Golden light surged.
Above Worry-Free City.
Amid a sea of gray clouds.
An enormous black bird appeared, its bulk like a mountain, its back a thousand feet long. Pitch-black from head to tail, it exuded God-Demon Aura and towering ferocity.
The black bird had two heads.
One lion, one tiger.
The lion's head was golden.
The tiger's head was crimson.
It was extraordinary beyond measure.
A middle-aged man stood on the bird's back with his hands behind him. His wide sleeves fluttered, the rhythms of the Dao swirled around him, and he radiated an air of supremacy over all beneath heaven.
"Greetings, City Lord!"
"May all be well with you, City Lord!"
Outside the city, the residents of Worry-Free City bowed one after another, paying their respects to the middle-aged man amid the clouds.
"So powerful! Worry-Free City may have fallen into decline, but its foundations remain. To think its city lord is an expert of this caliber!" Xiao Chen marveled.
At last, he understood.
Why those two weak armored gate guards had possessed the confidence to speak to a Star Realm expert like that.
With experts from the Ten Thousand Dynasties forbidden from entering.
Even the lord of a small frontier city.
Had the strength to cow the assembled heroes.
"You... you..." The prodigy from the Myriad Dynasty Prodigies turned deathly pale. Staring at Xia Wuyou, the lord of Worry-Free City high in the sky, he trembled all over, shock and anger mingling within him. Even his voice shook.
He came from an immensely formidable dynasty in the Azure Spirit Domain.
His birth was exceedingly noble.
Ever since childhood.
He had been revered wherever he went.
Never had anyone subjected him to such oppression.
Now that he had entered the God-Demon Battlefield.
In a mere small frontier city.
Someone