"Why are you here?"
"Where's Tianyou?"
"Has something happened?"
Wood Heavenly Venerable and the Azure Sword Emperor both frowned.
The sight of the newcomers gave them both a bad feeling.
The Azure Wood Heavenly Palace had strict rules, especially concerning this Cave Heaven World.
Ordinarily, apart from the Azure Wood Heavenly Lord, even the Azure Wood Heavenly Palace's Vice Palace Masters and elders could not simply enter at will.
Yet they had suddenly come in, and all together at that.
The Azure Wood Heavenly Lord alone was nowhere to be seen.
It was hard not to imagine the worst.
Sure enough, no sooner had they spoken than the Vice Palace Masters and elders looked stricken with grief, their faces utterly desolate.
The Vice Palace Master, Evergreen Sword Lord, said bitterly, "Grand Supreme Elders, the Palace Master... something has happened to him. Please avenge him!"
With that, the entire group pressed their foreheads to the ground.
"Grand Supreme Elders, please avenge the Palace Master!"
"What?"
"Tianyou is dead?"
The sudden news left Wood Heavenly Venerable and the Azure Sword Emperor stunned where they stood.
Then came anger.
Utter fury.
"Bastards!"
"How dare they!"
"How could Tianyou die out of nowhere?"
Their fury was hardly surprising. Mo Tianyou, the Azure Wood Heavenly Lord, was not only the current Palace Master and the face of the Azure Wood Heavenly Palace. He was also a Heavenly Gold Divine Lord whom the two of them had poured untold effort into training together.
The Azure Wood Heavenly Lord was their disciple, as dear to them as a son.
And now these people were telling them, without the slightest warning, that the Azure Wood Heavenly Lord was dead?
What kind of damned joke was this?
Neither could believe it. They even suspected that, during their long absence,