While the people on the streets were buzzing with excitement about the upcoming tournament, those with an actual stake in it were not looking too good.
Many clans and factions had rushed into meetings over the eight-month period leading up to the tournament, trying to decide what to do with the explosive information they had received.
Within a large estate in the Holy City belonging to the Cao Family, Cao Xian and Cao Tian sat together before an older woman who possessed 90% of their features, being Deva Elder Cao Ling, the current Matriarch of their clan.
Cao Ling was dressed expensively and exotically, with a line of orange demon beast fox fur across her shoulders while she stroked a white Spirit Fox at the Nascent Soul level in her lap, a calm expression on her face.
Meanwhile, Cao Tian had just finished reporting everything about the matters surrounding Li Ling to their mother, and the room descended into silence as everyone digested the ridiculous things they were hearing.
