As Li Tianming's words fell, quite a few people within the Demon-Extermination Army responded in turn.
"Jiuyang truly deserved to die!"
"War God Li has eliminated a scourge for everyone. If someone like Jiuyang had truly taken power, that would have been the real disaster for us all!"
Jiuyang's old subordinates and diehard loyalists looked ashen, as though they had lost their parents.
With Jiuyang dead, all the benefits they had yet to receive had vanished into thin air along with him.
"I wonder whether Li Tianming will treat us differently in the future. After all, we were too deeply entangled with Jiuyang. It would be easy to uncover us..."
Thinking back now, we really should not have followed Jiuyang's orders and done those filthy deeds. But... with the three deputy generals fighting for power, we truly had no choice.
Some commanders of ten thousand and commanders of a thousand could not stop repenting.
For the moment, however, Li Tianming paid no attention to the Demon-Extermination Army's reaction. Instead, he picked up the Sumeru Ring Jiuyang had dropped on the ground.
He frowned slightly and soon pulled out a black sword about the length of a forearm.
At the sword's hilt was a black dragon!
Its coiled body formed the entire hilt.
Just above the hilt was the dragon's head, and the sword blade emerged from the black dragon's open mouth!
The instant this sword appeared—
Buzz—
Across the entire No. 8 Heavenly Segment, the Sword Dragon Great Wall Demon-Slaying Formation, which had already been poised to strike, resonated with it.
At once, the black dragon Sword Qi roaming through the high skies became even more agile, as though it might rush beyond the Heavenly Emperor Great Wall at any moment toward the direction from which the Demon Nest was