At that time, the Pioneer Divine General had been a friend of the Imperishable Desolate Emperor, yet at the critical moment of battle, he had ambushed the Imperishable Desolate Emperor, allowing Immortal-Gold Divine Chains to pierce through his shoulder blades.
Afterward, the Imperishable Desolate Emperor had been suppressed within the innate supreme treasure, the Immortal Refining Pool, where he suffered the corrosion of the Immortal-Refining Baleful Fiend day and night. As a result, his cultivation had been unable to advance for hundreds of thousands of kalpas.
Fortunately, the Imperishable Desolate Emperor truly deserved to be a being transformed from imperishable immortal gold. Though the Immortal-Refining Baleful Fiend continuously corroded him, he had remained clear-headed and had even used it to cultivate a trace of imperishable divinity.
Otherwise, the Imperishable Desolate Emperor's foundation would long since have been weakened and fallen away, and he would never again have been able to break through to a higher realm.
Thinking of this, Chen Nianzhi could not help sighing. "He betrayed you back then, and today you are refining his true body to cultivate your True Spirit Divine Form. Perhaps this is karmic retribution."
The Imperishable Desolate Emperor shook his head and said with a bitter smile, "Had I not encountered you, I fear I would still be muddleheaded, with my cultivation forever halted at the seventh level of the Primordial Emperor Lord realm."
"If I encountered Pioneer again, I would likely only be humiliated once more."
As he spoke, the Imperishable Emperor activated his entire cultivation and began continuously refining the Pioneer Divine General's remains.
As the True-Spirit Divine Mark exerted its power, the divinity within those remains gradually vanished, merging bit by bit into his True-Spirit Divine Mark.
No one knew how much time had passed. Once the remains had been completely