The next day, Xue Qinghe prepared lavish gifts, with twenty carriages lined up in a procession stretching for miles!
Each carriage was covered in fine silk, its shafts inlaid with bronze ornaments. The horses pulling them were all pure white, sleek and powerful, their hoofbeats rolling like drums.
The carriages carried untold quantities of gold, silver, and jewels.
Their wheels rolled over the blue-brick pavement, leaving clear ruts so deep that passersby clicked their tongues in amazement.
He personally led the procession, riding a snow-white steed at its head, with more than a hundred elite armored soldiers behind him.
They escorted the twenty carriages straight toward the Extreme Alliance.
"Such lavish gifts, and His Highness the Crown Prince is leading the procession himself. Where on earth are they going?"
Someone asked curiously beside a second-floor tavern window.
"To win over another faction, of course."
Someone answered indifferently.
"Weren't the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan destroyed?"
"What other faction could command such attention from the empire?"
The onlookers were puzzled.
"Have you forgotten the Extreme Alliance?"
The gray-robed man spoke again.
His voice was quiet, but everyone around him fell silent.
"They also have two Titled Douluo, and one of them defeated Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo single-handedly."
"Why wouldn't a faction like that warrant a personal invitation from His Highness?"
At those words, everyone instinctively nodded.
The story of the Extreme Alliance's Yang Jian storming the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect alone and defeating its two guardian deities with a single move had long since spread throughout Heaven Dou City. Even the old man selling flatbread on the street could recount a detail or two.
Such a record certainly merited this treatment.
"With the empire's next sovereign personally going to invite them, the