The cold moon was desolate. Beneath Moonwolf Mountain, the blood pool boiled, and terrifying demonic vapors spread through the air, making hearts tremble.
With a single palm strike from the Eastern Command Envoy, the slumbering Demon Emperor awoke. Demonic energy surged upward and spread ceaselessly in all directions.
Seeing this, Ning Chen frowned slightly. "The Messenger Envoy only left a short while ago, and the Three Demonic Emperors are watching this place from the Heavenly Demon Ancestral Land. If you do not wish to be discovered, you had best behave yourself."
As his words fell, the demonic energy above the blood pool stagnated, then gradually withdrew.
Ning Chen stepped forward and looked beneath the blood pool. There, a palm-sized crimson heart beat continuously amid the blood. Its terrifying pressure was so heavy that it made breathing difficult.
"Demon Emperor's Heart?"
A strange light flashed through Ning Chen's eyes. So that peerless Demon Emperor of old had left behind such a contingency.
The Demon Emperor had been an unparalleled genius who once stood alongside the Nine Nether King in ancient times. Unlike the Nine Nether King, who had fallen into ruin for the sake of a human woman, the Demon Emperor had fought all the way through countless battles, finally stepping upon the blood of innumerable prodigies to prove the imperial path.
Yet Heaven's decree had an end. After nearly ten thousand years of invincibility, the Demon Emperor's life had gradually reached its limit, and he vanished from the sight of the world.
No one knew where the Demon Emperor had ultimately gone. They only knew that, at dusk on a certain day, demonic energy soared into the heavens, while the blazing sun lingered without setting, as though unwilling to witness the departure of the once-invincible emperor.
From that day onward,