The answer was clearly no.
Ever since he had baptized Haoyue with his own blood on Knight Sacred Mountain, he had regarded Haoyue as his brother, someone he had to protect with his life. How could he watch his own brother die before his eyes? He could not.
If he abandoned Haoyue, what would the ten knightly rules he had upheld for so many years amount to?
Long Haochen took a deep breath and said firmly, "Haoyue is my brother. If you want to kill him, kill me first."
The Demon God Emperor's gaze was complicated. "I admire your character, but you should never have brought him over from that plane, nor should you have formed a blood pact with him."
Long Haochen's heart jolted. Did the Demon God Emperor know where Haoyue came from?
Back then, Long Haochen had found nothing on Knight Sacred Mountain. In the end, he had formed a contract through the great teleportation array with Haoyue, who came from the Darkness and Fire Plane.
Very few people had ever known Haoyue's origins. Only members of Long Haochen's team and Jiang Feng's team had visited that plane.
Yet the Demon God Emperor seemed very familiar with Haoyue and deeply wary of him. He had even launched a Holy War lasting two and a half years, determined to kill Haoyue at any cost.
Now he had descended upon Imperial Dragon Pass, threatening the Knight Temple's leaders. If they refused to hand Haoyue over, today might well mark the Knight Temple's destruction.
What puzzled Long Haochen was that the Demon God Emperor's description of Haoyue closely resembled that of the undead creatures in the Darkness and Fire World.
The beings of that world regarded Haoyue as their world's destroyer, as heavenly calamity, as the source of all destruction.