Bloodline prodigies are rare geniuses.
The Taoist Court and aristocratic families cherish talent and are unwilling to waste their Tao cultivation abilities.
Moreover, these four are not just Qianxue’s prodigies; as core descendants of fifth-grade families, they too have connections to some influential ancestors within the Taoist Court. More or less, they are imbued with the blood of great power, otherwise it would be impossible to awaken their bloodline.
Such esteemed prodigies, even if they make a mistake, no one truly dares to kill them.
Not to mention killing, but even punishing or criticizing requires utmost caution.
Thus, these four can only wait for the Central Dao Court to decide.
Inside the Hall of Debate Mountain.
The high-ranking members of each family and sect in Qianxue gathered, preparing to face the Central Dao Court’s accountability.
This was bound to be an extremely difficult meeting.
Everyone present wore solemn expressions, among them many familiar faces of Mo Hua.
Including the Court Leader and Supervisor of the Taoist Court, Sect Leaders of the Taixu Three Mountains, Four Sects and Eight Gates, Twelve Streams, various Sect Leaders, Elders, and some high-ranking members of great families.
Almost none of the families present were below fifth-grade.
The only exception was the Gu Family.
Even though the Gu Family was not fifth-grade, it was considered a "quasi-fifth-grade" family, with considerable strength and close relations with the Taoist Court.
At this meeting, the Family Head of the Gu Family, Elder Gu Hong of the Feather Transformation Realm, was also present.
Everyone took their seats in order of family size and status.
Shen Linsu, Ao Zhan, Xiao Wuchen, and Duanmu Qing, these four once renowned Qianxue bloodline prodigies, stood with pale faces below the main hall.
Their Eternal Life Runes shattered, Sea of Consciousness slashed, the four severely injured in vital energy.
More importantly, their Taoist hearts were almost completely destroyed.
However, as supreme geniuses, proud by nature, and coupled with their noble status, feeling secure in their privilege, their faces, though pale, still maintained an arrogant gaze, only that now there was an added sense of coldness and self-abandonment, compared to before.
Especially Duanmu Qing.
Her expression was colder than before, her eyes dull like dead ashes, as if everything around her was rotten wood in her heart.
As time slowly passed in the heavy and stifling atmosphere.
The high-ranking members of each great family and sect whispered amongst themselves in their seats above.
Duanmu Qing and the other three stood below in the hall with indifferent expressions.
After some time, a powerful pressure descended from the sky, the sound of carriages and horses echoed, occasionally accompanied by a deep dragon roar.
This was the dragon horse possessed only by sixth-grade great families.
Following the sound, everyone looked up to see above the clouds, eight golden white dragon horses with dragon scales and robust forms, pulling an immensely dignified and luxurious Nine Heavens Gilded Chariot descending from the sky, landing within the main hall with great pomp and majesty.
The high-ranking members of various families and sects frowned but still rose to pay their respects to the chariot.
The Nine Heavens Gilded Chariot stopped, and high-ranking Taoist Court cultivators with profound cultivation and haughty expressions, dressed in fine clothes, began to alight one by one.
Qianxue’s high-ranking members greeted them one by one, albeit with displeasure in their hearts, still adhering to rituals, covering every aspect meticulously to avoid offending the Taoist Court and stalling the proceedings.
Shen Linsu, Ao Zhan, and Xiao Wuchen ignored them.
Duanmu Qing sneered inwardly, with disdain for such pompous comings and goings of aristocratic families and hypocritical decorum.
She did not even bother to look up until a white figure emerged from the Nine Heavens Gilded Chariot, releasing a soul-stirring aura.
The pupils of all the masters and elders of Qianxue State Boundary’s high-rank families contracted with a jolt.
What was initially a slightly chaotic main hall fell into complete silence in an instant.
Duanmu Qing, startled, looked up instinctively, and in that moment felt as though a flower bloomed in the dark night before her eyes, the whole world seemingly dimming in response.
Her chest tightened suddenly, her bloodline began to boil, her heart igniting like fire, burning so fiercely that her entire body trembled.