Everyone looked toward this voice and saw the newly ascended prince—the one who had ignited a seal in the River of Blood—Habsburg of the Flaming Crown.

His position in the council had risen by leaps and bounds after igniting the seal. However, he spoke so rarely that people had almost forgotten his existence.

But he had actually spoken such astonishing words during the meeting. Many people knew that Habsburg had dealings with Lin Xitang before. They immediately began wondering whether he knew something.

At the level of a council member, no one would speak lies so easily. In addition to strength, reputation was also something valued by the true bigshots.

A white-haired elder spoke only after a while, “We indeed cannot exclude such a possibility, but we need to verify it.”

Everyone fell into silence at this point. Verify? How were they to verify this?

In the recent twenty years, the empire’s Twin Paragons had always been at the forefront of the factional conflict. Since Lin Xitang’s rise to fame, the Evernight Council had lost count of how many times they had suffered in the man’s hands. Be it in terms of scheming, war, or divination, countless characters from the council had taken the field but failed...