Lin Xian and the Plateau Will had fought through countless cycles of reincarnation. The myriad heavens and worlds had perished and been reborn, reborn and then destroyed again. After the heavens were reflected, the Great Sacrifice followed. The brutal struggle had no end.
Before such a terrifying tide, Immortal Emperors could barely preserve their marks. Even Dao Sacrificers seemed insignificant, mere drops in the flood, teetering on the brink.
To break this endless cycle, Lin Xian began devouring the Plateau Will's source power.
"Furnace, come!"
With a roar, Lin Xian summoned the Coffin Master's Cremation Furnace and began cremating the Dao Ancestors, Immortal Emperors, and even Ancestors spawned by the Plateau Will.
He refined the ashes produced by the burning into his own resources, nourishing the Transcendence Flower above his Primordial Spirit.
"Good, good, good—"
Rather than becoming enraged, the Plateau Will laughed. He said coldly, "You wish to absorb the source? I'll grant your wish."
The primal substance of the Eerie Clan was also the Coffin Master's ashes, possessing terrifying corrosive power.
Before entering the Plateau, the ten Ancestors had been ordinary Immortal Emperors. Once they absorbed the ashes, they immediately mutated. Their emperor corpses awakened with spirit. Though their realms had risen, they were no longer themselves, but the Coffin Master, part of the power derived from the Plateau Will.
Though the Plateau Will was mighty, he possessed only power and did not know how to wield it. All along, he had lacked a vessel.
The Ancestors were incapable of fulfilling that role. If Lin Xian fell into darkness, he might truly complete it and become a perfect transcendent being.
The Plateau Will no longer revived the Immortal Emperors and Ancestors he had split off, allowing their source to merge with Lin Xian.
A terrifying fusion was born.