Since returning to the Jianglan Divine Kingdom, the seventh-level Dao-Entering expert from the Imperial Family had immediately returned to report his mission.
The four individuals accompanying Zhao Anyi were Yang Tianhe and his son, along with Sheng An and Xue Ping—the two men who had helped Duan Niantian "verify his identity."
The reason the latter two had followed along was primarily to leave the Chongshan Alliance and defect to the Jianglan Divine Kingdom’s Imperial Family. Zhao Anyi had promised them this, confident that his own standing would be enough to ensure the Imperial Family accepted them and arranged a good position. Of course, Zhao Anyi knew full well that the Imperial Family treated him, a mere seventh-level Dao-Entering cultivator, with such courtesy largely because of "Duan Lingtian."
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