Tantai Tanmie had long intended to employ Guigu's military art of "vertical and horizontal alliances," joining forces with Grand Master Haikong Zhizang of the Star Venerating Sect to venture together into the Nine-Bend Heaven-Origin Great Treasury Sumeru Realm.
Meanwhile, Mo Xiu, who had previously suffered grievous wounds, was taken by the young swordsman who had saved him to recuperate on an overseas island.
That young swordsman was the master of one of the Five Calamity Divine Weapons who had attacked He Ping that day. The sword casket on his back was the Devastation Fiend Casket. He told Mo Xiu that his surname was Feng.
"Feng?"
Within Mo Xiu's consciousness, Heavenly King Luan Sheng quietly pondered.
"That means he belongs to the Feng family, one of the four great branch families of Eight Assemblies Clear Enlightenment Valley. I never expected the master of this generation's Scorched Earth Fierce Sword to be a member of the Feng family... I recall that Heavenly King Chao Lie also bears the surname Feng. I wonder whether he has any connection to the Feng family!"
Heavenly King Luan Sheng also thought of Heavenly King Chao Lie, another of the Nine Great Heavenly Kings. Chao Lie was Luan Sheng's mortal enemy. In the future Divine Court, the nine Heavenly Kings would jointly govern the overall situation of the Divine Court. There was also intrigue and maneuvering among the Heavenly Kings, with every sort of calculation brewing beneath the surface.
Luan Sheng had descended into this era with his future self partly to make arrangements in advance for the descent of the Supreme True Dragon, and partly because he intended to uncover the origins and foundations of the other Nine Great Heavenly Kings in the past.
With the Temple of Myriad Laws, the Nine Great Heavenly Kings could