Chapter 2550: Slave
Zu An raised his eyebrows upon hearing the name ‘Gonggong’. He had met Gonggong the last time he was here, and the other party’s major boss vibe had left him with a deep impression.
A figure with a human face and a snake body stood above a whirlpool, his red hair fluttering with the wind; he had an open and carefree air.
Zu An frowned. This wasn't the Gonggong he had met the last time. He belatedly recalled Gonggong’s subordinate, Xiang Liu, telling him that Gonggong was a position, so there had been many Gonggongs over the generations.
Given how the shamans addressed the current Gonggong as an Ancestral Shaman, could he be the very first Gonggong?
But what’s with the Shaman races? Why do so many of them have human faces and snake bodies?
With Gonggong taking the lead, more figures emerged from the mountains, each of them emanating powerful auras. They were powerhouses of the Shaman races. They hadn’t dared to step forward and backed down because they were intimidated by the Celestial Emperor’s aura, but with Gonggong taking the lead, they decided to join him.
They weren’t close with Bao Jiang, and they didn’t care about the details of this matter either. What they were concerned about was the Shaman races’ reputation. They felt that the Celestial Emperor had gone overboard by intruding on Ancestral Shaman Zhulong’s territory and publicly sentencing his son to death. Zhulong, for some reason, had chosen to tolerate it, but that didn’t mean that the others would take it lying down!
Over the years, there had been too many conflicts between the Celestial Court’s Fiend races and the Shaman races to determine who had done what wrong first. The accumulated grudges had grown so great that both sides viewed each other as an eyesore.
The Celestial Emperor coldly glanced at Gonggong. “Gonggong, what do you want?”
As he rode on a huge wave, Gonggong’s red hair fluttered. His aura was no weaker than the Celestial Emperor’s golden avatar. “Gu is a shaman. Even if he deserves to be punished, you should have let us deal with him internally. You’re undermining our agreement by executing him publicly.”
“Since Gu took on a position in the Celestial Court, he was obligated to follow celestial laws. It is within the scope of our agreement to punish him,” the Celestial Emperor calmly pointed out.