"Demon Sweeping Heavenly Lord—"
Ji Jinglu stood unmoving, feet planted in a Dragon-Tiger stance, and secretly transmitted his voice: "Our Jing Kingdom has not ignored the Yellow River rules or looked down upon the heroes of the world. These two contestants are each a prodigy among prodigies, genuinely young people. They are not projections, have no souls lodged within them, and there is no possession involved."
"But competing onstage, while striving for honor for themselves, carrying a few other tasks as well is... quite normal, isn't it?"
Though he called it "secret," it was not meant for Jiang Wang alone. Several members of the Great Void Pavilion heard it too.
Certainly, success required secrecy; the Central Empire's scheme for Transcendence did not need to be discussed with Jiang Wang.
But as King of Dai Mountain of Jing Kingdom, both personally and on behalf of his nation, now that the scheme was being unveiled, he still had to offer a slight explanation to the organizer of the Yellow River Assembly.
They had already denied him face, but face still had to be considered...
Jiang Wang did not respond.
By now, he understood why, when he had still been able to hear the sovereigns of Hegemon States chatting earlier, the Jing Son of Heaven had suddenly mentioned Xu Huaizhang when Xu Zhiyi came up.
Because Xu Huaizhang... this Heavenly Master, Ritual Master, Immortal Master, was the Primal Chaos Evil Immortal now muddled within Calamity Water!
When they had encountered each other in the Sea of Sin before, he had been utterly unable to see the man's true roots. But now that his cultivation had risen, and the Primal Chaos Evil Immortal's strange cry had come from the Heavenly Master Flame Banner, he saw through it all in an instant.
The first time