After whispering among themselves for a moment, the group quickly vanished into the wilderness.
Blackstone Elder watched the direction in which they disappeared, a cold, conspiratorial smile curling at the corner of his mouth.
An hour later, just as Blackstone Elder was still making his calculations,
an incomparably majestic holy pressure descended over all of Blackstone Town like dark clouds pressing down upon the city.
The wheels of the Golden War Chariot rolled over the void. The Scale Armor of the four Kirin Beasts flowed with seven-colored halos beneath the sunlight, and every step they took stirred clouds across the sky. Their arrival was ten times more imposing than when they had descended upon Sin City last time.
At the center of the vast procession of War Chariots, the Divine Envoy sat within the chariot. The dragon and phoenix totems on its gilded walls seemed to tremble faintly with his fury, while the eyes hidden behind the hanging curtains locked onto Blackstone Town through the void.
Up ahead, a vanguard formation of fully three hundred armored soldiers treading through the air rode Redflame Horse Beasts. Their manes burned ever more fiercely, while the golden light kicked up by their hooves had condensed into tangible gold foil, dispersing into tiny runes the instant it struck the ground.
To the rear flank of the vanguard, the upper echelon of Sin City was also especially conspicuous, attending at their sides.
City Lord Hu Tiancheng wore a black-and-gold court robe embroidered with mysterious water patterns, with an inky jade token symbolizing the authority of the city lord hanging from his waist. Beside him stood every vice city lord, city patrol commander, and inspector, not one absent.
Most chilling of all was the Divine Envoy's core guard unit.
Ten guards clad in silver-white armor rode