[Only one chapter at noon. A new plotline is underway, not yet fully unraveled!]
Inside the Azure Blood Palace.
With Xiao Chen leading the way, Bai Zhan and Gu Yang naturally wouldn't remain trapped outside the Heavenly Palace. This was the Human Emperor's Heavenly Palace in the Central Domain—an area even emperors dared not breach casually, let alone these two.
What followed, however, brought great joy to Xiao Chen. Gu Yang, who had arrived alongside Bai Zhan, came to pledge allegiance. This marked the first time since the beginning of his cultivation journey that someone had taken the initiative to join him!
Gu Yang, like Bai Zhan, had emerged from the Hundred Clans Battlefield. Learning about the situation on that battlefield from the East Emperor filled Xiao Chen's heart with a heavy weight. For anyone to escape that slaughterhouse of the Hundred Clans, Gu Yang's combat prowess needed no further explanation.
