A calm voice came from nearby: "I'm afraid you won't get your way!"
A young, heroic figure walked over at an unhurried pace. It was none other than Taiyi, who should have been inside Divine City.
But no one knew that the one inside the Underground Palace was merely one of his Holy Light Bodies.
"Hmm?" The Dark Night Monarch's expression changed, and he instinctively looked over.
The extremely weakened Fairy Caiyun also watched the mysterious young man with uncertainty and surprise.
The Dark Night Monarch's pupils contracted as he recognized him, and he instinctively blurted out, "You're... the Eastern Emperor?"
This young prodigy had been so prominent lately that even an expert like him, who spent years in seclusion and rarely appeared in the world, had heard of his deeds. A junior from his family had once shown him a portrait.
Reportedly, despite his youth, he had not only reached the eight prohibitions but had even directly triggered the divine forbidden domain. He was outrageously powerful.
He was hailed as the reincarnation of an Ancient Saint Emperor, possessed a great emperor's bearing, and was known as the Eastern Wasteland's Number One.
"To think an expert like you has actually heard my name!"
Taiyi smiled.
He brought forth a huge Black Gourd, which exuded wisps of oppressive might.
Mysterious radiance flickered, and the gourd's stopper abruptly opened.
Its pitch-black mouth pointed at the Dark Night Monarch.
"Treasure, Please Turn Around!"
In an instant, the Dark Night Monarch's hair stood on end.
An intense sense of danger arose within him, and the saintly robe on his body shone, shielding him.
Boom! The Black Gourd suddenly blazed.
An incomparably mysterious ancient cosmos surged from its endlessly dark mouth.
Countless stars coalesced, and vast expanses of star fields transformed into a dazzling immortal