Soon, before the bridal procession reached the Divine Tomb Sect, they too received the news.
"The Left and Right Tomb Kings, four Divine Ark Envoys, thirty-eight Dao Wardens, those elders of the Ancient Tomb Council, and hundreds of Sacred Dao Masters, among others-all of them are going? Three times as many people as we have?" Princess Yueji was dumbfounded when she heard the news.
"What are they playing at? Turning the tables on their hosts? What's the point? If they wanted Zi Zhen to be the principal wife and take the initiative themselves, they could have said so earlier! Now they aren't even providing a dowry, yet they're sending that many people to the wedding banquet? Are they sick in the head?" Consort Daoyin could hardly keep herself from cursing.
If the Divine Tomb Sect sent no one, they wanted to curse; now that it was sending too many, they wanted to curse even more. With practically all the sect's powerhouses turning out, they would have to bow their heads once they met. What the hell was the point of fetching the bride, then?
They still had to head to the An Clan afterward, and the procession would parade through the streets. When the people saw the imperial family organizing the wedding, yet meekly bowing and scraping within the bridal procession despite representing the principal wife, what would they think?
Both women were utterly speechless.
Soon, Consort Daoyin frowned and said, "Could the Divine Tomb Sect be blaming us for the successive incidents involving the Astral Mystique Branch and the Snowveil Branch, and planning to declare war on us right at the Destiny Palace? We'd be outnumbered then. We'd definitely suffer badly."
Princess Yueji also frowned. "Surely they wouldn't go that far? That doesn't add up! The Divine Tomb Sect's