Emperor Venerable

"What?!"

The moment this aura appeared, everyone was stunned. Someone in this world actually wanted to ambush them, reap the rewards, and take away the Dao Fruits they had comprehended, along with the opportunities within the Law Creation Tribulation?

"No, this aura... is it him?" Azure Emperor quickly reacted, a trace of surprise appearing in his eyes. He already knew who had come.

"Emperor Venerable, you're actually still alive!!" Ye Fan roared outright.

He had been with Emperor Venerable's Immortal Cauldron for so long that he was intimately familiar with this aura. It belonged to Emperor Venerable.

Ye Fan's earth-shaking shout exploded throughout the entire Chaos Sea.

Zhou Tong was not particularly surprised. Once the Law Creation Tribulation appeared, its impact on the entire world was simply too great. How could Emperor Venerable possibly fail to notice it?

Zhou Tong had long known Emperor Venerable's goal. It was none other than to refine the world into a World Tripod.

But why had Emperor Venerable, in the original story, not acted sooner? Why had he waited until Ye Fan, Ruthless Great Emperor, Wu Shi, and Duan De—the four great Mortal Immortals—were present?

The reason was actually simple. These Mortal Immortals' Dao Fruits were essential ingredients for Emperor Venerable's World Tripod. Emperor Venerable's plan to refine the World Tripod was not to become immortal, but to become an Immortal King.

He would use the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands as the walls of the tripod, the Crevice World as its interior, refine three great Mortal Immortals at once, then ascend in a single leap, completely surpass Mortal Immortals and reach the supreme realm of the Immortal King.

Yet without question, now that Emperor Venerable had activated these arrangements, his ambition of becoming an Immortal King had already come to nothing.

Because the