When Central Special Envoy Dou Ningsun, resolved to purchase rank with his life, called Sheng Kingdom to account over the "Caged City Case," only to receive Sheng Kingdom's declaration of willingness to submit to the Central Empire...
Yining City, the capital of Li Kingdom, also welcomed the carriage procession of Jing Kingdom's special envoy, Lou Junlan.
Jing Kingdom had spared Peaceful City as agreed, but Meng Ting, the nominal director of the Form and Intent Court, was still sent back to The Present World overnight and delivered to the delegation that had set out long ago.
Before Xu San headed for Peaceful City, Lou Junlan had already crossed the Long River bearing her credentials. Dou Ningsun's mission to hold Sheng Kingdom accountable had instead been a last-minute assignment.
Once the vast Central Empire mobilized, it was like sprouting countless ravenous tentacles—wherever they touched became food.
Even though Lu Ye, newly ascended to the pinnacle, rushed back in time, he could not change the outcome.
His fist had suppressed Xu San, battering this True Lord Xiaoyao until his Dao heart wavered. His newly forged pinnacle Supernatural Power, [Life-Wielding Mystic Canon], shook All Under Heaven with its name! Yet he came to a halt before the "Equality thief" exposed by Mirror World Terrace.
Even a monarch who held life in his hand had to be hemmed in by the cage-bars of reality.
The hooves of magnificent heavenly steeds struck Yining. Dragged all the way here, Meng Ting no longer looked human. His hair hung loose, his clothes were in tatters, and blood and mud covered his entire body. Only the Blood-Quelling Chain, designed specifically to suppress a martial man's vital blood, still gleamed brilliantly where it hooked through his collarbones and hung before his chest.
A martial man's powerful physique had preserved