For once, Tang Liu had not spent the day meditating before the phantom surrounded by blue light. Instead, he had brought over a chair and sat opposite it, studying the illusory blue-and-gold vine floating above his left palm.
He had already unraveled most of the Ethereal Blue Silver Emperor's secrets. It had originally been the Blue Silver Emperor's "spirit." The reason Ah Yin had been unable to return to the hundred-thousand-year level was that she lacked this "spirit." Part of his reason for choosing to let Tang San kill him back then had been to return it to her.
However, ever since he absorbed the Brightmoon Elf Empress's soul ring that fellow had given him, the Ethereal Blue Silver Emperor seemed to have undergone some further evolution. Even after the portion of its "spirit" belonging to Ah Yin was returned, his martial soul had not disappeared. It had even granted him a remarkably powerful offensive soul skill, Ethereal Silence, completely overturning the system's initial assessment that the Ethereal Blue Silver Emperor had "lost its control and offensive capabilities."
But it was precisely because the Ethereal Blue Silver Emperor had not disappeared that he had been able to awaken from death after handing his contingencies over to Qian Renxue and Xu Yue.
Perhaps that fellow had already foreseen this when he gave him the Moonlit Elf's power.
Of course, the system also deserved some credit. At the final moment, it had exhausted all its energy to awaken him and give him the ability to live for over ten thousand years. Even now, the system remained completely crashed, and he had no idea when it would restart.
Come to think of it, though, if the system had not crashed and gone dormant, Tang Liu would never have found its physical form, nor