Silver Armor Thousand Armies' cold eyes flickered with surprise. Clearly, he had not expected Madam Black Pool to kneel before him...
Perhaps Madam Black Pool's sincerity had moved the Nether Emperor. A majestic yet indifferent voice drifted down from the little building. "Say whatever you have to say outside!"
Several enormous fireflies rose from the trunks of the You wood forest and clung to the little building's window. Madam Black Pool looked up. Under the flickering light at the window, a man of noble and elegant bearing appeared there. His gaze, as though it could see through all things, passed over the You wood forest and fell upon the distant night sky. Only then did he slowly lower his eyes. Yet beneath that gentle gaze lay an impossible-to-conceal majesty and coldness, enough to make one's heart tremble... It was a majesty that seeped from his very bones.
"Greetings, Nether Emperor!" Madam Black Pool lowered her head in salute.
"Rise and speak!" Though the Nether Emperor's words were polite, he showed no intention whatsoever of letting her enter.
"Thank you, Nether Emperor." Madam Black Pool had just risen when the Nether Emperor looked down at her and asked, "What is it?"
Madam Black Pool reported furiously, "Nether Emperor, disaster has struck! The Nether Envoy I dispatched to the mortal world to investigate the stolen item from the Netherworld Gate was actually killed by someone in the mortal world..."
Before Madam Black Pool could finish, the Nether Emperor interrupted, "You came to disturb me over this?"
Madam Black Pool froze, and half the fury on her face immediately cooled. She said resentfully, "Those mortal rabble are utterly outrageous. They actually killed a Nether Envoy sent by the Netherworld. Black Pool requests that the Nether Emperor dispatch someone to severely punish the murderer."