177. We'll meet again.

The outskirts of the Heavenly King's Mansion were previously rigged with a massive amount of firewood by the followers of the Grand Vehicle Sect, who had planned to burn their own sect leader to death.

Moreover, the palace had many wooden structures, causing the fire started by Liao Qe to burn exceptionally fiercely. In the blink of an eye, the flames spread wildly with the wind, devouring everything without restraint.

Lu Yao, along with the two sisters, packed up all the "good stuff" scattered on the ground. There was no time to take a close look, they quickly evacuated.

No sooner had they left than a figure descended from the sky like a cannonball, creating a radial meteorite crater upon impact with the ground.

The newcomer, dressed in scarlet official robes with an embroidered Immortal Crane on his chest, was the Golden Body Realm Grandmaster who commanded the entire army—Zeng Bohan.

He sensed something was wrong and had arrived ahead of time.