Boom!
Before the Origin Temple of the Foreign Realm, Yan Kuan placed all the Immortal Kings into the Emperor Fire Furnace, then returned to the wooden box sealing the Ancient Artifact of Origin. A flame appeared in his palm and rapidly changed, causing the wooden box before him to emit an even more terrifying sacred radiance.
It seemed eager to move, as though something was about to emerge. With a crack, the Ancient Artifact of Origin—its container resembling metal—split open, gradually revealing the scene within.
Sacred Dark Matter scattered as the Ancient Artifact of Origin opened like blooming petals. Its blazing divine glow was peerless; if ordinary beings looked directly at it, their eyes would immediately rot away and they would die.
Within the wooden box of the Ancient Artifact of Origin appeared a staff. It was not very long, yet incomparably ancient and simple, polished from white bone. A figure was carved upon its shaft, and it condensed a dense Origin of Dark Matter.
The blazing radiance came from it.
"Azure Emperor!"
Yan Kuan looked at this strange staff, a trace of apprehension appearing in his eyes as he considered how to deal with it.
It could be considered a supreme treasure, forged by a Quasi-Immortal Emperor, but it was specifically a weapon aimed at the beings on this side of the Embankment. The matter of the Nameless Footprint Emperor during the Era of Emperor's Fall had unsettled those Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors, so they had sent over two Ancient Artifacts of Origin as a way to probe for hidden contingencies.
Yan Kuan carefully observed this Ancient Artifact of Origin, trying to gain some enlightenment from it, but in the end, he gained little. He could only seal it away again before dealing with the aftermath in the Foreign Realm.