Immediately after!
Cheng Buzheng's divine sense swept soundlessly over several important cultivation grounds and administrative offices within Ping'an City, like mercury spilling across the earth.
His son, Cheng Ping'an, along with several other outstanding younger members of the family, came into view one by one.
Some were in closed-door meditation, cultivating bitterly; some were handling family affairs; some were practicing divine abilities...
Everything was in perfect order. The family was steadily developing along its predetermined course.
Seeing that all was well, Cheng Buzheng was reassured and had no intention of revealing himself at this moment to disturb them.
Then he slowly closed his eyes.
At the instant his eyelids fell—
"Boom!"
An even more terrifying, even more immense devouring force erupted from him!
Within the Quiet Room, the Spirit Energy gathered by the formation—and even the heaven and earth Spirit Energy forcibly drawn from farther away—once more transformed into a visible milky-white tidal surge, pouring madly into his body.
He was like a bottomless black hole, endlessly swallowing Spirit Energy from all directions.
The small courtyard within the Secret Realm returned to absolute silence.
Only that soundless, surging tide of Spirit Energy proclaimed the presence of this place's master.
Just as Cheng Buzheng continued cultivating...
Sea Suppressing City!
Cultivator Association Headquarters, main hall.
The Cheng Buzheng avatar seated upon the throne atop the high platform suddenly opened his lowered eyes.
He slowly raised his right hand and beckoned through empty air—
In an instant, a streak of flowing light pierced through layer upon layer of palace Restrictions and shot in from outside the hall.
The flowing light was so swift its trajectory was nearly impossible to catch. It left only a faint trace in the air before landing steadily in Cheng Buzheng's palm.
The glow faded, revealing a jade slip