Until an unparalleled expert capable of slaying the Demon Emperor emerged and personally killed him. Yet even now, that peerless expert had never appeared.
In the end, heaven and earth withered, spiritual energy dwindled, and not only did no peerless expert emerge, even the existing experts continued to perish.
After the immortals and gods vanished without a trace, the human realm too began to suffer a shortage of successors. Fewer and fewer people were capable of laying down seals, and in order to prevent the Demon Emperor from bringing chaos upon the world—
Everyone unanimously decided to place this box beneath the capital of the Human Race's empire, using the fate of an entire nation to suppress the Demon Emperor.
That was everything recorded on the paper. In other words, the box beside Ye Lin sealed that former Demon Emperor.
By now, the seal on the wooden box's surface had become exceedingly weak. Fortunately, spiritual energy had vanished from heaven and earth, and with the Demon Emperor having remained sealed all this time, his cultivation had continuously fallen as well.
Even now, Ye Lin could sense that the thing inside the box still possessed cultivation at the early Spirit Transformation stage, while the seal clearly could no longer hold.
If he did not take it this time, and neither Lin Ping nor the fellow beside him took it, then if no one discovered it, once these people left and the Demon Emperor broke free, the entire world would once again return to the Demon Emperor's control.
Yet as time flowed on, even a Demon Emperor had to die. After all, without spiritual energy, one's realm would not advance but instead decline. If this continued, there would always come a day when one fell back to the starting point. And when