Within the Luoyi Imperial Palace, as the smile on the face of that supreme figure—the Benevolent Sovereign Ji Long—grew ever more frequent, the dark clouds that had hung over the Luoyi Imperial Palace for days finally dispersed.
This meant that many palace attendants and maids no longer hurried about with their heads lowered, terrified that a single small mistake would cost them their lives.
The dark clouds above the Luoyi Imperial Palace had dispersed, but they now gathered over the incomparably mysterious Ancestral God Hall.
In recent days, rumors that the Ancestral God Hall was replacing its Grand Priest had spread like wildfire. Yet ever since Grand Priest Bai Xiang returned from that day's grand court assembly, he had shut himself away and received no visitors.
What made the people of the various halls within the Ancestral God Hall even more uneasy was that the Grand Authority Priests had all become busier than ever lately. They could never be found, and even when they were occasionally seen, they were always hurrying along.
There were even rumors that, by imperial decree, the Ancestral God Hall had already convened a Grand Authority Priest meeting to appoint and dismiss the Grand Priest.
The result of the meeting had already been decided; it simply had not yet been announced.
According to the rules of the Ancestral God Hall, the candidate for the new Grand Priest would be decided at the Grand Authority Priest meeting. But once a candidate had been chosen, the matter had to be reported to the Holy Son of Heaven of Great Zhou.
Only after the Holy Son of Heaven of Great Zhou added his imperial approval with his brush, and then, in the name of the Holy Son of Heaven of Great Zhou, offered a blood-and-food sacrifice to the Ancestral