Outside the main gate of the duchy of Heaven Zenith, everything was absolutely silent. The Holytide cultivators all stared with eyes that were initially blank with confusion, then wide with shock. It didn’t matter what level of cultivation base was involved. It didn’t matter how much they had suspected Xu Qing and Chen Erniu. All of them could see their Nightshade divine likeness on its knees trembling, and they all heard what it called out. Massive waves of shock smashed into their minds, causing many jaws to drop.5

The Spirit Trove duke stood there with his head spinning. He felt like he had a tempest in his heart, sweeping over his sea of consciousness, and even causing his three secret troves to twist and distort.3

Most flabbergasted of all was the young Holytide who had escorted Xu Qing and Chen Erniu on their journey. As an earl of the duchy of Heaven Zenith, he had always taken pride in his own wisdom, and had intentionally pretended to be foolish while on the road. He had been very proud of how he turned the tables on these two scam artists. But then everything got switched around, and he still didn’t know how to react. His eyes were the widest of all, and his brain felt like it was being struck by millions of bolts of lightning.5

“Th-that... that.... That’s not possible! That’s our... Nightshade divine likeness!”6

As he stood there trembling, he was struck with the intense sensation that none of what was happening was real.0

Not every one of the thirty-six city-states qualified to be sent a divine likeness...0