Almost simultaneously.
"There's a high-energy reaction approaching from ahead."
Snow Phoenix suddenly raised her head, a glimmer flashing through her icy-blue eyes.
"Extremely fast—far beyond a Saint. It will arrive within three breaths."
Violent and vicious, as though it had fought its way out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood—yet strangely, there was no killing intent.
With a thought from Chu Jiang, the Purple Gold Gourd hovered in midair.
Ten breaths later, a dark-red figure tore through the sky from the southeast, moving so fast it trailed sonic-boom clouds behind it.
It was a tall figure clad in a dark-red cloak, the cloak tattered beyond repair and stained with dark blotches.
He stood in the air, stopping a thousand zhang away. Beneath the cloak's hood, a pair of blood-red eyes stared straight at Chu Jiang.
Just as Chu Jiang was about to speak.
The Heaven Court token at his waist suddenly trembled.
Within the token's void space, the Greedy Wolf Star among the Big Dipper's seven stars lit up with silvery radiance.
Then, a string of strange syllables emerged from the dark-red figure's throat:
"Ka... la... ssha..."
The voice was ancient and sonorous, every syllable like clashing weapons, like shouts on a battlefield.
Chu Jiang could not understand it, but he could sense that there was no hostility in it.
After speaking, the dark-red figure knelt on one knee in the void before Chu Jiang—or rather, before the Heaven Court token at his waist.
Chu Jiang frowned. Could this man also be one of Heaven Court's old subordinates?
Chu Jiang's voice remained calm. "What is your name? What have you come for?"
The dark-red cloaked figure rose to his feet, his movements somewhat stiff.
He spoke again in that strange ancient god language, but this time, through the