"World Lord?"
"World Lord?!"
Startled voices rang out one after another.
After Qin Shaofeng voiced the same question, an even more shocked cry from beside him still startled him.
He subconsciously turned his head, only to see Luo Yan nearly popping his eyes out of their sockets.
What kind of expression was that?
Qin Shaofeng became even more puzzled.
Could a merely nominal World Lord bring him benefits far beyond imagination?
Otherwise, Luo Yan would not have been this shocked, would he?
"Eldest Brother Luo Yan, what is a World Lord? It doesn't seem like something that should shock you this much, does it?" he finally could not help asking.
"How could it not be? You only have such doubts because you know too little."
Luo Yan's eyes were filled with fervor.
Yet he first looked toward the Cangming Great Emperor and asked uncertainly, "Are you sure you have a way to make him the World Lord of this Cangming Realm?"
Qin Shaofeng found it even more baffling.
The Cangming Great Emperor nodded deeply and said, "Back then, our Cangming Realm was first invaded by the Ghost Corpse Race. Not long afterward, people from the Vast Void Realm descended upon us. Even True Monarch Seven Colors at the time could be called invincible within the Cangming Realm."
"Yet our Vast Void Realm had a history long enough for powerful experts to emerge in endless succession, but not a single one was ever willing to lend the Cangming Realm a hand."
"Or perhaps there were other reasons, but those were beyond my certainty."
"In any case, when True Monarch Seven Colors was so powerful that even I felt he might be the savior Heaven had sent to our Cangming Realm, he was killed before my very eyes by the combined forces