P.S.:
I only learned today that VIP chapters published within the past 72 hours cost regular members 1.6 times the original price to subscribe to. How depressing.
Dijun and Taiyi were beating Eastern King Duke within an inch of his life, without a thought for their days as "classmates" at Zixiao Palace. Eastern King Duke found that terribly "depressing."
As if Dijun and Taiyi would care about that! Why did Eastern King Duke think they had attacked West Kunlun, or Purple Manor Immortal Island before that? They had come to kill him. How could they talk about "old ties" when they were trying to take his life? Talking about "feelings" now would only hurt their hearts—and their bodies even more. They had let him escape last time. There was no way they would let it happen again. If Eastern King Duke really treasured their shared days at Zixiao Palace, he could stand still and let them kill him.
Besides, Eastern King Duke had put plenty of "effort" into his own attacks just now. Where had his regard for his old classmates been then? He might as well die and hurry off to his next life. Not that Dijun and Taiyi intended to let him have one. They wanted to scatter his soul, not merely kill his body.
All right, Eastern King Duke admitted he had made a terrible joke. The beating hurt so much that he needed some other way to distract himself.
He was beginning to feel that he could not hold off two great experts of the Primordial Wilderness alone. At this rate, he was doomed. He had to think of something.
If he could not rely on himself, he needed help. The Queen Mother of the West? Eastern King Duke stole a glance at her, still unconscious,