The next day, at noon.
The skies above Tianfeng City stretched cloudless for ten thousand miles.
Yet the atmosphere within the city was so oppressive that it left people gasping for breath.
The City Lord's Mansion guards had already sealed off the Mass Grave in the western outskirts, along with dozens of miles around it, forbidding anyone from approaching.
News that "Senior Brother Wang Teng had clashed fiercely with Demonic Cultivators at the Mass Grave and unfortunately perished" had quietly spread among the city's upper ranks, causing a tremendous uproar.
Countless pairs of eyes were fixed on the City Lord's Mansion, on the Lin family, and even more so on the sky.
They were waiting.
Waiting for the arrival of that colossal entity—the Azure Cloud Sect.
Finally, at the third quarter of the noon hour, when the sun was at its most scorching.
A massive black dot appeared on the horizon, speeding closer from afar.
It was an enormous flying boat a hundred zhang long, forged entirely from azure black iron!
Auspicious clouds and immortal cranes were carved upon the boat. On the banners billowing in the wind, the character "Azure" danced like dragons and phoenixes, proclaiming its noble and extraordinary status.
The Azure Cloud Boat of the Azure Cloud Sect's Law Enforcement Hall!
Before the flying boat had even drawn near, a sharp and domineering aura had already swept over them, blanketing all of Tianfeng City.
Within the city, countless cultivators trembled beneath this pressure, finding even the circulation of their true qi sluggish and difficult.
The flying boat slowly came to a halt above Tianfeng City, and its cabin door opened.
An elderly man clad in a violet elder's robe stepped out first, his expression stern and imposing without anger.
His hair and beard were entirely white, yet