Yunxiao City, Luoyun Town.

The Golden-winged Little Roc King, Yao Lun, made his entrance by rampaging through the area, throwing everything into chaos.

The originally bustling crowd of Cultivators instantly scattered with a great uproar.

A large area was instantly cleared in front of the Royal Family’s Celestial Tower.

"Scram, scram, scram! All you useless nobodies, get lost! The Kunpeng Divine Son of my Golden-winged Roc Royal Family is about to challenge the tower! All of you, get as far away as you possibly can!"

Yao Lun continued to unleash his ferocious aura, constantly marking out his ’territory’ as he flew.

The Cultivators from the various races in the distance immediately scattered like birds and beasts.

Along the way, Yao Lun’s ferocious might was truly extraordinary.

As Ye Tianling felt the strange and fearful gazes of the Alien Race Cultivators fall upon him, an inexplicable sense of enjoyment welled up within him.

’Damn it, am I evil by nature? Why else would I feel so gratified seeing Yao Lun act like such a tyrant?’

Ye Tianling was a little bewildered himself.

Xia Xinqin, Xia Xinran, Jiang Xiangning, and Jiang Zhu’er followed along without making a fuss.

It seemed they were already well aware of Yao Lun’s temperament.

’No one is jumping out to object? No one’s causing trouble? Don’t these ’ancients’ have any spine?’

Ye Tianling found it strange. He watched the Cultivators of various races flee the moment they were cursed at. There was no shortage of powerful individuals among them, yet they all avoided the scene like the plague. The expression on Ye Tianling’s face was priceless.

"Tianling Divine Son, do you feel that this is a bit different from the outside world?"

Xia Xinqin, with her sharp wit and gentle heart, eventually noticed something was amiss. She smiled sweetly and asked in a soft voice.

"Yes. Yao Lun is acting like this, and yet no one dares to provoke him? His strength is just trash-tier, nothing impressive, right?"

Since Xia Xinqin had brought it up, Ye Tianling couldn’t help but ask.

Yao Lun pursed his lips, too aggrieved to respond.

Being called trash-tier by Ye Tianling, all he could do was swallow his pride—after all, in front of Ye Tianling, wasn’t he just trash-tier?

"The Little Roc King, Yao Lun, is actually very strong. While he’s not at the very peak, he is by no means weak," Xia Xinqin said seriously. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

Yao Lun felt like crying. ’Princess Xia Xinqin is the best, after all. At least she’s finally willing to say a few nice words for me.’

"However, there’s a reason why the Little Roc King can run rampant without restraint. The Little Roc King himself may not be ridiculously powerful, but the Elder Roc King is ridiculously overprotective."

Xia Xinqin gave a wry smile.

"Er... how overprotective?"

Ye Tianling was taken aback, the corner of his mouth twitching involuntarily.

"If the Little Roc King loses a single feather, the Elder Roc King would annihilate the offender’s entire clan, down to the ninth degree. And that’s just a ’normal’ level of protectiveness for him. As for the details... well, the Elder Roc King is also known as the ’Old Lunatic.’ Back in the day, whenever the Ten Thousand Races mentioned him, their faces would pale with fear.

"And right now, we’re only in Luoyun Town, which is just a small town. Forget Luoyun Town, even if the Little Roc King went and raised hell in Yunxiao City, as long as he doesn’t run into a major rival, he’ll be fine."

Xia Xinqin continued.

"Hehe, Divine Child, you don’t understand. Who the hell would dare to offend me, the Golden-winged Little Roc King? Our Golden-winged Roc Clan possesses a truly peerless Body Technique, allowing us to traverse the Void and kill without a trace!

"Besides, among our Ten Thousand Spirit Races, the strong are revered. Our Golden-winged Roc Clan all possess Royal Blood, and our Talent Divine Techniques are heaven-defying. After this new World awakens, our Emperors and Divine Masters will gradually awaken as well. When that time comes, our Golden-winged Roc Clan will be the Royal Race among the Ten Thousand Races, a naturally high station!"

The Golden-winged Little Roc King began to boast arrogantly.

Ye Tianling stomped on his bird head and said, "Focus on flying. Don’t fall."

