The Cause and Effect of the Matter!

According to the Blood Absolute Hall Master, this seal had originally been set up by the Royal Court at tremendous cost and with all its strength. It was exceedingly stable.

The Dark Demon Emperor had been suppressed within it. After being worn down by the long passage of time, the power of its true body should have steadily weakened. It was still far from truly breaking free of the seal; perhaps it would take another several thousand, even tens of thousands of years.

The unexpected turn had occurred the day before yesterday.

A Prodigy had arrived outside the Blood God Hall.

That Prodigy's physique, talent, and temperament had all surprised Blood Absolute.

His physique in particular possessed an extraordinary affinity with the Blood Dao cultivated by Blood Absolute!

The loneliness of standing guard through the long years, along with his obsession with completely eliminating the Dark Demon Emperor—the Royal Court's former grave threat—had caused Blood Absolute to conceive a bold and risky idea the instant he saw this "perfect" inheritor. He wanted to seize this opportunity to borrow the Prodigy's strength, combining it with his remaining power and the sealing formation to deliver a "root-and-branch" blow to the Dark Demon Emperor.

If its remaining origin could be utterly erased, there would be no future trouble!

However, ideals were plump, while reality was brutally harsh.

Blood Absolute had severely underestimated the Dark Demon Emperor's "growth" and cunning during its long imprisonment.

The Dark Demon Emperor had not weakened as expected. Instead, in that endless darkness, it had refined its wicked thoughts and malice until they became purer and more terrifying!

When Blood Absolute temporarily lifted some of the seal's restrictions, the instant that Prodigy's aura and power reached the seal's core through a special channel—the Dark Demon Emperor seized that once-in-a-millennium