Clear Tomb Cemetery, at sunset.
"Everyone, God's Throne has sealed the Inner Tomb and refuses to see anyone else."
The Bai family's Garrison Commander spoke politely to the young people before him.
Especially the one dressed in white.
"...This is the Patriarch's decision."
The Garrison Commander paused, then added tactfully, "Please don't make things difficult for us."
Bai Xiu, Chen Li, Gong Zi, and Mu Nan—those who usually visited Chunlai Temple—had gathered at the cemetery today. They had stood here for an entire day, from sunrise until nearly sunset. Given their status, there was nowhere in all of Nagano they could not go, yet they could not set foot inside this cemetery's Inner Tomb.
They had no intention of forcing their way in. After stating their purpose to the Garrison Commander, they simply stood there without moving.
The entire cemetery, the entirety of Nagano, was under Bai Zhu's control.
The moment they took their first step into the cemetery,
they had already been seen.
There had been no response from the Inner Tomb. This was already God's Throne's answer. Bai Zhu did not wish to see anyone here, including Bai Xiu.
"Let's go."
Chen Li tugged gently at Bai Xiu's clothes and said softly, "Little Xiu... don't keep standing here."
"God's Throne, I don't understand what you mean."
Bai Xiu did not move in the slightest. He stood at the foot of the Inner Tomb mountain, facing the vast mist. This was where he had first met Gu Shen. Yet the figure they had once gazed at from afar on the mountain had now vanished like smoke.
He stubbornly remained at the foot of the mountain, speaking to Fighting God's Throne through the Inner Tomb.
"Source Tower wanted God of Wine. You yielded."
"The Church of Storms poisoned living beings