At the Heavenly Punishment Bureau, the deputy chiefs who had still been weighing the pros and cons received messages from the Star Envoy Institute at almost the same time.
"Marquis Tianyan wants to protect Lu Zhen?"
A sinister-looking deputy chief stared at the jade slip in his hand, his brows tightly knitted.
"Marquis Tianyan actually intervened at a critical moment like this."
In another residence, the deputy chief shrouded in black mist also wore a shifting expression.
Marquis Tianyan!
Although Marquis Tianyan was only in the late Fifth Realm in terms of cultivation, a notch below Divine Duke Wuji at the Myriad Daos Stage.
Who in the upper circles of the Great Luo Divine Dynasty dared underestimate the head of the Star Envoy Institute?
Marquis Tianyan had an extensive network of connections. More importantly, his mother came from the Great Xia Immortal Dynasty!
That background alone meant his standing in the divine dynasty was scarcely any lower than Divine Duke Wuji's.
"Marquis Tianyan has always been the sort who won't rise early unless there's profit in it."
"If he dares risk offending Divine Duke Wuji to ensure Lu Zhen can participate in the Star Battle, he must know something we don't."
"Could Lu Zhen possess some other earth-shattering potential?"
These deputy chiefs were all old foxes who had lived for countless years, and their minds raced.
Divine Duke Wuji was terrifying, but Marquis Tianyan was no one to trifle with either.
Since Marquis Tianyan had intervened and even invoked the Great Xia Star Battle, a major event bearing on the divine dynasty's fortune, they absolutely could not move against Lu Zhen lightly.
"It seems that sentence of five hundred years in death prison won't work."
"Forget it. When immortals fight, we should just follow the rules, go through the motions,