A Quasi-Emperor Nearing the End of His Life

"Six thousand years! You're still alive!" Fang Jin cried out in shock.

"No, you only emerged forty-eight hundred years ago. You can't be him!"

After his initial panic, Fang Jin quickly regained his composure. This man had emerged forty-eight hundred years ago, so how could he have appeared at the Tianxuan Holy Land six thousand years ago? The timeline did not match. He was definitely an impostor!

"Junior, I admit you have courage, but where do you think you are? Since we cannot settle this peacefully today, all of you can stay here forever! Your entire Luo Family happens to be here, too. That saves me the trouble of hunting you down one by one later." As Fang Jin spoke, he borrowed the Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon from the Yaoguang Holy Lord and stood above them, holding the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron.

Luo Yan waved a hand, and a damaged Broken Mirror rested in his palm.

"You think I'm afraid of you? At worst, we'll sink the Southern Region!"

He was not the Empress. He could not shatter an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon with a single palm strike.

"Sink the Southern Region? What arrogance! With my Yaoguang Holy Land's formation patterns protecting it, what could you possibly use to sink it?" As Fang Jin spoke, he channeled life essence into the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron, awakening the Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon.

Facing an expert of this caliber, Fang Jin held nothing back. His opening move would be a killing blow, suppressing and slaying his opponent with imperial dao laws.

"If you cannot produce an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon today, you will be slain here!"

Fang Jin still did not strike. He was waiting.

If this man truly produced an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon, the clash between the two weapons could very well sink the holy land. Even its formation patterns would not be able to stop it.

The formation patterns within the Yaoguang Holy Land had been left by an unrivaled Quasi-Emperor, not a true Ancient Great Emperor. Naturally, they could not withstand the imperial dao laws unleashed by two clashing Extreme Dao Emperor Weapons.

"If a Great Saint held that thing, I might be a little wary. But a wretch like you, who isn't even a Saint King-are you worthy?" Luo Yan activated the Time Mirror. Wisps of Dao aura seeped out, warping everything within sight as the laws of the Great Dao spread through the area.

"Ignorant junior, an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon is beyond your imagination!"

The Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron let out one dragon roar after another, as though a true dragon had awakened, its pressure bearing down on heaven and earth. Supreme dao might swept across the skies above the Southern Region, accompanied by ceaseless dragon roars. Countless people could not help falling to their knees in worship.

Everyone froze. The battle had begun. The Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon had awakened!

The Luo Family members looked anxiously at their ancestor, their hearts rising into their throats. Could he withstand it?

That terrifying pressure affected them as well. The weaker Luo Family cultivators had already dropped to their knees, and only a few could barely remain standing.

This was merely the residual pressure emanating from the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron. They dared not imagine what their ancestor faced at its very center.

At that moment, the Time Mirror awakened. Strand after strand of time law manifested, continually resisting the supreme dao power emanating from the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron.

"What... that damaged mirror can actually unleash embryonic ultimate dao laws... It was once a Quasi-Emperor Artifact on the verge of becoming an Emperor Weapon!"

"Sadly, it failed, and the mirror shattered. Even if it hasn't been destroyed yet, a few more uses will finish it." An expert sighed in secret over the mirror's fate.

Many people secretly glanced toward the Ji Family. Everyone knew that the Ji Family's Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon was the Void Mirror, which had accompanied the Void Emperor throughout his lifetime of battles.

This, too, was a mirror. Could there be some connection?

A Ji Family expert immediately stepped forward with a cold snort and explained, "This mirror has nothing to do with our Ji Family! Judging by its aura, it is almost certainly that Luo Family ancestor's Life-Bound Divine Weapon! But looking at the weapon's miserable state, something must have gone wrong with his cultivation. His cultivation realm has most likely fallen."

Hearing this, many people secretly breathed sighs of relief. They had nearly thought the Ji Family was about to gain a second Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon.

Everyone looked back at that figure. Ultimate dao laws? A Life-Bound Divine Weapon?

Was that man a peerless expert who had touched upon ultimate dao laws? Even if his cultivation realm had fallen, how far could it have fallen?

Did someone like that still exist in this era?

"Impossible... you..." Fang Jin's face once again drained of color. This man was actually so terrifying that even an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon whose indwelling deity had partially awakened could not kill him immediately. Instead, he could contend with it!

This was far too terrifying!

Boom!

Another clash of laws made heaven and earth sink. The ground split open, and mountains and rivers overturned, unable to withstand the confrontation between the two supreme dao powers.

Although the Time Mirror's ultimate dao laws were incomplete and merely embryonic, far inferior to those of the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron, the man wielding it was at the peak of the Quasi-Emperor realm, with half a foot in that higher level. During this brief exchange, the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron actually began losing ground, showing signs of defeat.

But those signs quickly vanished. The deity within the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron was awakening, breaking free of Fang Jin's control to confront the Time Mirror on its own.

At that moment, Luo Yan experienced for the first time the difference that half a step made. It was like an impassable chasm. A mere Emperor Weapon forced Luo Yan and the Time Mirror to use half their strength to contend with it.

A true Great Emperor could probably kill him with ease.

Luo Yan still remembered the sight of the Empress shattering the Taihua Emperor Scripture with one hand. He could only contend with such a weapon, not do anything like that. Thinking it over carefully, the Empress's strength was truly terrifying beyond measure!

"The deity within the Emperor Weapon is almost fully awake. No matter how powerful you are, you can only die here in bitter regret!" Fang Jin looked delighted.

Luo Yan sneered, looking at him as though he were an ant. "Almost awake? Then I simply won't let it awaken."

With that, he stopped concealing his aura and let it spread in every direction.

It was an extraordinarily terrifying aura. In an instant, it startled awake the old monsters hidden throughout the universe. Even some of the Supremes in the forbidden zones were awakened and turned their gazes toward him.

"A Quasi-Emperor!"

"A Quasi-Emperor has appeared in this era? Has something changed?" Several Forbidden Zone Supremes sensed him carefully and soon discovered that his aura was chaotic and extremely unstable-a sign that the end of his life was approaching.

"So it's a Quasi-Emperor nearing the end of his life. From the looks of it, he intends to fight someone to the death. Who's so unlucky? But it doesn't matter, as long as he doesn't come for me!" With that, the Forbidden Zone Supreme returned to slumber. The legendary era of ascension to immortality was almost upon them. Nothing could be allowed to go wrong during this time.

Even the Supremes were wary of experts who had reached this level and were unwilling to provoke them.

Such people could be considered on their level, though a gap still remained. After all, they had once been Ancient Emperors and Great Emperors, possessing complete ultimate dao laws. Now, having severed their own cultivation, they stood below Great Emperors but above Quasi-Emperors.

Experts from the various races throughout the universe glanced over and likewise sensed the instability of that aura. They withdrew their gazes one after another. Spying was itself an unspoken provocation, and they did not want to offend a Quasi-Emperor nearing the end of his life over something like that. Who knew whether he might come knocking to pick a fight?

All the old monsters of the Yaoguang Holy Land were dumbstruck. More than a dozen auras above the Saint realm awakened within divine source.

Among them was even the aura of a Great Saint!

In truth, these people had long since sensed the commotion outside, but they had not awakened. They had felt the supreme dao imperial might of the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron and did not believe the opponent could match it.

But now...

A Quasi-Emperor had come attacking their doorstep, and the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron, which had been on the verge of fully awakening, had actually been forcibly beaten back into dormancy!