Three days later, on the morning of March 15, 3584 of the Nuwa Calendar in the Sky-Piercing Realm...
This was the first rainy day Zhang Tie had encountered since coming to the Sky-Piercing Realm. Amid the drifting fine rain, Zhang Tie stood on the deck of an airship, calmly watching the streams of people lined up in more than a dozen rows silently board one airship after another.
The falling raindrops and gloomy sky inexplicably added a touch of sorrow and tragic solemnity to this farewell. The once-powerful Dragon Emperor Temple, more than nine hundred years after the Dragon Emperor's disappearance, had no choice but to bid farewell to a city of several million people in this manner, handing everything here over to others.
Heavenly Square City was not the first city the Dragon Emperor Temple had abandoned in the Nine Heavens Grand Domain, nor would it be the last. Over the past two days, the Dragon Emperor Temple Council of Elders' plans and intentions had gradually come to light. Within this week, aside from Heavenly Square City, all the Dragon Emperor Temple's forces would complete their withdrawal from the Nine Heavens Grand Domain.
Those taking over the Dragon Emperor Temple's cities included the Qilin Temple, the Sky Mist Temple, and even the Martial Emperor Temple. The first two were two of the top three Origin-level temples in the Sky-Piercing Realm, while the latter was one of the three Imperial-level temples. The Star Emperor Temple, which had long coveted these cities of the Dragon Emperor Temple and had even openly fallen out with it, had been excluded from the ranks dividing up the Dragon Emperor Temple's urban cake in the Nine Heavens Grand Domain.
Zhang Tie knew that the Dragon Emperor Temple's elders must have conducted secret deals and negotiations