Lu Yun grinned when he saw Jin Naluo’s tongue-tied expression and clapped his shoulder. “Follow me well and put your back into it—becoming a ninth step king isn’t an impossible dream.”

Jin Naluo suddenly felt like he’d been lured into a den of thieves by a key to the Hongmeng Tower. He took another involuntary look at the Human King across the way—though the latter’s Colosseum was no more and his subordinates dead or fled, at least he was a free man!

His word was law in Haotian Tower, apart from the Runaway King Shenyu. He wasn’t like Jin Naluo at the Immortal Pagoda, beaten up by the Ruin King today and pummeled by the Daredevil King yesterday!

Jin Naluo was infinitely close to seventh step kinghood and clung tightly to the notion that he’d be able to stand up for himself...