"Tomorrow, I will hold the ascension ceremony, then establish an imperial dynasty and become its Imperial Lord."
"By then, the fragments of the Innate Spirit Treasure, the Supreme Purity Mystic Bell, will be complete. You can take the fragments out and find an artifact refiner to piece the Supreme Purity Mystic Bell back together."
"Innate Spirit Treasures possess spirits. Any reasonably capable artifact refiner can handle it."
Within the void, Su Tao gazed at the enormous platform in the distance, his heart swelling with heroic ambition.
Even he had not expected to accomplish all this in merely a dozen days.
A dozen days to unite the Southern Region.
In the past, no one would have believed it if he said it aloud. They would even have cursed him for it.
But now, he had succeeded. He had truly succeeded.
He had truly unified the Southern Region—and he had done so within these dozen days.
Tomorrow, he would become the lord of an imperial dynasty, standing on equal footing with the lofty Imperial Lords of the other three regions.
The thought alone delighted him.
The joy in his heart spilled openly across his face, impossible to conceal.
Ye Lin, however, showed little expression.
Though he was about to obtain an Innate Spirit Treasure, he knew that one should never celebrate too soon over something not yet in hand.
Only once it was in his possession would everything be secure.
Thus, Ye Lin felt no particular joy at all.
"Then... congratulations."
After a moment of silence, Ye Lin offered his sincere blessing.
That was all he could say.
After all, he could not truly share Su Tao's feelings or understand his joy.
"Don't congratulate me just yet."
"For the past hundred thousand years, the Southern Region has had no imperial dynasty. Thus,