Yan Zhen's expression instantly turned exceedingly ugly.
Only moments earlier, he had been the first to step forward and question the Governor-General's decree.
Pei Xuance gave Qing Chen a long look, then glanced toward the gray-white escape light outside the hall that had yet to disperse completely. After a moment's silence, he finally rose slowly.
The next instant, two streaks of Nascent Soul escape light shot into the sky, swept over the Governor-General's Office amid rolling wind and thunder, and raced after Yue Ting.
Just as the two left the hall, Qin Wujiang and Suzhou Governor Luo Chong were already in the gravest danger.
One wielded the six-armed blood god dharma form and the supreme-grade magic treasure, the Blood-Slaughter Armor; the other summoned the supreme-grade Black Bone Yuan-Devouring Banner. Both were Nascent Soul late-stage powerhouses ranked among the Northwestern Circuit's foremost geniuses.
In the outside world, an ordinary Nascent Soul peak cultivator such as Southeastern Circuit Mirror Lord Yan Tong would not dare show the slightest carelessness against either of them.
Yet only after actually fighting Qing Chen did they discover, to their horror, that the three blood dragons from before had merely been his first layer of methods!
Hum-
A faint, almost imperceptible vibration rippled out from deep within Qing Chen's brow.
Outside the hall, wind and snow filled the world. The gray-white escape light Yue Ting had become had already vanished beyond the horizon, with Pei Xuance and Yan Zhen close behind. In the blink of an eye, the three men's auras were a hundred li away.
Many in the hall were still looking in the direction Yue Ting had fled, lingering shock on their faces.
Qing Chen's single strike had just split into three, suppressing Qin Wujiang, Luo Chong, and Yue Ting simultaneously.
In fact, the power