In the next instant, the young man in azure had already appeared in the plaza.
Though he looked utterly ordinary, everyone could identify him from the purple qi that had stretched thirty thousand miles earlier. Only an Emperor could produce such a phenomenon.
That purple qi had not been conjured up. Once an Emperor released his aura, heaven and earth naturally formed it. No one could imitate it.
Moreover, before today, they had all more or less seen his portrait. They naturally recognized him at a glance. The man before them was Martial Emperor Ye Xiwen, the Four Provinces Inspector overseeing the four provinces, including Human Province.
"Greetings, Martial Emperor!"
In an instant, a dense black mass of people knelt across the entire plaza. Before an Emperor, these great figures who ordinarily ruled their respective domains amounted to nothing at all.
"Greetings, Fellow Daoist Martial Emperor!" The Human Emperor and the old man in black robes also cupped their hands in salute.
"Human Emperor, there is no need for such ceremony!"
Ye Xiwen waved his hand. Naturally, he had seen the Human Emperor's portrait before, but he did not know the old man beside him.
"And this fellow Daoist is?"
Ye Xiwen asked directly.
"This old man is Feng Yi Shi," the refined old man said slowly.
"So it is Fellow Daoist Feng Yi Shi." Ye Xiwen cupped his hands. He recalled the information he had previously investigated about the current human race. The present Human Emperor was a disciple of the previous Human Emperor, the Emperor Sui, while Feng Yi Shi had also been one of the humans who had followed the Emperor Sui to the Creation God Dynasty in its early days. Though he had become an Emperor, he possessed no imperial title and simply called himself Feng