Inside the innermost conference room of the Peace Hotel.
The heads and acting heads of the Four Divine Beast Spirit Clans all turned toward the black-robed figure—their so-called Lord Gongsun.
Lord Gongsun's background was extraordinary. In terms of status, he was even somewhat higher than them, despite their positions as the heads of the Four Spirit Clans.
As for his strength... It was said that he was the most powerful and outstanding genius the Gongsun Clan had produced in a thousand years. He also possessed a trace of the Yellow Emperor's ancestral bloodline and was an unparalleled prodigy capable of wielding a sliver of sword energy from the Xuanyuan Sword, one of the divine weapons of the Nine Provinces.
Those outside Xuanyuan Palace knew little about what went on inside... They did not know that the Gongsun Clan prodigy before them had long since been dealt with internally.
Gongsun Shiyu.
Because of Gongsun Shiyu's collusion with Lai Caisheng during the Mount Tai Incident, Xuanyuan Palace had long ago sent the contemporary head of the Gongsun Clan into the Cold Pool for punishment.
As for the true culprit, Gongsun Shiyu, Gui Qianyi, the leader of the Kun Department, had personally witnessed his death at Mount Tai. There was no way to pursue the matter any further.
What no one throughout Xuanyuan Palace knew, however, was that the Gongsun Shiyu who had died in the Mount Tai spiritual-energy rift was merely a clone created through genetic technology by the real Gongsun Shiyu to cultivate the Yellow Emperor's bloodline.
Gongsun Shiyu's true identity was, astonishingly, the Seat of the Sun of Michael's Club—a mysterious and low-profile organization lurking in the shadows of the world.
"On this trip, you need to prevent the Summit Conference from being held successfully." The black-robed figure spoke