Ye Lingyun Arrives!

"You—you dare insult our emperor like this?!"

The Scarlet Flame Lion Emperor was the first to recover from his shock. He shot to his feet, pointed at Lin Ming, and trembled with rage, his mane standing on end.

"You're a man on the brink of death, yet you dare spout such arrogant nonsense! Our emperor is a Martial Saint at the Tenth-Tier Peak! How dare you slander him so freely?!"

The other four Beast Emperors also glared furiously, as though Lin Ming had committed some unforgivable atrocity.

Though they too were shocked by the Black Dragon Emperor's status as a "servant," what enraged them even more was Lin Ming's undisguised mockery and contempt.

An ant in their eyes actually dared to humiliate their supreme emperor like this!

"Human! You're courting death!" The Withered Wood Beast Emperor's voice was hoarse, and venomous light flickered in his eyes. "Once our emperor captures you, he'll flay you alive, pull out your tendons, and torture your soul for eternity!"

Yet the Black Dragon Emperor did not attack at once. Floating in midair, his dragon eyes blazing with black flames fixed themselves on Lin Ming, then shifted to Xiao Hei behind him, who was openly hostile toward him. His expression kept changing.

"A Master-Servant Contract..." he said through gritted teeth, each word deliberate, his voice filled with suppressed fury and apprehension.

"And the highest-grade Soul-Binding Contract—if the master dies, the servant dies; if the servant dies, the master lives. What a clever method. Truly, what a clever method!"

With a single glance, he saw through the nature of the contract between Lin Ming and Xiao Hei. This contract meant that if Lin Ming died, Xiao Hei would die with him.

But if Xiao Hei died, Lin Ming would merely suffer severe injuries and would not