On the shattered White Jade Bridge, a proud voice made everyone turn.
They looked back together, their gazes landing on the figure in the Black-Feather Cloak.
A cold, arrogant smile curved Li Xiao's lips, and his eyes swept over them with disdain.
His tall figure passed through the crowd. The hem of his Black-Feather Cloak dragged across the White Jade Bridge with a soft rustle.
In the deathly silence on the bridge, that sound rang out with startling clarity!
The dragon pattern covering half his face looked lifelike, its scales and horns fierce!
Under the strange and stunned gazes of the others, Li Xiao walked up to Gu Huangquan and looked down at him from his two-meter height.
"Is it enough?"
Gu Huangquan stared at him, still expressionless, though a trace of emotion seemed to stir in his eyes.
"It's enough."
Li Xiao's smile deepened. "One person is enough?"
Gu Huangquan nodded. "One person is enough."
"Hahaha..." Li Xiao laughed freely, his laughter making the wandering souls in Azure Heaven and Yellow Springs tremble.
"You all heard that? I alone am enough!
"What do the Ten Kings matter? What do heroes matter? In the end, none of them outweigh me!"
This time, no one challenged his outrageous words.
There was no anger in Xiao Yi and the others' eyes. Instead, pity and sorrow faintly showed through.
Li Xiao stood at the edge of the bridge and surveyed them proudly.
"All my life, I've aimed to surpass the Ten Kings, but I never had the chance to face them in a fair fight.
"Now..."
His smile grew colder and wilder, his gaze sharp as lightning!
"I don't need to surpass the Ten Kings! I am the true... Shadow King!!!"
With that, Li Xiao turned his back on the others, stepped onto