Just then, the gray-white ocean occupying ninety percent of the sea of consciousness began to churn violently. The Corpse Lord's consciousness took the form of an immense gray-white face that rose slowly from the waves and looked down on Chu Tian.
"Chu Tian, are you really going to make an enemy of me for this failure?" The Corpse Lord's voice brimmed with temptation. "You've seen how useless he is. Put down your sword and merge with me. I'll give you the complete Taiyi Realm. You'll become its new ruler, surpassing him. There will be no war, no pain. Everything will run forever under absolute order."
"Ruler of the One True Realm?" Chu Tian looked at the enormous gray-white face, a mocking smile curling at his lips.
He slowly raised the Human Emperor Original Seal, which shone with Taichu's light.
"You rotten meat hiding in a gutter will never understand." Chu Tian's voice was cold, filled with boundless defiance. "What makes this world worth living in is that it doesn't need some damned supreme ruler! It needs a hundred flowers blooming at once. It needs people to be allowed to make mistakes and feel regret!"
"If you refuse, then die!" the Corpse Lord roared. Endless gray-white death qi became billions of spikes that rushed to tear Chu Tian and the First Human Emperor's last consciousness apart.
"Now!"
The First Human Emperor let out a roar that shook the heavens. He willingly withdrew the golden light protecting his own consciousness!
He exposed his completely defenseless Divine Soul to the Corpse Lord, holding nothing back, like a treasure vault with its doors flung wide!
The Corpse Lord's attack faltered for a ten-thousandth of a second. Driven by greed, he instinctively diverted part of his power to devour that last trace of Human Emperor