Distribute the Loot, Escape

Night fell.

Between heaven and earth, a few mottled stars could vaguely be seen, glimmering.

Starlight drifted softly down, draping the little courtyard in a faint veil of gauze.

The Heavenly Profound Emperor crouched in the middle of the courtyard, with several seventh-turn powerhouses who had always followed him standing beside him.

"Your Majesty, why did you call us out so late at night?"

A seventh-turn powerhouse poked his head out and asked softly.

The Heavenly Profound Emperor looked around and, only after confirming there was no one in sight, cleared his throat and spoke in a low voice.

"I keep feeling that there's something off about these people."

"What's off about them?"

A middle-aged man asked.

"Are you stupid? Didn't you see that woman? I'm telling you, when I was little, Father Emperor brought me to the North Palace Imperial Dynasty. Back then, it wasn't the current North Palace Great Emperor who held the fort—it was the North Palace Empress!"

"Do you know who the North Palace Empress was? She was the current Great Emperor's own elder sister!"

"And I'm telling you, I saw the North Palace Empress's face back then. She looked exactly the same as that little girl now!"

The Heavenly Profound Emperor spoke as though he hated iron for failing to become steel.

"But Your Majesty, what does that have to do with anything? There are many people in the world who look alike. That little girl merely resembles the former North Palace Empress."

No one thought much of it.

The Heavenly Profound Emperor felt weary, but he still continued.

"Didn't you hear what that young man in white said when we arrived this afternoon?"

"What did he say?"

The few of them still knew nothing, staring blankly at their emperor.

The Heavenly Profound Emperor's heart