As the purple incense swirled into the sky, everyone in the white jade square was fully focused upon it.

Pang Qianyuan of the Astral Sage College was a lofty presence akin to a mountain, attracting the attention of all in the Xia Kingdom.

Why? He was the only King Stage expert in the kingdom after all.

Such strength didn't just put him amongst the strongest in the Xia Kingdom, but rather the entire East Divine Continent! This was an expert at the peak of power who could control a kingdom with but a word. It was a good thing that he was the Principal of the Astral Sage College; otherwise, every power in the Xia Kingdom would have tried to court him and the royal court might have long been destroyed. 

Pang Qianyuan had spent years in the depths of the Umbra Cave and had not...