Above the passage, Di Qing saw Xiao Yu encounter danger. He then saw the four Emperor Lords—Emperor Yan, Di Xi, Di Wu, and Emperor Wo—attack together with Monarch Lan Duo. He had initially thought that these five Emperor Lord monarchs were helping his disciple.
He had never expected that the five of them were actually kicking him while he was down. Not only did they fail to help Xiao Yu resist the Formless flames below, they instead attacked Xiao Yu while he was completely unprepared.
"You're truly courting death!" Di Qing said sternly. "If anything really happens to my disciple, the five of you can be buried with him!"
"Di Qing, you can't kill us in the Origin Continent," Emperor Yan said. "Besides, we're of the same race. Are you really going to break with us over an outsider?"
"Enough nonsense!" Di Qing snorted coldly and immediately struck out with a palm.
An invisible power gathered and swept across Heaven and Earth in an instant, enveloping Emperor Yan, Emperor Wo, Di Xi, Di Wu, and Monarch Lan Duo—the five Emperor Lord monarchs.
At once, the five Emperor Lord monarch-level existences felt themselves bound and suppressed by an incomparably terrifying power. Vast energy seeped in from the tiniest regions of space, corroding their physical bodies.
That vast power still appeared extraordinarily terrifying in the eyes of the five Emperor Lord monarch-level existences. In the blink of an eye, it had corroded and annihilated their physical bodies within the Heaven Pillar Realm.
"This only counts as preliminary punishment. If my disciple can't be rescued, none of you will survive either." Di Qing's voice was ice-cold.
All this time, he had stood above the Twelve Emperor Lords and never fought them for resources.
Yet now, an Emperor Lord had dared to offend him