Xiahou You frowned and asked:
"Who is the other black-robed man?"
As the two spoke, the enormous Dragon Chariot landed on the Dragon-Suppressing Platform with a boom.
As though sensing the profound resentment beneath the Dragon-Suppressing Platform, the four True Dragon phantoms began letting out incessant, shrill wails after landing.
Then they heard Old Palace Master Jiang Xuanfeng say to Xu Taiping:
"Daoist Priest, let us get down. If we do not release this Dragon Chariot soon, the remaining divine sense of these four True Dragons may well dissipate."
Xu Taiping immediately nodded slightly. Then, under the astonished gazes of the cultivators, he leaped down with Old Palace Master Jiang Xuanfeng and landed on the Sword-Suppressing Sword Platform.
After a brief moment of surprise, Elder Lu, who was responsible for registering entrants for Ranking Ascension, saw that Jiang Xuanfeng had brought an uninvolved cultivator onto the Dragon-Suppressing Platform. He immediately frowned and said with some displeasure:
"Palace Master Jiang, registration for Ranking Ascension has not yet finished. Unauthorized people may not step onto the Sword-Suppressing Sword Platform."
Of all the Profound Elixir Palace elders, Elder Lu was the most impartial and selfless, so he dared to question even someone brought by the Palace Master to his face.
Jiang Xuanfeng glared at Elder Lu upon hearing this, then turned his gaze toward Xu Taiping beside him and said:
"Daoist Priest, I shall leave you to handle things from here."
With that, Jiang Xuanfeng ignored Elder Lu's astonished gaze and vanished from the Dragon-Suppressing Platform in a flash.
Seeing Jiang Xuanfeng disappear, Elder Lu immediately frowned and turned his gaze toward Xu Taiping. "Daoist Priest, since you arrived with the Palace Master aboard the Dragon Chariot, you must be an honored guest of our Profound Elixir Palace. But now that you are