"Heh, interesting, interesting..." The Chief-Command Heavenly Venerable burst out laughing, his laughter echoing through the Heavenly Palace.
How many years had it been since such unrestrained laughter had filled this cold, lonely palace?
Steward Zuo Qiu smiled too. "I imagine that little fox saw through what those few were plotting behind the scenes and simply kept his distance. I wonder what their faces look like now?"
"All the more reason we must not interfere," the Chief-Command Heavenly Venerable said with a soft sigh. "Otherwise, we would harm him rather than help him!
"Here. Take this to him and say it is a gift from me."
A Jade Pendant appeared and was handed over. Steward Zuo Qiu stared in shock. "Heavenly Lord?"
"Go."
The Chief-Command Heavenly Venerable said no more. He turned away, and solitude once again settled over the entire hall.
In the Gonghua Heaven Realm, the invading Purple Dusk Demons had been wiped out in a sweeping victory. Everyone was rejoicing.
Celebrations raged everywhere. There was only one discordant note: a small Bright Pearl resting on Heavenly Lord Gonghua's desk.
Within the pearl, collapsed mountains and palaces could be seen, along with the Heaven-and-Earth Calamity Baleful Aura wreaking havoc everywhere.
It was none other than Starlight's Divine Kingdom!
If Tang Changsheng had seen it with his own eyes, he would likely have turned pale with shock. Heavenly Lord Gonghua possessed an ability that let him fit an enormous Divine Kingdom inside such a tiny Bright Pearl.
Of course, Tang Changsheng could have done the same by borrowing the power of the Cave-Heaven Mirror fragment within the Three Realms Mirror. But he could not expose it, so he had had no choice but to abandon that Divine Kingdom.
Fortunately, he had later seized a Nightmare Shell, along with the