Xia Wujie had felt rather disgruntled after failing to kill Ye Tianchen with a single arrow on Vermilion Bird Avenue that day. Now that the Heavenly Pivot Sect was under investigation, he had simply come in person with his Personal Guards.
First, that fellow Ye had offended the Eastern Palace.
Second, ahem, he was better off avoiding Yun Tianluo for now.
The exceedingly thick-skinned Stabilizing Prince of Great Xia put away his guilty conscience and looked impatiently at Ye Tianchen.
"I haven't even questioned you about abducting a bride in the street and insulting the Crown Prince of Great Xia, yet you've already finished flinging your dirty water."
He raised his hand, about to order their suppression.
Just then, storms suddenly churned in the far northern sky, tearing the sea of clouds apart!
Everyone instinctively looked up. A pitch-black streak of light spanning a thousand miles plunged from the horizon, waves of chaos blanketing heaven and earth, its oppressive might bearing down upon ten thousand peaks. At the center of the clouds, a giant python with chaos shrouding its patterned scales broke through!
Seven-colored mystic light flowed across the python's body. As he moved, space faintly warped, as though even the spiritual energy of heaven and earth would be silently devoured by him.
A moment later, the enormous serpent head slowly lowered, its pressure stilling the wind across every peak of the Sword-Seeking Mountains. The Heavenly Pivot Sect disciples felt their scalps prickle, as though an ancient ferocious creature had fixed its gaze on them.
"Wh-what is that thing?!"
The Great Xia Dragon Cavalry instinctively raised their spears, but Xia Wujie lifted a hand to stop them.
"Stand down."
Only then did everyone notice the black-robed figure standing atop the python's head.
Yun Qing stood with his hands behind his