The Nine Nether King looked at the Skywing King and asked, "Just who are you?"
The black mist above the Skywing King's head dispersed, revealing the face of a middle-aged scholar.
"Heaven's End King—it was you. I should have thought of it long ago. If you dared use the Double-Eyed Bird, you must have been colluding with the Skywing King. It seems you two really did join forces," said the Nine Nether King.
He took several breaths, then shouted, "Come out, Skywing King!"
Heaven's End King said calmly, "There is no Skywing King. Such a person no longer exists in the Netherworld. From this day onward, the Skywing King is the Heaven's End King, and the Heaven's End King is the Skywing King."
Disbelief appeared on the Nine Nether King's face. "The Skywing King fell? I haven't heard that he underwent a heavenly tribulation recently. Could it be that you...?"
"That's right. That position was mine to begin with; I merely took it back. If he had obeyed my orders, let me command him, become one of my generals, and attack the cultivation world with me, I might have spared his life."
The Nine Nether King suddenly laughed. "You miscalculated. Though I am weaker than you and severely injured, with you alone, it is absolutely impossible for you to kill me. Absolutely impossible. In the Netherworld now, no one can kill me anymore. At most, they can defeat or injure me."
His words brimmed with confidence as a golden bell flew into the air.
Heaven's End King glanced at it and said coolly, "A low-grade Xuantian spirit treasure, the Soul-Seizing Bell? So this is why you believe you can save your life?"
"This should be the only known Xuantian spirit treasure in the Netherworld at present, shouldn't it? If you