At the same time, White Mirage and Green King at the river bottom were suddenly put on high alert by the Netherworld Python's words.
White Mirage slowly raised his head and looked toward the surface of the Brocade Scale River ten thousand meters above, a trace of alarm in his voice. "What?"
"Someone is up there?"
The thousand-meter green snake beside him abruptly widened its vertical pupils, and a flicker of terror and rage passed through its icy eyes.
Then its body churned violently along the river bottom. Its scales bristled slightly with tension, stirring the mud and sand into a frenzy and sending the currents surging madly.
Terrifying vortices spread outward one after another, plunging the entire river bottom into chaos.
Amid the chaos beneath the river, an eerie green gleam flickered unsteadily.
In the blink of an eye, the thousand-meter snake body rapidly shrank and took on human form—it was Green King.
Green King's face was cold and pale, and his narrow eyes were filled with apprehension.
He gnashed his teeth and growled, "It's that damned human!"
Unconcealed terror colored his words, and Green King's body trembled faintly despite himself.
Clearly, the human above the Brocade Scale River had left an indelible shadow upon him.
He remembered the events at Azure Wind Valley with absolute clarity.
If Lion Lord's divine sense Primordial Spirit had not helped him block that human in the sky back then—
His thousands of years of cultivation would have gone down the drain, and he would have died and vanished beneath that human's merciless hand.
Green King's loss of composure made White Mirage ask, "Green King, who exactly is that man?"
Green King stared fixedly at the river surface, his voice low and hoarse. "One of those damned humans from the Blackbird Guard—the Blackbird