Bearing a Coffin to the Door

Northern Emperor Wang Teng had arrived. The Ji Family elders gave him a ceremonially warm welcome and escorted him into the Void Great Hall. After that, matters were out of their hands.

Their young ancestor had emerged more than twenty years ahead of schedule. He now had the final say in all family affairs, and no one in the Ji Family dared push themselves forward or pull rank on him.

Meanwhile!

Who would have thought that, at that very moment, Big Black Dog was taking Nannan into another Life Restricted Zone?

"Sigh. We should've brought Jiang Ming. We'd have made a huge haul on this trip—at the very least, we could've talked the Immortal Peach Divine Medicine into coming with us."

Big Black Dog sighed.

With just him and Nannan traveling together, opportunities were scarce.

They only managed to pick up a Medicine King now and then.

"Doggy, don't say that. Big Brother has important things to do."

Nannan promptly reminded him.

Big Black Dog had nothing to say to that. He was doing important things too. To grow stronger, he needed to stockpile cultivation resources.

The Primordial Creatures would surely grow arrogant and overbearing in the future. When that happened, the Black Emperor would have to protect the peace of this land.

He was preparing for the worst.

The Great Emperor had disappeared. Big Black Dog had to stay alive and hope for the day they met again.

As for Jiang Ming, he had successfully borrowed a place in the starry sky to fuse the Weapon-Forging Deity he had obtained with the Immortal-Slaying Gourd.

The deity within the Five-Element Mountain had also been damaged, but it was an Immortal Weapon. This Weapon-Forging Deity would be of almost no use to it.

The difference in grade was simply too