Lian Cheng’s emotions changed in less than a second, from furious rage to panic, and from stubborn resistance to immediate compliance. His movements were so fast that even the Lord floating in midair failed to react in time.

He got absolutely screwed. Nothing had gone right since the moment he descended.

He’d been a premature birth from the very beginning. The moment he opened his eyes, he saw the lair his followers had painstakingly prepared for him blown sky-high. Just as he was about to fly into a rage, some insignificant little nobody pulled out some bizarre thing, and that very thing proceeded to pin him to the ground and beat the living hell out of him. He hadn’t even gotten the chance to fight back.

And then came the betrayal.

The bone wheel in the sky trembled fiercely, letting out piercing howls mixed with rage and panic. No one could make out what it was saying, only that whatever curses it was hurling had to have been extremely vile.

Inside this body that had not yet fully developed, a massive maw seemed to open. The greedy, ravenous mouth had a taotie-like hunger, sucking and devouring greedily. Like someone squeezing...