The Most Suitable Person

The Most Suitable Person

The Swallowing Heaven Devil Canopy rested quietly atop the grave, unmoving through the ages, as though keeping it company—or serving as a burial offering.

Qin Sheng absolutely did not believe that whoever lay buried in this grave was an ordinary person.

Could the one buried inside be the body of Ruthless from one of her past lives?

Ruthless's Red Dust Immortal Path differed from those of the other Red Dust Immortals. Every transformation shed her old body and gave birth to an Immortal Fetus.

Unlike Wushi and Ye Fan, who had remained eternal in the same body from beginning to end.

She had constantly sought life through death, so after more than two hundred thousand years, Ruthless had accumulated quite a few corpses.

One had been used to forge an Emperor Weapon, one lay buried in the Ten Thousand Dragon Nest, and another had once been in the Bronze Immortal Palace.

And in the Desolate Forbidden Land, Ruthless's old lair, there would naturally be no shortage of her former bodies.

If one of Ruthless's bodies was buried here too...

Yezi, you had seen an Emperor and failed to bow. Your true fate was already lost!

"This place is very likely connected to that invincible Great Emperor, Yezi. We must remain respectful."

Qin Sheng did not dare act rashly. On the contrary, he bowed to the grave mound and muttered under his breath.

Ye Fan also came to his senses and became even more attentive than Qin Sheng, wearing a shamelessly flattering expression.

You could believe that Ye Hei was loyal and righteous, with the common people in his heart, but you also had to believe that he truly had no principles whatsoever.

Of course, neither did Qin Sheng.

After waiting for quite some time, neither the Swallowing Heaven Devil Canopy nor the grave mound beneath it showed any reaction.

Qin Sheng felt that it was about time.

"Yezi, let's see whether we can invite this Emperor Weapon to accompany us."

Ruthless, are you watching?

Silence means consent.

"Okay!" Ye Fan was thrilled.

At this point, he still understood very little about many things and did not know what an Emperor Weapon truly represented.

Thus, he was eager to try Qin Sheng's suggestion as well.

"Together."

The two moved at the same time, cautiously reaching for the Swallowing Heaven Devil Canopy. As for the black grave mound, they did not dare touch it in the slightest.

Holding his breath, Qin Sheng felt as though even time had frozen the instant he touched the Swallowing Heaven Devil Canopy.

Buzz!

A soft hum rang out. The previously silent Swallowing Heaven Devil Canopy suddenly stirred, black radiance flowing across its surface.

Boom!

Qin Sheng felt as though an ancient demonic sound had arrived from the primordial past, echoing without end.

His Sea of Bitterness boiled, his Life Spring surged toward the heavens, his Divine Bridge shone, and immortal blossoms fell upon the pure land of the Other Shore.

The five Dao Palaces resonated in unison, hazy immortal light flashing around them and making them resemble heavenly palaces. Divine beings solemnly chanted scriptures and recited the Dao, fixing eternal time in place.

At that moment, the Heaven Devouring Demonic Art began circulating on its own, undergoing a wondrous transformation.

The black light on the Swallowing Heaven Devil Canopy grew increasingly dense, and Ye Fan's eyes widened in astonishment.

The Swallowing Heaven Devil Canopy suddenly rose into the air, then shot straight into Qin Sheng's Sea of Bitterness. It settled above the Life Spring, bobbing up and down in the divine liquid of life.

"Immortal, are you all right?!" Ye Fan was extremely nervous, afraid that something might happen to Qin Sheng.

"Ha... ha..."

Qin Sheng suddenly gasped for breath, seeming both amused and relieved.

Only then did he realize that his back was already soaked through.

"I'm fine. Don't worry."

Looking inward at his Sea of Bitterness and the Swallowing Heaven Devil Canopy that had returned to stillness, Qin Sheng truly wanted to let out a long roar toward the nine heavens.

An Emperor Weapon!

He had finally obtained an... half an Emperor Weapon!

Ye Fan asked, "Immortal, did you obtain that Emperor Weapon?"

"I suppose you could say that." Qin Sheng nodded.

"Sorry, Yezi."

