The mist-shrouded cave seemed beyond this world, with neither sun nor moon, appearing dim.
This space was utterly silent, as if it had remained quiet for tens of thousands of years.
Within this boundless expanse, a landmass floated, suspended without support, like a mysterious castle in the air.
"Boom!"
The lingering loneliness of aeons was suddenly shattered today. Within the hazy space, space suddenly twisted, and a vast spatial passage emerged. Then, figures suddenly burst forth, finally landing on the landmass.
"Is this the Ancient Emperor's Cave?"
"Finally, I'm in! If it weren't for the Ancient Emperor Tuoshe's enticement, I wouldn't have been trapped in this dark, dark space for thousands of years!"
While Gu Yuan and the others were filled with surprise and doubt, Zhu Kun felt a tinge of resentment, clearly harboring a deep grudge against the Ancient Emperor Tuoshe.
These thousands of years of loneliness had been excruciating even for him. It wasn't
until Chen Guan and Zi Yan arrived for the first time that he finally had some fun. More importantly, after learning about Zi Yan's situation, his greatest worry was put to rest.
"Who can blame me for my greed?"
Zi Yan hummed in dissatisfaction. If Zhu Kun hadn't coveted the remains of the ancient Tuoshe Emperor, who on this Dou Qi Continent could have trapped him? Zi Yan wouldn't have been stranded at such a young age.
But then she thought, if not for that, she wouldn't have been taken back to Canaan Academy by Su Qian, and naturally, she wouldn't have met Chen Guan.
With this thought, Zi Yan felt that everything was fate, and her resentment towards Zhu Kun faded. Thousands of years of captivity was a reasonable price.
"Yes, yes, it's all my fault."
Upon hearing Zi Yan's words, Zhu Kun's expression changed drastically. He leaned in close to Zi Yan and flattered her, not even the look of a peak Dou Sheng. Of all
the world, my precious daughter is the greatest.
Seeing Zhu Kun's expression, those who had seen him before, like Chen Guan and Zhu Kong, smiled as usual. Elders like Qi You, however, were stunned by this first time seeing the Old Dragon Emperor like this. They wanted to grumble but couldn't, and wanted to laugh but didn't dare.
"Follow me, let's go and take a look,"
Chen Guan said from the front of the group, soaring at breakneck speed, as if he knew the area well and wasn't worried about danger.
The others simply assumed he was simply skilled and daring, but the Old Dragon Emperor alone had guessed something.
The group raced across the vast, suspended land at breakneck speed, streaking across the sky like a meteor shower.
They maintained this pace for about ten minutes before Chen Guan finally slowed down.
Gazing out into the distance, they saw an ancient stone temple standing silently on the vast plain ahead. Its age-old aura rippled through the air, echoing through the heavens and earth.
Before the stone hall lay an immense plaza. On either side stood towering, towering, imposing pillars, each several thousand feet tall, towering majestically, seemingly supporting the heavens and the earth.
Everyone's eyes burned as they descended upon the plaza.
The remains of the ancient Tuoshe Emperor were right before their eyes!
"Is that a strange fire? The Xuanhuang Flame?" Lei Ying gazed uncertainly at the flames atop one of the pillars.
"It's not just the Xuanhuang Flame, there's the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame, the Six Paths of Samsara Flame... These are all on the Strange Fire List, but they're incredibly weak, to say they're just for show."
Yan Jin muttered in shock, his eyes filled with confusion.
The Yan Clan took their name from flame, so such a sight was undoubtedly shocking to him.
While the others were deeply shocked by Yan Jin's words, Chen Guan and Zhu Kun, having been prepared, were not surprised.
As the group continued forward, the strange fires on the towering stone pillars rose higher and higher in rank.
Twenty-first on the Strange Fire List, the Yin-Yang Dual Flame!
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Nineteenth on the Strange Fire List, the Azure Lotus Earth Core Fire!
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Fifteenth on the Strange Fire List, Sea Heart Flame!
Fourteenth on the Strange Fire List, Fallen Heart Flame!
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Eleventh on the Strange Fire List, Bone Spirit Cold Fire!
