Looking at the five-mile-long procession outside the relay station, the star priests of all ranks from the Ancestral God Hall, the Sky Priests, the Earth Priests holding ancient artifacts of every kind, and Princess Changle dressed in the formal robes of a hall master, Grand Divine Master Shou Hui was dumbfounded.
What exactly were they trying to do?
"Grand Divine Master Shou Hui, please step aside. This Princess has official business to conduct inside this relay station." Princess Changle's calm voice rang out, without the slightest trace of impatience.
Shou Hui froze again. With their arrival, the relay station before them had already been cleared out. Other than Ye Zhen, only personnel from the Heaven Temple and the Ministry of Justice of the Heavenly Patrol Division remained inside.
"Official business?"
"Your Highness, please explain," Shou Hui said.
"This Princess is the First Deputy Hall Master of the Barbarian Spirit Hall under the Ancestral God Hall. Today, under the orders of Chancellor Bai, the Chief Great Sun Priest, I have come to confer and appoint the Left Grand Chief Priest of our Barbarian Spirit Hall. Grand Divine Master Shou Hui, please open the way," Princess Changle announced.
"Th-then... who is this Left Grand Chief Priest?" Grand Divine Master Shou Hui had thought of a possibility, but still found it difficult to believe.
"Ye Zhen!"
The instant those two words left Princess Changle's lips, Grand Divine Master Shou Hui's pupils contracted, and his expression turned incomparably grave.
"Your Highness, do you know what this represents? Have you thought this appointment through?" Shou Hui barked.
Princess Changle raised the Barbarian Spirit Scepter high in her hand and shouted, "The conferral ceremony of our Ancestral God Hall is incomparably sacred. Anyone who dares obstruct it shall become an enemy our Ancestral God Hall will