Heaven's Mandate Sect.
Heaven-Sacrificing Platform.
Led by the sect master, everyone from the Heaven's Mandate Sect had gathered here.
A full twelve clusters of brilliance, dazzling as suns, floated in the sky, forming a ring as they slowly revolved.
Twelve Beyond-Rank Fate Artifacts.
Their vast power swept through all directions like a gale.
The Heaven's Mandate Sect disciples struggled to breathe. Some Lower Rank disciples involuntarily staggered backward, occasionally forcing themselves to step forward to hold their ground.
The sect master and elders stood before the Heaven-Sacrificing Platform, looking north.
"I heard today is the day we cross the river."
"Today is also our auspicious day."
"Whether we cross the river is unimportant. But the inheritance of our Heaven's Mandate Sect must not leak out."
"This old man gives you one final chance. Turn yourselves in now, and there is still hope. Once it is discovered who sold out the inheritance, ten clans will be exterminated and a hundred generations cut off."
Silence reigned.
"You have no idea just how powerful the Heaven's Mandate Sect is now. Prepare the Life-Exterminating Curse."
Five hundred li beyond Heaven Gate Pass.
"The Royal Edict Banner and Token is as if I myself have arrived... Those who obstruct it shall be treated as accomplices in rebellion..."
"Stop them!"
"By your command!"
On the only route to Worthy Prince City, a detachment of the Idle Prince Army rode forward, intercepted the imperial envoy, and escorted him into a tea shop.
The new imperial envoy entered the tea shop, swept his gaze around, and remained expressionless.
There were no empty tables, so he found someone he knew and sat beside them.
Inside the Ten-Mile Fort tea shop, six tables held fourteen Fourth Rank high officials, every one of them carrying a Royal Edict Banner and Token.