The Demonic World I designed-Chapter 703 - 694: Four Holy Guard

The Heavenly Master selection stirred little interest among the common folk, especially outside of Tiandu; truth be told, even the Sorcerer Families beyond Yundu didn’t pay much attention to it.

How many years has the Sorcerer Dynasty been in ruins?

The former dynasty fell over a thousand years ago. In those thousand years, many families have changed rulers; who still remembers the influence once held by the Heavenly Master Mansion?

Most of the younger generation who came to the new city with their elders did not acknowledge its importance, attending primarily because of the insistence of elders like Chen Baifeng and out of curiosity about the once pinnacle Sorcerer Family.

But if you were to ask whether they had any great obsession with the position of Heavenly Master, in all honesty, especially among the youth from the Southern Sea, there was hardly any to be found.

However, by the time the speeches at the Heavenly Master convention began on the second day, many of the young generation from the Central Plains started to think differently.

On the opening day of the convention, which involved everyone, Chen Baifeng and others naturally brought their younger kin to the Imperial Palace. The major Sorcerer Families had only been in the Southern Sea for a year, but in just that short time, the Chen Family had spared no resources from the Nanhai Dragon Palace to quickly gain an advantage, resulting in nearly a hundred Dragon Transformed Sorcerers hatching from the younger generation within a year.

Those who came to participate in the competition were among the best in their performance, and even those with the weakest bloodlines possessed the bloodline of dragon breeds akin to Southern Sea generals; the best among them were almost entirely of the Nanhai True Dragon Breed.

Moreover, most of those who had come had already mastered physical strength to a proficient degree, representing a notably confident generation.

Even Chen Baifeng himself had great confidence in this batch of youngsters.

As a result, many Central Plains Magicians held little regard for this so-called Heavenly Master selection in Yundu...

But their mindset changed after they entered the palace.

Many had only heard of Yundu’s Imperial Palace in family histories, as the great families intentionally avoided Yundu’s influence. Even the young generation, not to mention a Grand Sorcerer like Chen Baifeng, who had lived for two hundred years, had never personally visited the Yundu Imperial Palace before—this was his first time.

In his memory, the vast Array structure of the Capital City’s Imperial Palace was the pinnacle of combined efforts from the Sorcerer Families. Yet upon entering this palace, he realized... what they had designed for the Imperial Palace in the Capital City was really nothing at all.

The group entered the palace through the Vermilion Bird Gate, and everyone immediately noticed something; the space inside the Imperial Palace was incredibly vast!

Outside the Imperial Palace was a city, while inside... might even be larger than the entire Yundu itself.

If someone had told them before that an imperial palace could be larger than a city, they would have been called mad.

But this was indeed a fact!

The extravagantly scaled halls and walls, the unending metal palaces that stretched out of sight, the entire scope of the Imperial Palace was even comparable to the magnitude of the Nanhai Dragon Palace.

This sight, needless to say, not only the family members but also people like Chen Baifeng were profoundly shocked.

Even Chen Qing found himself at a loss for words this time.

He had taken a shortcut through the Zhang Family’s backyard to the Treasured Artifact Hall the day before. Due to the special spatial circumstances, he didn’t wander off, completely unaware that the main imperial hall could be so majestic.

"This... these Arrays..." Chen Baifeng turned to Chen Qing: "Could be as large as Jiangnan, right?"

Chen Qing stayed silent, not speaking a word. It was a Spatial Array, and only a combination of multiple Spatial Arrays could compress a city larger than Lyuzhou inside the Imperial Palace, creating an internal grandeur on the level of ’having the universe within’. This was a level of Technique Array that shouldn’t exist in the second era.

Was this really the technology possessed by the Sorcerer Dynasty?

He had his suspicions already that the Heavenly Master Mansion wielded spatial Array techniques that transcended the era, but he never imagined they would be able to master it to this extent.

But the question was, if such technology was firmly in hand, why would the Sorcerer Dynasty have fallen?

Such power would have been more than sufficient whether to fend off an era of Demons or to tackle ancient forces’ schemes.

