Given Eastern Emperor Taiyi's proud temperament, experience, and status, he was usually sparing with words and steady as a mountain. How could he suddenly lose his composure?!
More importantly, the Eastern Sovereign Bell was Eastern Emperor Taiyi's companion artifact, practically a part of his body. He had not lost it even when he fell back then, yet now he was willingly giving it to the Lord of Great Huan? Was he treating him like a son, hoping his son would become a dragon?
Eastern Emperor Taiyi's seemingly reasonable words instead felt like an unprompted confession—the very flavor of three hundred taels of silver buried here, with a sign declaring there was no silver. They only made everyone more suspicious!
Seeing everyone's reactions, Eastern Emperor Taiyi's expression stiffened. He seemed to want to speak but stopped himself, then looked at Xiao Ying with a bitter smile. Within that smile lay an inexplicable sorrow and reluctance.
Yes, sorrow and reluctance!
"Mm! As Eastern Emperor wishes, I shall not disgrace this bell's mighty name, nor Eastern Emperor's devotion!"
Originally, Xiao Ying had wanted to feign ignorance and muddle through. But seeing everyone's reactions, as well as Eastern Emperor Taiyi's, he thought for a moment and simply nodded in agreement.
Because the Heaven-Earth Bell in Eastern Emperor Taiyi's hand was not the "Eastern Sovereign Bell." It was the "Heaven-Earth Bell" that had previously fled into the void, drawing away countless Great Adepts and many Immortal Venerables.
More importantly, the utterly collapsed Pangu World was inside the Heaven-Earth Bell.
Thus, Eastern Emperor Taiyi naturally could not unleash the Heaven-Earth Bell's true power. The moment he used it in the future, the truth would certainly be exposed, making people even more suspicious. Furthermore, the Heaven-Earth Bell had originally belonged to Xiao Ying, and it could