"Senior, you're the Void Heavenly Emperor?!"
Xiao Yan was truly stunned by this news. No matter how formidable Gu Yuan was, he was still within the bounds of the continent, while "Emperors" had long vanished from the continent.
From Yao Lao's past accounts, Xiao Yan had learned that even an object with the slightest connection to a Dou Di could stir up a bloody storm across the entire continent!
And now, a genuine Dou Di stood before him. Xiao Yan was so shocked that he froze in place. The blows he had received over the past few days had simply been too great.
The Void Heavenly Emperor smiled kindly. "What? Does this old man not look like one?"
Hearing this, Xiao Yan came back to his senses and scratched his head. "It's not that. This junior was simply too shocked."
The old man slowly said, "More accurately, I am a strand of Dou Di consciousness left behind in this realm by the Void Heavenly Emperor. The Void Heavenly Emperor's true body has long since departed this world."
Xiao Yan recalled the conversation between Gu Yuan and Lu Huangtian. That had been the first time he learned that life and worlds existed beyond the Douqi Continent. Of course, what shocked Xiao Yan even more was a Dou Di's heaven-reaching, earth-shaking power. Even with his true body absent, a mere strand of consciousness still possessed such formidable strength and seemed to have a complete independent awareness.
Xiao Yan could not help sighing inwardly. A Dou Di truly is capable of anything!
"The Soul-Turning Secret Technique you learned was left behind by my true body and happened to fall into your hands by chance," the Void Heavenly Emperor's Dou Di consciousness continued.
Xiao Yan's eyes lit up at those words. The Soul-Turning Secret