Northern Region Half-Saint Taizai Ci, Snatching the Ancestor God's Food from the Tiger's Jaws

Whoosh! Above a crumbled, split mountain, a streak of light cut through the sky, drawing the attention of the surrounding Saints.

The eleven Saints nearby were either standing atop branches, resting in the shade, or leaning against the floating void... Each wore an exceedingly leisurely, contented expression.

Once the newcomer landed, many Half-Saints swiftly turned their gazes toward him. Someone teased:

"Kong Tong is here?"

"Kong Tong, Kong Tong, quite unlike the throng—went out one day and came back with red kneecaps."

This referred to Kong Tong, one of the Northern Region's Twelve Saint Lords. Once, while out and about, he had slipped into a spatial storm and been accidentally transported to the Inner Island of Void Island.

In truth, it had merely been a planar projection, one of the occasional mishaps encountered by travelers through spatial debris flows.

As long as one endured that instant of spatial displacement, one could return to the original location with nothing having happened.

Yet when Kong Tong had been projected over, he happened to encounter a black dragon that had been startled awake from a deep sleep.

He had been fortunate enough to escape alive, but both his legs had been bitten off.

From then on, this incident became the greatest laughingstock among the Twelve Saint Lords.

Though it was called a joke, it was actually proof of Kong Tong's formidable strength and extraordinary ability to flee for his life.

After all, it was later confirmed that the dragon had been the master of the Void Island Inner Island's Black Lineage—the Demon Emperor Black Dragon, a Holy Emperor! "Not every Half-Saint can escape from the jaws of the Demon Emperor Black Dragon!" Kong Tong had once argued with reason on his side.

The facts proved that it was completely useless.

As it spread