Black Emperor and Emperor Lin, Two Supreme Beings

The great hall was vast and empty, hundreds of yards across, like a plaza. It was the manifestation of the Emperor Weapon, the Beginningless Bell.

At its center stood a Stone Book, more than ten meters tall and a meter or two thick.

Atop Lin Xian's Saint Crown, the Emperor Jade blazed with dazzling light. It activated the Immortal Scripture, which seemed almost alive as it answered with a gentle glow.

The three words "Beginningless Scripture" shone through the ages, gleaming with radiance.

Only someone fated to hold the Emperor Jade could reach this place. Otherwise, even a Divine King would be trapped in Purple Mountain.

Ye Fan's mind went blank at the sight. Could Lin Xian really be Great Emperor Wu Shi's envoy, sent to retrieve the scripture? Had he crossed millions of years, found a Sacred Body on Starry Sky's Other Shore, then returned to the Big Dipper aboard Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin?

Ye Fan was not the only one stunned. The creature hiding in the shadows froze too.

"Could the Great Emperor have left another plan behind?"

"That can't be right. I stayed by his side throughout his later years."

Time passed, but the bell did not ring again.

Rumble! It sounded as though chaotic qi were descending. Faintly, the echoes of a Dragon Roar Dao Chant filled the hall.

"Before chaos parted, heaven and earth lay in disarray, vast and veiled from every eye. Since Wu Shi broke open the primordial haze, the pure and impure have stood apart."

An aged voice rang through the hall, chanting a Daoist verse as though it had come from antiquity.

Lin Xian frowned slightly. The verse carried some Daoist resonance, but it did not sound like something the Emperor Bell's Divine Spirit would compose.

An Emperor Weapon was