The entire hall was as silent as death…. Bai Xiaochun’s words, plus the scintillating eighteen-colored flame, caused all hearts to pound with indescribable levels of shock. The heavenly dukes and marquises were so stunned that they felt like their minds were being struck by 100,000 bolts of lightning!

In fact, it was almost as if everyone present had been slapped in the face by a gigantic hand!!

It didn’t take long for the silence to be broken by exclamations of shock.

“Impossible. This… this is impossible!!”

“Eighteen…. eighteen-colored flame….”

“He’s an earthly necromancer!!”

“The heavens have no eyes! There’s no way that this is really happening!!”

The first voice to ring out in the hall was like an ice cube thrown into a vat of boiling oil. Almost immediately, a cacophony of shouting filled the hall. The heavenly marquises’ faces were all as ashen as death, their expressions those of...