Morning Prosperity Star Domain, Mount Jiuhua territory.
It should have been a festival day filled with bustling voices, celebration, and harmony.
Immortal music drifted through the air, auspicious clouds curling all around.
Countless disciples clad in ceremonial robes moved between the peaks, exchanging salutes in a grand spectacle.
Yet amid this festive atmosphere,
the main hall atop the mountain presented an entirely different scene.
The Mount Jiuhua Master sat alone upon a meditation cushion, faint earth-yellow law radiance rippling around him like waves.
His brows were tightly furrowed, his mind unable to find peace.
"Something is wrong..."
One had to know that the laws of earth he cultivated
were renowned for defense, yet strengthened by Mount Jiuhua's secret arts, they also gave him an extraordinarily keen perception of dangers lurking beyond sight.
Logically, he had already handed over the many precious protective treasures stored within Mount Jiuhua to his junior brother, Ge Feng.
With those Treasured Artifacts on him, coupled with Ge Feng's own cultivation at the peak of the Melding Dao Realm Fourth Tier,
there should have been no room for error.
What was more, within the Ji family, who could possibly threaten a Melding Dao Realm Fourth Tier peak venerable lord armed with such Treasured Artifacts?
Even if Ye Li was truly as monstrous as the rumors claimed, capable of suppressing those at the peak of the Dao Holder Realm, it should still have been impossible...
Crack!
A crisp sound of shattering exploded through his sea of consciousness like thunder!
The Mount Jiuhua Master abruptly opened his eyes, his gaze locking onto the high platform before him!
The Soul Tablet representing Ge Feng's life essence had suddenly split open with a horrifying crack!
Before he could make any response!
The Soul Tablet burst apart with a muffled bang,