Li Dalong looked down at Zishu Yuan amid the wind and snow.
More than a hundred years had passed since the last incident. During that time, the young emperor had come to Azure Cloud Prefecture more than ten times.
Yet only this time had he knelt for ten days.
It was as though, if the Azure Cloud Li Family did not emerge from the mountains, the dynasty's new emperor was determined to kneel to death right here.
Li Dalong closed his eyes.
With his current strength, his divine sense had long since encompassed the entirety of Azure Cloud Prefecture.
There stood the still-majestic Eternal City Wall, like an ancient giant resisting the darkness cast beneath the Blood Moon's glow within the Immortal Domain.
Zishu Feng atop the wall seemed to sense something. She received Li Dalong's message; as a comrade-in-arms who had fought alongside the Azure Cloud Li Family, she had the right to know that Zishu Yuan was asking for help.
Zishu Feng gazed toward the Immortal Domain, a nearly imperceptible trace of sorrow surfacing in her beautiful eyes. She merely said, "That useless thing—let him be, Daoist friend. It would be fine if he knelt himself to death in Azure Cloud."
Upon Heaven's Chasm Mountain, Li Dalong could not help but be filled with mixed emotions after hearing Zishu Feng's words.
He could sense that Zishu Feng did not truly wish for the dynasty to decline to such a state. Perhaps she, too, hoped someone could turn the tide. But kneeling in Azure Cloud Prefecture was absolutely not the way to turn the tide.
As he pondered—
Li Dalong frowned. He sensed a wave of mana in the world, and a phantom had already appeared at his side.
It was the Imperial Preceptor, Min Youguo!
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