Why hide it then?

Amid these doubts, under the guard’s lead, they arrived in the very center of the palace, at the Zhenghe Hall.

The journey was quite long, and they were led by the guard through several mirror-like places, where everyone could feel that by passing through, they had entered another space.

These mirrors had the ability to let mortals traverse space and time, and just that ability alone made the young generation of the great families dare not show the slightest arrogance. They looked around them with respect and awe.

Zhenghe Hall was vast, apparently capable of accommodating more than ten thousand people to listen to lectures, and at this moment, including various ceremonial officials and guards, the hall was nearly filled with a crowd of a thousand.

It was here that Chen Qing and the others finally witnessed the true power guarding the Imperial Palace of Yundu!

They were a group of clearly non-human guards with unknown material composing their bodies, and their movements were somewhat stiff, but every Magician could feel a considerable amount of energy coming from those guards. Chen Qing even felt that, in terms of energy alone, these guards were not weaker than the Yaksha of the Dragon Palace.

The magnitude and number of such forces were indeed frightening.

If Chen Qing had such a number of Yaksha troops now, he would have long dominated the world.

What Elder Celestial Master said next completely shocked everyone!

"Do not be afraid, these are the Four Holy Guards, which have been perfected over many years, and only in the past two years have they been fully functional. They are the crystallization of techniques left by the Sorcerer Dynasty, consisting of ten thousand guards divided according to the attributes of the Four Saints. They are the loyal protectors of the Heavenly Master, recognizing only the Heavenly Master himself!"

Upon hearing these words, everyone was stunned. No one knew that such a force had remained from the Sorcerer Dynasty, but what was even more unexpected was the Elder Celestial Master’s last sentence!

"You mean, Your Excellency," Chen Qing didn’t skirt the issue and looked up to Elder Zhang in the Zhenghe Hall, asking what everyone was thinking, "these so-called Four Holy Guards recognize only one Heavenly Master? I want to know, do they recognize only you, Old Celestial Master, or do they recognize the title of Celestial Master itself?"

Upon this question, everyone’s eyes were fixated on the Old Celestial Master.

Nobody knew how Yundu came to possess such formidable guards, nor that these guards, made by Magicians, were absolutely loyal. With such power at Yundu’s disposal, why hadn’t they dominated the Central Plains?

No matter what, this power was terrifying. If Yundu had this might, then in the future, any force would have to weigh the consequences.

And if... this power could also be used for oneself... Although it seemed unlikely...

Elder Celestial Master looked at Chen Qing, and although there seemed to be some discontent in his eyes towards Chen Qing, his words nevertheless made everyone’s heart beat faster!

"As I just said, these Four Holy Guards recognize only the Heavenly Master. I am the current Heavenly Master, so they recognize only me. When a new Heavenly Master emerges, they will naturally recognize the new one!"

"Hiss..."

At these words, those who had thought this impossible before now had eyes blazing with desire!

"Your Excellency, is this true??"

The first to ask this was quite unexpectedly not Chen Qing, nor Chen Baifeng and others.

On the contrary... it was from the Sorcerer Families of Yundu.

Chen Qing and Chen Baifeng and the others looked over and could see clearly that it was members of the He Family from Yundu, who had interacted with Chen Baifeng and others before entering the palace. It was said to be a millennium-old great family that had monopolized the porcelain business in Yundu and the Capital City.

In other words, even the people from the families of Yundu had no idea before this that the Heavenly Master Mansion was planning to hand over the Four Holy Guards?

Regaining his composure, Chen Qing realized that this was indeed the case. The Celestial Master Mansion’s Elder, a figure like the State Preceptor who had lived a thousand years since the previous dynasty, had begun this Heavenly Master competition. Perhaps everyone had forgotten what one could gain by becoming the Heavenly Master.

But was this really realistic?

Chen Qing looked at those guards, their eyes were cold and expressionless, and their bodies radiated terrifying energy.

This army, capable of changing the situation, why hasn’t the Zhang Family fought for supremacy with it, instead offering it to the new Heavenly Master?

What in the end... was their intention?

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