"Emperor, the ten envoys can no longer hold them off. Within the Xuanhuang Great World, I can vaguely sense a gaze fixed upon me. I dared not go forward to investigate closely."
At that moment, a man in black came to the Emperor's side, dropped to one knee, and reported with cupped fists.
"Oh? Even ten demigods cannot hold them back? It seems the Xuanhuang Great World has experts above the Most Sacred realm stationed there. Alas."
Hearing this, the man in dragon robes let out a deep sigh. Even now, he had not figured out how that group in the Xuanhuang Great World had suddenly become Most Sacred experts on such a large scale.
Moreover, the Xuanhuang Great World seemed to possess true Divine Realm beings above the Most Sacred realm. With such a foundation, why had they not acted when the two sides had first become neighbors?
Everything was shrouded in mystery. Even he could not make sense of it.
"Emperor, what should we do?"
The man reporting lowered his head again and asked.
"Demigods are the pillars of the Empire. Even the Empire does not have many of them. If these ten fall, the Empire will suffer grievously. In these turbulent times, we cannot afford to lose them."
The man in dragon robes spoke with a grave expression. As the saying went, winning the realm was easy, guarding it was hard. The reason the Empire had ruled the Heavenly Demon Great World for so many years without being overthrown was precisely because of these pillars.
Should these ten demigods perish, even the Xuanyuan Empire would be badly shaken. Who knew how many resources had been spent to nurture them in the first place?
"Back then, a heaven-and-earth divine spirit was born within this Heavenly Demon Great World.