Following the death of the King of Lunan, the seven dragon pillars were collected by King Zhao and soared into the sky in a rumbling upshoot.
Apart from the imperial palace, which was reduced to ruins, the entire royal city suffered virtually no damage.
However, when Shen Zhui and the others piloted their warship over, they distinctly sensed some powerful presences subtly extinguishing.
Mysterious figures in black kept appearing throughout the royal city, killing off certain officials attempting to flee.
As the lord of a vassal kingdom, the King of Lunan siding with extraterrestrial forces—and not as a mere soul slave—was truly unpredictable.
The vast power of his appointed officials had deeply-seated roots; it was indeed hard to believe that his subordinates would be completely clean given the king himself had cast his lot with the enemy.
The black-clad figures killing the officials were from the Monitoring Bureau!