Wen Kingdom.
Hongde City-the seat of the main branch at the Wen River Deng Clan's Ancestral Grounds.
Deng Qiuzhi returned to the Deng Residence with a slightly darkened expression and headed toward an Artifact Refining Room within.
He pushed open the door to the Artifact Refining Room.
A Daoist Attendant sat cross-legged on a Meditation Cushion, giving off no aura whatsoever-not even the presence of a mortal or an inanimate object. Were he not visible to the naked eye, the attendant would have been like air, existing beyond Heaven and Earth.
True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns.
The attendant slowly opened his eyes. Seeing his elder brother Deng Qiuzhi enter the room, he asked in a calm, natural voice:
"Did your trip to Heaven-Reaching City go smoothly, elder brother?"
"It did not. The Great Heng Founder intercepted that Central Heaven Conceptual Image ahead of us." Deng Qiuzhi found a place to sit and shook his head.
True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns said, "A conceptual image of the Central Land manifested in the Great Heng Dynasty's Heaven-Reaching City. It was only natural for him to intercept it. If anything, Daoist Tan must have been in a good mood not to slap every Celestial Person in the city to death."
A crowd of Celestial Persons from the Dust-Dyed Realm had run roughshod through his own Capital City. Even if the Great Heng Founder had slapped them all to death, it would have been entirely reasonable. No one could have found fault with him.
Deng Qiuzhi did not care about that either. Since True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns had asked, he merely mentioned it.
He had already reached Celestial Person Perfection and walked the sha ingestion gang devoration path to its limit. Aside from opportunities that could help him in seeking