Vast Origin Heaven, Great Freedom Palace.
Xuanming Heavenly Venerable, wearing a golden crown and a purple robe, stood smiling at the entrance to the main hall, welcoming the three guests.
The guest at the head wore yellow monk's robes and a red cassock. With narrow brows, slender eyes, and a stern expression, he was none other than Red Sun Celestial Venerable.
The man beside Red Sun Celestial Venerable stood eight feet tall, broad and fat, with a large round face perpetually wreathed in a smile. Dressed in a sea-blue robe, he was Xuanming Heavenly Venerable's old friend, Tianpeng Hai Wuyin.
Xuanming and Tianpeng jointly occupied the East Sea. Xuanming knew how formidable Tianpeng was, while Tianpeng feared Xuanming's scheming mind. Whatever the two eighth-rank powerhouses truly thought, they maintained an appearance of cordial harmony.
It was precisely the attitude of these two eighth-rank powerhouses that had kept relations between the Penglai Association and the Heavenly Demon Alliance fairly good.
Thus, when the cultivators of the Nine Provinces and the Demon Race of the East Sea and North Sea signed the Heaven-Human Covenant last time, the seventh-rank cultivators on both sides had merely shown up as a formality and had not torn all pretenses apart.
The two eighth-rank powerhouses each oversaw their own domain. Though both were in the East Sea, they seldom met.
The one standing on Red Sun's other side was no more than six feet tall, with a furry face and pointed cheeks. Clad in gleaming golden scale armor, his eyes shone with unrestrained arrogance.
Of the three eighth-rank powerhouses, he had the strangest and ugliest appearance, and his build was comparatively slight, yet the aura around him was the most overwhelming.
Xuanming Heavenly Venerable had roamed this world for dozens of kalpas, so he had naturally met