Gu Shaoshang smiled.
Although he intended to challenge the Human Emperor, naturally he would not say so now.
Although the position of Human Emperor among the Vast Human Race was determined by strength, with the strong rising and the weak falling, and had nothing to do with rebellion, Gu Shaoshang was not foolish enough to announce it in public.
Wang Yuanshi had once said that he had less than a fifty-percent chance of challenging the Human Emperor. Gu Shaoshang reckoned that even if he went, his chances would not be much better.
Gu Shaoshang naturally disdained speaking of things he was not absolutely certain of.
"Very well."
As his thoughts turned, Gu Shaoshang nodded slightly and walked toward the Human Emperor Palace with the other kings and marquises.
At the edge of the crowd, Feng Linwan let out a faint sigh.
After more than a thousand years, he had only just recovered from the blow Gu Shaoshang had dealt him back then, yet Gu Shaoshang had already advanced to become a Divine Saint.
Thinking back to over a thousand years ago, Wang Yuanshi and Gu Shaoshang had still needed to come pay him respects. Now, he stood at the edge of the crowd, without even a chance to step forward and exchange words.
Gu Shaoshang had not even glanced at him.
The gap was too vast—enough to drive one to despair.
Even Feng Linwan, a marquis standing at the pinnacle of gods and demons, deeply felt his own powerlessness at this moment.
The Human Emperor Palace was entirely dark yellow, carved with birds, beasts, fish, insects, mountains, rivers, and all the countless facets of mortal life.
Yet in Gu Shaoshang's eyes, the square Human Emperor Palace, standing like a Divine King's jade seal, was rooted in the place where the