The good news was that Yun Shan had finally been visited.
The bad news was that this person was not Protector Wu, whom he had dealt with before. He was even more arrogant and far harder to communicate with, openly displaying his contempt and disdain before Yun Shan.
Yun Shan was, after all, a peak Dou Emperor, yet this man did not take him seriously in the slightest. He treated him more like some other household's servant, someone to be summoned and dismissed at will.
After seeing Protector Zhu off, Yun Shan's fists hardened. He had never felt so stifled and humiliated.
Hatred—deep, overwhelming hatred! He hated himself, and he hated that Soul Hall, which hid its head and showed its tail while looking down on everyone else!
Protector Zhu had not come specifically to humiliate him. He had called that night merely to inquire about Protector Wu's whereabouts.
He had been in the Jia Ma Empire for several days without managing to meet up with Protector Wu, so he could only go to the Misty Cloud Sect. As far as he knew, Yun Shan was Protector Wu's target and the only person who had been in contact with him.
As for the Breakthrough Pill Yun Shan had repeatedly asked about, Protector Wu had promised it. What did it have to do with Zhu Hua?
That night, Yun Shan felt utterly wronged.
Two months later.
Inside a secret chamber in the Imperial Palace, the young man sat cross-legged atop a Lotus Platform. Vast amounts of World Energy continuously gathered around him, absorbed and refined, until at a certain moment, his entire body trembled and a powerful aura surged out from within him.
Chen Guan slowly steadied his breathing. Only after a long while did he open his eyes, which gleamed