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Fifth on the Strange Fire List, Living Soul Flame!
Fourth on the Strange Fire List, Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame!
The square was gradually coming to an end. After the fourth-ranked Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame, two towering stone pillars appeared in sight.
However, when everyone looked over numbly, they saw that the stone pillars were empty.
The Pure Lotus Demonic Fire and the Void Devouring Flame had disappeared!
The long-silent crowd began to speculate. Gu Yuan keenly noticed that before the stone pillar belonging to the Void Devouring Flame, there seemed to be a missing stone pillar belonging to the number one Strange Fire List.
"It seems that even the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor has not obtained the legendary number one Strange Fire on the Strange Fire List. This emperor of fire is incredibly powerful."
Upon hearing this, many people nodded in agreement.
The number one on the Strange Fire List was so mysterious and unknown that even the Eight Ancient Clans knew nothing about it.
Chen Guan and Zhu Kun exchanged a glance, feeling somewhat sober amidst the rest of the crowd.
"The Ancient Emperor Tuoshe naturally couldn't possess the number one Strange Fire, because he was that very Fire!"
Zhu Kun calmly revealed a secret, shocking everyone speechless.
Truly, this news was unbelievable to them.
Who could have imagined that the last Dou Emperor of the Dou Qi Continent, ten thousand years ago, was actually a Strange Fire?
"We can call the number one on the Strange Fire List the Emperor Flame. Emperor Flame isn't just a name for a particular Strange Fire. No matter what kind of Strange Fire it is, as long as it can devour other Strange Fires, its power naturally grows stronger, and it becomes the Emperor Flame. Just like Chen's fused Strange Fire, it's now very close to becoming the Emperor Flame."
Upon hearing this, everyone turned to Chen Guan.
Indeed, he now possessed over half of the Strange Fires on the Strange Fire List, with most ranking in the top ten.
With his current strength, gathering the remaining exotic fires wouldn't be difficult.
In the crowd, Yan Jin's face lit up with realization, as if he understood why Chen Guan kept collecting exotic fires.
Perhaps he'd already known this secret.
And what about Xiao Yan from the Xingyun Pavilion? It seemed he was also collecting exotic fires.
Chen Guan didn't have time to explain; right now, he just wanted to get what he wanted as quickly as possible.
Zhu Kun, standing nearby, explained, his eyes constantly scanning the hazy square. He had already unleashed his spiritual power, searching for the Emperor Pill's embryonic form.
Unfortunately, this space severely suppressed spiritual power. Even with his formidable strength, he could only detect a radius of a thousand feet—nothing more than total darkness in the vast square.
Noticing his father-in-law's actions, Chen Guan also released his spiritual power. To Zhu Kun and Gu Yuan's astonishment, Chen Guan's spiritual power seemed unaffected, effortlessly transcending the thousand-foot radius and probing deeper than they could perceive. Could even
Emperor Realm souls have strengths and weaknesses?
Just as they were perplexed, Chen Guan smiled, then summoned his Dou Qi. His robes fluttered, and a powerful aura emanated from him.
In an instant, like a violent gust of wind, the mist that filled the square was swept away, carried away by the wind, and dissipated into nothingness.
The fog dissipated, and vision instantly cleared.
A towering object came into view.
It wasn't a towering stone pillar, but a massive stone statue thousands of feet tall.
The statue's appearance stunned everyone; it was none other than Tuoshe Ancient Emperor!
Even at this point, even if Zhu Kun hadn't explained Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's background, even those with keen minds would have been able to discern something.
"Those balls of light are fighting techniques!"
"They're all at the Heavenly Stage, over a hundred!"
"Hiss!"
someone in the team exclaimed.
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The aura of a Heavenly-grade fighting technique was distinct from that of techniques below the Heavenly-grade, instantly recognizable.
However, no one rushed to seize it. With Chen Guan, Bodhi, the Old Dragon Emperor, and Gu Yuan present, it wasn't their turn to make a move.
Furthermore, aside from Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin, everyone present was on their side, so there was no need to scramble.
In full view of the crowd, Chen Guan waved his hand, sweeping up all the fighting techniques and techniques, dumping them into his storage ring.
