also bound by worldly views, conforming to convention... Have you not thought that those of the Demon Path are also human, and how could they enjoy living among rotting corpses?"

Lin Yue looked at him, indifferently saying, "I also dislike conventional prejudices and baseless rumors, but what your White Bone Demon Path has done isn't just baseless rumors; rather, it is fact."

With his status, finding out the truth was a simple matter.

During his travels in the Human World over the years, he had witnessed these with his own eyes.

"Acts of the White Bone Demon Path?"

The Demon Lord looked at him, countering, "What are you referring to? What have we done?"

Lin Yue, expressionless, did not respond to such pointless talk.

The Demon Lord didn't mind and simply smiled, stating, "Some say that when a person dies, they lose everything, but as these old bones get closer to death, I understand more clearly that death is but a part of life. Everything grows from death, where there is life, there will be death. The White Bone Demon Path I created, and the Demon Ancestor of the Yellow Springs who created the Yellow Springs Demon Path, are both seeking the meaning of death. What is wrong with that?"

"So that's your reason for turning the living into the dead?" Lin Yue said flatly.

"Buddha Ancestor once said, 'All life is suffering'," the Demon Lord replied with a smile, "Does Your Highness know about reincarnation? My White Bone Demon Path has a rule, the living we select are all those who suffer and are lowly, and this is also giving them a chance to start over."

Lin Yue was rendered speechlessly amused and shook his head, "People of the Demon Path truly have a unique way of thinking."

The Demon Lord asked, "Your Highness is the head of the Tantian Sect and also one of our kind in the Demon Path, do you look down upon the Demon Path?"

"It has nothing to do with the Demon Path; it's just that I find your White Bone Demon Path disagreeable," Lin Yue calmly replied.

"That's good," the Demon Lord nodded with a smile and asked, "Today we have some grievances, after Your Highness becomes a Sealing King in the future, will you seek revenge?"

"Of course not," Lin Yue shook his head slightly.

"Oh?"

The Demon Lord raised an eyebrow and asked, "Is Your Highness saying such pleasing words just to make me release you?"

"You misunderstand," Lin Yue's lips curled into a mocking smile, "My intention is... whether or not there is today's grievance, I will have the White Bone Demon Path destroyed, not just because I find it disagreeable, but also because you are too closely allied with the Twelfth Prince."

The Demon Lord narrowed his eyes, fixing his gaze on Lin Yue.

After a long while, he shook his head and said, "Your Highness has a big appetite, not yet Harmonized nor Sealing King, but you speak of destroying my White Bone Demon Path. I, this old and decaying person, may not compare to Your Highness in the future, but Your Highness is currently just a Great Cultivator, don't you fear dying before achieving your goal?"