The bronze world within Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin, the incomplete Immortal Realm evolved by the Desolate Heaven Emperor—these were the true foundations of the Heavenly Court.
If the Desolate Pagoda merged with the bronze coffin, combining the two contingencies left behind by the Desolate Heaven Emperor and bursting forth with miraculous radiance, it might become another Immortal Path exclusive to the Azure Emperor.
It could not be as perfect as the true Immortal Realm, granting everyone immortality, but there was hope of extending the lives of a small number of people and allowing them to endure.
Beyond exploring immortality, opening up a world within Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin was also born of Lin Xian's concerns for the future.
If one day the Eerie Race descended, the darkness of the Underworld attacked, and even the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths were defeated, then Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin could become a war fortress—a place to recuperate and rebuild, to keep striving across the tribulation, and to bear the hopes of the future.
Other methods could not escape the Eerie Race's pursuit, but Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin absolutely could, because its true name was the Three-Life Bronze Coffin. It contained three layers, representing the past, present, and future.
Back then, the Ancient Underworld Lord had carved out a Stone Jar, burned himself, placed his ashes inside it, set the Stone Jar within the third small coffin, then wrapped it in the two outer great coffins and buried it atop an otherworldly plateau.
The Bone Ash Jar was accidentally overturned, and the Bone Ash Matter merged with the plateau, giving rise to the Eerie Race.
In other words, Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin was an artifact on equal footing with the Eerie Plateau, of the same rank, originating from that