Gu Yuan and the others didn't react.
At their level, Heavenly-grade techniques still held some value, requiring some effort to create.
As for Heavenly-grade fighting techniques...
it's no exaggeration to say they were easily created.
Take Zhu Kun, for example. Trapped for thousands of years, if he had focused solely on creating fighting techniques, he could easily have produced hundreds by now.
Chen Guan, ignoring this small gain, cast his gaze upon the stone statue's shoulder.
A figure quietly appeared, its gaze coldly gazing down upon the crowd below. Finally, it fixed its gaze on Chen Guan, staring at them from afar, as if each wanted to see through the other.
Following Chen Guan's gaze, Gu Yuan and the others finally spotted the figure.
"Tuoshe Ancient Emperor!!!"
"How could it be!"
Seeing the face identical to Tuoshe Ancient Emperor, with that signature, dazzling, long hair, all filled with shock, it was Gu Yuan.
Sensing the crowd's shock, the old man on the statue's shoulder tried to act intimidatingly, but Chen Guan debunked his claim.
"If Tuoshe Ancient Emperor were here, how could he allow us to open the cave? It's just an Imperial Grade Young Pill."
"Chen Guan is right. He is the incarnation of the Imperial Grade Young Pill."
Zhu Kun's eyes blazed with passion. It was his greed for the Imperial Grade Young Pill that had led him to Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's trap.
Now that he had seen his target with his own eyes, his desire surged once more.
The commotion in the arena finally subsided after hearing the two's words.
As long as it wasn't the Ancient Emperor Tuoshe, it was fine!
As for the elixir transforming, it wasn't anything strange. The story of the Danta Patriarch was no secret in Zhongzhou.
Emperor-grade Chudan stood atop the stone statue's shoulder, swallowing back the words that were about to come out of his mouth. Then, with a look of humiliation and anger, he stared at Chen Guan.
"Who are you? I can sense the aura of the Void Devouring Flame and the Pure Lotus Demonic Fire in you. You devoured them!"
His tone was questioning, but his words were firm, clearly confirming the facts.
Chen Guan nodded calmly, "That's true."
Emperor-grade Chudan's face darkened, and he could no longer suppress his anger. He muttered, "You two losers!"
Emperor-grade Chudan was furious at their lack of fighting spirit. The three of them had agreed to first send the Void Devouring Flame and the Pure Lotus Demonic Fire away, and then find a way to help him escape.
He had never imagined that after all these years of waiting, this would be the end result.
The two strange fires hadn't helped him, but instead had cost him his life!
What the Emperor-grade embryonic elixir didn't know was that neither the Pure Lotus Demonic Fire nor the Void Devouring Flame had any intention of returning the favor from the very beginning. They hadn't even considered rescuing him, but instead had many ulterior motives.
Fortunately, Chen Guan had devoured it beforehand; otherwise, seeing the Void Devouring Flame betray him, he would have been even more furious.
After a few curses, the Emperor-grade embryonic elixir quickly calmed down, his eyes gleaming brightly.
"Since you were able to enter the cave, you must have already gathered the ancient jades. Kill you, and I will be free!"
Boom!
As the words fell, a torrent of energy suddenly erupted from the Emperor-grade embryonic elixir, subjugating the entire space to its will.
All around it, space collapsed and recreated in an instant. The terrifying aura frightened even Zhu Kun and Gu Yuan.
Only Chen Guan and Bodhi remained calm.
"Come on, I'm no match for him,"
Bodhi said calmly.
Although his condition wasn't at its peak, one could still tell the rank of the Emperor-grade Young Pill. With Chen Guan's current strength, dealing with it was no problem.
Chen Guan smiled and stepped forward, unleashing a majestic aura that instantly dispelled the pressure from everyone.
Reaching the Emperor-grade Young Pill's face, Chen Guan flipped his hand and retrieved the complete Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade, immediately infusing it with surging Dou Qi.
Simultaneously, his hands moved incessantly, forming a series of extremely strange hand seals.
Staring at Chen Guan's hand seals, the Emperor-grade Young Pill felt a sense of familiarity. After a moment's hesitation, he suddenly looked up at the ten-thousand-foot-tall stone statue of the Ancient Emperor.
