The Heaven Punishing Bureau's might shook Southern Jambudvipa. It had three Bureau Lords, two divine officials, eighteen generals, and three thousand Heavenly Soldiers.
After its battle with Great Immortal Green Ox, the Heaven Punishing Bureau had suffered devastating losses.
The day before yesterday, grim news arrived: the life tablets of Shadow Brake's hidden divine general squad had all shattered. The entire unit had been wiped out.
What unsettled the Heaven Punishing Bureau even more was that the divine general squad had vanished without a sound.
With divine general positions vacant, the divine officials urgently selected seven Heavenly Soldiers and appointed them divine generals.
This was an exceedingly rare occurrence in the history of the Heaven Punishing Bureau.
In the past, whenever a new divine general rose to the position, it was an event watched by countless eyes, something that happened only once every dozen or even several dozen years.
This time, there had been seven in a single day.
As the old saying went, when the forest grew large, there would always be a few birds who thought themselves people.
Commonly known as birdmen.
Another old saying went: wherever there were people, there was the jianghu.
Among three people walking together, one must be my teacher.
Among seven people walking together, one was bound to be padding out the numbers.
Ao Zuling was precisely such a number-padder.
The Ao Clan was a great family of Heaven Punishing City. One of their ancestors had once been a divine general, but fair weather did not last; after that ancestor fell, the family declined.
After two or three generations, the family had passed into Ao Zuling's father's hands.
Father Ao was skilled at maneuvering. He had made himself a familiar face among several core figures of the Heaven Punishing Bureau, was generous with