"Do you think I would believe that?" The Azure Emperor fell silent, unconvinced.
The dark red flame said, "What do I care whether you believe me? All I want now is to escape this place!"
He connected with the red mark, unleashing the curse's power to its fullest extent. He wanted to force the Azure Emperor to surrender and obediently become a vessel for this consciousness of his!
As for his original body, the pagoda had long since worn it away. All the dao patterns within it were gone, and all its essence had gathered in the dark red flame inside its skull.
"Boy... your name is Wan Qing, isn't it? I will make your name resound throughout the world!"
The red mark deep within the Azure Emperor's brow blazed with dazzling light, relentlessly assaulting his sea of consciousness. The Green Lotus was not a true Emperor Weapon, after all, and could not withstand this man's bizarre ability.
"You're... an expert with one foot already in that realm?!" The Azure Emperor's expression changed in shock.
"Hahaha! Why else do you think I survived beneath this pagoda for ten thousand years? Even I had heard of its fearsome reputation. Its depths are unfathomable! It is a legendary Immortal Artifact!"
The dark red flame broke away from the bones beneath the Desolate Pagoda, burst through its seal, and lunged at the Azure Emperor.
"Something's wrong... what do you have on you?" The instant the dark red flame possessed him, he suddenly cried out in horror.
"The afterimage of a mirror is anchoring your sea of consciousness... it contains the time law! No-my power!"
As though he had seen a monster, the dark red flame rushed out of the Azure Emperor's sea of consciousness and scrambled wretchedly into a monster's corpse, only then