The City of Heavenly Domain, as the largest city in the entirety of the Heavenly Realm, hosted a vast number of cultivators on any given day. Now, with the opening of the heavenly road, the City of Heavenly Domain swelled with people to the point of overflowing.

Chu Mo walked alone on the street, brushing past a large number of cultivators. Most, like Chu Mo, had a look of curiosity in their eyes as they surveyed the surrounding architecture, because many of them, like Chu Mo, were visiting the City of Heavenly Domain for the first time.

In the city, Chu Mo even spotted a shop belonging to Lingdan Hall. The shop was large, spanning seven or eight stories, and the huge signboard bore the powerful and vigorous characters for "Lingdan Hall." The endless stream of people entering the shop suggested that the business must be doing very well.

This was also the first time Chu Mo had seen the signboard of Lingdan Hall in the Heavenly Realm.

Purple Smoke had not come with Chu Mo; the two had quietly parted ways before entering the city. Not wanting others to be aware of her connection with Chu Mo, especially after the recent conflict with the Zhuge Family, Purple Smoke was even more reluctant to involve him.

Before parting, Purple Smoke casually gave Chu Mo a card made of green jade that looked quite ordinary. Her expression was also indifferent as she offhandedly remarked, "Take this, you can visit the Garden of Heavenly Dao, some of the dishes there are quite good, and oh, the Tree of Heavenly Dao is also not bad, you can contemplate the Dao beneath it."

Chu Mo didn't take it too seriously; he had never even heard of the Garden of Heavenly Dao.

After Purple Smoke left, she went straight to the Luo Family, Qin Family, Dong Family, and Shangguan Family, those influential clans, for secret discussions. Then she drifted away without anyone in the City of Heavenly Domain even realizing that the Imperial Master of Purple Smoke, a name that once shook the Heavenly Realm, had come.

Soon after, the upper echelons of these major families issued top-secret directives to remove Chu Mo's name from the "family enemy" list and recast the issue as a grudge between the younger generation. They also placed a gag order, forbidding anyone from spreading the word.

Many say that the big families in the Heavenly Realm all maintain a "family enemy" list, although every family denies its existence. However, the list does exist in reality.

Anyone listed as a family enemy is considered a mortal foe of that family! If encountered, the entire family will mobilize all their strength to fight to the death.

Of course, the people who have been listed as enemies by the major families throughout history are few and far between. Chu Mo's case was a bit special; he was listed purely because he harbored too many secrets.

Of course, Purple Smoke herself didn't have enough influence to make these mighty families of the Heavenly Realm compromise for her. In fact, her way of communicating with those families was simple and blunt, consisting of just one sentence.

"I am Purple Smoke. Immediately remove the name Chu Mo from your family's enemy list. My master is about to return, and you cannot bear her wrath." she said before drifting away.

At first, those who heard this were utterly baffled, not understanding what was happening. They wondered who Purple Smoke was and who her master was?

But the name Chu Mo was definitely known to them.

Not all the high-rank members of the major families were in the City of Heavenly Domain at the time. Typically, the cultivators sent by these families to establish a presence were at the Heavenly Immortal or True Immortal levels. So, after initial confusion, these individuals promptly reported the news to their respective family's higher-ups.

Since the message involved Chu Mo, a youth from the Mortal Realm who had become famous in the Heavenly Realm quite early on, they took it very seriously.

As a result, these families' upper echelons were shaken!

Some were even frightened!

The name Purple Smoke had once sent tremors through the entire Heavenly Realm many years ago.

She was also a daughter of heaven who had traversed the heavenly road!

In fact, the individuals Purple Smoke had approached had heard of the Imperial Master of Purple Smoke, but at the moment, they didn't make the connection between the beautiful woman who had appeared out of nowhere and the Imperial Master of Purple Smoke who had once made such a mark in the Heavenly Realm.

It never crossed their minds that the Imperial Master of Purple Smoke would personally manifest herself before them, uttering such an enigmatic statement.

Furthermore, after speaking, Purple Smoke simply left. Even true immortals were unable to discern her movements.

By the time they realized what the name Purple Smoke signified, she had already vanished.

What filled the hearts of these family higher-ups with untold dread... was the mention of Purple Smoke's master!

That is the true being that can suppress the entire Heavenly Realm with just a name!

The Drifting Empress!

Is she about to return?

Is this true?

Isn't the Drifting Empress a very ancient character? Wasn't it said that she had already fallen in the Battle of the Gods? How could she possibly return?

But as Purple Smoke, the disciple of the Drifting Empress, how could she possibly make irresponsible remarks? At the Emperor Realm, one's words are also law, and casually speaking of the supreme, even if that person is her master, will have repercussions!

So, this matter must be true!

The Drifting Empress is about to return, and her disciple, the Imperial Master of Purple Smoke... has told them to immediately remove Chu Mo from the family enemies list. Doesn't this mean that not just Purple Smoke... but even the Drifting Empress herself, is protecting this young man from the Mortal Realm?

Heavens!

These high-ranking members of several families all felt dizzy and were so frightened that they were almost out of their wits.

"Chu Mo has never been on our Qin family's family enemies list!"

"Chu Mo has never been on our Dong family's family enemies list!"

When the high-ranking people from the Qin family and Dong family heard the news, they all had the feeling of being wronged to death.

It was like this, for no reason at all, that they had caught the attention of a terrifying figure like Purple Smoke... and what frightened them even more, to the point of not daring to even think about it, was the wrath of the Drifting Empress!

The people of the Qin and Dong families felt aggrieved and both wanted to explain the situation to Purple Smoke as soon as possible, to tell her that this had nothing to do with them. But the problem was... none of them could find Purple Smoke's whereabouts.

If they couldn't find Purple Smoke, then finding Chu Mo should be possible, right?

The high-ranking members from both families simply decided to meet over this matter and resolved to go to the City of Heavenly Domain to find Chu Mo and clarify the situation to him.

"We must show goodwill!" said an elder from the Qin family.

"Right, don't both our families' daughters stay by this kid's side? We'll go and thank Chu Mo for saving them. Then acknowledge the status of Qin Shi and Dong Yu..." a Dong family authoritative elder agreed.

"Is acknowledgment necessary? They're our daughters to begin with!" the Qin family elder said.

"Do you not know, or is it me? In our respective families, there have always been people wishing them harm!" sighed the Dong family authoritative elder.

"What should we do then?" the Qin family elder asked.

"Warn those people! We must contact Qin Shi and Dong Yu immediately, with a message board, yes, use a message board! Reach out to them and tell them, no matter where, no matter when, they are the princesses of our two families! We'll send them resources later, the resources they missed out on over these years for cultivation, tenfold... no, fiftyfold!" the Dong family elder sighed, "We really can't bear the wrath of the Drifting Empress!"

"Who would have thought... that Senior Drifting was actually still alive," sighed the Qin family elder. He was well aware of the past connection between the Drifting Empress and the Qin family. But he was even more aware that this connection had long grown faint.

If the Qin family simply felt wronged and frightened, then for the Luo family and the Shangguan Family, Purple Smoke's warning was like a bolt from the blue!

It struck their souls into disarray!

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