Sikong Jing would not let Ling Yusong get anywhere near Chaos-Shaking City again. For now, he could not let him discover what Heavenly Heart Sacred Ancestor and the others were doing, much less let him learn that A-Jin had already betrayed him. He had to lure him away.
Before leaving, Sikong Jing left behind a single sentence...
"Forged Rock, you are now the guards of the Nine Heavens heir. Your sole duty is to protect the people of Chaos-Shaking City."
As his words fell, Forged Rock and the other five demonfolk hidden within the Heavenly Dao Sacred Land shuddered violently from head to toe. Without another word, they silently accepted the order.
And so, under their watchful gazes, Sikong Jing frantically folded space and shot away, accelerating without pause.
Yet Sikong Jing remained very calm at this moment...
In fact, if Ling Yusong insisted on watching them massacre the city, Sikong Jing would likewise reveal the Nine Heavens Wind and Cloud Art to keep Chaos-Shaking City from being slaughtered...
As he had said before, the moment the Nine Heavens Wind and Cloud Art appeared, Ling Yusong would surely hunt him down like a madman.
At this moment, the spirit-shadow power Ling Yusong had sent after Sikong Jing, which Sikong Jing had torn open a gap in, naturally continued its pursuit like a shadow clinging to its form. It had to ensure it did not lose Sikong Jing's position or direction...
At the same time, aboard Ling Yusong's Divine Shuttle Ship... Creak, creak, creak, creak!
Ling Yusong's teeth suddenly ground together with creaking sounds. His formerly calm and untroubled expression had flushed crimson. He had not reacted this way even when he had suffered setbacks in Overlord Heaven City.
But now, he was incomparably agitated—so crazed that he had nearly reached