The two sides met, and the winds rose as clouds surged.
With a single sweep of his gaze, Li Tianming took in Lin Xiaoxiao, Bai Shijiu, Blooddrop, Gong Wu, Gong Liu, the ten women of the Female Rites Palace, Sidao Wuhen, Yin Zhan, Kang Yaoyao, and the rest.
And, of course, there was the Sixteenth Prince standing at the center beside Bai Shijiu, clad in a black robe as deep as an abyss.
This was Li Tianming's first time seeing him.
Yet it might not have been the Sixteenth Prince's first time seeing Li Tianming. After all, Li Tianming had risen to fame in the Hunyuan Domain some time ago, and recordings of his battles were everywhere.
At the moment of their encounter, both sides sized each other up. The yellow sandstorm roared too loudly for anyone to speak, and the atmosphere was grave.
However!
"Judging by the expressions of their core members, they aren't surprised we came," Fengting Linwan said with a frown.
"Not merely unsurprised. They even seem... to be looking forward to it. That means they've been waiting for us all along," Li Tianming said calmly.
"So that means the Sixteenth Prince agreed to stand up for Gong Wu and the others?" Fengting Linwan asked, slightly tense.
It couldn't be helped. Standing opposite her was an exalted existence within Yu Ruins, a Reverse Fate Realm cultivator. To her, who had only just reached the twelfth-level Annihilation Realm, the Sixteenth Prince was a being in the heavens while she was still trudging across the earth, able only to look up at him.
This lofty reverence for the Reverse Fate Realm, rooted deep in one's bones, had been written into tens of thousands of years of experience and carved into the depths of the soul. It was difficult to