As Shi Jingcheng broke through, figures sitting cross-legged inside a palace hall opened their eyes. Above them, a bronze mirror hovered in midair.
Within the bronze mirror, an earthen-yellow light shone with dazzling brilliance.
"Cough, cough!" Amid a series of coughs, an exceedingly aged-looking man was wheeled into the hall.
"Your Majesty!" The figures hurriedly bowed. An elder in white robes even stepped behind the old man himself to push his wheelchair.
"Dispense with the formalities, honored retainers. Skywatch, whose yellow light is that in the Skywatch Mirror?" The old man waved a hand, glanced at the bronze mirror overhead, and asked.
The bronze mirror was a Level 9 Soul Tool, the Skywatch Mirror. It could detect the auras of every Soul Master within the Imperial City, as well as powerful auras anywhere within Mingdu. It was also the core of all the city's arrays.
This hall was called Skywatch Hall, and those stationed within it were all Titled Douluos serving as honored retainers of the Sun Moon Empire.
The old man was the reigning emperor of the Sun Moon Empire. His allotted years were nearly spent, and his health was growing ever worse, but the lingering authority of his decades-long reign still kept anyone from underestimating him.
The white-robed elder pushing him said, "A new Titled Douluo has emerged in East District Seven."
"East District Seven? I recall Grandmaster Huang Yi's teacher lives there, doesn't he?" the old man asked.
Skywatch, the white-robed elder, said, "Indeed. The person who broke through possesses earth-attribute soul power, and his aura matches Shi Jingcheng's."
"Heh, Shi Jingcheng. To think he really managed to break through after more than a decade. With that stubborn old fellow's temperament, he would never have broken through without first becoming a Level 9 Soul Engineer." The old