The entire portal was empty. The over 1,000,000 cultivators hovered in the air looking down, and the two Swordsage Court grand elders stood by, looking somber. Everyone was looking at the person materializing in the middle of the portal. The cultivators from the Justice Palace seemed very serious. As for Yao Yunhui, who had been just about to hurry forward to clasp hands in greetings, she suddenly stopped in place and looked at the materializing figure. For some reason, this person seemed familiar to her. And then, as the light reached its most dazzling brightness, that person became clear.1

It was Xu Qing!9

The moment he materialized, the surrounding 1,000,000 cultivators and the two Swordsage Court grand elders clasped hands and bowed to him.1

They didn’t speak a word. They just bowed. And yet, that bow was such a powerful gesture it caused heaven and earth to tremble violently. There was even an invisible convergence of destiny aura at play.36

Xu Qing looked around at everything. He knew that as secretary-general, he didn’t deserve to be bowed to...2