In Ethereal City, inside a luxurious manor in the Southeast District.
The battered Lightning Department Upper God had finally slipped back after exercising caution the entire way. Once he reached his manor, he immediately hid in the Training Grounds to restore his divine body with lightning divine crystals.
His battle with Little Skeleton Han Hao had left his divine body with injuries that were neither light nor severe. He needed some time to recover completely.
Divine crystals shone brilliantly in his palms, the traces of divine power within the lightning divine crystals slowly seeping into the damaged parts of his divine body, allowing him to gradually relax.
After that battle, he had developed a fear of Little Skeleton Han Hao. The death power Little Skeleton used combined with his Demonic Cultivation Art to form an extremely strange, evil power. His strength was not much inferior to Little Skeleton's, but in actual combat, he had been completely at a disadvantage.
In the final strike, those elusive bone spikes had inflicted tremendous damage on him. He had been unable to dodge them at all, and they had pierced his divine body in an instant, leaving him completely at a disadvantage in the head-on clash that followed.
As he quietly regulated his breathing in the secret chamber, he suddenly detected an unusual spatial fluctuation within the manor. Stirred by a thought, he checked through a large crystal ball in his hand and discovered that Baum, the City Lord of Ethereal City, had silently landed in a secluded corner of the manor.
Putting away his divine crystals for the moment, he issued an order through the crystal ball in his hand. "Bring the City Lord here!"
Two Divine Guards immediately emerged from the shadows and respectfully escorted Baum all the way into the secret