The Three-Realms Joint Army Is Likely to Be Disbanded

"That's right!" said Lucia Lu.

"He blasted you out with a single palm strike?"

Lucia Lu nodded.

"But with His Majesty the Celestial Emperor's cultivation, if he could blast you out against such powerful suction, he should've been able to escape himself," said Leo Li. "So why did only you get out, but not him?"

Lucia Lu was stunned for a moment.

That was true.

With his level of cultivation, if he could blast her out, he should've been able to fly out himself!

After thinking it over, Lucia Lu said, "I really don't know what happened. At the time, His Majesty shouted, 'Let her go back!' Maybe... there was someone else in that well?"

At these words, Leo Li glanced coolly at the Celestial Empress.

The Celestial Empress gradually stopped crying, wiped her tears, and said, "Every hundred years, on this day, His Majesty comes here to keep watch, hoping the Fifth Highness's mother will return. So it's no surprise he's here. But, Divine Lady Lucia, according to your account, it was still before dawn—so early. What were you doing here at that hour?"

Lucia Lu fell silent for a moment.

Could she really say she came here to hide after witnessing a scene with Sean Shaw that she couldn't accept?

As a prince, Sean Shaw couldn't afford such a scandal—it would ruin his reputation completely.

"Divine Lady Lucia?" Leo Li wore his iron-faced impartial look. "This concerns His Majesty the Celestial Emperor. We can't be careless at all—would you please explain?"

Lucia Lu took a deep breath and said, "Yesterday I was refining a batch of medicine, but something urgent came up at home so I left. I came early this morning to check on things."

"So that's how it is," the Celestial Empress said, asking no further. She gazed at the sky, then knelt with her hands clasped, praying, "Heavens above, please bless His Majesty the Celestial Emperor—let him be safe and return soon!"

Everyone else knelt down and prayed together.

After that, the Celestial Empress managed to control her emotions, went to find Quentin Lian, and asked, "High God, may I ask—how is my Jae's demonic qi removal coming along?"

"It should be cleared up in another two or three days," Quentin Lian replied.

The Celestial Empress nodded and bowed to him gratefully. "Thank you, High God!"

Quentin Lian returned the bow. "It's my duty. Your Majesty, please don't worry too much—His Majesty is surely blessed and will be protected by the heavens!"

The Celestial Empress nodded, then led her Drake Abyss entourage away in grand procession.

Divine Lord Tanya Quinn exchanged a look with Sean Shaw, and the two left together.

Lucia Lu frowned, thinking: The Three-Realms Joint Army... looks like it's about to break up.

Back at Drake Abyss, the Celestial Empress gathered the Five Dragon Lords and tearfully said that with the Celestial Emperor's fate unknown and his return unlikely anytime soon, the peace of Drake Abyss—and even the entire Three Realms and Ten Wilds—rested on their shoulders.

The Dragon Lords comforted her, promising to do their utmost.

Then the Azure Dragon Lord suggested that the Divine Realm couldn't go without a ruler for even a day, and proposed that First Prince Brandon Xiao take charge at Drake Abyss.

The other Dragon Lords had no objections.

They all respected and admired the First Prince's character.

Then the Azure Dragon Lord brought up dissolving the Three-Realms Joint Army.

Such a powerful army, now under Divine Lord Tanya Quinn's control, was a real threat to Drake Abyss.

The Celestial Empress said, "Let the Dragon Lords decide this! I'm just an inner-palace woman, not much at cultivation, never involved in politics—what would I know?"

She only asked for one thing: that everything be done for the world's peace and safety, and to await His Majesty's return.

Of the five Dragon Lords, three agreed to dissolve the Joint Army, while two reserved judgment.

Majority ruled, so the Celestial Empress issued the decree to disband.