A total of nine people had come, flame marks on their robes indicating they were from the Flame Divine Hall. However, their robes were different from those of Jiang Yiban and the others, as they lacked any inscribed runes.6

These nine were powerful Nine Star Doyens. The air twisted around them, and waves of heat made it feel like everyone was standing in a furnace.5

Their leader, a fair-faced young man with a word on his back, swaggered over to Long Chen with a sinister expression.12

“Long Chen, I thought that you would keep hiding forever. Who would have thought that you had the bravery to come to my Cao family’s territory? Your guts aren’t small!”1

At first, Long Chen’s attention was on the stone. However, seeing these nine...1