Chapter 562: Northern Emperor (2)
—Yeom Jeong, Yeom Jeong. Answer me, Yeom Jeong.
—I told you not to call me that. How dare those who weren’t even accepted into the Six Original Star Lords address me so familiarly...
—There is someone I’ve come to love. A monarch under my command, a great warrior. How should I approach them?
—Come to me, and I’ll sever your neck.
—It is a harder problem than grinding down a king’s life with an axe. All my cultivation is useless.
—Yeom Jeong need not respond. And you, please stop as well. # Nоvеlight # The royal house that Yeom Jeong established was built through coercion. Not all elders are wise.
—Then I shall ask you, advisor of the God of War, Mun Gok. My great warrior is a hybrid—our clan and those long-eared scoundrels. Brave by nature, undeniably manly...
—Rather than asking me, why not seek the new Northern King, Yaryul? He may be surprisingly worldly. I’m curious about his insight.
—Northern King Yaryul? Isn’t he dead yet?
—He’s the one who directly defied the God of War’s will in this Whirling Wind Hollow. If he possesses even half the audacity of that act, he won’t die so easily—he’ll carve out territory and expand. I heard the Ice Emperor who was at his side vanished somewhere with her consort... You’re listening, aren’t you, King Yaryul?
—Then I ask the only Northern King in this land without a Heaven-Piercing Armor. My great warrior is one of resolute bonds and clean breaks, a monarch who mastered the Cloud Dragon’s Grand Eight Forms, stolen from the south...
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