Xuanming Divine Mountain, deep within the Heaven-Devouring Mountain Range.
"Lend me the divine bone and blood essence in your body to help me break the seal and emerge!"
Inside the immortal abode, a young man's indifferent voice came from within the Immortal Source.
"Little Ancestor, you..."
Hearing this, Xuan Xiao felt as though five bolts of lightning had struck him, and his face turned deathly pale with fright.
"Hmph! Ignorant fool!"
The young man gave a cold snort, his voice tinged with anger. "I am merely borrowing the power of the Black Tortoise Divine Bone in your body, not stripping it from you!"
"As for blood essence, I only need three drops. What are you afraid of? That I will kill you?"
"Utterly foolish! Your bloodline is so thin that I wouldn't take it even if you gave it to me for free!"
If forcing his way out would not affect the recovery of his overall strength, why would he need this fool whose head was filled with nothing but revenge?
With his flawed foundation and thin bloodline, he would have been fit only as cannon fodder in the era the prince had lived in.
Hearing Little Ancestor's furious scolding, Xuan Xiao's face alternated between green and white. Ashamed and angry, he also breathed a sigh of relief.
He had thought Little Ancestor meant to sacrifice him in blood to emerge. Fortunately, the other party had no such intention.
"Forgive this junior's rashness. I misunderstood you, Little Ancestor."
Xuan Xiao bowed respectfully, then cut his finger and squeezed out three drops of Black Tortoise blood essence.
Following Little Ancestor's instructions, he then circulated the Black Tortoise Divine Bone within him and poured the blood essence and the divine bone's power into the Immortal Source.
As the blood essence and the divine bone's power poured in, the entire immortal abode seemed to be imbued with boundless life and began to tremble violently.
Even the entire territory of Xuanming Divine Mountain shook along with it. The earth quaked and the mountains swayed, and the sun and moon trembled together.
Almost instantly, the elders of the Heaven-Swallowing Lineage were alerted. With a wave of their hands, they tore through the void and appeared outside the immortal abode as though by teleportation.
"Our Heaven-Swallowing Lineage's ancient freak, Prince Xuan Tian, is about to emerge!"
An ancient elder of the Heaven-Devouring Lineage, old enough to have lost his teeth, waved his arms and danced with excitement, his eyes shining.
Endless dark-yellow Qi cascaded around the elder, who was shrouded in immortal mist. His presence was as profound as an abyss.
Boom!
Heaven and earth trembled, and the immortal abode collapsed in an instant.
A black Black Tortoise of extraordinary divine might stepped through the air from the ruins of the immortal abode, pulling a black divine hall.
Every step made heaven and earth shake, and the stars above the heavens flickered, flashing bright and dim.
The black divine hall stretched across the sky like a mountain ridge, as though cast from ancient divine metal, giving off a cold, dark metallic sheen.
A wave of Black Tortoise divine might capable of suppressing heaven and earth spread from the hall in an instant.
The pressure forced Xuan Xiao to his knees in the ruins. His body trembled as he prostrated himself, his head pressed against the ground, unable to lift it even a fraction.
"Greetings, Prince Xuan Tian!"
The other elders of the Heaven-Swallowing Lineage who had rushed over felt the pressure of that pure imperial bloodline. Their robes fluttered as they all knelt on one knee from afar and bowed respectfully toward the divine hall.
The ancient freak sealed away in Xuanming Divine Mountain possessed the pure bloodline of the Black Tortoise imperial clan.
The purity of his bloodline surpassed that of the Supremes within the clan. They were not on the same level at all.
Then the doors of the divine hall opened, and a graceful young man strolled out.
Thud!
The golden Black Tortoise lowered its head and prostrated itself of its own accord, serving as a staircase for the young man to step on.
"No need for formalities!"
"In this age, the path to the imperial throne is about to open. I shall bear the mandate of this age and ascend to the imperial throne!"
The young man wore a golden Black Tortoise robe. His face looked as though it had been carved with a blade, and his sword-like brows swept toward his temples. He was extraordinarily handsome.
He stood in the void, an imperial presence swirling around him and engulfing heaven and earth in all directions.
The stars of the heavens appeared in his eyes, while imperial laws intertwined and flickered in and out of existence, making him seem like an ancient Great Emperor returned to life.
Prince Xuan Tian
This is a true imperial bloodline. What overwhelming pressure!
Xuan Xiao knelt prostrate on the ground, his heart quaking as his body trembled beyond his control.
As expected of an ancient prodigy who had been sealed away for several epochs, the oppressive force of his bloodline was far beyond anything the prodigies of the present age could match.
Although Xuan Xiao was an inheritor of Xuanming Divine Mountain, and his combat strength ranked among the upper tier of those at the same realm,
before Prince Xuan Tian, he was like an ant on the ground, as though the prince could wipe him out with a wave of his hand.
And that was with the prince having only just awakened, his strength less than a tenth of what it had been at his peak.
If he recovered to his peak, how peerless would his bearing be?
Although the divine son of the Li Lineage had entered the Immortal Forbidden Domain, a feat unmatched through the ages, their Little Ancestor had swept all before him in his era. Dealing with the divine son should not pose much of a problem.
"Now that I have emerged, I shall lead Xuanming Divine Mountain to a glorious age!"
Prince Xuan Tian's voice was indifferent, carrying the confidence of one who was invincible throughout the ages.
"Your Highness, your talent is peerless. Divine physiques, Dao physiques, ten Life Palaces-all will prostrate themselves at your feet!"
Several elders of the Heaven-Swallowing Lineage spoke respectfully, their cloudy eyes full of worship and excitement.
A direct descendant of the Heaven-Swallowing Ancient Emperor should possess an invincible Dao heart capable of suppressing the past, present, and future!
Demon Race powers such as Xuanming Divine Mountain and the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Dynasty were called Primordial Imperial Clans because powerful Ancient Emperors had been born among their ancestors.
The Ancient Emperors of the Primordial Imperial Clans were equivalent in combat strength to the Great Emperors of the human race.
They had simply disdained to share the title of Great Emperor with the human race, so they had taken another path and adopted the title of Ancient Emperor instead.
After many epochs had passed, later generations had gradually grown accustomed to the title of Ancient Emperor.
Only a clan that had produced an Ancient Emperor could be called a Primordial Imperial Clan.
Meanwhile, lineages that had produced Great Emperors were collectively known as Immortal Clans.
Prince Xuan Tian was a direct descendant of the Heaven-Swallowing Ancient Emperor and possessed an Ancient Emperor's bloodline.
Xuan Xiao's bloodline was thin and scarcely related to the Ancient Emperor at all; it could not begin to compare.
That was why the elders were so excited!
With an Ancient Emperor's offspring having emerged, who among the younger generation of the Primordial Dao Domain could contend with Xuanming Divine Mountain?