"Great Emperor, what will they do?" Han Li asked, looking at the suddenly quiet Heavenly Palm Island.
"Show us what they're capable of. Make me learn my place, obediently do as they say, and stop resisting," Meng Chuan replied.
"Great Emperor, the way you say that makes it sound like you're on their side..." Han Li could not help grumbling.
"Hahaha, you saw through me." Meng Chuan laughed. "They want us to go to the Armor Heroes World. How could we obediently follow their orders? A fight is inevitable."
Meng Chuan had barely finished speaking when the Black Lotus Demon Ancestor appeared again.
"Dao Shi, you destroyed the chance for peace with your own hands." The Black Lotus Demon Ancestor said only that before tossing something from his hand.
It was a pitch-black Pearl that radiated an intense, baleful aura.
"Enjoy."
With that, the Black Lotus Demon Ancestor dissolved. He, too, had been an Incarnation of magical power, sent here solely to deliver the Pearl.
"Great Emperor, what is that—" Han Li was cut off before he could finish.
Boom!
An earth-shaking explosion rang out. Meng Chuan marshaled his power and contained the blast where it erupted, preventing any of it from spilling outward.
"A self-detonation roughly on an Immortal King's level..." Meng Chuan murmured. He had seen through part of it.
The Pearl the Black Lotus Demon Ancestor had thrown must have sealed a living being with power roughly equal to an Immortal King's—probably a captive he had taken in the past.
Now the Black Lotus Demon Ancestor had activated the Pearl and blown that living being up.
For cultivators, self-detonation was generally a last resort and their most powerful move. It could unleash force far beyond their own realm. Even a high-level Immortal King would take an Immortal