The Capital.
At the end of Heavenly Street stood the magnificent, boundless Imperial Palace, shrouded in golden light.
Above the Ninefold Heavenly Palaces, the Dao Court Son of Heaven wore a twelve-emblem imperial robe. Purple qi surged around him, and Colorful Auspicious Clouds gathered overhead.
He gazed toward the Land God Temple and saw a pillar of light shoot into the sky, with a sacrificial text slowly burning within it.
Above the heavens, the wind and clouds immediately changed color!
Terrifying pressure descended. Thunderclouds churned, arcs of lightning converged, and formed an eye!
—The Eye of Heavenly Dao!
"It worked!"
A flash of delight swiftly crossed the Son of Heaven's face. "External Evil God, though I do not know which world you came from, or whether you descended from the Heavenly Court... Still... I may find it difficult to capture you, but the Heavenly Emperor is another matter."
Ever since that External Evil God had slain the Grand Tutor of the current dynasty, the Son of Heaven had known that the evil god's ferocious might was sky-shaking. It might well be a fierce god who had fled from the Heavenly Court!
Anything originating beyond this world was naturally an External Evil God!
Its divine rank might even surpass the Son of Heaven's!
As the saying went, a son of a wealthy family did not sit beneath a dangerously leaning hall. Naturally, he would not personally lead an expedition.
As it happened, he knew the reason the previous dynasty had fallen as clearly as the founding Grand Ancestor himself. After learning that the External Evil God had entered the capital, he had immediately devised this plan to lure the tiger from the mountain!
Once that External Evil God fell beneath the Heavenly Emperor's gaze, its fate went without saying.
It could