"Back then, my Jade Bone Corpse Body had reached full mastery. Among all those in the Divine Mansion Realm under heaven, I could scarcely find a worthy opponent."
"To find an opportunity to break through that last sliver of constraint, I set my sights on the Great Zhou Imperial Mausoleum."
"The Great Zhou Imperial Mausoleum was hidden extremely well. I only learned its location by chance."
"Using an ancient secret art to conceal my aura, I barely survived crossing the mausoleum's protective formation and slipped inside."
"I had thought the mausoleum would be a place of deathly silence, where Great Zhou's emperors and imperial experts of ages past lay asleep."
Old Mo's voice began to tremble.
It was as though he had recalled some utterly terrifying scene.
"But... but I was wrong! That place was no tomb of peaceful rest. It was an asura hell of unspeakable cruelty!"
"The world calls us demons?"
"Laughable!"
"The imperial clan are the greatest demons under heaven!"
Li Xinge's brows knitted tightly.
What exactly lay hidden in the depths of that mausoleum, to leave a demonic path titan renowned throughout the world so terrified even seven hundred years later?
Elder Jiang also pricked up his ears.
What Old Mo said next might well concern his royal father's death.
"I slipped into the deepest underground palace. I saw no rare treasures buried as offerings, nor any imperial coffins. What I saw... was slaughter! Endless slaughter!"
"Countless people had Mysterious Iron Chains inscribed with runes driven through their shoulder blades. They hung suspended in the underground palace like livestock."
"Those people were no ordinary folk. They all carried the blood of Great Zhou's imperial family!"
"They were packed so densely that I couldn't see the end of them."
"Every one of those imperial descendants had their