High in the sky, battle erupted without warning.
More than a dozen Saint Emperors from Great Black Heaven and the Blood God Cult surged with towering killing intent. Black mist and bloodlight intertwined into a savage torrent as they lunged at Xuancang and his companions.
Twelve Saint Emperors of White Emperor City's Punishment Hall gripped their instruments of punishment. Binding runes blazed around them, and the grim power of their punitive path swept across the sky, holding back the evil cultivators' fierce assault.
Saint Power roared, and the heavens trembled.
Terrifying shockwaves swept outward, shattering the spiritual mist and shaking the surrounding halls and pavilions until they cracked inch by inch.
Off to the side, the fourteen Saint Emperors of the Through-Ancient Dynasty still held their ground.
Saint Emperor Seal Heaven clenched his fists, his face shifting between pale and ashen as he wrestled with himself.
On one side stood Saint Emperor Ruiyun, the Saint Emperor's son whom he had schemed so hard to attach himself to. On the other stood the Saint Emperors of White Emperor City's Punishment Hall.
Saint Emperor Ruiyun had angrily declared before everyone that they were impostors posing as the Punishment Hall's Saint Emperors. But Seal Heaven was no fool. How could anyone dare impersonate the Punishment Hall of White Emperor City?
Saint Emperor Ruiyun was plainly calling a deer a horse to silence them.
If Seal Heaven followed his orders and helped kill the Punishment Hall's Saint Emperors, he would have no choice but to follow this dark road to its end.
One wrong step, and he would be damned beyond redemption.
But his hesitation infuriated Saint Emperor Ruiyun.
"Seal Heaven!!"
"What are you still hesitating for?!"
"Move! Don't forget your son is still in White Emperor City..."
That furious rebuke sent a chill