"As expected, it's the Fire King—no, the Fire Emperor!"
The Dragon King sighed. "For hundreds of years, I stayed out of worldly affairs and concealed my tracks, all so I could devote myself wholeheartedly to cultivation and raise my combat power. Yet in the end, it was all for nothing."
"I never thought Senior Fire Emperor was already dead." Ye Chen had always been curious about the Emperor-level King guarding the Eternal Sky Sect. Today, he had finally seen him, but he was only a dead man. Once this news spread, the Eternal Sky Sect would inevitably totter on the brink of collapse and could vanish into ashes in an instant. After all, the reason the Eternal Sky Sect had endured was the Fire Emperor's deterrence toward the outside world.
"Senior Dragon King, what level had Senior Fire Emperor's strength reached?"
Ye Chen asked.
The Dragon King said, "When I met him back then, he was already the number one beneath Emperor-level Kings. Judging by the talent he possessed, far surpassing mine, ordinary Emperor-level Kings were likely no match for him at all. He was already extremely close to becoming an Emperor-level King capable of leaving a mark on the Emperor's Imprint Monument. Moreover, I heard that, in order to preserve the Eternal Sky Sect, the Fire Emperor once revealed a trump card. It was precisely that move which made no one in the entire Blood Sky Continent dare truly touch the Eternal Sky Sect—not even Emperor-level Kings."
"Revealing one move had cowed the entire Blood Sky Continent?"
Right—Senior Battle King had once encountered an old man who could condense a fireball resembling the sun. The fireball contained the three great mysteries of fire, water, and earth, and all three had reached completion. Even if they had not completely fused,