Their pupils contracted at the same time.
Their hands clenched involuntarily.
Their breathing stopped for an instant.
They had never imagined that Yang Yong could actually channel Mechanical City's most fundamental, most powerful force...
A sliver of the Heaven-Opening Giant Axe's might.
With strength like that, who would dare say Yang Yong was unfit to be Mechanical City's Deputy City Lord?
Who would dare question his right to mobilize the entire city's power?
In an instant, everyone who still harbored certain thoughts about Yang Yong silently buried those thoughts deeper in their hearts.
They had not abandoned those thoughts. They had hidden them.
As long as Yang Yong could draw on the Heaven-Opening Giant Axe's might, any underhanded move would be courting death.
Only at this moment had Yang Yong truly secured his footing in Mechanical City.
Not through a title bestowed by the City Lord, but through his own strength.
However...
Yang Yong himself could feel that, as he channeled a sliver of the Heaven-Opening Giant Axe's might, something had entered the gazes of the eight elders other than Cao Xianming.
Respect, wariness, and a kind of... fear.
It was the fear the weak felt toward a power that could crush them at any moment.
But Yang Yong did not care.
According to Cao Xianming's earlier calculations, some irresistible force would compel him to leave Mechanical City in the near future.
The Headless Curve was still there. Sooner or later, he would lose his position as Deputy City Lord.
He did not care whether these eight elders liked or disliked him.
What the hell did it have to do with him?
Right now, Yang Yong's only goal was to charge into Bone City, extract the source demonic energy of the demonic Buddha specifically requested by the Thousand-Hammer, Hundred-Refinement Furnace,