"Grandpa Dragon, so you can speak human after all." I spoke in utter shock. It was bound by countless restrictions, the deadliest of which was that it couldn't leave that room.
"Use your power... defeat me, or else... die." The Black Dragon Emperor spoke like a machine.
There was no point talking to him any further. Even if I said more, it wouldn't help. I immediately took out a black talisman and quickly wrote several of Ancestor Chao's spell incantations on it, completing the black talisman.
The Black Dragon Emperor could shatter ten thousand spells with a single sword strike. Whether Ancestor Chao's borrowed techniques would work on him was highly uncertain. If they didn't, the counterattack afterward would be more than I could bear. I began setting up the altar.
I spread out a red cloth, took out a pile of ritual implements, and planted command flags in the four directions. I began muttering an incantation under my breath. The Black Dragon Emperor also fell silent, holding his black sword and standing majestically at the doorway, waiting for me to attack.
"Set the soul, calm the spirit, bind the form. Pursue the dead, pursue the living, forbid the God of Fate. The One Way of Heaven! The Coffin of Humans, Ghosts, and Immortals! Seal the Coffin!" I bit my finger and traced the positions stroke by stroke onto the black talisman. Then I pointed two fingers at the black coffin!
The black coffin immediately began to rumble and shake. The Black Dragon Emperor was startled at first, but his expression soon returned to calm. "Not enough... your magic power... is too weak."
With that, the Black Dragon Emperor shot to the edge of the coffin lid and planted one foot on the coffin.
Pointing at the coffin lid, I