Lin Yi hurriedly went with the flow and bowed deeply, adopting an extremely humble posture. His face was filled with a respectful smile as he shamelessly flattered him. "Great Emperor, you are the bright moon hanging high in the night sky, your radiance stretching ten thousand feet. This old one is merely a firefly in the grass, barely able to glow by borrowing your light."
"Before, this old one did not know the full story. Only now do I understand that without you, Great Emperor, our race would probably still be foraging in the mud..."
These words put the Six-armed Nether Fiend Bull Viper in an even better mood.
Although it was the Great Emperor of the Nether Fiend Bull Viper race and the head of its clan, Nether Fiend Bull Vipers were generally terribly unintelligent. Wise ones capable of such flattering words were truly few and far between.
The Six-armed Nether Fiend Bull Viper laughed heartily. The force of its hand on Lin Yi's shoulder grew a little heavier, after which it handed him the Heavenly Serpent Blood Essence, which glimmered with a brownish sheen. "Back then, I relied on this very thing to break through to the Emperor Realm. Take a look and see whether you possess an opportunity like mine."
Lin Yi accepted the Heavenly Serpent Blood Essence with feigned solemnity. The instant his fingertips touched its crystalline surface, the system's notification sounded in his mind.
He focused his thoughts and inspected it. Lines of information clearly appeared.
``` Heavenly Serpent Inheritance Stone · Color: The core of a remnant shell condensed after a peak Emperor Realm World-Destroying Heavenly Serpent died. It contains the World-Destroying Heavenly Serpent's lifelong inheritance and a wisp of Origin Essence Blood. When accepting the inheritance, a living being will automatically be branded