“Citizens of Sector 6, grab your hotpot bowls along with sunflower seeds—Warden Tianfa’s 100-Strike Parent-Teacher Conference is officially in session!”
Pinned spread-eagled to the ten-mile iron asteroid by Empress Luo Qingxue’s twelve Rank 8 Ice-Phoenix Swords, Supreme Warden Tianfa saw the three glowing Ultra-HD camera drones zoom in on his face and backside. Broadcasting his image live onto the giant sky-screens above every city, village, and warship across all 100 planets!
Even with his Protagonist Halo cracked down to 20% and cold sweat drenching his inner robes, the thousand-year muscle memory of a vain, arrogant “Chosen One” kicked in.
Clenching his jaw until his molars ground together, Warden Tianfa lifted his snow-white head and forced his face into a cold, stoic, martyr-like expression for the cameras!
“Go ahead and broadcast it, Gu Changsheng!”
Warden Tianfa sneered into the global microphone, desperately trying to salvage the last shred of his judicial majesty in front of 186 billion viewers:
“Let the entire star sector witness your vulgar mortal barbarism! I cultivate the Upper Realm’s Supreme Emotionless Heavenly Dao! Even with my Diamond Dao Heart cracked, my physical nerves have been severed from mortal pain for ten centuries! You can whip my robe with that cowhide belt ten thousand times, and I will not let out a single grunt or—”
