The pitch-black ancient coffin, as tall as a grown man, hummed without pause.
It was black as ink and immensely heavy.
Its surface was carved with mysterious, cryptic patterns. Black-and-white streams of life and death flowed and rose across it day and night without end.
Even just the coffin lid was an unparalleled Sacred Artifact of immense power.
An ancient, supremely powerful fluctuation quietly rippled through heaven and earth.
The Flame Emperor had replenished more than ninety percent of the Heavenly Emperor's depleted Spirit Soul Origin Qi.
The Martial Ancestor had summoned the resurrection Sacred Artifact, the Life and Death Ancient Coffin. Wielding the laws of life and death, it had repaired the Heavenly Emperor's battered imperial body, riddled with cracks and scars from battle, and replenished his Supreme Sea.
Every living being watched the pitch-black coffin floating in midair without blinking, not looking away for even a moment as they struggled to contain their excitement and anticipation.
Fortunately, the great Daoist Sect Sovereign did not keep his people waiting long.
"Buzz, buzz, buzz—bang!"
The trembling black coffin lid was suddenly pushed open from within and floated into the air.
A towering figure emerged, standing before all living beings. An indescribable aura of a human emperor filled every corner of the Heavenly Emperor Mausoleum, reaching everywhere without obstruction.
The Heavenly Emperor, clad in green robes, stood leaning on a crystal-like longsword in his hand.
His face was as handsome as jade, his brow broad, and his build strong.
His features were refined, his manner scholarly, and his bearing heroic and extraordinary.
His fair skin glimmered with a radiant light, gleaming like warm jade. An awe-inspiring majesty that towered above heaven and earth radiated from him, making him impossible for living beings to look at directly.
Where he stood became an