Chapter 5589 Their Departure
- "I spare you today," Jared declared, voice rolling across the shattered pillars. "But you will earn that mercy. Guard the Celestial King Palace with every drop of blood you still possess."
- The kneeling cultivators bobbed their heads, relief and dread warring on their ashen faces.
- Most of the palace's own guards lay wounded or dead. Someone had to stand between this palace and the next wave of darkness.