"What I... want, I will take myself..."
The many resurrected great adepts brightened with delight and were about to act, but Eastern Emperor Taiyi gazed up at the sky with a proud, faintly disdainful expression as he spoke.
His words halted the movements of the dozens of representatives nearby, leaving them hesitant.
Generally speaking, the higher one's cultivation realm, the stronger one's desires became. At the same time, one also cared more about face.
Eastern Emperor Taiyi disdained killing these captive immortal gods from beyond the heavens, who had no power to resist, to restore his cultivation and magical power. The twenty-odd representatives nearby considered their status and cultivation scarcely inferior to his. How could they lower themselves to act?
"Trying to rescue someone?"
Before the others could think further, Eastern Emperor Taiyi murmured in a low voice, yet it rolled like heavenly thunder, echoing through heaven and earth.
As his words fell, scorching flames erupted, and he shot into the sky like a Golden Crow streaking across the heavens, his flames burning the firmament. He moved as swiftly as lightning, his searing fire scorching the void.
Within the soaring flames, a Golden Crow several zhang in size thrust out a claw. It transformed into an enormous claw a thousand zhang across, formed from golden fire, with the might to tear the sky apart!
Crack...
At the same moment, heaven and earth shuddered. A withered ghost claw, pitch-black and wreathed in sinister yin energy, pierced the Heaven-Earth Crystal Wall and shattered the void as it reached toward the captive descended immortal gods, its imposing might boundless.
Upon closer examination, the aura of that Heaven-Breaking Ghost Claw seemed to have locked onto the Ghost Race's young lord, You Qingcan.
A Ghost Emperor from the Upper Realm beyond the Pangu World had