Inside a palace hall in the Great Sheng Imperial City, used for handling government affairs.
A memorial bearing the seal of the [Dragon Sealing Guard] lay utterly still upon the desk, the traces of Magic Power inscriptions upon it not yet dried.
The Eldest Princess sat before the desk, her slender hand holding the memorial trembling lightly. "..."
As the current regent, even if the Great Sheng Dragon Sealing Guard possessed the authority to act independently, their movements would be reported to her at the first possible moment.
Yet not long after she received word of the [siege of the Mo Family], before she had fully deciphered Ye Li's intentions and had just dispatched her advisers to send reinforcements—
The news of the [Mo Family's extermination] arrived before her desk in the form of a second memorial.
The speed of this operation... was simply so fast that it beggared belief!
The Mo Family of the Capital City.
If no second great clan of the same kind had moved here recently, then it should have been that first-rate aristocratic family with a High-ranking Venerable overseeing it.
The Eldest Princess closed her eyes for a long while, yet the tide in her heart still would not settle.
Not only because of the ruthlessness of those thunderous methods.
But even more because Tong Feng, her trusted subordinate, had lavished Ye Li with praise in the memorial. Every word and sentence made her chest feel tight and stifled.
One step late, every step late!
Had she known that Immortal Scenery Dragon Pool possessed such a peerless prodigy, she, Li Huaian, would have staked out the many cities within the Dragon Pool Realm at all times, even if it meant neither eating, drinking, nor sleeping!
And now, the emotion called [regret] had long since grown