Despair and Hope

Every Wang Hou, even Marquis Wu Ding, who had prepared himself mentally, could not help but suck in a cold breath at this moment, because...

The number of foreign-race Wang Hou powerhouses appearing in the vast starry sky far exceeded their expectations.

The foreign-race Wang Hou who had originally surrounded North Capital had, through repeated probing, been roughly estimated to number around a hundred.

But those appearing in the starry sky now numbered far more than a hundred!

Besides the many Wang Hou from the Heavenly Clan, Strength Clan, and other races who had already appeared during the probing, there were over a hundred additional figures in the starry sky with immense auras.

Among them were terrifying creatures with a single leg and the form of enormous water buffaloes, gigantic phoenix-like birds engulfed in raging flames and stretching a hundred li long, dragon-like flood wyrms, and four enormous humanoid creatures clad in armor with vicious faces...

"Kui Ox, Chaofeng... Are those the Four Heavenly Kings from Heavenly Court myths and legends?"

The human Wang Hou wore grave expressions and quickly realized something.

"Those mythical creatures from the Heaven Realm that vanished without a trace are all here now..."

They had already learned from the intelligence Shen Qian had provided that most of those creatures had gone overseas and fallen under the Scavengers' control. But because they had never shown themselves, everyone's memories of them had gradually faded.

Only now did the human Wang Hou understand that it was merely because the Witch Clan had never deployed them.

Faint black mist swirled around all of those creatures. It was exactly like the black mist that had appeared around Wu Wei and the others when they had temporarily broken through to Martial King. It carried an unfathomable and eerie aura; merely looking