Inside the High Cloud Palace.
The Host of Immortals had gathered, standing in two rows. Hun Xiu sat high upon the Dragon Throne while the immortals seemed to be waiting for something.
"Demon Master Kunpeng has arrived!"
As the heavenly servant's voice rang out, Kunpeng entered the High Cloud Palace.
Upon seeing Demon Master Kunpeng appear, all the immortals turned their gazes toward him. Kunpeng walked straight into the High Cloud Palace, stopped at an appropriate spot, and stood there.
He was exceedingly respectful.
"Greetings, Your Majesty!"
Kunpeng might have been someone important in the Three Realms, but before Hun Xiu, he was nothing—he could even be called an ant.
"Mm."
Hun Xiu gave a slight nod.
Kunpeng, meanwhile, was still dreaming his grand dream—the dream of becoming a Great Emperor.
He imagined himself being appointed as a Great Emperor and guarding one region.
But a dream was ultimately just a dream.
There would come a day when he woke up.
Hun Xiu was the one who would shatter Kunpeng's dream.
"Kunpeng!"
Hun Xiu spoke.
"Your subject is here!"
"You were originally the Demon Tribe's Demon Master. Now that you have joined my Heavenly Court, from this day forth, you shall be my Heavenly Court's Gate-keeping Divine Beast. The South Heaven Gate shall be entrusted to you." Hun Xiu's voice was not loud, yet it fell clearly into every immortal's ears.
The immortals were utterly stunned by this.
They looked at Hun Xiu in disbelief, then turned to Kunpeng with the same disbelief. All of them were shocked beyond words. What kind of existence was Kunpeng? He was an ancient great demon.
Back when his name shook the ancient era,
even the current Emperor Haotian had merely been a young attendant at Dao Ancestor Hongjun's side.
In their eyes, once