Founding Ceremony (Part Two)

What left everyone's mouths dry was the sight of one woman and three men standing around King Wuhuan's carriage...

All four were Loose Immortals!

"Hiss..."

The countless spectators drew in a collective breath at the sight of them. Stunned beyond words, they thought they must be seeing things.

Loose Immortals existed only in myth and legend. Most people had heard of them but had never seen one.

Yet King Wuhuan had brought four Loose Immortals to guard him at his founding ceremony. Since when had such lofty, transcendent beings become the Imperial Court's hounds, obeying its commands?

On a pavilion several hundred meters from the palace exit in Hidden Dragon City, the leaders of the apex Otherworlder factions who had been killed once before appeared again. Most of their auras were noticeably weaker. Apart from Demon Empress Ying Ying, mistress of the Princess Residence, the strongest among them was Yan Wuji, master of the Imperial Residence, whose aura was at the Early Innate Realm. The rest had fallen straight back to the Postnatal Realm.

"Perhaps Loose Immortals aren't as untouchable or as powerful as the legends claim..."

Seeing King Wuhuan's display, Dark Night Lone Star, leader of the Heaven and Earth Society, watched with fervor in his eyes. Then he calmed himself and spoke in a low voice.

"That damned King Wuhuan! What he's done is unforgivable! If Wushuang hadn't been killed earlier, she had a God-Lifting Barrier-Breaking Pill ready and would likely have advanced to the Loose Immortal Realm soon. Then we Otherworlders would have had our chance to rise. According to our intelligence, the strongest Otherworlders in the other nations are only at the Late Innate Stage. If Wushuang became a Loose Immortal, even the outbreak of a National War would be nothing to fear. King Wuhuan has