At the seat of honor, Great Elder Tantai Yuan finally spoke.
He slowly rose to his feet, his gaze complicated as he looked over the people of Nine Heavens Painting Palace before finally settling on Li Huatian. His voice was low.
"Saint Son Li, this matter... does indeed warrant further discussion."
Not long after the Barren Heaven Secret Treasure closed three years ago.
When Tantai Mingyue returned, the aura around her was already different.
It was not merely the change in aura brought about by a breakthrough in cultivation.
There were also traces of a subtle mingling at the level of her life origin...
Several elders had already vaguely guessed the truth.
At first, the Sacred Land had indeed been furious. The Saintess's reputation concerned the Sacred Land's dignity, and it also involved the marriage pact with Nine Heavens Painting Palace.
But as the investigation went deeper, they discovered that the man was Chu Jiang—the peerless heavenly pride who had swept aside his generation in the secret treasure and whom Heavenly God Academy regarded as the hope of the future.
Their anger gradually faded, replaced by complicated considerations.
If Chu Jiang had merely been an ordinary genius, the Sacred Land might have forcibly intervened, even secretly exerting pressure to end this relationship.
But the potential Chu Jiang displayed was far too terrifying. His talent was unmatched, his resolve decisive... every aspect foretold that if this man did not die, he would surely become a colossus in the future.
More importantly—
Tantai Mingyue's heart had already been completely bound to that man.
With her temperament, once she fell in love, it would be until death. Forcibly severing it would be tantamount to destroying her path.
Thus, the upper echelons of the Prison-Suppressing Sacred Land had fallen into a dilemma.
On one