However, Xia Chujian then thought of the Tantai Imperial Family and the so-called Great Terror deep beneath the Imperial Capital's Imperial Palace...
She pondered deeply. "Could there still be a Road Guide beneath the Imperial Palace?"
Huo Yushen was reminded of it and frowned. "It's not impossible."
What they did not know was that when Broud's Phantom and Broud's True Form were simultaneously taken out by Xia Chujian, a violent energy fluctuation suddenly appeared beneath the Imperial Palace on Beichen Star of the Beichen Empire.
The ground throughout the entire Imperial Palace churned. Palace buildings collapsed one after another, with only a few exceptionally sturdy palaces remaining intact.
Strangely, the ground surrounding the Imperial Palace showed no change whatsoever.
It was as if this earthquake had shaken only the Imperial Palace?!
For a time, all the Ground Forces in Beichen Star Imperial City, the Disciplinary Department staff, all the Imperial Palace guards, and the Shadow Guards were mobilized to begin rescue efforts within the Imperial Palace.
Empress Tantai Zijun had been in a meeting with the Military Department's Chiefs of Staff.
The palace where she was located was among the particularly sturdy ones and had not collapsed.
But they had all felt the violent tremors beneath their feet. They crowded around the Empress and escorted her out of the Imperial Palace to the square outside.
When she saw ancient palaces that had stood for ten thousand years collapsing one after another, and the Imperial Palace—once filled with birdsong and blossoms, like a heavenly paradise—now engulfed in smoke and dust like the end of the world, her eyes immediately reddened.
"What happened?!"
"Everything was fine! Why did an earthquake suddenly happen?!"
"Investigate it!"
Tantai Zijun let out an angry roar.
Then, a consciousness suddenly appeared in her mind and communicated with