Xie Tian's assassination of the Divine Emperor and the sudden death of Shen Shao had plunged the entire city of Tianqi into silence.
The quiet was eerily terrifying, as if at any moment, the madness and chaos that this fragile quiet suppressed would burst forth and bring the entire city to collapse.
Such a collapse could not be suppressed by merely millions of guards, nor even by Wu Shang in his full state.
Led by Mo Shaocong, the four Cabinet Ministers, along with the six Chief of Staffs, had gone two days without sleep as they tensely monitored the situation in Tianqi City, letting nothing unusual slip by.
Although no abnormalities had occurred, the ministers felt even more terrified.
"The emperor has passed away; how could the Dao Palace and all the sacred lands have no reaction at all? Why is there no movement after two days…"
"We have miscalculated, they want us to be in chaos first—we cannot go on like this!"
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