"Yang and Yao have been rather close lately. We still don't know what the Divine King's stance is, so we'll need to consider this carefully. There's no need to rush."
Hearing the woman's words, the burly man nodded in agreement. "It never hurts to be cautious..."
Bzz—
Before he could finish speaking, space and time inside the great hall suddenly froze. The three of them stopped moving at once, and a bolt of blood-red lightning descended from the heavens, passing through the hall's vaulted ceiling as if it were nothing and striking the ancient jade in the white-haired youth's hand.
Bang!
The ancient jade exploded instantly, crumbling into dust that scattered across the world, without leaving behind a trace.
Several breaths later, space and time returned to normal. The three of them hadn't even noticed anything was amiss.
"Then we'll set it for three months from now. We'll settle things with the divine race once and for all." The burly man rose to his feet and made the decision.
"Wait, Gu Qi..."
In a daze, Jun Xuan's expression faltered. "Why are we suddenly going to war with the divine race?"
"Are you joking?" The woman frowned. "Wasn't it you who just said... that person gave the order..."
Before she could finish, her expression changed abruptly.
That person... who?
"I said that?" Jun Xuan's expression shifted. "When did I say..."
"No, that's not right..."
In an instant, all three of them changed expression, realizing something was wrong. Their memories had been distorted, leaving vast blank spaces. This was the result of a disturbance in the river of time.
"A Sovereign has made a move..." Jun Xuan looked dazed. "Was it the Divine King? Who was it that died?"
A vague figure seemed to flit through his mind, but no matter how