His thoughts whirling, Xiao Ying could not bear to leave the families of his two eminent ministers in despair. He offered reassurance that amounted to a promise:
"Rest assured! I hereby pledge that after I ascend, I will spare no effort to resurrect the Huainan Marquis and the Azure Tide Marquis. At the very least, I will uncover the root cause. My ministers, there is no need to despair!"
Everyone present froze, then rejoiced. Historical luminaries such as the Heaven-Questioning Marquis Xiao He and the Ghost Marquis Guo Jia were particularly delighted, while the families of Lü Chen and Wu Chen fell to their knees in joyful gratitude!
A short while later, all the family members left the square, leaving only Great Huan's eminent ministers.
Thud, thud, thud...
Dense, heavy footsteps rang out, and the ground trembled faintly. Fierce soldiers poured into the Forbidden Palace in an unending tide-the Ravenous Wolf Guards and Huan Martial Guards of the Great Huan Forbidden Guard, resurrected during this ceremony.
As members of the Forbidden Guard, they naturally entered the Forbidden Palace to take up their duties after their resurrection. They spread throughout the vast, magnificent palace, guarding it so tightly that many who had been wavering over whether to infiltrate it abandoned the thought outright.
It was worth noting that exclusive special troops of the Heaven Lord tier, once trained through secret methods and deemed qualified, would originally reach an average cultivation level at the peak of the innate realm.
Over more than twenty years of campaigns north and south, especially the eighteen years of Xiao Ying's absence, more than 270,000 Ravenous Wolf Guards and over 160,000 Huan Martial Guards had died in battle. All of them had now been resurrected.
In other words, after the heavenly grace ceremony, the Ravenous Wolf Guards