Rumble—!!!!
With Lu Chen's flamboyant roar!
Above the vault of heaven.
The Five Plague Envoys' divine might surged even greater.
Crackle, rumble!
Thunder flickered amid the colliding clouds, darting like dragons and serpents!
"Aooo!!!!"
Within the mass grave, the seventh-rank Ghost King burst from the earth once more. Its savage head tilted skyward in a howl. Though it appeared ferocious and frenzied, its entire body trembled without cease, clearly facing a formidable enemy.
"Humph, you petty fiend, and you dare run wild!!"
A divine voice pressed down from the heavens, making the eardrums of countless mortals buzz. People throughout the streets hurriedly covered their ears.
Just one divine utterance was already a burden mortals could scarcely bear.
"Watch this envoy shatter your petty ghost domain!"
Li Qi, the Southern Plague Envoy, was the first to enter the fray.
Seeing this, Lu Chen immediately urged the Plague Emperor Banner to retreat, lest he be caught in the wake of the divine power, and shouted, "I'll trouble you, Senior Brother!"
"A trifling matter," Li Qi replied blandly.
"Wait, what did he call that Plague Envoy?"
Below, Young Master Wang suddenly jolted awake from his daze, only to become even more shocked.
"He called him... Senior Brother?"
City Lord Huang's scalp went numb. He said in a trembling voice, "I understand now! This Patriarch Lu must have received a divine office from the [Plague Department]! Senior Brother?... Could it be that he received the divine office of a Plague Department guardian deity!?"
Buzz!
The disciples of the various families behind him were struck as though by lightning, turning to stone as one.
Received a divine office?
Even across the entire nation, such people were as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns. It was nearly always a privilege reserved for scions of