In the ruins of the great hall, the dust slowly settled.
Among those present.
Thousands of demons prostrated themselves and bowed.
Only a dark-green Primordial Spirit hovered in midair, trembling all over.
"You... you..."
A hoarse voice burst from the Primordial Spirit.
Every demon turned to look at him at once.
The python demon's Primordial Spirit stared fixedly at the sea of kneeling figures below.
"The elder... the elder's bones aren't even cold!"
"Every last one of you-which of you didn't reach your current cultivation through the elder's protection and painstaking guidance?!"
"Forgotten River has stood for hundreds of thousands of years! Don't you know in your own hearts how the elder treated you?"
"The elder is dead! It's bad enough that you won't avenge him!"
"But now you're kneeling at his killer's feet, wagging your tails and begging for mercy!"
"You're worse than beasts!!!"
Having finished berating them.
The python demon abruptly turned his slit pupils toward the figure kneeling at the very front.
"And you."
"When the elder adopted you, you were just an ordinary demon on the outskirts of You Mountain... your cultivation today, your standing-which of them wasn't given to you by the elder?!"
"Juechen... have you no decency at all?!"
Yet in the face of these accusations.
Demon Emperor Juechen roared.
His figure shot up from the ground.
"HOW DARE YOU!!!"
A vicious flying kick, wrapped in howling wind, slammed into the dark-green Primordial Spirit.
Pfft-
Like a cloud of smoke kicked apart, the python demon's Primordial Spirit flew backward and crashed hard into Forgotten River's sheer cliff.
More than half his dark-green light shattered, scattering like fireflies.
The python demon's howl stopped abruptly.
His mangled Primordial Spirit lay embedded in the rock face, flickering, barely alive.
Demon Emperor Juechen lowered his leg.
He turned