Battle Through the Heavens: Obtaining the Extraction System at the Start

This bloodline power faintly showed signs of transforming toward the Dou Emperor level. Unfortunately, the Yellow Springs Demon Saint had ultimately failed to truly set foot in that supreme Emperor Realm. Otherwise, the power of this blood essence would have been worlds apart from that of genuine Dou Emperor blood essence.

"Alas..."

A long sigh slowly escaped the Yellow Springs Demon Saint's lips. His withered fingers gently brushed over the cluster of golden blood essence in his palm. It felt warm beneath his fingertips, yet it made his Remnant Soul ache sharply. "I exhausted my entire life and reached the half-step Emperor Realm, yet I could never cross that final threshold."

Even a supreme expert like him, who had roamed the ages and possessed a heart as firm as stone, could not conceal the melancholy between his brows at the final moment before his Remnant Soul dispersed. Looking back on his life, his name had shaken the world, and he had found few rivals beneath the heavens. Yet in the end, he still carried the regret of never becoming a Dou Emperor, halted within the river of time.

"Senior's talent and brilliance were unmatched throughout the ages," Xiao Ling said at the right moment, his tone sincere and entirely free of flattery. "In the end, it is the heavens that are incomplete, and the source energy has dried up. Otherwise, with Senior's abilities, Dou Emperor would never have been your limit."

Xiao Ling was not deliberately currying favor. He truly thought so. Figures such as the Yellow Springs Demon Saint and the Nether Lotus Demon Sage possessed peerless talent. In this age of dwindling Dharma, they had still defied the times to reach the Half-Emperor Realm, only a single step away from the supreme position of Dou Emperor.

Had they