The stomp knocked the Golden-winged Little Roc King’s head askew, but he steadily kept Ye Tianling balanced, terrified that he might let him slip.

"Yes, yes, Divine Child, rest assured! Yao Lun flies very steadily."

Watching from behind, Xia Xinran’s heart skipped a beat, and she stared, dumbfounded.

As for Jiang Xiangning, she was utterly speechless with amazement.

This was a classic case of a villain having his own villain to answer to.

"That’s a relief. It seems I’m not ruthless enough yet."

Ye Tianling chuckled sinisterly as the group continued to swagger forward in flight.

After about a hundred breaths, Ye Tianling suddenly noticed a group of Alien Race Cultivators up ahead who hadn’t scattered. Instead, they stood there exuding a cold aura.

"Divine Child... those are members of the Celestial Serpent Race, our mortal enemies! He’s also pursuing Princess Xinqin. They’re quite strong, and the Celestial Serpent King backing Prince Celestial Serpent is a real piece of work—extremely sinister and vicious. We should probably retreat for now."

Yao Lun suddenly shivered. Like a mouse that had just seen a cat, his bravado vanished, and he prepared to flee.

"Retreat? We’re not retreating!"

As a dragon, how could Ye Tianling possibly be afraid of a snake?

"Tianling Divine Son, the last time, Yao Lun ate one of Prince Celestial Serpent’s clan sisters alive. The incident blew up, and the Elder Roc King and the Celestial Serpent King had a heaven-rending, earth-shattering battle. It was that fight that caused the laws of the world to evolve ahead of schedule.

"Now that the new laws have descended, everyone’s strength has regressed. And the Elder Roc King isn’t here right now..."

Xia Xinran, who clearly knew some of the history, quickly sent a voice transmission to Ye Tianling.

"Oh, so you ate a snake-girl? How did she taste?"

Ye Tianling asked Yao Lun, a sharp glint in his eyes.

"The taste was, of course, exquisite—er, Divine Child, that Prince Celestial Serpent has already stepped into the Void Realm and received a boon from the Heaven and Earth Laws. We should really run."

Ye Tianling noticed that the tyrannical Yao Lun’s flight speed was getting slower and slower; he was even trembling slightly.

He must have been seriously traumatized by something.

"Tsk tsk, if it isn’t the great ’Yellow-winged Sparrow’? What’s this? You’ve become a mount for the lowly Human Race? Looks like you truly gave up on yourself after my grandfather plucked all your feathers last time. But there’s no need to humiliate yourself like this, is there? How pitiful!"

The crowd parted to reveal a young man in green robes walking on air. He had a long, pointed head and a face full of scales.

With his hands clasped behind his back, he spoke in a sinister, effeminate voice dripping with obvious mockery and derision.

"Teng Chuanxing! Last time, didn’t my royal father skin you, pull out your tendons, and rip out your Snake Gallbladder Inner Core? You barely escaped with your life! What are you acting so arrogant for? If my father hadn’t warned me repeatedly, you think I would actually be afraid of you, you overgrown worm?!

"This time, you’ve insulted the Divine Child of my Golden-winged Roc Clan! My royal father will definitely not blame me for what happens next!"

Yao Lun snarled, a murderous light instantly flaring in his eyes.

"Oh? A ’Sparrow Divine Child’? This piece of trash with the obviously inferior blood of the Human Race?"

The green-robed young man, Teng Chuanxing, let out a sinister laugh. His eyes, however, glinted with a cold, dark light as he stared provocatively at Ye Tianling.

"Yao Lun," Ye Tianling suddenly asked, "if I beat him to death and eat him, how long will it take for the Celestial Serpent King to get here? And how long for your father?"

Hearing this, Yao Lun trembled from head to toe.

But he quickly realized what was happening and said, "My father just left, but he can be here in a few breaths. The Celestial Serpent King can probably also get here in just a few breaths."

Ye Tianling nodded. "Good. Then I’ll just kill him and eat him! A crawler with its head growing out of its dick dares to yap before Lord Long—oh, no, before Lord Roc? You’re fucking courting death!"