"Who?!" An Immortal King of a forbidden zone flew into a rage. Someone actually dared snatch something from his hands. Did they hold him, an Immortal King, in such contempt?!
"Stand down!" Ji Hao rebuked him, like a Heavenly Emperor ordering his subject to withdraw.
"How dare you!"
The Master of the Forbidden Zone was furious. He was an Immortal King-level powerhouse; no one had ever dared speak to him like that.
He was just about to resist when heavenly might pressed down upon his head. That divine majesty was like a prison. If he made a move, he would undoubtedly die.
"This power... could it be him?!" The forbidden zone's Immortal King felt every hair on his body stand on end.
"No, impossible! I saw an Immortal King pierce his divine soul with my own eyes. He fell into the Sea of Boundaries. How could he return? It must be an illusion!" Yet he dared not attack again. Even if this was not that man, his instincts told him this person could crush him effortlessly. Whoever it was made no difference.
Above the River of Time, Ji Hao's main body sat upon the Emperor Throne. He now stood above the River of Time and no longer needed to expend vast amounts of essence qi to quell its backlash. Merely standing there in his true form, with emperor light shining around him, kept the winds calm and the waves still, granting him Immunity to All Techniques.
"In the end, it happened too suddenly. Things didn't follow the plan I'd envisioned," Ji Hao said slowly, opening his eyes.
The emperor light around him shifted. The five-petaled immortal lotus supporting the Emperor Throne was somewhat unbalanced. The petal representing the Divine Dao Heavenly Emperor towered over the others, occupying three-fifths of