A vast aura, like an awakening giant dragon, instantly enveloped the entire Snake People Race. A powerful pressure unlike anything the Seven Great Leaders had ever felt spread from outside their territory, eventually pervading the whole Snake People Race.
At once, every Snake Person was unable to suppress the reverence in their hearts and fell prostrate toward the source of that aura.
Even though the Seven Great Leaders knew this was an outsider desperately resisting, the pressure on their bodies grew heavier and heavier until they could no longer resist and intimately met the ground.
"This aura..." Within the Snake People Race's sacrificial hall, four pitch-black figures revealed looks of shock.
"I never expected that old fellow to truly still be alive!"
The instant the aura arrived, the expressions of the Snake People Race's four Great Elders changed drastically. Their low voices could not conceal their astonishment.
After exchanging glances, green light flared in the four women's eyes, and they seemed to know what they had to do next.
"Hmm?"
"Four old fellows with nearly identical auras?"
The white-robed figure was somewhat surprised upon sensing the four early-stage Dou Emperor auras. Then, sensing the same aged, dying aura he himself once possessed, he felt somewhat relieved.
"We shall defend Her Majesty the Queen unto death!"
The four women spoke in unison, chanting a strange language as though conducting a ritual. The four Snake People Race elders' strength surged from Dou Wang to Dou Emperor, and besides their overwhelming pressure, dense deathly energy also emanated from their bodies.
The four elders exchanged looks. Each of them saw fleeting madness and fighting spirit in the others' eyes.
The Queen was still in seclusion, consolidating the foundation brought by her breakthrough. Yet at this critical moment, not only was there the Dou Emperor