Kong Xuan Comes to the Rescue

True Man Yuding was overjoyed and quickly clasped his hands in thanks.

The next moment, he stepped before the three children, raised his hand, and reached directly for Yang Jian.

Yao Ji felt ice-cold from head to toe, her heart reduced to ashes.

Only now did she finally understand completely—

From Lingxu's attack, to Maitreya's appearance, to Yuding's arrival, it had all been a scheme long arranged by the Chan Sect and Buddhism.

They did not seek to punish her. They wanted to divide up her children.

Marshal Tianpeng was both anxious and furious, yet his heart had turned cold.

His Majesty had clearly ordered him only to bring Yao Ji back to the Heavenly Court. Yet now, Buddhism and the Chan Sect had both intervened, intending to divide up the Princess's children on the spot. The situation had completely spiraled out of control.

There was no way he could carry out this Imperial Edict.

"Isn't it too much for all of you to carve up Yang Tianyou's family like this? Have the Chan Sect and Buddhism no shame at all?"

An enraged shout exploded from the Nine Heavens!

An incomparably imposing figure broke through the clouds and descended from the sky, landing in the courtyard. Dust stirred lightly beneath his feet, yet the entire gathering seemed to freeze.

At the sight of that figure's arrival, the calm expressions on True Man Yuding and Maitreya's faces vanished instantly. Both were horrified as they blurted out, "Kong Xuan!"

"Why have you come here, fellow Daoist?"

From Kong Xuan, Maitreya and True Man Yuding both sensed a tremor and a lethal threat that arose from the depths of their Origin.

Kong Xuan bore no aura of a Saint, yet the pressure he radiated far surpassed that of an ordinary peak Quasi-Saint. He