"In three days, I'll go. As for the Empress... let's stall for now. There's no need to rush over."
After a brief moment of thought, Zhang Yuan said this to Tan Chengcheng.
The Great Heng Empress was summoning them now, and she might well be preparing to put them under the knife: kill Tan Chengcheng, then seize the Great Heng Emperor's divine power to ascend to the position of Divine Master.
That being the case, there was no need to hurry over.
Ji Guang, on the other hand...
[True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts] had deliberately let him learn of his connection to the First God Cult. Although the message he had Tan Yaozheng deliver made no mention of the cult, it was intimately bound up with it.
Rather than a message for him, it was a message for the First God Cult's Holy Son.
And if he refused to go, Ji Guang would make all his secrets public.
"That old ghost..."
Zhang Yuan rubbed his brow.
To be honest, he had no idea how many of his secrets Ji Guang knew. Whenever he had faced a True Lord in the past, he had always suppressed his talents as much as possible. In theory, Ji Guang should not have known too many of his secrets.
But a True Lord's methods were hard to guard against. Zhang Yuan could not be certain what secrets Ji Guang knew, and he dared not gamble.
His only choice was to keep the appointment.
"All right," Tan Chengcheng said with a nod.
Zhang Yuan was her pillar of support now. Whatever he said went; there was no need to question it.
Tan Yaozheng asked curiously, "Zhang Yuan, what secrets do you have? Could you tell my elder sister and me? Don't worry, I promise I