Heaven and earth mourned as one!
Boom!
Amid the rain of blood, the headless Seven Kill Sword Lord knelt facing the Nine Spirits Domain. His knees shattered the space around them. With both hands braced on his sword's hilt, he said hoarsely, "Your Majesty, I still have strength to spare."
"Please make me a doomed vanguard. Let me charge into the God-Demon Allied Army and reclaim the human race's legacy!"
He bowed his head and lay prostrate on the ground.
He laid his entire soul bare before the many Eighth-Tribulation Supremes, allowing them to place restrictions within it.
The Limitless Sword Lord and the others fell silent.
This, too, was a tradition of the human Immortal Dynasties.
Prisoners condemned for capital crimes could volunteer as doomed vanguards, clearing a path for the army and burning themselves away. At the cost of their lives, they would carve out a future for the human race and beg their sovereign to spare their sects and descendants. History held many such precedents.
Had their sovereigns spared them in the end?
Most had not. Even death could not quench a sovereign's wrath.
This was the capital crime of rebellion!
In this world, almost no crime was more grievous than attempting to assassinate one's sovereign. Such an act would also draw the malice of every True Immortal Heir almost instantly.
Even if the Seven Kill Sword Lord had succeeded in assassinating the Supreme Great Sun Sword Immortal Maiden, he would still have paid a terrible price if another human True Immortal Heir—such as the Myriad Laws True Immortal Heir—appeared in this star region one day.
Even if the Myriad Laws True Immortal Heir and the Supreme Great Sun Sword Immortal Maiden were enemies, she could not have tolerated such a thing.
But the Limitless Sword Lord