All manner of thoughts kept turning over in Li Yue's mind.
Thinking back carefully now, why had he felt a faint unease when Overlord offered to take him to Mount Li to meet the First Emperor?
Could all of that truly have been false?
Had he experienced a scene meticulously crafted by some terrifying existence?
But the person before him could also have been the work of some terrifying existence!
Otherwise—
Why had he so coincidentally encountered this man upon arriving at the Ninth Mountain?
He took a deep breath, and his heart gradually settled.
Whether what he had seen back then was real or false, it all came down to his lack of strength.
As long as he was strong enough, who cared what was real or false? He could simply sweep through everything with overwhelming power!
The Chaos Bell...
If Overlord was a fake, the only thing he touched was the Chaos Bell.
Perhaps something has gone wrong with this supreme Dao Ancestor-grade treasure.
But that hardly matters.
Besides this supreme Dao Ancestor-grade treasure, I have two others.
I can refrain from using this one for now.
At least the other two have never been used or exposed.
They came from the Mastermind's means, so no existence could know those two supreme Ancestor Artifacts are in my hands.
Those are my trump cards.
He murmured inwardly, then looked toward Zhuge Dao, whose brow was tightly furrowed:
"Fellow Daoist, you said you had some earth-shattering information about the Ninth Mountain to tell me. What might that be?"
He had temporarily set aside the matter of the Zhuge Domain.
His most pressing task now was to enter the Ninth Mountain and obtain the wondrous object that would allow the Time Branch to advance!
As long as he had enough divine