Within the imperial capital of the Blood Sun Empire on the southern region of the Cloud Plane, there was an extremely bustling street. Cultivators of various shapes and sizes moved about constantly. It was noisy.
In the crowd, a middle-aged man wearing white clothes was slowly walking on the street. Beside this man was a woman wearing a purple dress. She had a graceful figure and a veil covering her face.
Although he couldn't see the woman's face, from her devilishly tall figure and her bewitching eyes, he could determine that she was definitely a peerless beauty.
The two of them were naturally Jianchen and Shangguan Mu 'er.
"I've been gone for a few decades, and the Cloud Plane has actually changed so drastically. The former ruler of the southern region, the Blood Sun Empire, has actually submitted to the Four Symbols Alliance now, becoming a subsidiary organisation of the Four Symbols Alliance …" Jianchen sighed emotionally as he sighed.
After coming to the southern region, he gained a rather clearer understanding of the situation there, including the Tianyuan family.
The Blood Sun Empire still existed. It was still ruled by the former imperial clan, and there was no change in regime. The only difference was that there was now a new master above the Blood Sun Empire.
The Tianyuan family was an extremely supreme existence in the southern region of the Cloud Plane. Even the master of the Blood Sun Empire, the Four Symbols Alliance, did not dare to offend them.
Of course, many people on the Cloud Plane were confused as to why the Tian Yuan clan possessed such a supreme status. More than ninety-nine percent of the people knew the truth. This was the only piece of information that everyone knew.
The only thing that was known to them was that the Tianyuan family possessed a Chaotic Prime.
Of course, only the Grand Primes of the Four Symbols Alliance and the Righteous Alliance knew that the Chaotic Prime was a divine general of the Heavenly Palace of Bisheng. Due to Ming Dong's reluctance to divulge it, the peak experts naturally did not announce it either.
Even though they were all prideful figures who could make the Cloud Plane tremble with just a stomp of their feet, all of them felt fear towards the Heavenly Palace of Bisheng.
"Fortunately, Ming Dong arrived in time and took care of the Tianyuan family. Otherwise, I don't know if the Tianyuan family would still be around." Jianchen muttered to himself, his heart filled with joy. He naturally knew that the glory that the Tianyuan family currently enjoyed was brought to them by Ming Dong.
Jianchen and Shangguan Mu 'er left the imperial capital of the Blood Sun Empire. Since he knew the Tianyuan family was fine, Jianchen was in no hurry to return immediately. Instead, he captured a bird that was several hundred meters wide and sat on its back with Shangguan Mu' er. They admired the scenery along the way as they made their way to the Pingtian Empire.
The journey was not peaceful either. They would come across powerful beasts from time to time, or they would come across bandits composed of cultivators. Even Overgods would not necessarily be able to make it through safely.
This was also one of the reasons why so many cultivators chose to use teleportation formations. Not only was it a matter of speed, but it was also safer.
After a long journey, Jianchen and Shangguan Mu 'er finally arrived at the Pingtian Empire. The current Pingtian Empire was several times larger than before.
Of course, the Pingtian Empire did not wage war against the outside world. Instead, a few divine kingdoms in the surroundings had been destroyed by the Heavenly Demon Religion in the past, and the imperial lineage had vanished. They had become masterless territories, so the Pingtian Empire naturally took them in.
Below the bird was an endless fortress that connected the two ends of the land. It was grand and majestic, as if it had split the land. Moreover, within the fortress, there were waves of powerful energy fluctuations spreading out.
This stronghold could both defend and attack at the same time.
"That's quite the investment," Jianchen sat on the bird as he stared at the fortress on the border of the Pingtian Empire. He was secretly surprised.
He could tell with a single glance that a Primordial realm expert had personally cast down the fortress, using up a tremendous amount of precious materials. It was engraved with powerful formations and various offensive methods. It was impossible for the Divine King to do something like that.
Just the amount of resources required to construct the fortress would not be enough even if some divine kingdoms emptied out all the wealth they had accumulated over the years.
Jianchen and Shangguan Mu 'er sat on the bird and directly flew over the fortress.
"Halt!"
However, at this moment, a bellow rang out from the fortress. It was thunderous, booming through the surroundings.
The early Overgod bird that Jianchen had captured trembled in fright from the bellow. If it were not for Jianchen's suppression, it would not have been able to escape.
It probably would have turned around and flown away already.
Three figures shot into the sky from the fortress. They all radiated with the presence of the Divine King, stopping Jianchen and Shangguan Mu 'er.
One of them was a late Divine King, while the other two were mid Divine King. Moreover, they radiated with a heavy presence of malice. Clearly, they were vicious people who had emerged from mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
"Sirs.
Don't you know the rules of our Pingtian Empire? No matter what organisation you come from, you must enter through the gates, or it will be seen as a provocation to our Pingtian Empire, "the burly man at the late Divine King growled.
Jianchen was clearly stunned. A sliver of surprise appeared on his face. He had never thought that the Divine Kingdom of Pingtian would become so domineering and dignified in just a few decades since he had left.
No matter what organisation they came from, they had to enter through the gates. Did that not include the two rulers of the Cloud Plane, the Four Symbols Alliance and the Righteous Alliance?
Since when had the Pingtian Empire become so domineering?
Shangguan Mu 'er blinked as well. She was rather confused. Was this really the Divine Kingdom of Pingtian she knew?
"Who came up with this rule? Was it the emperor of the Pingtian Empire? "Jianchen asked. The ruler of a divine kingdom was usually referred to as a divine king, but once an organisation reached the Primordial realm, the ruler would basically be referred to as an emperor.
"Emperors naturally don't have the right to come up with a rule like that. This rule was personally set by the vice-patriarch of the Tianyuan family," the Divine King said coldly and arrogantly.
Jianchen became stunned when he heard that. Since when did the Tianyuan family have a vice-patriarch?
"Who's the vice-patriarch?" Jianchen asked.
The Divine King frowned and said, "You talk too much. If you want to enter the Pingtian Empire, you better follow the rules of our Pingtian Empire and enter through the gates. Otherwise, you'll be provoking our Pingtian Empire."
As the Divine King spoke, a Divine King flew over with a few Overgods with his head held high. They did not enter through the gates. Instead, they directly flew through the air, entering the territory of the Pingtian Empire without any obstructions.
"Why can they enter directly, but we can't?" Jianchen asked as he looked at the group of people.
"Hmph, can't you see their clothes and the medallions on their waists? They're from the Tianyuan family, so they naturally don't need to follow this rule," the Divine King said. He had become rather impatient.
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