"Horn Wood Marquis" left them with one last taunt before striding away, leaving twenty-eight marquises sprawled on the ground in disgrace.
Meanwhile, the name of the Sky-Stealing Bandit rang out across the Divine Land Epoch once more.
Then the "Sky-Stealing Bandit" swept through the entire Divine Land Epoch like a gale stripping the clouds from the sky.
Marquis estates, princely estates—roughly seventy percent of the Divine Land Epoch's powerful families fell victim to the "Sky-Stealing Bandit."
Such brazen acts naturally caught the attention of the Divine Land Epoch's true powerhouses.
In a Small World.
Chen Changsheng, now disguised, was sorting through the spoils he had gathered over the past few months.
Xiao Hei had received treatment and recovered.
Xiao Hei shook out his fur, which flowed like water, and smacked his lips. "Aren't we being a little too brazen?"
"Brazen?"
"I think we're fine."
"But lately, I've noticed the Cultivation World seems different from how it was two hundred thousand years ago."
"Almost every cultivator in the Divine Land Epoch is stuck at Immortal King Ninth Grade."
"Judging by the paths they cultivate, it seems someone's been pulling strings behind the scenes."
Curious, Xiao Hei asked, "What kind of strings?"
"They want to abandon the Chang Sheng Era Thunder Tribulation entirely and create an Emperor Realm tribulation of their own."
"What do you mean?"
Xiao Hei pressed him, and Chen Changsheng said, "I created the old thunder tribulation using Ao Chuang and the Epoch Heaven's Mandate."
"So if Bitter Sea cultivators wanted to enter the Emperor Realm, they had no choice but to go to the Chang Sheng Epoch."
"Now that the Chang Sheng Epoch has been destroyed, they naturally need to find a new thunder tribulation."
Xiao Hei frowned. "Would that work?"
"In theory, yes. But putting it