A furious roar exploded from the front!

Ying Zheng stood in the midst of the crowd, clad in a black dragon robe.

His gaze was as sharp as a blade, stabbing toward Haotian and the other man in the distance.

Rage churned in his eyes—

The ruins before him, the corpses carpeting the ground, The thick, inescapable stench of iron and blood in the air, All proclaimed the savagery and brutality of the battle just fought.

He could almost hear the dying roars of the soldiers under his command, See their final figures as they defended the line to the death with flesh and blood.

And this devastation covering the ground, these countless heroic souls, had all fallen because of the two before him!

As the Human Emperor revered by all people, how could he not be furious?

"Haotian!" Ying Zheng's voice boomed like thunder, every word hammered home like a nail. "Last time, you were fortunate enough to escape and flee beyond the heavens after grievously wounding our soldiers. I have yet to settle that debt with you.

"Yet you dared return, colluding with Chaos abominations to assault the outer-heaven defense line once more, slaughtering the elites of my race and causing the line to collapse!

"You were once the exalted Heavenly Emperor. Do you not know that this barrier sustains the lifeline of the entire Primordial Three Realms?

"Do you truly wish to watch Myriad Beings fall into Eternal Night and see heaven and earth reduced to an inferno?!"

He truly found it hard to believe—

A Heavenly Emperor who had once governed the order of the heavens

Could be so cold-blooded and ruthless, so brazenly tearing apart every last boundary.

This was no longer merely a private grudge. It was an open trampling of the safety of every race in the Three Realms!

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