When Dugu Bo arrived at the manor entrance, he happened to witness this scene.
His footsteps halted. He looked up at the planet behind that phantom and at the ten golden rings of light, his lips slightly parted and remaining that way for a long while.
He had flown here all the way, yet now he stood where he was without taking another step forward.
With his experience and breadth of knowledge, he had never seen ten soul rings, much less golden soul rings.
Xue Qinghe's carriage stopped at the manor entrance. She lifted the curtain and looked up, her gaze falling upon the phantom and the planet, unable to move away for a long time.
No emotion could be read from her expression, but the hand gripping the carriage curtain never lowered.
The three Education Committee members of Heaven Dou Royal Academy had arrived as well. The three of them stopped together outside the manor, none saying a word as they merely looked up at that sight.
The Minister of State Affairs and the Minister of Finance arrived one after another, equally silent.
Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing stood at the manor entrance and saw Sword Douluo standing at the front of the crowd.
Ning Rongrong quickly walked over. "Grandpa Jian, why are you here too?"
Sword Douluo lowered his head to glance at Ning Rongrong and gave a quiet "Mm." He did not enter the manor, merely standing at the entrance and gazing up at the enormous phantom for a long time.
The ten golden soul rings slowly rotated in the night sky, like an unseen doorway gradually being pushed open by a crack.
The light spilling from that crack was already enough to illuminate the sky.
The hundred-zhang phantom did not remain in the air for long—only