What was the unexpected change?
There were nearly two hundred people seated here. Over a hundred were An Yushuang's and her Grand Uncle An Qing's people, while another seventy or eighty had been brought by the Nine Suns Empire, Celestial Sun Hall, and Nine Heavens Hall!
Then, several people from the Nine Suns Empire, Celestial Sun Hall, and even Nine Heavens Hall suddenly changed expression. Some of them were powerful experts with rather high realms. Some clutched their chests, some grabbed their throats, and some directly vomited blood before collapsing onto the tables.
Including the Nine Heavens Great Emperor, Yang Haowen—his face instantly turned bluish-purple as well.
Whoosh—
At once, the entire venue descended into chaos.
"Venerable Tianning!"
"Feng'er!"
"Disciple!"
"Haowen!"
"..."
In an instant, those people all stood up and rushed toward the several dozen people showing symptoms, hurriedly examining them.
"This is bad, it's poison! The food is poisoned!"
"What!?"
Everyone immediately became alert and began checking their own conditions!
Pfft—
In just a dozen or so seconds, more than ten people died outright. Meanwhile, the higher-realm Venerable Tianning, Yang Haowen, and the others had bluish-purple faces as they struggled to detoxify themselves!
"D-Dead!?"
"What!? They're dead?"
"This poison is terrifying! They actually... actually died just like that from poison?"
"..."
Those people all revealed panicked expressions.
An Yushuang sat there with her eyebrows furrowed.
Poison?
Someone had poisoned them?
No! No! Could it have been her Grand Uncle An Qing who had done it?
That was possible. They had all been invited by An Qing. An Qing wanted to poison them, then use their hands to wipe out An Yushuang's imperial family!
There was another possibility: this had been a scheme jointly plotted by An Qing, the Nine Suns Empire, Celestial Sun Hall, and Nine Heavens Hall