"The sixth step in solving the mystery of Zhenwu's fall: use the Yellow Springs Skeleton to uncover what happened, and find True Martial Emperor's final whereabouts!"
With the Red-Haired Corpse King sucked away by the Innate Divine Corpse, Meng Qi was briefly without an opponent. He immediately entered the Ancient Tomb World and saw ancient graves and green tombs razed to the ground or buried deep beneath the ice by the shock waves from Su Wuming and the North Pole True Dragon's battle. The disciples of the Sect of Impermanence of Life and Death had either been reduced to ice chips or scattered into ash. Even the ancient tomb at the very heart of the place had become a pile of broken walls and rubble, leaving its interior exposed to view:
The iron-black coffin where the Netherworld Emperor had hidden stood open. His ten-zhang-tall body stood beside a Bronze Coffin, blood-yellow mist swirling around him. Only the vague outline of his imperial robes and crown, his pitch-black skin, and the fine white hairs covering his entire body could be made out. His mighty, surging aura was unlike any other, complementing the illusory, blood-yellow river behind him, whose source and destination were unknown. It seemed capable of coursing through Layers of Universe, present everywhere. Alas, his aura lacked a crucial component, one he could not draw upon with his current power. Otherwise, his Legendary Traits would have been even stronger, more numerous, and more pronounced than Master Lu's and Su Wuming's!
The Yellow Springs Skeleton... Meng Qi sighed inwardly. The Zhenwu Chain Quest had been delayed for so long, but at last it was back on the table and could be continued.
Since the Yellow Springs Skeleton had fallen into the hands of the Sect of Impermanence of Life and Death,