The middle-aged man could naturally also hear the deep booms in the distance, and he glanced up at the sky from time to time as faint fear flowed from his eyes. He was a soul engineer, and that meant he was fundamentally a soul master as well, but this was the first time that he had ever heard something as frightening as that. Furthermore, he had no idea what was going on, and it was happening while there was something else on his mind. He glanced at his screen a lot more than before.

Right at that moment, shadows rose into the sky from another courtyard behind this one. An old and hardy voice said, “Li Chong, guard the courtyard. We’ll head to the royal palace to see what’s going on.”

Eight shadows surged into the air, and transformed into flowing light as they bolted toward the deep booms echoing across the horizon, and the royal palace beneath them.

Everyone looked on as those shadows disappeared beyond the horizon. Wang Dong’er, Wang Qiu’er, Ji Juchen, Jing Ziyan, and Xiao Xiao all glanced at Huo Yuhao with a little more admiration in their eyes.

They had waited for only a short while longer,...