The blazing sunlight flickered like flames. Within the lavish palace, a crimson divine bird—a Golden Crow—hung suspended beneath the palace roof.
Divine flames radiated from him, their searing heat filling the entire hall. Even space itself seemed to twist slightly beneath the blazing temperature.
Upon hearing the report, the Golden Crow hovering above the palace slowly opened his eyes.
Then, the divine flames around him withdrew. He transformed into a young man clad in a crimson robe and descended from the sky.
With red hair and crimson eyes, the young man possessed an unusual handsomeness.
His crimson eyes brimmed with arrogance. When his gaze lightly fell upon the person delivering the report, that person's entire body trembled.
"Who was it?"
His calm voice emerged, and as his words carried through the hall, they seemed to stir a certain mysterious aura, adding the unique radiance of Dao resonance to the palace.
Clearly, he had already become a True Immortal. Only within the great realm of True Immortals could one trigger such a phenomenon.
He was none other than the one whom the Golden Crow Clan called the Crown Prince—the Imperial Seed of the Golden Crow Clan of Qiong Province, Wu Qi, the sole such figure in the entire Blazing Sun Divine Palace.
"Reporting to the Crown Prince, it was Xu Yan, the only outsider among the many candidates, who ascended from the Lower Realm."
The person kneeling on the ground immediately replied.
Divine flames flickered within Wu Qi's crimson eyes, as though he were recalling something.
"Hehe... Those Heavenly Maidens who thought so highly of themselves were ultimately suppressed by an outsider? A bloodline born amid an environment like the Upper Realm is actually less pure than that of someone from the Lower Realm."
"As far as I know, that girl