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You Hao had been reconnoitering in the Chaos Domain for information about Haotian before participating in the divine battles.
Had it been anyone else pressing for information so insistently in the Chaos Domain, suspicion surely would have been aroused. But with You Hao about to descend to the Lower Realm for battle, his curiosity about Haotian's whereabouts—whom had not returned since the last war—became more legitimate the more aggressively he inquired.
In the end, his persistent questioning actually yielded some information.
The Life Soul Lamp! If Haotian's Divine Status were shattered, or if he had completely perished, the Life Soul Lamp would have been extinguished.
But his Life Soul Lamp was still lit, albeit dimly, indicating that he must have been seriously injured; his current location, however, was unknown.
However, with his Divine Status subjected to the bans of the Heavenly Dao, he must currently be in the Divine Realm.