"Heaven moves with vigor; a gentleman must strive ceaselessly for self-improvement!"
A man's voice rang out across the Extinguish Heaven Battlefield.
Hearing the voice, the phantom that had been erasing Jun Lin and the other three raised its head blankly.
Looking closely, they saw a man in a Confucian scholar's robe who had appeared there at some unknown time.
"Kill!"
The phantom spoke again, but the man had already vanished with the four "balls of flesh."
After they disappeared, the phantom returned to its former dazed state.
Deep within the Extinguish Heaven Battlefield.
"Whoosh!"
The scholarly man flicked his sleeve, and the four balls of flesh rapidly stretched out.
The few of them, who had narrowly escaped death, no longer even had the strength to scream.
"You little ones were fortunate that I happened to awaken this time. Otherwise, you would have lost your lives."
Hearing this, Chen Xiao, whose body was comparatively stronger, barely managed to speak.
"Thank you, Senior, for saving us. May I ask your esteemed name?"
The scholarly man said mildly, "There is no need to thank me. If you must thank someone, thank yourselves."
"For some reason, your bloodlines suddenly awakened me."
"Tell me, whose children are you?"
"If your bloodlines could awaken me, you must be descendants of old friends."
Facing the scholarly man's question, Jun Lin endured the pain and said, "In reply to Senior, I am the Crown Prince of the Great Shang Dynasty."
"My father is the founding emperor of the Great Shang Dynasty."
"The Great Shang Dynasty?"
The scholarly man repeated the name carefully, then said, "I have never heard of it. It seems I have been dead for far too long."
"Oh, have you heard of the names Yin Qi and Chen Xiang?"
"In reply to Senior, Yin