"Tan Yaozheng."
As Zhang Yuan spoke that name, its three syllables echoed in the ears of everyone present, whether it was [Demon King Mingluo Hunzhao] high above in the sky, Xie Jingxin, the Nether-Knocking Lord, or Shangxian True Person, one of [True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts]'s incarnations.
Whether they knew her or not, everyone understood upon hearing the name that its owner was no ordinary person.
"What is he trying to do?"
[Demon King Mingluo Hunzhao] stirred slightly in thought and looked down at Zhang Yuan, finally taking him seriously.
"The door is open. It's time the sun came out, too."
Zhang Yuan raised his eyes slightly and spoke calmly. A gleam of light abruptly rose in the east behind him.
The cooldown of the [Sun-Eroding Demon King Palace]'s divine effect, [Eroding the Sun], had ended just as dawn arrived. The sun, long absent from Roselight Capital, slowly rose behind Zhang Yuan, its gentle rays bathing his figure in brilliant radiance.
And accompanying that long-absent sunlight was a response from the [Eternal Ancient Imperial Edict Divine Master], far away in Heaven-Reaching City of the Great Heng Dynasty.
Watching Zhang Yuan bathed in golden light, [Demon King Mingluo Hunzhao] involuntarily raised a hand before his "head," as though the sunlight he had not seen in so long stung his eyes.
"No... the sun only appeared because its time had come. Something else has arrived besides that. What is it?"
[Demon King Mingluo Hunzhao] peered through his fingers toward the space behind Zhang Yuan. With the vision of a Taiyi Realm Demon King, he gazed across hundreds of millions of miles, his sight almost reaching the edges of the Crimson Firmament Roselight Realm. Yet he still saw nothing.
There was nothing there, but "something" had definitely come.
What was it?
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