Supreme Warrior in the City

All of this, of course, was entirely Su Yang’s doing.

He spread the news, stirred up the Demon Beast Clan’s fury, and further laid the groundwork for an alliance between the Human Clan and the Demon Beast Clan.

Even Jinghong Saint King himself had no idea. The Demon Beast Saint Emperor who had previously attacked and destroyed the Demon Beast Clan’s cities was in fact no longer the original Demon Beast Saint Emperor, but the Great City Lord in disguise.

Su Yang knew very well that if he wanted to truly ignite the Demon Beast Clan’s rage, just having those Demon Beast Saint Emperors capture Jinghong Saint King was far from enough. He had to do something that crossed the Demon Beast Clan’s bottom line to really set them off.

And this slaughter of the lowest-level Demon Beasts was precisely the kind of thing that truly crossed the Demon Beast Clan’s bottom line.

Just relying on those Demon Beast Saint Emperors who had pledged themselves to the Guardian God, they might not necessarily do something like that. So Su Yang killed that Demon Beast Saint Emperor in advance, then sent the Great City Lord in to impersonate him, and used the opportunity to make a huge mess of the whole thing.

Spreading the news afterward was also all Su Yang’s handiwork.

And everything unfolded exactly as Su Yang had anticipated. Once the Demon Beast Clan learned of this, they were all furious to the extreme.

They hadn’t cared that much before about these Demon Beasts who had taken refuge with the Guardian God. But now, after pledging themselves to the Guardian God, they came back to slaughter their own kin—and what’s more, they did it as Saint Emperors, slaughtering ordinary Demon Beasts who had no power to resist. That truly crossed the line.

At the same time, Su Yang had the Second City Lord and the others disguise themselves as Demon Beast Saint Emperors, wave the banner and shout slogans, and they recruited a batch of Demon Beast Saint Emperors, yelling that they were going to seek an explanation from those Demon Beast Saint Emperors who had submitted to the Guardian God and force them to hand over Jinghong Saint King.

So after those Saint Emperors brought Jinghong Saint King back, before they had time to interrogate him and before they could take him to the Guardian Land, they were immediately blocked at their doorstep by Demon Beast Saint Emperors impersonated by the Second City Lord and Third City Lord, leading a group of genuine Demon Beast Saint Emperors, who pressured them to hand over Jinghong Saint King.

The number of Demon Beast Saint Emperors brought by the Second City Lord and Third City Lord wasn’t large either, just a dozen or so, and the strength of the two sides was roughly equivalent. Under such circumstances, those Demon Beast Saint Emperors who had defected to the Guardian God naturally wouldn’t bow their heads, and they stubbornly declared they would not hand over Jinghong Saint King.

Coupled with the matter of slaughtering those ordinary Demon Beasts, and with the Great City Lord, Second City Lord, and Third City Lord fanning the flames in the middle, after just a short talk the two sides went straight to war.

The final result of this great battle was that on the Demon Beast side, two Saint Emperors fell in battle. And among those Demon Beast Saint Emperors who had taken refuge with the Guardian God, one Saint Emperor was also killed, making the whole affair blow up even more.

This matter did not come to a halt until a Great Saint Emperor rushed over recently. And this Great Saint Emperor was precisely the Great Saint Emperor in charge of the region where Saint Emperor Luan Yu resided.

Saint Emperor Luan Yu was subordinate to this Great Saint Emperor, and Luan Yu’s subjects were essentially this Great Saint Emperor’s subjects.

This Great Saint Emperor had already been very displeased with those Demon Beast Saint Emperors who had pledged themselves to the Guardian God. Now that such an incident had occurred, it directly enraged him.

So, after this Great Saint Emperor arrived, he completely ignored those Demon Beast Saint Emperors’ threats in the name of the Guardian God and forcefully took Jinghong Saint King away. At the same time, he wounded several Demon Beast Saint Emperors who tried to block him, blowing the matter up even further.

With the Great City Lord, Second City Lord, and Third City Lord constantly fanning the flames, the situation got bigger and bigger.

Three months later, the matter had completely exploded. The Guardian God’s side finally couldn’t sit still anymore. The Guardian God sent out a group of people, who went directly to find that Great Saint Emperor, demanding that he hand over Jinghong Saint King and apologize for what he had done.

For the Guardian God to make such demands was simply an insult to a Great Saint Emperor. How could that Great Saint Emperor possibly agree to something like that? So the two sides immediately went to war.

The Guardian God only sent experts. Although that Great Saint Emperor was powerful, he still suffered a huge loss besieged by those under the Guardian God. He almost lost his life, and Jinghong Saint King was also captured.

At this point, the Demon Beast Clan was thoroughly enraged. When Su Yang received news of it, that injured Great Saint Emperor had already joined up with the other Great Saint Emperors at the first possible moment to discuss the matter together.

Now that things had come this far, Su Yang no longer intervened and instead watched from the sidelines.

At this stage, the conflict between the Demon Beast Clan and the Guardian God had already escalated to the point where it was unavoidable; he didn’t even need to fan the flames anymore. Not only that, he recalled all three Crystal Skulls, no longer allowing them to show themselves outside.

As for Jinghong Saint King, although he had been taken to the Guardian Land, Su Yang was not worried about his safety. Su Yang knew very well that the Guardian God would not kill him.

The matter of Jinghong Saint King being rescued previously was a mystery. His advancement to Saint Emperor was also a mystery. The Heavenly War God’s Divine Artifact from the Ancient Heaven Warriors on his body was yet another mystery.

Any one of these mysteries was something the Guardian God was desperate to get to the bottom of. Put together, these three mysteries had become Jinghong Saint King’s protective talisman. The Guardian God would absolutely not kill him; the Guardian God needed to unravel these three mysteries from him. At most, Jinghong Saint King would just be subjected to some torment.

It was just that, even though things had developed to this point, a full-scale war between the Demon Beast Clan and the Guardian God was still somewhat difficult. After all, the Demon Beast Clan had just suffered a loss not long ago; the ones who truly did not dare to start a war were the Demon Beast Clan.

Su Yang waited for about a month before the meeting of those Great Saint Emperors finally ended. And as Su Yang had expected, these Great Saint Emperors only sent an envoy group to the Guardian Land to denounce the Guardian God’s actions and demand that they hand over Jinghong Saint King, but did nothing else.

Such denunciations and demands were completely meaningless. When these envoys arrived at the Guardian Land, they weren’t even qualified to enter; the Guardian God simply didn’t take them seriously.

Those Great Saint Emperors were all furious to the extreme, yet there was nothing they could do. With their strength inferior to the other side’s, they naturally had no right to speak!

To preserve themselves, those Great Saint Emperors ultimately could only choose silence.

However, their silence did not mean that the matter had ended just like that.

About another half year later, the Guardian Land suddenly sent out a group of people, inviting the various Great Saint Emperors to the Guardian Land to discuss how the Great World would be divided up and managed from then on.

Almost all the Great Saint Emperors of the Demon Beast Clan received the news, and they were all very surprised. They had no idea what the Guardian God meant by this and naturally could not judge whether this trip would be safe.

Coupled with the incidents that had happened before, after these Great Saint Emperors contacted one another, they ultimately chose to collectively refuse the Guardian God’s invitation!