On the Yellow Mystery Platform, Gao Xian spoke and laughed with easy, unrestrained grace.
Though Ten Thousand Treasures forcibly suppressed his emotions, the despair and gloom between his brows could not be concealed.
Before the two sides had even exchanged blows, the outcome was already obvious at a glance.
Mysterious Underworld Heavenly Lord's gaze was profound, his entire expression exceptionally cold and grim. Having just been publicly rebuked by the Nine Provinces Cauldron, he had lost all face. But the other party was the Nine Provinces Cauldron; he did not dare say anything more and could only swallow this indignity whole.
The greatest problem was not that he had lost face, but that the Nine Provinces Cauldron had actively intervened in human affairs and used its authority to punish Ten Thousand Treasures.
As the controller of the Nine Provinces Dharma Domain, the Nine Provinces Cauldron had, according to records, existed for at least dozens of kalpas. Its origins could even be traced back to the beginning of this era.
The passage of time had been too immense. Even eighth-rank Celestial Venerables could not explain the Nine Provinces Cauldron's true origins.
All they knew was that it had always been the master of the Nine Provinces Dharma Domain, responsible for protecting the humans of the Nine Provinces. Yet all this time, the Nine Provinces Cauldron had never proactively interfered in the internal affairs of the Nine Provinces' human race.
At least for the past dozen or so kalpas, the affairs of the Nine Provinces had always been decided by the nine Command Envoys. Only matters they could not resolve would be submitted to the Nine Provinces Cauldron for judgment.
The experts of every faction had concluded that the Nine Provinces Cauldron was bound by some powerful law. It could not directly