Chapter 973: The King of Chu Arrives at Shenjing. In the underground palace.
The Progenitor Emperor's laughter abruptly stopped.
He stared fixedly at the ball of bloody light in his hand.
His eyes brimmed with excitement and fanaticism.
His five fingers slowly closed, clenching the bloody light in his palm.
Thump.
Thump.
Thump.
The heartbeat could be heard throughout the Imperial Mausoleum.
The Progenitor Emperor did not hesitate.
He pressed the bloody light toward his heart.
The instant the bloody light touched the Progenitor Emperor,
it blazed with dazzling intensity.
There was no rejection whatsoever.
It merged with the Progenitor Emperor without the slightest resistance.
The moment the fusion was complete,
the Progenitor Emperor's indistinct figure began to change.
His blurry outline
began to solidify at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Flesh began to grow.
First came his legs.
Then his torso, his hands, and finally the face that had always been impossible to make out.
His features became clear, little by little.
It was an exceedingly ordinary face.
A square face, a broad nose, and prominent brow bones.
In a crowd, no one would have given him a second glance.
But the moment he opened his eyes,
the entire Imperial Mausoleum fell silent.
Over by the Blood Pool,
the hundreds of thousands of Jiang Clan members waiting to be thrown into it stopped crying, cursing, and struggling.
The Imperial Mausoleum Guards and the Dragon Tiger Imperial Guard also stopped.
Their faces turned toward the depths of the Imperial Mausoleum in unison.
Then, one after another, they knelt.
The black-robed expert leading them knelt as well.
His body
shook like chaff in a sieve.
It was from excitement.
"His Majesty the Progenitor Emperor... succeeded?"
In the Imperial Mausoleum's underground palace,
the Progenitor Emperor stood there.
He raised