The meeting in the Star Brilliance Tower's main hall came to an end. The Eastern Guardian left in frustration, while the Southern Guardian, who had allied himself with Lin Yi, wore a smile as he accompanied Lin Yi for quite some distance.
From that point on, Lin Yi's temporary control over Starfall City had been tacitly accepted by the Five Towers and the Four Directions Guardians.
Lin Yi walked steadily out of the Star Brilliance Tower, fully aware of one thing.
The reason he had so smoothly secured his position as temporary ruler was, ultimately, because Starfall City's upper ranks were vacant and understaffed.
Two of the Four Directions Guardians were absent, the Glazed Tower Master remained in secluded cultivation, and the only one left, the Mercury Tower Master, was low-key and seasoned. With no leader among them, he had been given the chance to take power.
If not for this unusual situation, even if the Eastern and Southern Guardians had already compromised and the Mercury Tower Master had silently approved, the authority to govern Starfall City would never have fallen to a White Tiger Captain Steward at the early Emperor Realm.
Though power was now in his hands, Lin Yi did not relax in the slightest. Instead, an inescapable shadow lingered in his heart.
The two mysterious Emperor Cultivators whose presence had triggered a warning from his Cicada Sense remained firmly on his mind.
Their auras were obscure, making their origins impossible to discern. They were highly likely to be peak Emperor Realm existences.
A deeply troubling possibility surfaced in his mind.
If one of those two was the Ancestor of the Five Directions Dao, then the seemingly stable Starfall City would soon fall into an immense crisis.
Moreover, no one knew why the Ancestor of the Five Directions