The next day, at noon, a beam of light suddenly pierced through the remaining mountains of Emei Prefecture and shot into the sky.
An incomparably vast and terrifying aura spread beyond Emei Prefecture, drawing everyone's attention.
Everyone turned to look toward where the light had appeared, but it swiftly faded and vanished, as though nothing had happened.
In a place unseen by others and beyond the reach of divine sense, Yang An raised his head and carefully sensed the changes brought about by attaining the fourth bodily transformation of the Crimson Wheel Infinite Body.
His entire body was now suffused with a faint glow. It was not dazzling, and his physique remained ordinary in size, without any major change.
Jiang Daozhan seemed somewhat unconvinced, yet when facing that voice, he still did not dare act too wantonly.
He understood what the Prefecture Lord meant.
"Why is that?"
"This junior brother was overthinking it. Please forgive me, Dao Brother."
Nearly three days had passed since he had executed Kunlun Prefecture's First Elder and Third Elder.
At the highest point of Kunlun Prefecture stood the Nine Heavens Palace above the Jade Pond. It was the supreme symbol of authority within Kunlun Prefecture, bearing the meaning of gathering the nine heavens beneath one's grasp.
Only after two quarters of an hour did a faint sound suddenly emerge from within the Nine Heavens Palace. In the next moment, the tall and majestic palace doors opened on their own.
"I know what to do."
If they could not reach a joint decision, they would ultimately seek instructions from the highest-cultivated person in the Immortal Mansion—the Supreme Elder, either a former Prefecture Lord who had stepped down or a Mountain Lord.
Yang An laid the matter bare in a single sentence, and Du Ze and the