Unfathomable

Chen Shi gripped the handle of the divine face axe and halberd, but felt not the slightest joy in executing an enemy, feeling instead that the axe and halberd in his hand were chillingly cold.

To bear the imperial authority token meant holding the sovereign's majestic authority in the provinces, possessing the power to execute rebel generals.

Holding this axe and halberd on behalf of the Great Heavenly Venerate to execute the Great White Star Lord was exercising the power of the imperial authority token, which could be called awe-inspiring and majestic. Even though the Great White Star Lord was the son of the White Emperor and a Daluo Golden Immortal, a single stroke of the axe had brought him down.

Yet the guiding force behind the execution of the Great White Star Lord was not Chen Shi at all.

It was the Great Heavenly Venerate, using Chen Shi's hand to strike down the Great White Star Lord!

Chen Shi lacked the cultivation base to urge the divine face axe and halberd, nor did he have the power to execute the Great White Star Lord.

He had not exercised official authority.

The one exercising authority was still the Great Heavenly Venerate.

It stood to reason that the Great Heavenly Venerate had long suspected the Great White Star Lord, which was why he had stripped him of his actual power as the Martial God, bestowed upon him the title of an idle civilian official, and kept him by his side to monitor his every move.

Sending the Great White Star Lord to Golden Ao Island this time was likely also a probe by the Great Heavenly Venerate. The Great Heavenly Venerate knew of the enmity between the Great White Star Lord and Master Chen's lineage, so the Great White Star Lord