The Evil Emperor's gaze was like two solid swords, piercing layer after layer of space to lock onto Jiang Yun.
After carefully sizing Jiang Yun up, uncontrollable delight surged from the depths of his heart. He could not have been more pleased.
Sure enough, just as he had expected, the Dao Ancestor before him was an unaffiliated Dark Dao Ancestor.
Drawing on his vast experience and keen senses, the Evil Emperor judged from Jiang Yun's aura that he had only recently broken through.
Under the Evil Emperor's greedy gaze, Jiang Yun seemed to turn into a gleaming slab of meat, a perfect sacrifice prepared just for him.
What was more, Jiang Yun had yet to truly take charge of the Four Source Lands. To the Evil Emperor, that made him a soft persimmon anyone could squeeze.
If he intercepted and suppressed Jiang Yun before his foundation had stabilized, the Evil Emperor's tangled ties with the Weird Clan meant no one would blame him.
As for those in Heaven, they had always been wary and hostile toward the Weird Clan. They would be delighted to see him fighting a Weird Dao Ancestor. Why would they intervene?
To the Evil Emperor, this was a hunt whose outcome was already certain.
"The Evil Emperor?"
Faced with the Evil Emperor's hostile question, Jiang Yun did not hurry to answer.
He narrowed his eyes slightly, curiosity glinting in them as he studied the mysterious figure shrouded in boundless blood mist.
This was his first encounter with a Quasi-Immortal Emperor at full strength. Compared with the half-crippled Black Bird, the aura radiating from the Evil Emperor was as different as heaven and earth.
That immense presence pressed down on Jiang Yun like a towering mountain, making it hard to breathe.
Jiang Yun knew that the Quasi-Immortal