After entering Qian City, Jiang Liu did not take the people from Heaven's Mandate Pavilion to the imperial palace.
Instead, he had Qin Bailian find a place outside the imperial palace and let them rest and recuperate there first.
After all, quite a few people from Heaven's Mandate Pavilion had been killed or wounded in this battle.
They had come all the way from the Human Realm. They couldn't be sent straight home without so much as being entertained, could they?
Although the Three Rule Lords had not breached the Human Realm this time, they had thrown the entire Human Realm into chaos.
Some things that had previously remained hidden had also been exposed completely amid this upheaval.
However, Jiang Liu left all these matters to the Hall of Governmental Affairs.
After all, those people were nothing more than clowns jumping around in his eyes now. They were not worth his attention anymore.
What he wanted to hear about now was the change that had occurred in the desert.
While he was fighting the Three Rule Lords, some inexplicable changes had appeared in the desert.
It seemed that a secret realm had appeared there—and a strange secret realm that made it impossible for anyone to approach.
Jiang Liu had long since stopped caring about ordinary secret realms. The Saint Dynasty or Saint Sect could simply send people there.
However, Zhuge Cheng had mentioned to him before that the desert had once been the center of the Human Realm.
After he left the desert, the Iron Blood Army had begun clearing out the Iron Wire Snakes, Sand Devouring Serpents, and other exotic beasts that were rapidly becoming a disaster there.
Fortunately, most of the mutated Iron Wire Snakes and Sand Devouring Serpents there had already been killed by him.
Thus, the