"My master is inside. You can go in now."
Outside the Main Nest Hall of the Azure Billow Immortal Abode, Han Li stopped and spoke to Li Shengyuan, then turned and left.
Li Shengyuan's heart tightened. He entered as instructed.
The Main Nest Hall was spacious and bright as day.
Illusions of mystic light projected a sky-like backdrop onto the four walls. Li Chen sat in the Mechanized Flying Chair, a pillar of spiritual light rising behind him like a column holding up the heavens, lending him an extraordinary presence.
Li Shengyuan had long revered Li Chen, but this was his first time meeting him in person. He had heard that Great Powers possessed Ten Thousand Manifestations, and he had no idea whether this was Li Chen's true body.
But even if it was not, this form stood as still as a deep pool and as imposing as a mountain, with an awe-inspiring bearing of its own. Standing before him felt like facing an abyss and a towering peak.
"This junior, Li Shengyuan of Cishan, pays his respects to you, Grandmaster!"
Li Shengyuan hurriedly collected himself and bowed with the courtesy due from a junior.
"Shengyuan, Bei Feng told me you have evidence that Xia Yutang of the Xia Household in Wu Province secretly aided the Immortal Alliance in plotting against my Heaven?" Li Chen wasted no time on pleasantries and went straight to the point.
"That is indeed the case. But they acted quickly, and many leads can no longer be traced. Those who knew anything were either silenced or closely connected to him and unwilling to come forward. While investigating in secret, I inadvertently touched on something that alerted him to my activities." Li Shengyuan then recounted everything he had experienced recently in full detail.
Li Chen neither