"Sister Lingyue, is there something wrong with this?"
Seeing Fairy Lingyue so astonished, Xu Taiping felt a little uneasy and slowly rolled up the portrait of the Snow Domain Ghost Lord.
Since returning from the Mysterious Wasteland Tower, Xu Taiping had been so pressed for time that he had yet to tell Fairy Lingyue about each of the treasures the tower had bestowed upon him.
"Something wrong? If I didn't know your background, I'd almost suspect you were the reincarnation of an illegitimate son Great Emperor Mysterious Wasteland left behind in the mortal world."
Fairy Lingyue looked at Xu Taiping suspiciously.
"Huh?"
Xu Taiping looked bewildered.
"Unroll that portrait of the Snow Domain Ghost Lord first."
Fairy Lingyue pointed at the painting on the table.
Xu Taiping unrolled the portrait of the Snow Domain Ghost Lord again.
"Although the vast majority of the Ghost Creatures within the Mysterious Wasteland Tower were conjured by the tower from the fears of the dead souls inside it, most Ghost King-level Ghost Creatures were originally Nine Abysses Demonic Beasts sealed within the tower by Great Emperor Mysterious Wasteland."
Fairy Lingyue paused at this point in her explanation, then tapped the portrait before continuing:
"And this Snow Domain Ghost Lord, according to our conjecture back then, should be Yangling, the strongest Demon Emperor of the Nine Abysses during the age of the Five Emperors. We called him Emperor Yang."
"When the Five Emperors marched against the Nine Abysses, Emperor Yang was the last Demon Emperor to resist. Had he not insisted on a sword inquiry with True Martial Great Emperor in the end, even Great Emperor Mysterious Wasteland could not have sealed him within the Mysterious Wasteland Tower, given his origin demon seed power."
"One reason the Nine Abysses has tried every possible means to