Nine Dragons Draw the Palace, the Divine Son Descends upon Youxuan
Gu Xuanjin stepped out of his Dao Evolution Hall.
In the void,
Divine mountains stood in rows, divine beasts soared, divine charm abounded, and endless immortal radiance flowed.
From time to time, the sounds of the Dao rang out.
Everything showed that the Gu Clan was a true supreme holy land.
Gu Xuanjin arrived at the Gu Clan's spacious, resplendent council hall.
He summoned Ji Song, who was at the ninth heaven of the Supreme Realm.
Ji Song was the deputy commander of the Gu Clan's Divine Martial Guard.
He was usually responsible for guarding the Gu Clan's divine mountains.
As the Gu Clan's taboo divine son, Gu Xuanjin was naturally entitled to command him.
Looking at the valiant young man before him, with his resolute features and heavy, oppressive presence,
Gu Xuanjin said calmly:
"Uncle Ji, do you know where my fourth uncle's daughter, my cousin Gu Xiaoya, went to break off her engagement?"
Ji Song nodded slightly. This was no secret in the Gu Clan.
"I heard it was the Xiao Clan of the Great Li Imperial Dynasty in the Youxuan Dao Domain.
"The Xiao Clan was once a prominent clan in its glory days.
"It produced several Supreme Realm experts.
"But it later offended quite a few powers and was constantly suppressed as a result.
"It gradually fell into decline.
"Now it can only huddle in a small border city of the dynasty, clinging to its last breath."
Gu Xuanjin's sword-shaped brows drew together slightly.
"Even at its peak, the Xiao Clan was not a ten-thousandth of what our Gu Clan is.
"How did we end up with a marriage alliance with the Xiao Clan?"
Ji Song said with a bitter smile:
"Back then,
"Your fourth uncle's father, divine son, was very close to the Xiao Clan's old patriarch.
"So they arranged this marriage."
"Miss Xiaoya only learned a few days ago that she had been betrothed as a child, and she was very unhappy about it.
"Miss Xiaoya said she couldn't just marry a stranger she'd never met.
"So, in a fit of anger,
"Miss Xiaoya kept it from her father and grandfather
"and went to the Xiao Clan with a few maids, intending to have them dissolve the engagement."
"We also looked into Miss Xiaoya's fiancé, Xiao Han.
"He was originally a genius with considerable aptitude.
"He began cultivating at six, condensed his meridians at nine, and reached Foundation Establishment at twelve.
"But three years ago, for some unknown reason, his cultivation regressed instead of advancing, and he became a piece of trash who couldn't cultivate."
After hearing Ji Song's explanation,
Gu Xuanjin nodded slightly in understanding.
Since this was no secret among the Gu Clan's upper ranks,
yet his fourth uncle had not stopped her,
presumably he didn't want his daughter to marry Xiao Han, who had become a piece of trash, either.
After pondering for a moment,
Gu Xuanjin said calmly:
"Uncle Ji, take a hundred Divine Martial Guards and come with me to the Xiao Clan.
"We're going to their doorstep to break off the engagement.
"After such a profound humiliation, the Xiao Clan will surely harbor resentment and become enemies of our Gu Clan in the future.
"I'll wipe out their entire clan and eliminate the threat once and for all!"
Ji Song was momentarily stunned.
The Xiao Clan had long since fallen into such decline that it probably couldn't even produce a Pill Sea Realm cultivator.
Was there any need to make such a great show of force?
Gu Xuanjin did not explain further.
At any other time,
a single word from him would have been enough to make countless Xiao Clans vanish from the world.
But now Xiao Han was the protagonist, blessed with the Heavenly Dao's fortune.
To prevent any accidents, he had no choice but to be more cautious.
Only by doing it himself could he rest easy!
Ji Song then accepted his orders and left the council hall.
Half an hour later,
Within one of the Gu Clan's divine mountains,
Above a vast and intricate cross-domain teleportation array,
Nine ferocious black dragons circled, their bodies blotting out the sky and their presence terrifying beyond compare.
Together, they drew a luxurious traveling palace that resembled an imperial throne hall.
The entire palace was carved and built from white jade, gleaming pale like the bright moon and glazed crystal.
It shone with vast, cold divine radiance, while countless rosy rays flowed around it.
Endless razor-sharp Sword Qi coiled and streamed around it like brooks.
