The azure dragon, white tiger, vermilion bird, and black tortoise ancestral gods had come with the black qilin from the lost ancient city, the one that’d forfeited its position as an ancestral god.

“Shoo, shoo, go on, get. Don’t hang around that bastard Curse King or you’ll all be in for it.” The black qilin sneezed explosively and called out leisurely to the three thousand true kings. “You’ve got some nerve, kid! You know this is a deviated path, but you still plunged headfirst into it!” 

The black qilin turned around and harrumphed at Lu Yun. “Your two dao partners are different. One shattered her ninth rule before it stabilized and returned to being an eighth step king. The other took the final step to true kinghood...