Shrouding the Heavens: Those Years as the Empress's Strictest Master

"Stubborn and incorrigible."

King Gu shook his head slightly, as if sighing, yet there was not a trace of warmth in his eyes.

His gaze swept over the area, but he did not spot the Indestructible Golden Body child within the village.

Tan Lin truly was not here.

The moment Xiang Li had sensed people from the Feathered Immortal Dynasty descending, he had sent him ahead to the bottom of the Abyss.

Faced with such a sudden change, perhaps he believed that only there did the child have a sliver of hope of survival.

Little did he know that this decision would likely bring the Xiang Family additional casualties that could have been avoided.

"You've hidden him quite thoroughly. Does a mere declining Golden Body family deserve to block the path of our dynasty? Since your Xiang Family refuses to appreciate kindness, then... be erased."

After a brief and fruitless search, King Gu's gaze turned even colder.

Before his words had faded, he slowly raised his right hand. Silver divine light gathered between his fingers as strands of divine laws converged and arranged themselves, eventually forming the phantom of a hazy immortal seal.

Though the immortal seal was only a phantom, it vaguely stirred the Great Dao into rumbling. Its aura made the mountains and rivers across Scarlet Glow River wail, as if they would collapse the next moment.

Xiang Li's pupils contracted sharply. He roared, then chose to burn his origin and blood essence, intending to fight to the death.

Bzz...

The worn battle spear in his hand, which had survived the upheaval of tens of thousands of years ago, awakened at this moment and let out an unyielding hum.

In an instant, the battle spear erupted with a bleak, murderous aura as Xiang Li shot skyward.

But before