"Could I really have the makings of a mastermind behind the scenes?"
A quiet murmur rang out.
After crossing the vast sea, the two exchanged a glance upon seeing the Dam on the far shore again, then stepped onto it.
They walked through the site of their bloody battle years ago. Everything seemed peaceful here. The ground was riddled with pits, and the once pitch-black world of the Darkness Ancient Land now held a little light.
As they continued, they returned to the palace complex where they had first encountered the Cang Emperor. Though the ruins were gathering back together, the devastation barely resembled land anymore; it was a stretch of chaos. Neither stopped, crossing it directly to head deeper inside.
"Take out that Rotten Wooden Box you found."
Lin Yue spoke.
"The Rotten Wooden Box...!"
"That's right."
Shi Hao was deeply puzzled, but his hands moved quickly.
When the Rotten Wooden Box appeared, the once utterly ordinary box began to glow with waves of radiant light. As the two advanced, its radiance grew ever more brilliant.
Ancient mountains connected heaven and earth, ruined weapons spanned rivers of stars, and black true patterns spread out from the depths.
The moment those true patterns touched the Rotten Wooden Box, it erupted with light and shot into the depths.
"Don't worry. Just follow it."
Lin Yue spoke and headed deeper inside once more.
Mountain ranges appeared one after another, and black Order Divine Chains began to emerge. The dense dark matter here was even more substantial than that within the World-Destroying Elder.
Especially striking was the secret power permeating it, a power that touched the supreme heights. Shi Hao could clearly sense the laws of the Immortal Emperor true patterns approaching with the darkness. He even began absorbing some of those patterns,