Great Xuan, Imperial Capital.
This was a colossal city that dominated the heartland of the Central Plains. Like a slumbering giant dragon, it lay coiled across a thousand miles of fertile fields.
Its presence was vast and majestic, its might resplendent; it could be felt from over a hundred miles away.
Any Grandmaster whose Artistic Conception power had reached the Heaven-Merging stage could see a massive Dark Bird circling above the Imperial Capital.
This was the National Destiny of the Great Xuan Dynasty given form.
The royal family's Grandmaster ancestor had used the power of National Destiny to forge special spirit weapons: the Soul Lamp and the Mountain River Diagram. The tracking mark was likewise formed from the power of National Destiny.
Only Grandmasters and those above them could erase it.
At this moment.
At Eagle Wolf Guard headquarters.
Within the Hall of Souls stood numerous glazed lamps.
The flames within these glazed lamps were subsidiary flames divided from the Soul Lamps. Every glazed lamp represented a Xiantian Grandmaster of the imperial court.
The Soul Lamps of important royal family members, meanwhile, were kept in the royal ancestral shrine.
The Hall of Souls was guarded at all times.
Every day, someone cleaned the great hall.
Within the burning flames of each glazed lamp, a blurry human silhouette could be seen.
All of a sudden.
The silhouettes within the flames of two glazed lamps vanished.
"Crimson Eagle Envoy Lin Ye, White Wolf Commander of Yuanzhou Wang Cheng!"
The person cleaning the hall quickly discovered the anomaly and immediately reported it.
One had to know that every glazed lamp placed in the Hall of Souls represented a Grandmaster who had reached the Xiantian Realm. Now that the silhouettes in two lamps had vanished, it meant that two Xiantian Grandmasters had fallen.
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