News this shocking naturally could not be concealed.
The highest circle of the Seventh Heaven, the "Seventh Heaven Alliance Assembly," consisted of representatives from the sects, great clans, and alliances that had Emperor Lords presiding over them.
It had no choice but to convene an emergency meeting of its senior members.
The meeting took place at the Heavenly Secret Divine Hall, suspended above the Sea of Ten Thousand Dharma Sources in the center of the Seventh Heaven.
This was the Seventh Heaven's public meeting place, protected by powerful restrictive seals,
which could block all prying from within and without.
Inside the magnificent main hall of the Divine Hall, dozens of figures with vast, majestic auras sat in orderly rows.
Some were old, others young; some were men, others women; some possessed the ethereal bearing of immortals, others exuded sinister demonic energy, and still others had solemn, dignified countenances. Yet without exception,
terrifying Dao resonance and the radiance of laws unique to the emperor lord realm flowed around them.
At a rough glance, nearly forty early emperor lord realm experts had gathered here!
This was almost seventy percent of the Seventh Heaven's publicly known Emperor Lord strength!
Those at the mid-stage Emperor Lord Realm or above resided in the Eighth Heaven and the Nine Heavens.
The early-stage Emperor Lord Realm was the pinnacle of combat strength in the Seventh Heaven!
The atmosphere was so heavy it seemed ready to drip water.
"Everyone," began the man presiding over the meeting, the current hall master of the Heavenly Secret Divine Hall, an old man in a star-patterned Daoist robe with an ancient, austere face,
whose cultivation stood at peak early emperor lord,
known as the Elder of Heavenly Secrets.
His voice was calm, yet carried a power that pierced straight into the heart.