Yang Bi gathered a great deal of information regarding Chen Shi, within which were many records of Chen Shi supposedly using a divine embryo.
Some records stated that Chen Shi's divine embryo was suspected to be a stone-carved giant-headed woman named Shiji.
Other records claimed his divine embryo might be the great serpent Xuan Shan. Some people had even witnessed his divine embryo as a black dog.
In other accounts, Chen Shi's divine embryo took all sorts of bizarre forms, appearing as various malevolent spirits, and even including the village's Godmother.
His divine embryo was not fixed, yet if one counted his divine embryos, Chen Shi's strength was likely still far greater than his own.
Yang Bi even suspected that Chen Shi could possess three divine embryos simultaneously!
When he dueled Chen Shi this time, he proposed the restriction that Chen Shi was only permitted to bring one person to the Upper Realm; his sole purpose was to curb Chen Shi's strength. Yet he never expected Chen Shi to bring only the female immortal from Qixia Temple, bringing absolutely no one else.
During this clash with him, Chen Shi simply refrained from employing any divine embryos at all.
Fighting him to a draw without using a divine embryo inevitably left him somewhat discouraged.
Perhaps Chen Shi is right. For cultivators of our generation, all supreme power belongs to the self.
Yang Bi looked back toward the Upper Realm, where those towering, majestic deities stood firm amidst the mountains, propping up this realm and heaven. In order to fight against Despair Slope and overthrow the True Gods, the Thirteen Noble Families had prepared for far too long, but the strength of the Thirteen Noble Families was far too scattered; without a nimble brain to command them, the Thirteen Noble Families were