Dragon Pearl Mentioned in Letter, Bad News from the Palace

"What was that voice...?"

The voice drifting from the Void carried no malice. As Qiu Yan listened, a sense of familiarity rose within him. After savoring it for a moment, he quickly identified its owner—

"It was Yan Dongting, Grand Chancellor Yan's voice!"

This grand chancellor of the court had left a deep impression on Qiu Yan. He was a true recluse hidden within the court—he had cultivated a Nascent Soul, yet still entered the halls as a minister, even rising to the position of grand chancellor. That was no ordinary feat.?..

After meeting Qiu Yan, Yan Dongting had also shown goodwill and passed on a method for separating one's cultivation, making the road ahead for Qiu Yan's Fleshly Body increasingly clear.

Now that he had identified the other man's voice, Qiu Yan calmed his mind and followed the sound upstream, probing carefully. He could not help drawing in a sharp breath.

"What is going on? Such intense ripples of divine power, occurring in the Imperial City—even if they are sealed off in the Void, the Dragon Qi should sense them!"

At the source of that voice, he had sensed intense fluctuations of divine power, like the lingering aftermath of a clash between mighty experts.

These ripples were mainly distributed throughout the Void.

The Void's relationship with the mortal world was like a person's shadow. Though closely linked, the two remained as distinct as the Jing and Wei Rivers. One could sense fluctuations within the Void from the mortal world, yet not be affected by them.

However, if the fluctuations grew too intense, they could break through the barrier and bring their aftershocks into reality. Like at this very moment, the powerful changes originating in the Void should have been enough to provoke a backlash from the Imperial City's Dragon