After that, something both absurd and exasperating happened in the Immortal City.
The guards had originally forbidden anyone without pure Immortal Ancient Era blood from obtaining the core Legacy. At someone's request, however, they agreed to give them a chance.
They would have to lift the Origin Mother Cauldron, the Weapons of the Heavenly Horned Ant, one of the Ten Fiends.
Of course, no one expected them to lift the real Origin Mother Cauldron. How could a group of Void Dao Realm cultivators budge an artifact of that caliber?
Instead, they faced a projection of the real Origin Mother Cauldron, in the state it had been when the Heavenly Horned Ant used it in his youth.
The meaning was clear. To qualify for the core Legacy, they had to lift the Origin Mother Cauldron and prove they stood on the same level as a young member of the Ten Fiends, even if they could not equal him.
When it came time to lift the cauldron, not one of the Heavenly Prodigies from the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands succeeded.
In the end, Shi Hao had to step forward before anyone managed to lift the Origin Mother Cauldron.
They had argued themselves hoarse, brimming with ambition, all for the Heavenly Horned Ant's core inheritance. All they needed was a chance.
They got their chance, only to miss it because they lacked the strength...
Ge Gu and the others qualified for the core inheritance outright. They did not need to undergo the Origin Mother Cauldron's test.
Shi Hao's performance surprised the Immortal City's guards as well.
During the Immortal Ancient Era, these guards had been living men, veteran soldiers who followed the Heavenly Horned Ant.
But after the Immortal Ancient Era's defeat, they had refined themselves into Puppets to protect the young