The largest residence in Miaochong Prefecture City now bore two enormous plaques: "Qiong-Pacifying General's Office" and "Azure Abyss Marquis's Manor."
Spiritual light shone, lending it extraordinary grandeur.
Deep within the residence, luminous pearls hung high in a newly built, enormous banquet hall. Spirit dishes filled the tables, and the fragrance of exquisite nectar wafted everywhere.
Almost all the ingredients were second tier, with some even third tier!
Yet the atmosphere, which should have been lively, was somewhat icy, so oppressive that it left people struggling to breathe.
Qing Chen sat high in the chief seat, wearing black robes patterned in gold. His fingertips tapped lightly against the white bone armrest, producing dull, rhythmic knocks;
like death warrants, each knock struck the hearts of everyone attending the banquet below.
His expression remained blank as his gaze swept over those below.
On the left sat the sect representatives, headed by Gong Shisan of the Infinite Extremity Devil Palace.
Qing Chen had some ties with Gong Shisan, and still had a favor from him that he had not called in.
They had ventured into Primordial Magnetic Origin Mountain together back then, and now Gong Shisan, too, was a Nascent Soul True Lord.
After learning of Qing Chen's current circumstances, he had guessed that Qing Chen had seized the Magnetic Origin Rule Thread, leaving him deeply moved.
He privately guessed that the pawn who had crossed the river back then had most likely been this very man.
When his eyes met Qing Chen's, his gaze was complicated, holding a barely perceptible trace of wariness;
in the end, it dissolved into a helpless sigh, and he nodded slightly in acknowledgment.
The Golden Core managers behind him, however, kept their gazes wandering, not daring to look at Qing Chen at all. They merely stared at the