Amid a vast, sea-like aura at the peak of the Dao Realm, an elderly man with silver hair and a silver beard, bearing some resemblance to Gu Yan, appeared out of thin air in the center of the hall.
Duke of Xinning Prefecture Gu Yan, who had just been terrified out of his wits by Ye Zhen's Taiyin Divine Thunder and Chiyang Divine Thunder, was stricken with alarm at the sight of the old man.
"Forgive me for disturbing Grandfather's cultivation!" Gu Yan, the Duke of Xinning Prefecture, dropped to his knees on the spot.
Not only Gu Yan, but every member of the Gu Family knelt as well. The fighting came to an immediate halt.
The silver-haired elder swept his gaze across the hall and slowly nodded. "The ancestral battle armor was shattered. I thought another head of the Gu Family had died on the battlefield. Who would have thought it was merely a thief breaking into our home!"
As he spoke, the silver-haired elder shot Gu Yan a glare. "You lot are becoming more and more useless. You cannot even handle a petty thief who barged into a ducal residence. You are utterly disgracing me!"
Even as he spoke, a massive ebony hand abruptly extended from behind the silver-haired elder and seized at Ye Zhen.
Ye Zhen's expression changed in an instant.
The moment that ebony hand locked onto him, Ye Zhen felt as though the space around him had been torn away from this world.
Yet Ye Zhen did not panic.
With a nudge of his divine sense, the Bone-Adhering Poison Flame Bead suddenly appeared. A fire dragon wreathed in green flames roared as it lunged at the silver-haired elder!
But at that very moment, a deep Dragon Roar filled with mysterious power suddenly sounded from outside