Over the few days since Lu Chen's arrival, powerful figures from every faction had streamed into the Cloudbreak Mountains in Qu Prefecture, in the Northern Region. They had all come for the legendary half of an Emperor Weapon-the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid!
Ruthless was an exceedingly mysterious Ancient Great Emperor, for she had risen to power through the Swallowing Heaven Demon Art, using numerous king bodies as nourishment.
Since ancient times, nearly all powerful special physiques had been recruited by the great holy lands. Cultivating the Swallowing Heaven Demon Art meant slaughtering All Kings to the last, making its practitioners mortal enemies of the great powers.
Thus, after the Ruthless Great Emperor passed away, all the great powers in the world joined forces to deliberately erase her achievements and every trace of her existence. Only a few ancient inheritances retained scattered words about her.
Now that news of the half Emperor Weapon-the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid-had surfaced, some secrets buried in the long years of history had been unearthed.
One was that opening this Great Emperor's weapon repository required a sacred offering of All Kings' blood.
Within a few days, all of Lu Chen's acquaintances had arrived: the Great Bandit Descendants Tu Fei and Li Heishui, along with Pang Bo, Black Emperor, and the others. Even the Unprincipled Daoist Duan De had made it.
By now, the special physiques had all arrived: Ji Haoyue, the Ji Family Divine King Body; the Purple Mansion Saintess with her innate Dao embryo; Yao Yuekong, the young master of the Heavenly Demon Palace, with his heavenly demon physique; the Jiang Family's Divine King Body, completely concealed within battle armor; and Xia Jiuyou, whose physique was the same as Gai Jiuyou's.
"Nearly all the special physiques of the Eastern Wasteland are here now. Only the