The Divine Emperor had been enduring it all along. Since he needed to watch for that damned Outsider trying to escape, he had never fully surrendered to slumber inside the Water Spirit Coffin...
He had never stopped monitoring the movements and sounds outside. The moment that damned Immortal Race brat emerged from the Golden Spirit Hall, he would seize him and make him pay for those humiliating words!!!
However!
That damned Immortal Race bastard was patient enough, too. Their stalemate had dragged on for so many years.
Just then, a sudden sense of danger startled him awake...
Immediately afterward, he sensed that the damned Immortal Race fellow had used some unknown divine ability or treasure to surround his Water Spirit Coffin.
With his cultivation and experience, the Divine Emperor immediately realized something was terribly wrong. With a furious roar, black-red flames of gods-and-devils energy surged and erupted inside the Water Spirit Coffin, instantly blasting outward in suffocating rings of Black-Red Flame!!
Boom!!!!
A mass of black-red gods-and-devils flames blasted outward, battering the void in its path until twisting fractures burst across it!!
But!
When those mighty gods-and-devils flames struck the strange talismans Ye Han had quietly released, the talismans remained completely unaffected. Instead, they absorbed considerable amounts of the flames' energy, causing the strange runes to erupt with rings of eerie spirit light...
Then!
Those strange talismans and runes instantly transformed into runic chains that surged wildly around the Water Spirit Coffin, becoming black-gold chains that enveloped the entire coffin.
Crack, crack, crack!!!
The instant those runic chains enveloped the Water Spirit Coffin containing the Divine Emperor, they began twisting and trembling, releasing countless Spirit-Light Runes that devoured the surrounding heaven and earth spiritual energy!!
Inside the Golden Spirit Hall, Ye Han watched this unfold, delight flashing in his eyes