Not Abandoning a Single One

Before the Earth Fire Heart Palace, more than forty Palace Opening Realm Kings stared anxiously at Ye Zhen, shrouded in crimson streams of light, and at the phantom above him whose lips kept moving as though saying something. Every one of them was frantic, wishing they could rush out and take his place.

Suddenly, the crimson radiance flashed, and Ye Zhen, trapped within it, vanished into thin air. The sight drew simultaneous cries of alarm from the Palace Opening Realm Kings.

"Gone? Where did he go?"

"Did Ye Zhen enter the Earth Fire Heart Palace, or was he erased?"

"Are you stupid? By the looks of it, there's an eighty or ninety percent chance he got in. Have you ever seen someone being erased like this?"

Yet after only a few breaths, the Palace Opening Realm Kings stopped arguing. They all stared fixedly at the dissipating crimson streams of light and the bronze ring Ye Zhen had grasped earlier, their eyes nearly popping out.

The instant the crimson streams of light fully dispersed and revealed the enormous bronze ring within, the atmosphere before the Earth Fire Heart Palace immediately became extremely tense.

By now, everyone understood that the bronze ring was the key to entering the Earth Fire Heart Palace before them, a place they had been unable to enter. But there were more than forty people here. How many could enter, and who would go first, were major problems.

However, which of the Palace Opening Realm Kings present was not ruthless and vicious? Even with Qingyang Palace's Palace Master Chu Yang taking the lead, if anyone approached on their own, he would be unable to stop the other Palace Opening Realm Kings from attacking.

Everyone had the same feeling: whoever dared touch that bronze ring without authorization would surely