"Protect me?!"
Zhao Changsheng felt no joy at being protected, only a tangled mess of emotions.
In the past, old friends had withered away one after another, like fallen leaves in the wind. Now, they were coming back to life one after another, like bamboo shoots after a spring rain. He truly didn't know whether to be happy or sad.
Rumble!!
Just as the Immortal Emperors' battle reached a stalemate, a deafening roar rolled down from the heavens.
A crack appeared in the sky, as if a sword had split the entire firmament open. A resplendent white palace of gold and jade appeared, accompanied by celestial music that rang across the entire Immortal Realm.
"The Heavenly Palace has descended!!"
Qin Hao and the others were startled and hurriedly looked up at the sky.
The white palace's gates slowly swung open. Inside stood eight experts at the Dao Integration Realm, along with hundreds of thousands of soldiers clad in golden armor. Every one of them had a cultivation at the Immortal King Realm, and even the least talented among them had the potential to reach the seventh-grade bloom.
"What?!"
Every Immortal Emperor present immediately widened their eyes, staring at the Heavenly Palace in disbelief.
They had assumed that only eight Dao Integration Realm experts guarded the Heavenly Palace. They never imagined it also had hundreds of thousands of Immortal Kings serving as heavenly soldiers. The terrifying strength it had revealed was entirely beyond their understanding.
Dong!!
A bell rang, stirring an answering resonance between heaven and earth.
"That bell..."
Qin Hao's body jolted, and he hurriedly looked up into the air.
Yaoguang, like a celestial maiden fallen into the mortal world, lay horizontally as she plummeted from the sky. Her face was deathly pale, without a trace of color. Clearly, her