The Nine Nether Nether Soldiers were a familiar sight to Ling Tian and the others, the cultivators who had escaped from the Lord of the Universe's universe—especially those who had once been to Tianmu Star. But Shen Ming and the other cultivators had never seen or even heard of such beings. This left Ling Tian and the others bewildered, and naturally put them on their guard. That was true even though Ling Tian believed the Nine Nether Nether Soldiers and Death Nether Qi posed little threat to cultivators at their level.
Thinking that perhaps the same kind of being went by different names, Ling Tian continued to explain. At the same time, he stirred his mind, sending Death Nether Qi billowing out and transforming it into a Nine Nether Nether Soldier. He even used a strange kind of Origin Power to condense armor around it. It was no exaggeration to say that, apart from lacking any actual combat power, the being before them looked exactly like the Nine Nether Nether Soldiers Ling Tian and the others had seen back then.
Ling Tian had thought Shen Ming and the others would change their minds, but they still insisted they had never seen such a being. Even the Creation Divine Tree and the World-Ending Thunder Dragon said they had never seen one. This left Ling Tian and Little Devourer even more puzzled, and a faint sense of foreboding rose in their hearts.
"You've actually seen beings like these, Ling Tian?!" The Eastern Emperor Bell's voice suddenly rang in their minds. It was filled with shock as it continued, "That can't be possible! The Demon God isn't the Lord of the Star Domain, so how could he control the Nine Nether Nether Soldiers?!"
"No, the Nine Nether Nether Soldiers probably weren't controlled by