"The White Emperor Inner City opened automatically?"

"Huh? There's actually such a thing?"

On the square, everyone who witnessed this bizarre scene was stunned.

Looking at the slowly opening city gate of the White Emperor Inner City, brilliant light burst forth from everyone's eyes.

There was excitement, fervor, and longing.

Bai Tianhuang, however, roared in exasperation, "How is this possible? I didn't open the Inner City entrance, so why did it open automatically?"

"Who?"

"Who is going against me!"

Swoosh!

The figure of Yunya Saintess appeared beside Li Yun immediately; her face was practically filled with excitement.

For the past two days, she had been trying to persuade Bai Tianhuang to open the White Emperor Inner City entrance before Li Yun went to the Heavenly Capital Imperial City.

For this, she had even offered various conditions, practically preparing for a massive loss.

But this old fellow neither refused nor agreed, just argued with her, clearly deliberately delaying time.

Now it's fine.

The entrance to the White Emperor Inner City opened by itself, so there's no need to argue with Bai Tianhuang anymore, and she doesn't even have to pay the various conditions she offered before.

"Patriarch, no one is going against you."

"This is a rule response from the White Emperor Temple, triggered by itself. Didn't you notice that after the Holy Son Baptism ended, the White Emperor Temple's gate didn't close as usual?"

"You..."

Listening to the slightly mocking words of Yunya Saintess, Bai Tianhuang's old face turned red with anger.

"Impossible!"

"How could the White Emperor Temple automatically trigger a rule to open the White Emperor Inner City? The method to open the White Emperor Inner City is only in my hands. Whether it opens or not is up to me. Something must have gone wrong."

Bai Tianhuang roared in exasperation, and then, in front of Yunya Saintess, he formed hand seals.

He was actually preparing to close the entrance to the White Emperor Inner City.

Seeing this, Yunya Saintess couldn't help but be furious and rushed to stop him, but Bai Ruiguang and others also immediately flashed over, directly blocking Bai Tianhuang.

Yunya Saintess directly lost the chance to act.

But the next second—

Bai Tianhuang was stunned.

The hand seals he mastered were performed, but the White Emperor Inner City had no reaction at all.

He couldn't close it at all.

Instead, a suction force suddenly surged from within the White Emperor Inner City, directly pulling Li Yun, Yuan Heng Holy Son, and Yun Yi Saintess inside.

Bai Tianhuang fiercely reached out to grab Li Yun but couldn't catch Li Yun.

He grabbed nothing.

He could only watch as the figures of Li Yun and the two others disappeared into the gate of the White Emperor Inner City. Immediately after, the gate of the White Emperor Inner City automatically closed.

Immediately after, everything disappeared.

On the square, there was dead silence.

Everyone present had an incredulous look on their faces, like waking from a dream, with confusion in their eyes.

"Patriarch Bai, what on earth is going on?"

"Didn't you say that the entrance to the White Emperor Inner City would only open a year later? Why did it open by itself?"

A large group of people surged towards Bai Tianhuang, asking questions one after another.

Bai Tianhuang's face was extremely unpleasant.

How was he supposed to answer this?

After the Holy Son Baptism, the White Emperor Temple automatically triggered and automatically opened the White Emperor Inner City. Such a thing had never happened before.

They wanted to know the reason, and he wanted to know the reason even more.

Unfortunately, no one could give them an answer.

Even though Bai Tianhuang thought the root of the matter might be in the White Emperor Temple and wanted to go in and see, when he turned around, the gate of the White Emperor Temple was actually tightly closed.

He formed hand seals, preparing to open the White Emperor Temple gate again, but it also failed.

Bai Tianhuang's face instantly turned pale.

At this moment, he had a feeling that the authority he held over opening the White Emperor Temple and the White Emperor City Inner City seemed to have been stripped away by some powerful force at this moment.

What did this mean?

He was extremely clear in his heart.

Why had White Emperor City always been controlled by the White Emperor Family, never threatened for countless years, and why did even the Lie Tian Royal Clan not dare to easily fall out with the White Emperor Family in White Emperor City?

Was it really just because the White Emperor Family's strength was too great?

No.

That's not the case at all.

No matter how strong the White Emperor Family was, it only had four Divine Martial Realm experts. This level of strength couldn't possibly deter the Lie Tian Royal Clan.

If the Lie Tian Royal Clan was willing, they could send a Cave Void Realm expert, and the White Emperor Family would have to kneel.

What the Lie Tian Royal Clan truly feared was the identity of the White Emperor Family as descendants of the White Emperor.

Because White Emperor City was founded by the White Emperor, no one knew how many secrets it hid or how many backup plans were left to protect his descendants.

The White Emperor Family also held authority over things like the White Emperor Temple and the White Emperor Inner City.

Once the Lie Tian Royal Clan truly made a move against the White Emperor Family, it was highly likely they would trigger the power and backup plans left by the White Emperor. This kind of power was not something the Lie Tian Royal Clan could withstand.

Therefore, the Lie Tian Royal Clan played along with the White Emperor Family.

They had always been engaged in a hidden game.

But once the Lie Tian Royal Clan knew that the authority held by the White Emperor Family had been stripped... then the Lie Tian Royal Clan's fear of the White Emperor Family would likely immediately drop to freezing point.

Would the White Emperor Family still have a way to survive?

Thinking of this, Bai Tianhuang's heart was simply filled with extreme panic.

But in front of so many people, how could he dare to show it?

He could only suppress the fear and anger in his heart and feign a smile: "It seems that among the three Holy Children selected by White Emperor City this time, someone has communicated with the ancestor's will after the baptism!"

"Perhaps many years from now, my White Emperor Family will once again have descendants who receive the ancestor's favor!"

Bai Tianhuang deliberately said descendants.

It was clear he was referring to Yuan Heng Holy Son and Yun Yi Saintess, because only they were genuine, pure-blooded descendants of the White Emperor.

As for Li Yun, he was simply an outsider.

In fact, whether he was a descendant of the Lie Tian Royal Clan was still up for debate.

How could he possibly receive the ancestor's favor?

As expected—

Hearing him say this, everyone around had their expressions change.

The White Emperor's will was triggered, favoring his descendants?

Then how powerful would Yuan Heng Holy Son or Holy Daughter, who received the favor of the White Emperor's will, become in the future?

This White Emperor Family was already powerful enough.

With another descendant favored by the White Emperor's will, wouldn't the future White Emperor Family be even more glorious?

At that time, could the Lie Tian Royal Clan still suppress the White Emperor Family?

At that time, would these families living under the shadow of the White Emperor Family still have a way to survive? Wouldn't they all be expelled, or else become slaves to the White Emperor Family?

This is terrible!

But at this moment, the situation was unclear, and no one dared to say much.

They could only offer congratulations one after another.

"Hahaha, the White Emperor's will lasts forever! We must congratulate the White Emperor Family in advance on producing another peerless prodigy who will suppress the world!"

"Congratulations, Patriarch Bai!"

"Congratulations to the White Emperor Family! We hope the White Emperor Family will take care of us White Emperor City Martial Artists more in the future..."