"Damn it, have we been discovered?"
An enormous expanse of space was stripped away.
Three figures with terrifying auras, like gods and demons, manifested there.
One was hideous, resembling a vicious ghost and covered in long hair; one shone as brilliantly as Divine Source, brimming with sanctity; the last was a humanoid creature wreathed in chaotic light, steeped in mystery.
Above their heads hovered a nether treasure wreathed in immortal light. It was none other than the Netherworld Emperor's weapon-the Heaven-Piercing Immortal Treasure, which had long since evolved into a true immortal artifact.
Over a hundred thousand years ago, after Great Emperor Wushi attained the Dao.
This Human Race Great Emperor, who had been domineering all his life and shared profound karmic ties and hatred as deep as the sea with the Underworld lineage, had always wanted to settle accounts with the Underworld.
His father had been a Great Accomplishment Sacred Body whom several Supremes of the Underworld lineage had jointly cursed and targeted with the Heaven-Piercing Nether Treasure. Ominous afflictions and mutations had befallen him, and his condition had been far worse than that of other Sacred Bodies.
Evil had invaded him, its influence far too deep.
So much so that he had nearly lost control before even reaching his twilight years.
Even the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body himself and the Western Emperor, whose cultivation could rival creation, had been helpless, unable to turn the heavens back.
To avoid becoming the Underworld's puppet and bringing calamity upon the world, the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body had gone so far as to have his Dao companion, the Western Emperor, kill him herself.
Unexpectedly, the Underworld's hidden measures had been so bizarre and terrifying that even after the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body died, with the Emperor Corpse that the Queen Mother of