Around the enormous Tai Chi Eight Trigrams Diagram, space twisted and the light grew hazy. The Eight Trigrams Symbols corresponding to Qian, Kun, Xun, Dui, Gen, Zhen, Li, and Kan lit up one after another, glittering like a set of mysterious, ancient code.
Though only ancient Sages could understand and master it, as an Emperor's Son, the fragments of Imperial Dao contained within Ji Hao's blood constantly guided him toward grasping the mysteries of the Void.
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Although his head swam, Ji Hao continued recording the star map.
Ji Hao watched everything without blinking. Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin traveling through the Starry Sky Ancient Road definitely involved the mysteries of the Void. Though Ji Hao had not cultivated the Void Scripture, he had dabbled in many of its great Supernatural Powers.
This Tai Chi Eight Trigrams Diagram would help Ji Hao comprehend the mysteries of the Void and gain greater control over it. Not to mention, the Void Secret Technique was first-rate for escaping. Back then, when Ji Hao followed Shennong to that place, if he had not been so skilled with the Void Secret Technique, he would have been locked in a little dark room long ago.
The two Yin and Yang fish within the Tai Chi Diagram resembled two strange doors. They trembled continuously, slowly opening a crack as though they connected to a distant, unknown starry sky.
Radiance flashed without end, and the eight symbols of the Eight Trigrams flickered erratically. After changing through a complicated sequence many times, they finally all lit up at once, releasing a dazzling brilliance.
Boom
With a dull tremor, a Tai Chi Diagram appeared at the center of the Bagua Diagram. The Yin and Yang fish nestled together within it, while the Eight Trigrams Symbols flashed continuously as if combining a code and calculating a warp passage. After undergoing a complex sequence of changes many times, they finally all lit up simultaneously, emitting a dazzling radiance. The two Yin and Yang fish within the Tai Chi Diagram slowly opened like doors, connecting to the distant starry sky.
Clang!
The bronze coffin shook, and the cracks on its lid widened continuously. Everyone felt dizzy for a moment before being sucked into the coffin!
Ji Hao seized the opportunity as well. He stepped forward, activated the Void Secret Technique, and used Near at Hand, Far at Horizon to instantly arrive inside the Three Worlds Bronze Coffin.
"Help!"
"It hurts!"
"Oh, heavens!"
"It's so dark in here..."
"What the hell is this place?!"
Some people were on the verge of collapse, crying out in terror.
Bang!
The nine enormous dragon corpses hanging from the cliff trembled. At the same time, the lid of the Bronze Ancient Coffin let out a deafening crash before completely returning to its place and sealing shut.
Everyone's faces turned pale. The enormous coffin had actually closed on its own, as if it had locked them all inside. A feeling of despair could not help rising in their hearts.
"No way... we've been locked inside this Bronze Coffin."
"Can someone save us?!"
"I'm... I'm so scared!"
"Being scared won't help. We're trapped in the Bronze Coffin and can't save ourselves. Let's hope rescue comes soon." Ye Fan could only comfort them casually, his gaze drifting toward Ji Hao from time to time.
The Bronze Coffin was pitch-black, but to Ji Hao's eyes, it was no different from outside. He curiously examined this most iconic structure in Shrouding the Heavens.
When people mentioned Shrouding the Heavens, the first thing they thought of was Heavenly Emperor Ye, followed by Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin—the beginning that unveiled the entire prologue.
"Attention, passengers. Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin is about to take off. Please fasten your seat belts," Ji Hao said, as though something had gone wrong in his head.
"At a time like this, you're still spouting nonsense! I think you're the one who locked us in this Bronze Coffin. I could tell from the first glance that there was something wrong with you!" Liu Yunzhi shouted wildly.
Ji Hao said nothing. He merely cast Liu Yunzhi an indifferent glance, and a trace of Death Qi surfaced in his eyes. In an instant, the temperature inside the Bronze Ancient Coffin dropped by more than ten degrees, as if winter had arrived early, icy cold piercing to the bone.
His expression was utterly cold, his eyes deep and dark. Combined with the scene inside the Bronze Ancient Coffin, it frightened everyone into backing away continuously and screaming without end.
"Y-you... what kind of Monster are you? It has to be you who locked us in this coffin!"
"I told you we shouldn't have brought him along! Just look at what he's wearing—he clearly isn't from modern times. Maybe this is his coffin, and he wants to drag us down to be buried with him!" Liu Yunzhi kept shouting in terror.
Hearing Liu Yunzhi's words and seeing Ji Hao's cold expression, the group was scared out of their wits.
"Sir, if you have any last wishes, tell us. Let us out, and we promise to fulfill them for you."
"It's the new China now. You're not allowed to become a spirit!" Ye Fan was somewhat creeped out as well, but he gathered his courage and stepped forward.
Suddenly, the Bronze Ancient Coffin shook violently. Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin soared into the air and headed down the Starry Sky Ancient Road.
All of Mount Tai shook violently. Five-Colored Divine Light shot into the sky from Jade Emperor Summit and disappeared into the stars.
At the instant the sun set, Mount Tai's summit darkened as well. The Tai Chi Eight Trigrams Diagram in the sky closed, Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin flashed past, and everything began to unfold.
"Jingwei, Jingwei..." The divine bird on Ji Hao's shoulder chirped softly. A peaceful power flowed through the Bronze Ancient Coffin, immediately calming the frightened crowd and soothing the Death Qi within Ji Hao's body.
As the grandson of the Flame Emperor and the son of the Yellow Emperor, his body carried the bloodlines of two great Human Race Emperors. The fact that they had not clashed was practically unbelievable. He was an enhanced Emperor's Son.
A single Great Emperor bloodline might not compare to that of an Emperor's Son, but the superposition of two Great Emperor bloodlines made the bloodline within Ji Hao far surpass that of an Emperor's Son. His talent was unparalleled, and he had even received Heaven's blessing at birth.
Of course, a blessing was also a restraint. A single set of Great Emperor Laws was enough to bind an Emperor's Son, making it impossible for him to escape his father's influence, let alone the Great Emperor Laws of both Void and Hengyu.
Fragments of the Great Dao belonging to two Human Race Emperors flowed within Ji Hao's body. His cultivation was currently too low for anything to show, but once Ji Hao entered the Immortal Platform Realm, his Great Emperor bloodline would display its proper power.
He was nearly one with the Dao, similar to an Innate Dao Embryo, except he was in harmony with the Dao of his forebears.
Furthermore, because of Emperor Corpse Spirit Awakening, Ji Hao's bloodline contained a thread of incomparably pure Death Qi.
It was another doubled effect. None of Ji Hao's other brothers had this problem; at worst, their bloodlines were impure, allowing them only to rival third- or fourth-generation Emperor grandsons.
The process of Emperor Corpse Spirit Awakening was exceptionally difficult. One careless mistake could cause a corpse transformation and destroy an entire star domain. Heavenly Venerable Lingbao had encountered such a case in the past and created the Scripture of Deliverance because of it.
This thread of Emperor Realm Death Qi made Ji Hao's body innately weak. The Death Qi in his Sea of Bitterness had nearly submerged his Life Spring, threatening to collapse his Sea of Reincarnation.
He could easily have died young from an innate condition. That was why the Yellow Emperor had sealed Ji Hao away, waiting for later generations to find an Immortality Elixir to treat him.
From the current situation, it seemed they had not found one. Fortunately, Ji Hao had his own solution. He had the Yellow Emperor seal him atop Mount Tai, where he waited for Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin to arrive.
Ji Hao had awakened as early as two thousand years ago. He had waited until Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin drew close to Earth before breaking free from the Source.
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