As the Heavenly Demon's envoy raised a finger toward the giant tree, he spoke.
"Who do you think you are? You dare attack me? I planted you with my own hands. I know everything about you. Killing you would be as easy as slaughtering a chicken."
As his words fell, the giant tree began to wither beneath his finger.
Every branch attacking him snapped.
His finger seemed to cross boundless space and gently touched the trunk.
The instant it made contact, the giant tree crumbled into endless debris.
The envoy withdrew his hand, clasped both hands behind his back, and sneered. "Useless trash. To save your own life, you worked with Lord Heavenly Demon's mortal enemy and even lost the Metal Source. Death is too good for you."
He looked in the direction Qin An had gone and shook his head. "I came too late. If those Holdouts in the Forbidden Lands hadn't attacked me one after another, using forbidden arts that nearly trapped me, I would have come to the Reincarnation Forbidden Land and killed him myself."
"But there's no rush. I can't leave from here, but I can travel between the Forbidden Lands. If I get another chance, I'll take Qin An's head."
With that, the envoy's figure began to fade.
"Next, I won't just kill Qin An. I'll turn the entire Skycloud Circuit into a land of death. It's time for the Betrayers of Skycloud Circuit to strike back with a vengeance."
His last words faded into the air, and his figure vanished completely.
Time passed. In the blink of an eye, several months had gone by.
During that time, Skycloud Circuit fell into a peace it had not known for years.
After the events at the Golden Throne Hall, the number of demons and False