A Decision Against the Ancestors (Bonus Chapter)

Several days later, everyone gathered for a heart transplant.

"Begin," Yan Ruyu said calmly, and the Demon Race experts went to work.

In the Peach Garden, waves surged from the emerald pool. Nine golden carp, each several meters long, drew a crystal coffin to the surface. An overwhelming vitality washed over everyone, as though an ocean were surging before them.

"The Emperor Heart."

Nearly everyone felt that vast life force. They murmured in awe, strange light filling their eyes.

A Great Emperor's realm was impossible to fathom. Even one heart was this wondrous, as though it possessed a will of its own.

"Imperial Ancestor, your unworthy descendants..." Yan Ruyu silently bowed before the crystal coffin, and the assembled demons knelt with her.

The crystal coffin was two meters long and one meter wide. Clear as glass, it shimmered with seven-colored radiance beneath the sun. Inside lay a fist-sized heart, vivid red and dazzling, like Scarlet Jade Divine Marrow. That boundless vitality came from it.

Sealed within the coffin, it glowed amid scarlet light and drifting mist. The sight made hearts tremble. Its radiance dyed the entire coffin red.

Red divine light spilled across the valley. Even the blazing sun could not outshine it.

"Even with a Great Emperor's unfathomable cultivation, he still could not become immortal. It makes one wonder whether immortals truly exist in this world."

An elderly demon woman sighed deeply.

"Azure Emperor will certainly become immortal," Lin Xian declared. "This is merely the old body he shed. His immortal body is transforming amid the mortal world, and one day he will attain the supreme immortal realm!"

The demons glanced at him, exasperated. How was this human a bigger admirer of Azure Emperor than they were?

The heart transplant that followed went smoothly. After a brief spell of