Duan De spoke with easy confidence, spouting nonsense and boasting away, leaving everyone rolling their eyes and sneering.
The emperors instinctively wanted to refute him, yet for a moment they could find no opening. After thinking it over carefully, many broke out in cold sweat. The fat Daoist seemed to be talking big, but every claim had a basis, every word a reason.
The Netherworld Emperor usually put on no airs. Not only did he lack any awareness befitting the reincarnation of a Mythical Heavenly Venerable, he shamelessly mingled with junior cultivators instead. His despicable, shameless, sinister, and vulgar manner often made people overlook his true identity.
This was his fifth lifetime. Duan De was a genuine fifth-lifetime Heavenly Emperor whose cultivation touched the mysteries of creation!
Although he was caught within reincarnation and could not display his peak strength, who on the Red-Dust Immortal Path had never suffered a period of weakness? Even Ruthless had only one lifetime's body, and the Azure Emperor had been suppressed by the Desolate Pagoda for ten thousand years.
Unless they entered the Immortal Realm or the Strange World and absorbed longevity substance like Wu Shi and the Heavenly Sovereign, who could remain at a flawless peak in the Dharma-Ending Era, within the Red Dust Universe? No such person existed.
Thus, the gazes the Supreme Beings directed at Duan De gradually turned hostile. The Underworld had spanned the Mythic Era, Primordial Antiquity, and Desolate Antiquity. How many karmic entanglements had it accumulated?
Leaving the distant past aside, the karma involving Great Emperor Wu Shi's father and the Sacred Body Lineage alone was reason enough to settle accounts with the Underworld Forbidden Zone.
And the decline of the Solar Divine Sect during the Primordial Era had also been the Underworld Forbidden Zone's doing.
So this