Without the slightest hesitation, Ye Zhen retreated!
He left decisively.
Ye Zhen did not dare keep spying.
Both his reason and the Heavenly Machine Art told him that continuing to spy would be extraordinarily dangerous.
The current Ji Ao, the New Monarch, had been possessed by some terrifying existence within the Great Zhou Imperial Clan whose cultivation aura rivaled a Creation Realm Divine Lord's, perhaps even approached that of a Dao Ancestor. That being could even directly absorb the Great Zhou's nation-suppressing divine artifact, the Nation-Suppressing Qiankun Seal, into its body.
Moreover, all of this had taken place within the Imperial Temple of Great Zhou's Founding Ancestor Ji Bang.
Then this terrifying existence that had possessed Ji Ao was very likely Great Zhou's Founding Ancestor Ji Bang himself.
What sort of figure was Great Zhou's Founding Ancestor Ji Bang? Back then, he had wrestled with the three Dao Ancestors of Heaven Temple.
There was no clear record of whether his cultivation had reached the Dao Ancestor level, but he was undoubtedly a man of truly boundless divine abilities.
According to legend, when the primordial wilderness was being unified, one of Heaven Temple's Dao Ancestors had cast aside all dignity. To support another overlord in contending with Great Zhou for the realm, he had personally laid down a killing formation to block Great Zhou's army, and had secretly dispatched an avatar to preside over it, firmly halting the advance of Great Zhou's troops.
After learning the reason, Great Zhou's Founding Ancestor Ji Bang had gone alone with a single spear and blocked the entrance to that Dao Ancestor's place of secluded cultivation. Wherever his spear light reached, heaven was sealed and earth locked.
The Dao Ancestor's true body had been unable to provide his avatar with even the slightest support!
Then