His words had barely fallen.
Boom—
The core restriction suddenly exploded.
Gray-black waves of energy swept out in every direction, filling the sky.
A gaunt figure slowly rose from the depths of the restriction.
He wore gray-black imperial robes. His face was withered, his eye sockets sunken, and two ghostly green flames flickered within them, brimming with undisguised greed and venom.
It was Great Emperor Greed.
Having just been startled awake from his slumber, his aura was still somewhat unstable, but he unleashed the full pressure of the peak Emperor Tier without restraint.
The return to silence aura throughout the valley rose and fell slightly with his breathing.
"Su Ming."
Great Emperor Greed spoke in a hoarse, grating voice, like fingernails scraping across iron.
"I hadn't even come looking for you, yet you delivered yourself to my door."
"There was a road to heaven, but you refused to take it. Hell had no gate, yet you forced your way inside."
He stared fixedly at Su Ming, the greed in his eyes almost spilling over.
Void power.
If he could seize that power, he could completely repair the flaws in his origin. He might even advance another step and surpass his peak.
In the last Weiyang Battle, his body and soul had been destroyed. Only with the Origin Core's help had he finally managed to reconstruct his flesh.
He had not forgotten that debt.
Su Ming looked at him and smiled faintly.
"You?"
"If I could destroy your body and soul last time, I can kill you again today."
His tone was casual, yet filled with absolute confidence.
He possessed the cultivation of a half-step Immortal Emperor Supreme and fully integrated void power.
Even against a Peak Great Emperor, he could put up a fight.
"Arrogant fool!"
Great Emperor Greed flew