Eight Ancient Jade Fragments hovered quietly before Lin Ming, each giving off a faint glow.
The light was not dazzling. It was warm and ancient, like eight stars plucked from the ancient night sky, blooming silently at the bottom of this Magma World that had lain still for myriad years.
The radiance reflected off one another, outlining shifting images in the darkness. Faintly, it seemed as if some peculiar fluctuation was rippling out from the eight pieces of jade.
Lin Ming stared heatedly at the eight hovering Ancient Jade Fragments before him. In those pitch-black eyes of his, a rare, uncontrollable excitement and anticipation surged up.
Ever since he obtained the first Ancient Jade Fragment from the Xiao Family all those years ago, he had experienced far too much along the way.
He had passed through the Jia Ma Empire, crossed the mountains of corpses and sea of blood in the Black Corner Region, braved the blades and swords of the Middle Continent, and walked through all the grudges and entanglements of the Ancient Races, advancing step by step from a person of a small Jia Ma Empire clan to today's Half-Emperor realm.
And the beginning of all this, when traced back to its source, was these eight seemingly unremarkable Ancient Jade Fragments before his eyes.
And today, these eight Ancient Jade Fragments, which had been scattered for ten thousand years, had finally reunited in his hands.
Taking a deep breath and suppressing the emotions churning in his chest, Lin Ming's gaze suddenly sharpened.
Immediately after, he bit the tip of his tongue fiercely, and a mouthful of Essence Blood containing the origin power of a Half-Emperor shot out from his mouth.
The Essence Blood was a deep golden color, with faint Five-Colored Light flowing within it, containing vast energy