Lu Yang saw the power of the nation's fortune suspended in the air, as though it had become ownerless, and remembered what Meng Jingzhou had told him about it.
The power of the nation's fortune had been stripped from Xia Emperor's body. That could only mean that Xia Emperor had passed away!
He was still a step too late!
At a glance, Lu Yang recognized the old man standing above the imperial palace with the bearing of one who ruled the world. He was Dean Qi Xiunya, whom Lu Yang had met at the Imperial Academy—the man with the deepest attainments in history.
"Why is Dean Qi here?"
Lu Yang remembered that Dean Qi's cultivation was only at the Body Integration Realm. The power of the nation's fortune concerned the very foundation of Great Xia; it was absolutely not something someone at the Body Integration Realm could meddle with!
Not only could someone at the Body Integration Realm not touch it—even someone at the Tribulation Transcendence Realm would not dare!
"And that pressure..."
Qi Xiunya had originally kept his cultivation restrained, looking like an ordinary old man. Perhaps because he had finally obtained the power of the nation's fortune, he involuntarily released a trace of pressure.
The pressure leaked from nothing more than a fluctuation of emotion, yet it covered the Imperial City and even the eight cities nearby!
Even if someone at the Tribulation Transcendence Realm released all their pressure, they could not possibly achieve such a range.
"He's an immortal!" Lu Yang was the first to reach that conclusion.
"State Preceptor, save me!" When General Yu saw that the power of the nation's fortune had finally left Xia Emperor's body and saw Dean Qi make his final appearance to harvest it, he could no longer hold back his