Human Emperor Trait, Heart of the People

As the prayer was recited, Ye Chen's majestic voice rolled like thunder into everyone's ears, echoing long after.

Once the recitation finished, Ye Chen held the Human King Seal and pressed it onto the prayer scroll in his hand.

The moment the Human King Seal touched the prayer scroll, a sudden change occurred.

"Roar!!"

The prayer scroll and the Human King Seal instantly floated in the air, and then a dragon's cry pierced through heaven and earth, breaking through the clouds and resounding throughout Chang'an City.

At the same time, the obsidian altar, carved with images of mythical beasts, saw those figures transform into phantom beast shadows, hovering in the air.

In that instant, wind and clouds surged above the altar, and endless thunder gathered, as if a world-ending calamity was about to descend.

Seeing this, Ye Chen was somewhat dumbfounded, because this situation really wasn't something he had caused.

"System, what's going on? Did I buy too many phenomena, and you're throwing in extras?"

"Host, as the Inheritance System of the Yanhuang Civilization, when your ritual involves the two Yanhuang Ancestors, the system triggers its underlying mechanism, opening a connection channel to the Mother System.

Of course, whether the two Ancestors take notice of you is beyond the system's control. However, if they do, they may grant you some blessings."

Hearing this, Ye Chen's mouth fell open, his mind shaken beyond words. He never imagined that a ritual honoring the Yanhuang Two Emperors would actually be received.

Who could have thought this possible? Ever since he bound the Yanhuang Civilization No. 008 Inheritance System, he assumed these systems were casually created by some great figure.

Who would have guessed that great figure was actually the two ancestors, Yanhuang?

"System, does this mean the Yanhuang Two Emperors have taken notice of me?!"

"Cannot disclose. Host, don't be nervous. Just wait patiently."

Hearing this, Ye Chen nodded inwardly, looked up at the phenomena in the sky, and awaited the outcome.

At the same time, he felt a surge of excitement. After all, these were the ancestors of countless Yanhuang descendants—no descendant of Yanhuang could remain calm.

Below the altar, the crowd looked at the sky and at Ye Chen on the altar, their reverence growing.

Though they didn't understand what was happening, they didn't bother to think too hard. It was all just a display of the Emperor's greatness.

Ye Chen had no mind to care about what the people below thought. He waited in a state of nervous anticipation for the result.

Meanwhile.

At the Peak of the Heavens, in the Eternal Heaven Domain.

The Human Race's stronghold.

Here was the base of the Human Race, where countless elites gathered.

In the Yanhuang Human Region, at Xuanyuan's Hill.

Emperor Xuanyuan sensed something and opened his eyes. He flipped his hand and produced a glowing white orb.

This was the Yanhuang Inheritance Mother System. As he looked at the channel connecting to it, Xuanyuan's gaze instantly crossed endless time and space, leaving the Human Race's territory and descending upon the Super God Universe beyond.

As Xuanyuan's gaze projected over, the Super God Universe instinctively tried to repel him. Seeing this, Xuanyuan smiled. "Little one, quite playful."

With those words, Xuanyuan chuckled and tapped the Dimensional Barrier of the Super God Universe. Then, with a thought, he tore through the barrier and entered.

He observed the composition of this unfamiliar universe, especially the Dark Dimension attached to the third dimension.

"Dimensional technology constructs. Interesting. Let me see what this universe is all about."

Saying this, Xuanyuan waved his hand, pulling endless data from the universe's barrier into his mind.

"Devouring the heritage of countless civilizations to nourish your own, forcing a breach of the universe's barrier. Hah, quite the Void Civilization.

But with a civilization level below six, lacking resistance to extra-universal energy erosion, forcing open the universe's barrier is nothing but suicide."

Shaking his head, Xuanyuan dismissed the thought. With a flicker of his mind, he arrived above Blue Star.

Looking down at the billions of people within Blue Star and the waiting Ye Chen, in an instant, Xuanyuan learned all of Ye Chen's past.

The next moment, that wisp of gaze scattered, transforming into a point of light that descended into Blue Star.

Blue Star.

"Host, His Majesty Xuanyuan's blessing has arrived."

As the system's somewhat excited voice fell, Ye Chen heard a dragon's cry.

"Roar!!"

The dragon cry came again, and then a golden dragon, ten thousand zhang in size, emerged from the thunderous sea, winding through the void.

"Splash—"

Seeing this, everyone inside and outside Chang'an City knelt to the ground.

At that moment, even Dukao and the others had no choice but to kneel. The moment the dragon appeared, their instincts compelled them to bow.

Feeling the submission in their bodies and souls, Dukao and the others were helpless in their minds. No matter how stubborn they had been before, they could no longer dismiss this phenomenon as fake.

After circling once, the ten-thousand-zhang dragon split into two streams of light, one entering Ye Chen and the other the jade seal before him.

"Destiny System Module detected. System is loading. Please wait..."

"The Luck Module has finished loading. Beginning modification of the host's Human King Body, adding Human Emperor Trait, Heart of the People..."

As the system's voice rang in his ears, Ye Chen felt the same sensation from his last breakthrough wash over him once more. Beyond Blue Star, the sea of stars churned as boundless Stellar Energy converged.

At the same time, within Blue Star, every subject of the Yanhuang Empire felt a sudden resonance in their hearts and knelt to the ground.

"May the Emperor live ten thousand years, ten thousand times ten thousand years."

The voices of billions of people rang out in perfect unison, shaking the Nine Heavens and the earth. From their bodies, specks of white light coalesced, transforming into the most brilliant stars in the world, shooting up into the sky and converging toward Chang'an City.

Human Emperor Trait, Heart of the People.

One who possessed this trait could, within the borders of their own empire, draw upon a portion of the power of billions of subjects to fight their enemies.

The more his subjects acknowledged him, the more power he could borrow.

Conversely, if his subjects did not acknowledge him, he could borrow no power at all and would instead suffer a certain degree of backlash.

It could be said that the Human Emperor Trait carried the principle of "water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize it" to its absolute extreme.

After understanding this, Ye Chen couldn't help but feel a mix of amusement and exasperation. Ancestor Xuanyuan really did look out for him.

Giving him this double-edged sword of an ability was essentially forcing him to be a good emperor.

Still, he had no intention of harming his own empire. After all, the Yanhuang Empire was his "own son," created and raised by his own hands.

As its father, how could he not cherish his own child?

Soon, his Human King Body was fully modified, and he could clearly sense that he was now bound to the entire Yanhuang Empire—sharing its glory and its ruin.

As for how to undo the binding, that was very simple. He only needed to go to the Human Race's main base, the Eternal Heaven Domain, and find Ancestor Xuanyuan to have it removed.

Of course, this required first breaking free from the shackles of the Super God Universe. Otherwise, he couldn't even leave his home universe, let alone cross endless time and space to reach the Peak of the Heavens.