[The legacy had sealed this monster away. Or perhaps the legacy and the monster were suppressing each other.]
[Just like the Divine Silkworm War King and Great Emperor Envy beneath Enlightenment Cliff in Weiyang Palace.]
[If you took the legacy, the monster would awaken.]
[If you left it, you would not receive the Human Emperor's second inheritance.]
[It was a dead end.]
[You stood at the edge of the ruins, watching the sleeping monster in silence for a long time.]
[Your right hand gripped the Dingjun Sword. Its dark-gold glow was painfully bright in the darkness.]
[The sword seemed to sense something. Its blade grew faintly hot, as though urging you on.]
[You took a deep breath and began to study the monster's breathing.]
[It breathed in a steady rhythm, with roughly ten breaths between each inhalation.]
[The instant it inhaled, a gap opened in the power protecting the space beneath its body. The gap lasted about two breaths.]
[During those two breaths, its body became less dense. You might be able to slip through.]
[Only two breaths.]
[You had to pass through its body, reach the legacy beneath it, and take it—all within two breaths. Then...]
[Then how would you get out?]
[You had not figured that out.]
[But you could not wait any longer.]
[Your senses told you Yin Wuji had changed his mind.]
[He was heading this way, and he was not alone.]
[At least ten Immortal Sovereign Ninth Heaven cultivators and an entire Weird Legion followed behind him.]
[He had no intention of letting you leave.]
[Everything he had said before was merely to buy time until reinforcements arrived.]
[You gritted your teeth.]
[Two breaths.]
[You had only one chance.]
[You drew in every trace of your aura and compressed your Chaos Divine Power into the