The inside of the palace was even more luxurious.
All manner of rare treasures of heaven and earth, difficult to find in the world, served merely as decorations in its construction.
Gu Xuanjin sat on the central throne, which bristled with Sword Qi.
Sword intent surrounded him, and his bearing was lofty and untainted by the mundane, yet his sharp edge was fully exposed.
He was like a young sword immortal!
Ji Song stood respectfully beside him.
Behind the palace,
More than a hundred soldiers in black armor followed in a vast procession.
They rode savage beasts and held divine halberds, each exuding a fierce presence.
These men were the Divine Martial Guard!
The weakest among them were at the Mystic Pill Realm.
Even the dozen or two at the front exuded the powerful pressure of the Marquis Realm and Saint King Realm.
Such a force
would have been difficult for even an ordinary major power to withstand.
Gu Xuanjin took out an exquisite jade pendant.
On one side were carved lifelike divine beasts; on the other were written the three characters for "Gu Xuanjin."
It was his identity pendant, the jade pendant bearing the highest authority in the Gu Clan.
Ji Song took the token.
In an instant, he activated the cross-domain teleportation array below.
In a flash,
Magnificent divine light shot into the sky.
Vast and mysterious spatial laws surged through the void like waves.
The void slowly shattered, forming an enormous black hole.
The nine black dragons drew the palace into it, with the Divine Martial Guards close behind.
The Youxuan Dao Domain.
Xuzhou City, at the southeastern border.
Above the enormous cross-domain teleportation array,
The void suddenly trembled and hummed, and dragon roars rang out, shaking the hearts and minds of all who heard them.
The void shattered with a boom.
It formed an immense black hole.
The sky-blotting forms of nine ferocious black dragons gradually emerged from within.
The overwhelming pressure each black dragon exuded made the void tremble faintly.
Everyone around the teleportation array felt an indescribable suffocation.
Even their legs went weak, and they could not resist the urge to kneel in submission.
More astonishing still,
The black dragons, whose pressure was as heavy and terrifying as mountains,
Were actually drawing a magnificent, colossal palace ablaze with endless divine light behind them!
And behind the traveling palace,
More than a hundred soldiers with powerful presences followed in a vast procession, riding ferocious beasts.
Their Qi was powerful to the extreme.
It disturbed the void in this region, making heaven and earth change color.
The boundless, heavy pressure forced countless people nearby to prostrate themselves on the ground.
The shock in their hearts could not have been greater.
They had never seen such a grand spectacle!
Nine dragons drawing a palace!
What an astonishing display of extravagance! How exalted must the person inside the palace be!
Fortunately, before long,
The nine enormous black dragons drew the palace,
And, together with the soldiers of powerful presence, disappeared from the sky above Xuzhou City.
The heavy, world-destroying pressure slowly dissipated.
Only then did the people around the teleportation array slowly get back to their feet.
Their entire bodies were drenched in sweat.
Still shaken, they looked in the direction the nine black dragons had gone, their scalps tingling.
"Ah, I feel like I just took a trip through hell. My legs are still weak!"
"Hey! That direction... isn't that the Great Li Imperial Dynasty?"
"With a terrifying procession like that, it looks like they didn't come with good intentions.
"It seems something big is going to happen in the Great Li Imperial Dynasty!"
Xuzhou City was not the only place thrown into an uproar.
Several hegemonic powers in the Youxuan Dao Domain were also alerted.
Gu Xuanjin had not concealed his presence.
So they could clearly sense
That a Supreme Realm expert was stationed in the palace behind the black dragons!
In the current age, when Great Emperors did not appear and Quasi-Emperors held sway,
Supreme Realm experts possessed the ultimate fighting strength to dominate a region.
No one dared underestimate a Supreme Realm expert.
The True Martial Immortal Palace.
Before a clear, pure lake wreathed in ethereal immortal mist,
An old man in black robes fished while watching a scene projected in the void before him.
In the scene,
Nine black dragons drew a palace, with more than a hundred powerful soldiers following behind.
The old man was somewhat curious.
"Those seem to be the Gu Clan's Divine Martial Guards. What has the Gu Clan come to the Youxuan Dao Domain for?"
Similar scenes played out among several of the other hegemonic powers.
With the Gu Clan appearing in their region, no one dared ignore it.