The Di Jiang Demon Banner rumbled with excitement, its surface abruptly swelling as it swept up all the Spirit Transformation flesh and blood in the hall, along with the shattered bones and scraps of skin.
Immediately afterward, the successive Formation Gates of the underground blood hall closed one after another, completely blocking all probing Divine Sense from outside.
While Qing Chen was in seclusion refining his treasures, a military dispatch of the highest priority, sent from Yanmen Pass, had already crossed tens of millions of miles through the Immortal Dynasty's Communication Arrays and reached Jade Capital Mountain in the Divine Capital.
Ten days later, in the Imperial Pole Hall.
Purple-gold fortune still flowed over the nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine Coiling Dragon Jade Pillars, while the Heavenly Cycle Star Map overhead illuminated the nine circuits and hundred provinces.
To the northwest, vast stretches of territory formerly belonging to the Golden Tent Khanate had been stained crimson-black, and a great blood-colored star hung high above Fallen Star Plain without falling.
Beneath that great star, a thousand-zhang jade screen displaying recorded images floated in midair.
In the images, Qing Chen stood at the center of the Yin River Domain. Behind him, the Lawless Devil Aspect stained half the sky red, the Primordial Magnetism Cauldron sent down a thousand bolts of annihilating divine lightning, and the Blood River God-Slaying Spear slammed into the Black Fox King's physical body again and again.
Finally, the Eight Banners encircled him, the Immortal-Burying Demon Coffin opened, and eight immortal-binding blood hands dragged the Black Fox King's Primordial Spirit bodily into the coffin.
The image froze there.
Silence fell over the Imperial Pole Hall.
Even though those entitled to stand here were all among Great Jin's foremost Immortal Officials, nobles, and imperial clansmen, including no shortage