The hand seals formed by the statue's hands were remarkably identical to Chen Guan's initial hand seals!
"The Pill Transformation Ring?! Impossible!"
"How could you possibly possess Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's Divine Pill Transformation Technique! Void, damned Void Devouring Flame!!"
The confidence on his face twisted into a frenzy, as if he had seen his natural enemy. The Emperor-grade Young Pill was completely unable to sit still.
"Emperor Dan Palm!"
With a shout, Emperor Dan suddenly soared into the air and fiercely pressed his palm towards Chen Guan. The moment his palms pressed out, a brilliant ball of light, roughly the size of a human head, suddenly emerged!
"Bang, bang, bang!"
With the appearance of this brilliant ball of light, the energy of heaven and earth suddenly burst into flames, like boiling oil encountering a blazing fire. As far as the eye could see, the boundless sky was filled with blazing flames.
The world had become a furnace! The
moment Emperor Dan pressed his hands down, the flames from heaven and earth roared down at an astonishing speed. In a brief moment, the boundless flames that filled the world were completely absorbed into the brilliant ball of light in Emperor Dan's hands.
"Die!"
With both palms pressed down, the world darkened. Only the ball of light in Emperor Dan's palms shone with a destructive light. The light squirmed, whistled past, and struck directly at Chen Guan.
Witnessing this devastating attack, Chen Guan switched from double-handed seals to one, freeing one hand to gather terrifying energy capable of annihilating heaven and earth. He met the attack without hesitation.
"Boom!"
The clashing roar shook the earth, and the ripples of energy emanating from it stirred a spatial storm. Fortunately, Zhu Kun, Gu Yuan, and Bodhi, three Nine-Star Dou Shengs, were stationed below. Otherwise, even the aftermath of the energy would have been enough to annihilate them all.
Mid-air, Chen Guan remained motionless. The terrifying energy surged toward him and dissipated automatically upon reaching him.
Meanwhile, the Imperial Grade Young Pill was repelled over a thousand feet.
Before he could utter a cry of shock, or launch another attack, Chen Guanxin's two-part condensed Dan Hua Ring had already taken shape. The Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade before him suddenly began to vibrate with a humming sound. Then, a gentle light rippled out, and as the jade trembled, it unexpectedly transformed into a dazzling halo!
The halo was multicolored, and within it, it seemed as if flames were dancing, a truly mysterious sight.
Without the slightest hesitation, Chen Guan flicked his finger, and the brilliant halo shot forth. In a split second, it appeared above Emperor Grade Young Dan's head. Circles of brilliant flames emerged, completely enveloping Emperor Grade Young Dan's form.
"Ah! No!"
As these flaming haloes continuously enveloped him, wisps of white smoke suddenly emanated from Emperor Grade Young Dan's body, and a shrill scream suddenly rang out.
Chen Guan's figure flashed outside the circle of flames, mobilizing terrifying energy and pressing down with a fierce palm. Like the straw that broke the camel's back, the body condensed by the Imperial Grade Young Pill instantly collapsed. Under the gaze of countless eyes, it transformed into a fist-sized ball of shimmering light.
This was the prototype of the Imperial Grade Young Pill!
Within this tiny ball of light was a terrifying energy that could move even a semi-emperor!
As Chen Guan, holding the shimmering ball of light, descended step by step, everyone present was stunned and incredulous.
"Is this the end?" Zhu Kun felt as if he were dreaming.
That was the Imperial Grade Young Pill!
He felt it could easily defeat four or five peak Dou Shengs, but in the hands of his son-in-law, it seemed powerless.
Chen Guan smiled faintly. "He's just a young elixir, yet he has the audacity to call himself an emperor. With Bodhi's help, I'm already one step ahead of him. I also
possess the elixir-transforming divine art that he fears the most. It would be strange if I can't easily defeat him." Just like the Taixu Ancient Dragon's Dragon Slaying Sword, which exerted an unreasonable oppressive influence on the clan members,
the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's elixir-transforming divine art was even more effective against the emperor-grade young elixir!