"Hahahaha!!" The human-faced beast in the bloody water laughed manically, ignoring everyone as it thrashed its limbs about.
"Hahaha! The sun sets, and the moon sets! In the midday sun, Mount Taihua dims. Dusk seeks to fall as dawn seeks to rise. Nine calamities, heavenly dragons, Mars blazes! The Jiang Mansion falls, white jade dulls, and the Grand Celestial Marshal of Doom turns to flowing gold! Hahaha!!"
After making that crazed declaration, the bald, vulture-bodied creature went limp and collapsed to the ground, motionless.
Everything unfolded so rapidly that no one present could react, leaving them all frozen in shock.
After a long moment, the woman with her belly ripped open, barely clinging to life, flung herself onto the creature's body and wailed in despair, "My child~~ Ahhh!!!"
Her cry spurred everyone into action.
"Protect the Emperor! Protect the Emperor!!" Gao Zhijian was instantly encircled by a tight ring of his guards.
