"Who goes there!"
Just then, a squad of fully armed soldiers came galloping over amid dust that filled the sky, shouting their challenge at Xu Taiping and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage.
Xu Taiping looked up, then frowned.
"A squad of mortal soldiers?"
Through the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage's Divine Sense, he could clearly sense that the soldiers before them had no cultivation whatsoever.
They possessed only a little Qi and Blood Power.
Upon hearing Xu Taiping's puzzlement, the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage immediately said in a relaxed tone:
"Most of Yanggu Heaven is a mortal world inhabited solely by those with mortal bones, and Dong Cangzi is the emperor of this mortal world."
Xu Taiping was momentarily speechless.
"A dignified half-immortal actually came to a mortal world to crown himself king?"
The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage smiled.
"Perhaps it's because Dong Cangzi was a prince in the mortal world before he began cultivating. After breaking through to the Half-Immortal Realm, he came here to Yanggu Heaven specifically, carved out a mortal world with a Great Divine Ability, and spent a thousand years nurturing a population of mortals."
Despite the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage's explanation, Xu Taiping still found it somewhat inconceivable.
"Identify yourselves! Otherwise, we'll loose our arrows!"
Just then, the officer leading the soldiers barked another stern challenge.
This time, the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage did not ignore him. Instead, he cupped his hands and smiled.
"Sir, I am Ding Mou, an envoy from the Heavenly Prefecture. I have come today expressly to seek an audience with His Majesty the Emperor."
As he spoke, the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage raised a hand and condensed a ball of flame with the power of his own Origin of the Great Dao.
At once, a commotion broke out among the armored soldiers.
While the armored soldiers were in