Peak of the fifth rank! If they could advance one more step, the Minotaur High Priest and the Centaur Chieftain would be able to break through to the sixth rank of the Extraordinary.
After reaching the sixth level of the Transcendent Realm, the Minotaur High Priest and the Centaur Chieftain will be able to shed their current status as Ghost Immortals and become immortal Golden Immortals.
At the same time, due to the enormous power gap within the fifth level of the extraordinary realm, the Minotaur High Priest and the Centaur Chieftain, whose strength had reached the peak of the fifth level of the extraordinary realm, were also present.
With their combined strength, the Minotaur High Priest and the Centaur Chieftain possessed the strongest cultivation among all beings born from the Heavenly Origin Sacred Realm. They could easily suppress all the ghost immortals in the Underworld except for the two of them.
Looking down at the minotaur high priest and the centaur chieftain bowing to him, the Netherworld nodded slightly.
"Both of you may dispense with the formalities," the Netherworld Emperor said calmly.
As the Minotaur High Priest and the Centaur Chieftain rose from their seats, the Underworld Emperor continued speaking to them.
"Now that you two have inherited the divine positions of Ox-Head and Horse-Face, the righteous gods of my Underworld, you should both know what you should and shouldn't do from now on!"
This time, the Netherworld Emperor's tone became slightly more forceful. As he finished speaking, a powerful pressure emanated from him, enveloping the Minotaur High Priest and the Centaur Chieftain.
Feeling the suffocatingly powerful pressure surrounding him, the minotaur high priest spoke with some difficulty.
"Your Majesty, from now on we are just Minotaur and Horse-face, and we have no further connection with the Minotaur and Centaur races!"
After Ox-Head finished speaking, Horse-Face followed suit.
"By the Great Emperor! From now on, we two brothers will only be loyal to the Great Emperor. Everything we do is for the sake of our Underworld. We two brothers will never show favoritism to any living being in the Heavenly Origin Sacred Realm."
After Horse-Face finished speaking, he and Ox-Head said together, "We hope Your Majesty will understand!"
Seeing the somewhat terrified expressions on the faces of the bull-headed and horse-faced demons below, the Netherworld Emperor began to withdraw the oppressive aura emanating from his body.
Sensing the powerful pressure surrounding them slowly receding, both Ox-Head and Horse-Face breathed a sigh of relief.
Ox-Head and Horse-Face knew that they had finally successfully passed the most important hurdle in becoming true gods of the underworld.
"Since you already know, I won't say any more. I think the two of you will not do anything that violates the rules of the underworld in the future."
Hearing the calm voice of the Netherworld Emperor, Ox-Head and Horse-Face quickly spoke up.
"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, my brother and I will never violate any rules of the Underworld, and we will do our utmost to uphold the rules of the Underworld and severely punish anyone who violates them."
Looking at the Ox-Head and Horse-Face below, who were hurriedly expressing their stance to him, the Netherworld Emperor smiled and shook his head, then continued speaking.
"Ox-Head and Horse-Face, the two righteous gods of my underworld, will be on the same level as the Star Lords and Supreme Gods in the Heavenly Court after the establishment of the Heavenly Court in the future Tianyuan Holy Realm."
"Logically speaking, given the extremely high compatibility between you two and the two underworld gods, Ox-Head and Horse-Face, your cultivation levels should be much higher than they are now."
"However, in order not to extinguish your future hopes, I suppressed the power contained in the Ox-Head and Horse-Face deity talisman, which could have raised your cultivation to the peak of the sixth rank, to the peak of the fifth rank."
"In the future, as the Tianyuan Sacred Realm advances to the Middle Thousand World, the power that I sealed in the Ox-Head and Horse-Face God Talisman will be slowly released as your cultivation improves."
"With the help of this power, your cultivation will improve rapidly, and you may even reach the peak of the sixth level of the extraordinary realm in a short period of time."
"Of course, the peak of the sixth level of the extraordinary realm that you will reach then will be different from what you are now. At that time, your foundation will be very solid, unlike now where your cultivation is directly raised to the peak of the sixth level, leaving many potential problems."
Upon hearing the words of the Underworld Emperor, Ox-Head and Horse-Face bowed deeply to him once again.
"Thank you for your patronage, Your Majesty! We brothers will never forget your great kindness and virtue!"
Then, Ox-Head cautiously asked the Netherworld Emperor, "I wonder what matter Your Majesty has summoned us brothers to do this time?"
The Netherworld Emperor did not answer the bull-headed man's question directly, but instead spoke up.
"Among the ghost messengers currently existing in the underworld, two will soon be selected to inherit the divine positions of the underworld's righteous gods, Black and White Impermanence. Black and White Impermanence will originally have become the leaders of all the ghost messengers currently existing in my underworld."
"Now that you two have appeared, after the Black and White Impermanence are selected from among the ghost messengers of the underworld, I will have half of the ghost messengers under your command."
"What we need to do now is to quickly familiarize ourselves with all the ghost messengers in my underworld and your future colleagues, the Black and White Impermanence."
"After a while, I will tell you directly the tasks that you and the ghost messengers under your command need to complete."
Seeing the Ox-Head and Horse-Face about to speak, the Netherworld Emperor said before they could even open their mouths, "You, step back!"
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Chapter 85 The Outbreak of War
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
Upon hearing the words of the Underworld Emperor, Ox-Head and Horse-Face could only bow to him and slowly retreat from the central hall.
As the Ox-Head and Horse-Face slowly retreated from the central hall, the figure of the Netherworld Emperor began to slowly dissipate from the throne above the central hall.
Outside the central hall, Horse-Face, who was making his way to the outer perimeter of the underworld's core, spoke with some emotion to Bull-Head beside him.
"Brother, now that we have both perished in this calamity, the future of our orcish men will likely be even more difficult!"
Upon hearing Horse-Face's words, Ox-Head's expression suddenly changed drastically, and he hurriedly spoke to Horse-Face.
"Brother, be careful what you say!"
“Brother, you must never say such things again. You only need to know that from now on we will just be the righteous gods of the underworld, Ox-Head and Horse-Face.”
"From now on, we only need to be loyal to the Netherworld Emperor and the Underworld. The orcs will have nothing to do with us anymore."
The bull's head spoke in a very stern tone.
“Brother, I know what you mean, and how could I not understand these things? I just… sigh! Never mind, I will never mention these things again.”
Ox-Head, whose memories were stirred by Horse-Face's words, looked dejected and continued on with Horse-Face toward the outskirts of the Underworld, toward the place where the underworld officials lived.
While Ox-Head and Horse-Face were walking dejectedly in the core of the Underworld, the Netherworld Emperor had already arrived outside the Heavenly Dao Space of the Heavenly Origin Sacred Realm.