Domain Lord Star's Heavenly Palace.
After three months of cleansing by the Great Dao, auspicious energy curled around the entire Heavenly Palace, and Dao Resonance lingered through its halls. It was no longer the ruined, desolate place it had once been.
Chu Linyuan sat in the great hall, sorting through the Star Domain's affairs and restoring order after the war, when two vast, imposing Saint Emperor auras suddenly tore through the air and crushed down upon the hall.
Bai Cang and Bai Yang landed. Their faces were cold, their auras murderous. Carrying the frustration and anger they had bottled up along the way, they fixed their gazes on Chu Linyuan.
Chu Linyuan's heart tightened. He hurriedly rose and clasped his hands. "Your subordinate Chu Linyuan greets the two Saint Emperors. I did not know you were coming and failed to welcome you. Please forgive me!"
"Spare us!"
Saint Emperor Bai Cang swept a hand through the air, his voice icy as he went straight to the point.
"Chu Linyuan, in the battle on Grand Way Star Domain's Domain Lord Star, all sixty Saint Kings of Venerable Great Black Heaven and the Blood God Cult died. What exactly happened?"
"Who killed those sixty Saint Kings?"
Chu Linyuan's heart hammered.
Something that momentous had happened on Domain Lord Star. As its Domain Lord, he could not possibly have kept it from the Golden Eagle Dynasty.
But Li Yun had done too much for Domain Lord Star, and Chu Linyuan did not want to betray him. In his report, he had concealed Li Yun's identity and said nothing of the Dao Lecture, stating only that a mysterious expert passing through had killed them.
He knew he could not hide it for long.
Still, every moment he could buy was one more moment. At