The next day in Everburn City.

After three years of painstaking work performed by the 100,000-strong construction team of Everburn, the city had been transformed into the most well-constructed city in the entire nation. Among all of the buildings in the city, the state affairs building was the most intricately constructed one with ornately carved pillars and walls, perfectly capturing the antiquated aesthetic that the nation was pursuing.

The building was extremely magnificent to behold, standing at a height of around 30 meters and taking up an area of over ten thousand square meters. The tiered conference halls and departments took up half of the entire building, and it was truly a lavish masterpiece of construction.

In the premium conference hall.

This conference hall wasn't very large, but it was definitely the most luxurious of all of the conference halls in the building. The Harken and Zhao Yun had been seated in the hall since this morning, and they occasionally looked up to glance at a shady figure roaming near the entrance.

The figure set one foot into the room, then withdrew it, then stepped forward again... It was like he was repeatedly stepping back and forth over an imaginary line that symbolized the limit of the Harken's patience, and finally, the Harken snapped as it slammed a paw violently down onto the desk. "Are you coming in or not?! Do I have to invite you in myself?!"

"I'm not going in yet. I'm just stalling for time..." Qin Ye replied as he stuck his head out from...