"Yes."
Great Emperor Mysterious Wasteland nodded.
At once, the seven Soul Seals that Great Emperor Mysterious Wasteland had held in place began moving under the push of those seven pale fingers, branding different parts of Xu Taiping's body.
"Sss..."
With the piercing hiss of searing iron, the branding irons formed from the seven Soul Seals pressed onto Xu Taiping's body together.
"Aah!"
Under that unprecedented agony, Xu Taiping let out a heart-rending scream.
Boom!
In a single instant, the six golden dragons on his body, which symbolized the Golden Scale Ranking's five jiazi of martial fortune, shattered together.
But this was only the beginning.
After swallowing Xu Taiping's fortune from the Golden Scale Ranking, the Netherworld Book of Life and Death began devouring his own fortune, ultimately leaving him with nothing but misfortune.
Yet even this did not fulfill Xu Taiping's side of the bargain for the Netherworld Book of Life and Death to wipe out the seven emperors.
So the Book of Life and Death began devouring his lifespan.
At that moment, Xu Taiping could clearly feel his lifespan draining away at a speed visible to the naked eye, like grains of sand in an hourglass.
Meanwhile, the Soul Seals already branded onto his body were ravenously devouring the qi and blood and true essence within him.
The demonic qi within those Soul Seals even began eroding his divine soul.
For a time, the vitality in Xu Taiping's body dissipated, his qi and blood were exhausted, his true essence drained away, and his divine soul was torn apart bit by bit by demonic qi.
Any single one of the grievous injuries he was suffering at that moment would have been fatal to another cultivator.
Just as Xu Taiping's mind grew hazy, the words his grandfather had spoken on his