The Jade Capital Society's Headquarters.
The starry fortress, normally seething with demonic aura, was shrouded in an unbearably oppressive atmosphere that day.
Inside the Secret Hall.
Ape Two, who had been left to guard the place, paced back and forth in the center of the hall with his hands clasped behind his back.
A closer look revealed the relentless anxiety in his eyes.
"What on earth is going on...?"
Ape Two's brow was tightly furrowed, his heart pounding uncontrollably in his chest.
Starting half a day earlier.
Vast, overwhelming waves of sorrow had begun spreading through heaven and earth, one after another.
It was as though the Great Dao of the universe were weeping in grief.
Even the Dao Hearts of cultivators like them trembled along with it.
But by all rights, only the death of a supreme powerhouse in the Transcendence Realm could cause such a terrifying outpouring of grief from heaven and earth!
Could something have gone wrong at the Emperor-Seeking Ceremony?
An absurd thought rose in Ape Two's mind:
Could it be... that something happened to the Divine Lord Lihuo?!
But the moment that thought appeared, he swiftly dismissed it himself.
"Impossible. Absolutely impossible!"
Ape Two shook his head, reassuring himself inwardly:
That Divine Lord is a supreme powerhouse at the peak of transcendence, only a hair below the Sword Pavilion's founding patriarch back then!
And Wutong Mountain's reserves are unfathomable.
Who in the Primordial Sea could possibly kill him?
Even if Ye Li went there, he would only be courting death!
Besides... my eldest brother and Third Brother attended the banquet too. If anything really happened, they would send word to me immediately...
At that thought, he calmed down a little.
But before even half an hour had passed.
Hummm!!!
Another utterly familiar surge of transcendent