Spirit King

Before everyone's shocked eyes, Shūtarō Senjumaru knelt before Zhang Miao and addressed him as "Your Excellency, the Spirit King."

From this standpoint, her actions already counted as betrayal.

But what the other four Royal Guard members could not understand was that Shūtarō Senjumaru, who had already betrayed the Spirit King, had not been punished by the Spirit King's power. Instead, they, the loyal ones, were being tortured half to death by it.

Why was that? Could it be that we were wrong?

As if sensing their inner doubts, Zhang Miao immediately smiled and spoke to Shūtarō Senjumaru.

"Shūtarō Senjumaru, no need for such formalities. Get up, and explain things to these four while you're at it, before they get themselves killed!"

"Uh... yes, Your Excellency, the Spirit King!"

Hearing Zhang Miao's words, Shūtarō Senjumaru quickly answered before rising to her feet.

After getting up, she said one thing to the four people being pinned to the ground by the Spirit King's power. "The previous Spirit King has disappeared!"

"Gasp..."

Though it was only seven short words, the four Royal Guard members kneeling on the ground could not help drawing in sharp breaths when Shūtarō Senjumaru said them.

As guards of the Soul King Palace, they knew many secrets about the Spirit King. The most important of them was that the Spirit King could not die, and must not die!

The Spirit King could not die because as long as the Soul Society and the Soul King Palace remained intact, the Spirit King would not die. Conversely, once the Spirit King died, both the Soul King Palace and the Soul Society would be destroyed.

In other words, the Spirit King's existence was tied to the Soul Society and the Soul King Palace. They shared prosperity and ruin alike.

But now, the