"Just now, Big Brother told me that he had only just changed his mind as well. He received a voice transmission from Elder Wan and suddenly changed his mind," the Third Supreme Emperor said.
"Elder Wan is also an enshrined elder of our kingdom, but he is a member of the Wan Family—the ancestor of Minister Wan, who wished to marry Xue'er back then," he added.
An enshrined elder of the Tianyang Kingdom would naturally be an Ascension Stage cultivator. For Minister Wan's affair, he had actually intervened personally?
Just as this thought surfaced in Yan Chihuo's mind, the Third Supreme Emperor continued, "This must have been the collective will of the imperial enshrined elders. Still, Elder Wan likely did some work to persuade them."
Yan Chihuo glanced at Snow Fairy and said, "It's all right. I'll do my utmost. It's just that I don't know much about the Second Palace Master of Cloud Purity Palace."
"Not only do I know little about this matter—even Big Brother knows little," said the Third Supreme Emperor. "As for this so-called distant marriage, only the enshrined elders of our imperial family knew of it. Back then, Fourth Sister publicly claimed that she had perished. It seems that was when she was married away, though everyone was kept in the dark."
Yan Chihuo said, "It seems her identity was exposed, which led Cloud Purity Palace to invade."
The Third Supreme Emperor shook his head. "Though Cloud Purity Palace is one of the top powers, its strength falls far short of our kingdom's. Furthermore, the various sects and schools in the Crimson Blood Desert hold many grievances against Cloud Purity Palace. By rights, they should not have launched a large-scale invasion. They should have executed Fourth Sister instead. Yet strangely, they did not kill her,