The sounds of cranes could be heard from afar.
Elder Ye and the others turned around to see a black-necked crane with a red crown flying toward them.
It was a fifth-grade fiend—a Black-necked Crane. These cranes were fiends kept by Country Yao Chen's royal family.
Emperor Jiawen was sitting on the back of one.
Under normal circumstances, members of the royal family rarely summoned the fiend, but something had happened to the imperial mausoleum. Thus, the emperor couldn't care less.
This also enabled his swift arrival. He was just a few seconds later than Elder Ye and the others.
Emperor Jiawen came up with several possibilities on his way here, but when he saw the crowd gathering at the top of Golden Inheritance Peak, his heart sank. Nobody except me can set foot on the peak. The situation is worse than I thought.
"Your Majesty!" Elder Zhong Qi and the others bowed, perturbed.