Acquaintance from the Holy Spirit Realm

"Is that you!?"

With just a hurried glance, Han Xing had already recognized this person's identity!

Back in the Holy Spirit Realm, this was the being who had caused him no small amount of trouble and had nearly brought about a disaster.

The Demon Emperor!

At that moment,

that figure floated in mid-air.

He wore a suit of black armor and held a greatsword wreathed in flames!

Beneath a horned helmet hid a pair of deep, unfathomable eyes.

He slowly spoke, sounding equally surprised. "I never expected to run into you on Lord Continent as well."

"Han Xing."

Han Xing chuckled. "Yeah, we really are enemies bound to cross paths."

"But how did the once-mighty Demon Emperor fall to such a state?"

"Where are your demon generals and demon gods?"

The Demon Emperor naturally understood Han Xing's mockery. His tone remained calm as he said,

"They were merely a bunch of cannon fodder. Becoming stepping stones on my path to lordship was their honor."

Han Xing continued smiling. "Is that so? I think I saw you coming out of some cage just now, didn't I?"

"If I hadn't come here, wouldn't you have become this monster's stepping stone too?"

Though he spoke, he had silently released Meiqiu.

A Black Shadow soundlessly arrived above the Demon Emperor's head.

Then it let out a sorrowful cry.

"Woo..."

As the power of the Sorrow Statue activated,

an invisible aura of sorrow instantly spread.

Yet this terrifying power, capable of making even High-Level Lords fall directly into despair, seemed to have no effect whatsoever on the Demon Emperor.

He said calmly, "Not quite. This Dark Arm cannot capture me."

"I deliberately allowed it to seize me. I had originally intended to claim this dark land and make it my new territory."

"And the dark