Yue Yang seemed to sense something... and turned around.
Ming Rihao was no longer behind him. At some point, he had run over to the Savage Bull brothers and begun eating and drinking with them.
At that moment, the hostess of the birthday banquet came gliding over, lotus flowers seeming to bloom beneath every step. Heavy Crown, Black Earth, White Horse, Flying Locust, Mottled, and the other Heaven-rankers standing behind Yue Yang were all struck dumb with amazement at the sight, their eyes revealing utter fascination. Feng Ji and Jin Yun, the two newly joined quasi-Heaven-rankers, whose strength and composure were somewhat lacking, wore expressions of complete infatuation, as though their souls had been surrendered to her.
She was a beauty whose dazzling face rivaled the stars in the heavens.
Accompanied by several lovely maidservants, she emerged slowly from the Lord's Manor. Her exquisite figure and graceful bearing involuntarily gave people the sense that possessing her was like possessing the entire world—a feeling of perfect fulfillment. It was as though she were the finest treasure in the world; once one had obtained her, there would be no regrets left in life.
There were countless powerful figures present, their composure harder than steel, unmoved even if mountains crumbled and the earth split. Yet at the sight of this woman, every one of them stared slack-jawed.
For the first time, the Heaven-rankers, who had each harbored their own schemes, focused all their attention on this woman.
This beauty's attire—
Was magnificent and dazzling.
Her luxuriant hair was like a golden waterfall pouring straight down, gleaming brightly as waves of golden light shimmered from her swaying hair ornaments.
Her headdress was simple yet perfectly suited to her, merely a circlet of jeweled tassels protecting the smooth, neatly arranged hair before her forehead. At