Ye Fan smiled. "What are you talking about? You brought me here, and it chose you. It should have belonged to you in the first place."

He genuinely did not care about such things. He was only happy for Qin Sheng.

"Once I find out whether I can use it, you can come borrow it from me whenever you need it," Qin Sheng said readily.

"I won't stand on ceremony with you." Ye Fan added,

"When I touched that Emperor Weapon just now, the green bronze fragment in my Sea of Bitterness trembled."

Qin Sheng was surprised. He had not expected the green bronze fragment to react.

Was it rejecting the Swallowing Heaven Devil Canopy?

"Perhaps they cannot coexist," Qin Sheng guessed.

"Then this Emperor Weapon belongs to you even more. I didn't expect us to obtain an Emperor Weapon so easily." Ye Fan chuckled.

"If those people fighting over the Demon Emperor's weapon learned of this, they'd probably die of anger."

Qin Sheng smiled but did not answer.

Easily? Let someone else try.

Back when those factions had wiped out the sacred lands of the Ruthless lineage, they had not even found this special space.

Even the Ruthless lineage itself—did they not want to retrieve the Swallowing Heaven Devil Jar?

They simply could not do it.

"Still, it doesn't seem complete," Ye Fan said.

"Yes. This canopy is only one half. Its complete form is a jar called the Swallowing Heaven... Immortal Jar. The jar itself is still out there."

"It would be great if we could find the jar," Ye Fan said regretfully.

"I know who has the jar," Qin Sheng said. "It is held by a powerful figure in the Northern Territory."

There was a faction in the Northern Territory called the Thirteen Great Bandits. The Swallowing Heaven Devil Jar was in the hands of a bandit named Tu Tian.

Ye Fan was curious. "How did he obtain the jar?"

Qin Sheng's expression became somewhat strange. "It seems he picked it up from a dried-up riverbed."

"Huh?"

Ye Fan's eyes widened. "He picked up half an Emperor Weapon?"

The truth was just that absurd. Tu Tian really had picked up an Emperor Weapon.

"I thought the two of us were already lucky to obtain the Swallowing Heaven Immortal Canopy this way," Ye Fan muttered.

"I didn't expect there to be someone even more impressive!"

"If Tu Tian learns that the Immortal Canopy is in your hands, will he attack you?" Ye Fan asked worriedly.

"I just need to be careful." Qin Sheng smiled.

"Besides, the canopy is the core of this Emperor Weapon. Its power and special nature surpass those of the jar."

The devil canopy had been forged from Ruthless's skull. Her Primordial Spirit laws and imprints were all within it, while the jar was merely an empty shell.

If Qin Sheng's cultivation became high enough, he could even use the devil canopy to seize the devil jar by force.

As he pondered these matters, Qin Sheng looked toward Ye Fan.

Why had the devil canopy chosen me?

A moment later, Qin Sheng came to an understanding.

Why couldn't it choose me?

It should choose me!

Ruthless had never directly helped Ye Fan, much less given the Ye Fan of this time an Emperor Weapon.

Given Ruthless's circumstances, perhaps she had already taken notice of Ye Fan, but would she interfere with the Swallowing Heaven Devil Canopy?

She definitely would not!

In that case, when faced with a successor like Qin Sheng, who had cultivated the Heaven Devouring Demonic Art to an ideal realm that even Ruthless had failed to achieve in any of her lives...

Whether they had come here because of Ye Fan remained an unknown mystery.

But the dormant Swallowing Heaven Devil Canopy should indeed have instinctively chosen him. He was the most suitable person!

With that thought, Qin Sheng's heart became clear, and his Primordial Spirit bloomed with light.

"Immortal, I have a question."

Ye Fan's gaze wandered around the area. "We obtained the Emperor Weapon, but how are we supposed to get out?"

"There's no exit!"

Qin Sheng: "...Find one quickly."

Unfortunately, they explored every place in this space that they could reach and still found no exit.

"We're done for. It seems we're going to be trapped here until we die," Ye Fan lamented.

Qin Sheng looked at the Swallowing Heaven Devil Canopy and fell into thought.

Did he have to use an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon to sink the Eastern Wilderness?