Jiang Ding paced slowly back into the palace.
"My lord,"
"there is a matter that requires your judgment."
Gong Caiyu explained, "Radiant Blue Divine Lord and Radiant Glory Divine Lord have advanced to Celestial rank. Under the Great Yin-Yang Sword Code, they must face you in a Sacred Sword Duel and fight to the death."
"They have forfeited the duel."
"They ask for your forgiveness."
"Radiant Blue and Radiant Glory Divine Lords..."
Jiang Ding searched his memories from tens of thousands of years ago, then took out a small notebook and flipped through it. Sure enough, he found their names near the front.
Those two had behaved abominably.
How abominably?
They had swallowed the Great Sun Sword Heir's wealth. Not one or two spirit stones, but the wealth of an entire world cluster accumulated over more than ten thousand years.
And the Great Sun Sword Heir had only been at the Void Refining stage then!
That sum had amounted to somewhere between a third and half of his wealth at the time. It was enormous.
The struggle between the Taiyin and Sun lineages lay behind it.
Back then, the Taiyin Lineage had put forward Radiant Blue and Radiant Glory Divine Lords as a force to check the Great Sun Sword Heir. They had seized authority over the Blazing Sun World Cluster and inflicted immense damage on Tushan Central Court. Later, after the Great Sun Sword Heir killed the Immortal Artifact Heir, the two had vanished from sight.
The Great Sun Sword Heir had been extremely busy. Naturally, he could not go looking for them in person; they had remained fairly low on his list of priorities.
"These two Celestials have reached the outskirts of the Rainbow Realm Sea. Do you wish to pass judgment now?"
Gong Caiyu asked again.
Jiang