The Emperor Lord set aside his doubts. Jiang Yun was right: only his own strength was real; everything else was an illusion.
He could not be bothered to pursue the matter any further.
"But Jiang Yun, I haven't lost yet. I'm taking the Lingbao Array Diagram!"
The Emperor Lord gave Jiang Yun and the others a chilling look, then glanced at the Slaughter Array Diagram beneath him and grinned.
Clang!
He had summoned two deputy leaders long ago. With one hand, he lifted the legendary Nine-Layer Coffin carried by one of them and set the ancient coffin before him. Pale purple blood spilled from his hand and seeped into the stone coffin.
Rays of divine light flared around the Emperor Lord. The blood of a Prospective Emperor held abundant vital essence and blossomed with the secrets of the Origin Dao.
Anyone who could cultivate to the level of a Prospective Emperor had naturally encountered extraordinary opportunities.
In his early years, the Emperor Lord had obtained an inheritance from the Chaotic Ancient Era. Its incomplete art used a Blood Sacrifice to defile the spiritual nature of a divine weapon's Divine Spirit, allowing him to control myriad weapons.
The records even claimed that the complete sacrificial art could forcibly seize control of an Immortal Artifact.
"Great Emperors were invincible while they lived, of course. But once they're gone, their bodies may be priceless treasures—surely they can't interfere with a battle like this!"
As they watched the Emperor Lord prepare to open the stone coffin, Ancestor Ran Mu and the others exchanged looks. The thought of desecrating an emperor's body filled them with dread, but they were also puzzled.
"Why does that stone coffin feel familiar?"
Jiang Qi of Feixian Star muttered to himself. It was not the coffin he recognized, but the