Between heaven and earth,
Maniacal laughter echoed, amplified by a transmission spell painstakingly developed and prepared centuries ago. The voice reverberated around the globe again and again, falling into the ears of every Immortal Sect Citizen.
"Ha ha ha..."
"Good morning, good noon, and good afternoon, everyone!"
"I am True Lord Mie Ri... no, Heavenly Monarch Mie Ri!"
The voice had initially been full of majesty and awe-inspiring authority, but in the next moment, it turned frivolous and uncouth.
"Let's get acquainted, everyone. I'm insanely strong!"
"I'm recorded in history, you know. If you really can't remember me, go search me up online, then hurry up and look at me with envy and jealousy."
"I'm not bragging, but back then, even the Great Sun Sword Master, upon seeing me, would..."
The voice became increasingly carried away, describing how valiant he had been in those days, how the Spirit Transformation cultivators of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion had trembled before him, how they had fled thirty thousand miles at the mere mention of Mie Ri's name, cowering within their formations and not daring to take a single step outside, able only to watch the Immortal Sect Fleet gallop across the sea of stars.
He also said that the Last Great Sun Sword Master had hated him to the bone back then, yet had been powerless to do anything but sigh, "Since Heaven birthed Mie Ri, why did it also birth Great Sun?" and so on.
True Lord Sea-Stabilizer and the others felt their faces redden slightly as they listened.
"Move!"
Lord Lu Ling paid no attention to any of that. He tore through space and flew into the distance. "After Senior Mie Ri emerges from seclusion, the first Nascent Soul True Lord he sees will definitely be me. No one can