This time, they simply left.
That was right.
Every worthwhile thing that could be carried away from this minor world of the Immortal Emperor had been stripped clean by the cultivators who entered, like a swarm of locusts passing through.
Naturally, Jiang Ming would not linger either. Next, they would split up.
Congratulations, host. You have jinxed the Immortal Emperor's contingency, the Ancient Emperor's Skin, to death and earned a five-star reward: an Immortal Fortune Spring Eye. It can continuously produce Ageless Immortal Spring water and has been automatically stored in your Sea of Bitterness dantian.
Just then!
The Desolate Forbidden Land shook. People nearby said they had seen a hazy, immortal figure fly out, holding the Heaven-Swallowing Devil Jar in her hand.
To every cultivator watching from afar, she looked different. The only constants were her peerless, solitary bearing and matchless grace, like an immortal descending into the mortal world.
Her lovely hair was gathered into a cloudlike bun, its loose strands gently drifting. Her robes fluttered and snapped without a breeze. Slender and incomparably graceful, she seemed to have stepped out of a mythical world or descended from the highest heavens.
She was the Ruthless Empress. No one could see her face, which a Ghost Face Mask concealed, but her bearing alone transcended the mundane. There was always something otherworldly about her, something beyond mortal dust, untouched by the affairs of ordinary people.
Yet no one could see that her eyes were hazy and unfocused. She was undergoing a transformation, while Nannan, her Red Dust Dao Fruit, was still out gallivanting with Jiang Ming.
However, the moment the Heaven-Swallowing Devil Jar landed in her hand, it awakened completely. No matter how formidable the Immortal Emperor was or how far-reaching his plans, at this moment, his skin