Qing Chen paid no attention to the eyes below that were all but popping out of their sockets. He drove waves of sound with his vast True Essence, sweeping across hundreds of miles around him:
"Spirit Venerable Xiao's discerning eyes burn like torches. He specifically ordered me to help defend Annan Province, stop Wu Gui, suppress the gu plague, and keep the gateway of our Great Jin's human race from falling!"
"Having received another edict from the Immortal Dynasty and been entrusted with this duty by a Spirit Transformation Venerable, I shall lay bare my liver and drain my gall, refusing nothing even at the cost of ten thousand deaths! Soon, I shall personally travel to Annan Province to slay fiends and eradicate demons for our human race!"
"During this time, the Demon Lotus Sect's territory and allies"-he glanced at Fire Jiao and Tianshu-"must remain secure."
"Anyone who dares stab me in the back and ruin my undertaking will be making an enemy of Great Jin's Heavenly Abyss Pass, of Spirit Venerable Xiao, and of the righteous cause of humanity!"
"When that time comes, do not blame the three hundred thousand cultivators under my command and the millions of iron cavalry at Heavenly Abyss Pass for turning back, flattening your islands, and exterminating your lineages! Every debt will be settled together!"
The instant his words fell, the Demon Lotus Sect's two hundred thousand cultivators roared in unison, their killing intent soaring into the heavens!
Their momentum seemed ready to overturn the sky above the entire Golden Scale Sea Region!
Only now-
One of the Bodhi Prayer Beads that Abbot Hui'an had turned between his fingers for countless years actually developed a fine crack across its surface.
The master of this ten-thousand-year-old Zen sect, a Great Cultivator at the Nascent Soul