A million miles south of Heavenly Wave Lake, above a rolling stretch of hills, a magnificent golden palace floated in silence.
Countless streaks of escaping light converged on it from every direction, constantly entering and leaving the palace, making the place look exceedingly busy.
This golden palace was also known as the External Affairs Hall, and it was responsible for managing the vast majority of external affairs related to the Zhao Clan.
As one of the ten halls of the Zhao Clan, the External Affairs Hall held no low status within the family. Even the lowest-ranking attendant position there had countless Zhao clan cultivators flocking to it like ducks to water.
Because the External Affairs Hall was not only lofty in status and heavy in authority, it had always been famed for its ample "oil and water." However, positions in the External Affairs Hall were limited, while countless clan cultivators outside fought over each opening, so entering the External Affairs Hall was almost harder than climbing to the heavens.
At this moment, inside an ancient hall in the deepest part of the External Affairs Hall, Hall Master Zhao Tianyi sat high upon a ritual platform as one light screen after another appeared in succession.
Densely packed words poured down the light screens like waterfalls, all of them urgent and important matters one after another.
Strands of divine light blossomed from Zhao Tianyi's brow, and his divine sense astonishingly split into thousands upon thousands of thoughts that plunged into every light screen, handling hundreds and thousands of affairs at the same time.
He processed them extremely quickly. Often, after a short while, a light screen would quietly vanish, but soon a new one would be born.
Zhao Tianyi had served as hall master of the External Affairs Hall for nearly a