Battle with Emperor Sheng

Before Li Yuyao could finish speaking.

ROAR!!

High in the sky, the dragon of national fortune bound tightly in chains erupted with an even more shrill, agonized roar. Its body twisted wildly, yet it could not break free in the slightest!

At the same time, a thousand li away.

At the end of the ruin-carved passage Emperor Sheng had smashed out, a colorless pillar of light far thicker than before burst into the heavens, churning the winds and clouds!

Within the pillar of light, Emperor Sheng slowly straightened up.

His expression was grim to the extreme. The aura around him was like a boiling volcano, crazily climbing again from its original foundation, swelling severalfold and more!

And the corresponding price.

Throughout Great Sheng, the sky abruptly changed color as sinister winds howled in fury!

The wails of the dragon of national fortune rang through every corner, while the phenomenon was as terrifying as the descent of doomsday!

"Hahahahaha!"

Emperor Sheng let out an inexplicable laugh. Even his voice seemed exhilarated by the surge of power. "Ye Li! If not for you, I truly would not have dared to drive this [Heaven Swallowing Secret Technique] to such an extent!"

"Because the commotion is simply too immense—it would be impossible to conceal it from those old foxes of the [Four Extremes Twelve Gates]!"

"Even those who usually feast on the flesh of their own domains would never accept me squandering and overdrawing the national fortune like this!"

"But what a pity!" His laughter grew ever more frenzied, even carrying a sickly delight. "Every last one of them has recently had their spine forcibly snapped by you! Their courage shattered!"

"Now, even if I truly punched a hole through the heavens, they would no longer dare stick out their heads and pry into