The destruction of Heavenly Square City's Zi family did not bring any major unrest to the entire city. After a night of curfew and martial law, by the next day, aside from all sorts of rumors spreading through the streets, everything in Heavenly Square City remained as it had been. Oh, and it was said that Heavenly Square Tower had also been reduced to ashes in a great fire last night. All that remained of the entire tower now was a smoking ruin.
The downfall of the Zi family had basically not affected the ordinary people living in Heavenly Square City too much. Everyone still did whatever they needed to do, and the Dragon Emperor Temple still ruled the city. The only difference was that there were more Divine Troops Battalion soldiers patrolling the streets, and it was said that several people with close ties to the Zi family had also vanished after last night.
After spending a tense night, the merchants from all corners of the land who had gathered in Heavenly Square City for tomorrow's new moon market found that everything in the city was unchanged the next day. Shops remained open as usual, and the Dragon Emperor Temple no longer restricted the merchants' movements. They could leave or stay as they pleased. At once, the merchants relaxed and began asking everywhere about what had happened in Heavenly Square City the previous evening—for merchants in the Sky-Piercing Realm, aside from trading goods to earn wealth, another part of their duty was circulating information. To the families or powers behind them, such information could sometimes be more important than the little wealth they earned.
In the Sky-Piercing Realm, any news involving two Imperial-level temples was naturally a major matter, and an especially sensitive one.
Thus, early the next morning,