Boom!!!
Chu Tian's words unleashed a devastating storm within the cramped confines of the Bone House.
The First Emperor!
The supreme overlord who had united the six kingdoms, looked down upon the world, and sought to slay Heaven.
He had not died, but instead become the first ruler of the Netherworld?!
"Th-this... how is that possible?!" Lin Xuanshu cried out, dropping even the broken tortoise shell he had been fiddling with.
Guo Kai's mouth fell open, too. He felt as though his jaw were about to dislocate.
Li Xiang stood rooted to the spot, his heart hammering wildly as [Dragon-Seeking Instinct] flashed frantically within his sea of consciousness.
The First Emperor was the First-Generation Yin Tianzi.
If that premise held true...
"Chu Tian, go on," Li Xiang said, forcibly suppressing his shock.
Chu Tian drew a deep breath and continued.
"How proud was the First Emperor? His ambition lay with the Heavenly Emperor's Throne above the nine heavens. How could he willingly spend eternity trapped beneath the earth, where neither sun nor sky could be seen, as a Ghost King who could never see the light?"
"So after becoming the Yin Tianzi, he never stopped plotting his return to the Living World, seeking to defy Heaven, rewrite his fate, and resume his great undertaking of Heaven-Slaying."
Chu Tian's double pupils trembled slightly, as though he were struggling to endure the backlash against his soul from prying into this ancient secret.
"In what is now the First Emperor's Mausoleum, he left behind a 'Twelve Golden Figures' body, nurtured with the dragon vein essence of the entire realm."
"What he plotted back then was precisely the same path Qin Zhong is taking now!"
"Reverse yin and yang, sever karma, and send the soul upstream to return to that immaculate body and be