At that moment, none were more terrified than the Pale Moon Envoys!
They had been evil Martial Artists who committed every wicked deed imaginable in the Pale Moon World, despised by gods and ghosts alike. Only after Huang Taigu took them under his wing had they become so-called envoys.
For years, they had relied on the might of the Pale Moon Hall and Huang Taigu to run rampant across the Pale Moon Land, burning, killing, looting, and committing every atrocity.
They seized resources and slaughtered civilians. At the slightest resistance, they wiped out entire families. The blood of tens of millions of innocent lives stained their hands.
Now Li Yun had slain Huang Taigu, their greatest protector, with a single slash, destroying even his Divine Soul and leaving not a trace behind.
Without a Sage to back them or the Pale Moon Hall's might to shelter them, these lackeys, who had lorded it over everyone for years, became homeless dogs in an instant. The sight of tens of thousands of civilians glaring up at them with bloodshot eyes nearly scared their souls from their bodies.
"Exalted one, spare us! Huang Taigu forced us to do it!"
"We'll never do evil again! Please give us a way to live!"
The Pale Moon Envoys collapsed to the ground and kowtowed desperately, begging for mercy until blood streamed from their foreheads. They were a wretched sight.
But the hatred in the eyes of the people below did not fade in the slightest. Decades of blood and tears, of families torn apart, could not be erased by a few pleas for mercy.
Li Yun looked down from the air, his gaze utterly unmoved. He had no mercy for lackeys whose crimes were too numerous to count.
"Huang Taigu came from the Through-Ancient Dynasty. He