With a thunderous boom, the doors swung open.
The Second Sermon had begun!
Haotian and Jade Pool were stunned. So soon? The others hadn't even arrived yet!
At least one or two hundred Great Luo Golden Immortal fellow cultivators were still missing, and Senior Brother Zhunti, who was supposed to sit on a Cushion, hadn't arrived either!
But they didn't dare defy Dao Ancestor's wishes, so they could only usher everyone inside in single file.
Before long, all the Gods had hurried into Zixiao Palace.
Haotian and Jade Pool's brows furrowed tighter and tighter.
When the last latecomer, Jieyin, finally walked toward the doors with a bitter expression, Haotian couldn't hold back any longer and asked,
"Senior Brother Jieyin, why hasn't Senior Brother Zhunti arrived yet?"
"Master is about to close the doors!"
Jieyin's expression grew even more bitter at that. He looked as if he were about to cry. At last, he tremblingly pulled a wooden staff from his robes.
"This is Junior Brother Zhunti!"
The staff's spiritual light flickered faintly. Within it was only a wisp of True Spirit, so faint it was difficult to detect.
He was as good as dead!
"This is Senior Brother Zhunti!"
Haotian and Jade Pool cried out in shock, staring at the wooden staff with prickling scalps.
Then they thought of the one or two hundred other senior brothers who had yet to arrive.
A sense of foreboding crept into their hearts.
As if to confirm their suspicions,
the next moment, the doors trembled.
They were pulled into the gateway.
It slammed shut!
A long, sonorous bell rang out!
Everyone was here. The sermon was about to begin!
Haotian and Jade Pool stumbled into the palace in a daze, looking at the more than two thousand Great Luo Golden Immortals and Great