"What? King Yang, he..." A small group of great powers from Territory 3, along with demons from the Return to Truth Scenic Spot, felt their scalps explode as bone-piercing cold surged through them.
"We served as the king's vanguard, yet His Majesty is dead?!" Everyone present was part of No. 3 Source's upper ranks. Their faces turned deathly pale. The True King behind them had actually been killed.
Only now did they understand why all the saints from No. 1 Source had been smiling, laughing heartily alongside them. They had clearly known the truth all along and had been watching them make fools of themselves.
Someone could not accept reality. Blood drained from his face as he trembled and said, "Impossible... King Yang clearly returned to the Return to Truth Scenic Spot. We saw with our own eyes that he came back from deep space."
"King Yang is dead. The Blood King was born." The Third-time Return to Truth Practitioner—Teng—suppressed his grief and quickly revealed the truth. Yang had nurtured him and had been much like his master, leaving his heart wracked with pain.
To them, this news was like a world-ending calamity. It stunned Territory 3's upper ranks into standing frozen in place. Many had gone stiff. In the end, what had they become? Nothing but a joke.
Earlier, they had been high-spirited, looking down upon the New Mythological World and believing they would annex it under their own leadership. Who could have imagined that their own True King would be killed?
"First Generation Beast Emperor? I will fight you!" Teng was the first to regain his composure. He was the successor King Yang had groomed, and he already knew that Yang had lost to the King before being abruptly annihilated by the Blood King.
Now, he wanted to