"At last, this thorn in our side has been removed. Without the Azure, White, and Zhu Divine Envoys, [Akatsuki]'s combat strength has been cut by more than half. Now we can deal with them without worry." Watching the three vanish, Prince Jin finally breathed a sigh of relief.
These past few days, the pressure on the nine princes had indeed been immense. Especially after they had expended vast manpower and resources to open the realm passage to the Southern Bright Continent, only to not only fail to inflict any losses on [Akatsuki], but also lose several Mahayana-stage cultivators themselves. It had been a humiliating blow to their pride. Sending the three Divine Envoys—Azure, White, and Zhu—into the Longevity Realm this time could be considered revenge for that grievance.
"Without the Azure Dragon, [Akatsuki] will no longer be able to use its formidable spatial abilities to shift locations. Capturing them should be much easier now," Prince Cheng said.
"We can start by investigating the traitor inside the palace. Come to think of it, we only succeeded this time because that traitor passed the information along," Peony Fangshi said with a soft laugh.
"Hmph! I would like to see exactly who this traitor is!" Zhongchuan Xian snorted, dangerous light flickering in his eyes.
Everyone summoned by his order had been high-ranking ministers and members of the imperial clan, people of considerable status and authority—the very group he trusted most. Lin Chuan's arrival had surely been due to the traitor leaking the information. That meant someone among them had undoubtedly betrayed them, which was no good news for the imperial family.
"However, the Azure Dragon cultivates the Dao Immortal's One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones Technique. I wonder whether any of his clones were left behind this time," Daofei, a Tribulation Transcendence-stage