The ancient chill gradually receded, and the Lunar Emperor's figure grew ever clearer.
He was still half immortal, half Heavenly Demon, but as that chill gradually withdrew into his body, his eyes became increasingly lucid.
Who would have thought that this one had imprisoned himself here?
By now, Su Che could roughly guess what had happened.
This Lunar Emperor had long since become an existence that transcended the entire Immortal Abode.
He might have originated here, yet over the long years—or perhaps due to the Earth Official Great Emperor's original design—the Lunar Emperor had surpassed the bounds of the Earth Official Immortal Abode and gained a certain degree of "freedom."
That was right.
A Heavenly Court system powered by Heavenly Demons was destined to be incomplete.
Call it the Heavenly Court, and this place had already been wholly tainted by Heavenly Demons, drawing its power from endless Heavenly Demons.
Call it a demon's lair, yet through every cycle of demolition and reconstruction, it always retained the marks of the Heavenly Court and never truly fell into the demonic path.
This was something fundamentally impossible to achieve.
If demonic corruption could be reset so easily from the beginning, then the Heavenly Demon system would have no barriers at all, becoming livestock that anyone could use—and enjoy using.
The key to it all, or rather, the root of it all, was the Lunar Emperor before him.
No matter what his essence might be, he had exceeded the scope of the Earth Official Immortal Abode.
He was the corrector of this system, as well as the true administrator of the entire Immortal Abode.
Borrowing that chill which surpassed all things, the Lunar Emperor had watched the Earth Official Immortal Abode be torn down and rebuilt again and again from within the Moon Palace.