"Have mercy, Your Majesty!"
Di Wushuang was aghast and fell to her knees, pleading in terror.
Yet Huan Emperor Jian Shang ignored her completely. Without pausing, he stepped into the torn space and vanished.
"What happened?!"
Who was Di Wushuang? She was the first Half-Otherworlder in the world of Forging the Sacred Court to advance to the Loose Immortal Realm. Even now, she was universally acknowledged as the strongest among the Otherworlders, second only to Huan Emperor Jian Shang. Seeing her react this way, the already anxious leaders of the China Alliance, held outside the perimeter by the Great Huan Forbidden Guard, all paled. Dragon Soul was especially frightened and immediately sent Di Wushuang a voice transmission to ask.
"Alas... the events of the past month have enraged the Huan Emperor. He logged out outright. Calamities wrought by heaven may yet be forgiven; calamities wrought by your own hands leave no path to survival. You had best decide what to do!"
Watching the Huan Emperor leave without breaking stride, Di Wushuang rose with a conflicted expression and answered with a long sigh.
"What do you mean? Are you saying... surely the Huan Emperor didn't log out to come after us?"
Dragon Soul's face instantly turned as white as paper, and the anxious voice transmission became panicked. Even Yan Wuji, Demon Empress Ying Ying, Xuanyuan Menghen, and the others paled. Although Di Wushuang had used a voice transmission, her words had sounded in the air rather than being directed solely at Dragon Soul, so they could hear them too.
Di Wushuang shook her head with a bitter smile and replied helplessly through a voice transmission, "Why wouldn't he?! One act of disloyalty earns a hundred refusals of forgiveness! The Huan Emperor never trusted the Otherworlders much to begin with, yet when