[The advancement in the realm of the Wheel of Destiny Scripture has given you the confidence to resist the power of the female corpse beneath the great tomb. You are ready to climb the great tomb and open the coffin.]
...
[At the moment you touch the monster's corpse, you suddenly sense a tremendous vitality erupting from within.]
[In the next moment, the withered skin of the corpse becomes plump, as if time is reversing, changing at an extremely fast pace. In the blink of an eye, from a dried-up corpse, it transforms into a recently deceased body.]
[You know that the body in front of you is about to resurrect, and you tense up, ready to take action.]
[Just as you expected, the body suddenly opens its eyes, and at that moment, you instantly notice a karmic thread representing the demon emperor appearing on you.]
[You react quickly and immediately use the Life Calamity technique.]
[Consuming 200 points of Human Tribe's luck, you immediately feel a terrifying force descending as the demon emperor in the coffin abruptly stops his movements, raising a palm towards you.]
[In the next moment, the demon emperor lets out a cry of pain and reluctance, and his body, which had just recovered, withers once more, turning into ashes and scattering in an instant.]
[Congratulations, under your Life Calamity technique, the calamity of the demon emperor, who had just been resurrected, came prematurely, and his body turned to ashes.]
"It really worked!"
Su Nan breathed a sigh of relief, once again astonished by the mysterious and powerful ability of the Life Calamity technique.
This method might not be very effective against normal demon kings or demon emperors, but against forcibly resurrected beings, it was a nemesis.
"All that's left now is to see if that female corpse has any other tricks up her sleeve."
[You see that at the moment the demon emperor turns into ashes, an item falls from his body.]
[It's a silver-white object about the size of a palm, with an extremely smooth and polished surface, reflecting light.]
[Unfortunately, there are obvious signs of breakage on the item, and you understand that it is just a fragment of some object.]
[You immediately pick up the item, and at the moment you touch it, you feel the Wheel of Destiny Scripture within you spinning frantically.]
[You react quickly and immediately put away the item.]
[Congratulations, you have obtained a fragment of the Celestial Clan's sacred artifact, the Life-and-Death Silver Mirror.]
"Life-and-Death Silver Mirror?"
"Could it be that the female corpse's ability to resurrect the demon emperor relies on the power of this Life-and-Death Silver Mirror?"
Seeing the name "Life-and-Death Silver Mirror," Su Nan couldn't help but think of many things.
Just from the name alone, it was likely that the power of the Life-and-Death Silver Mirror was related to life and death.
Thinking about the resurrected demon emperor, he couldn't help but connect the two.
The possibility was significant.
The female corpse herself had only given birth to vitality and had not truly resurrected, so how could she use her control over destiny to resurrect a demon emperor?
[Three breaths pass by, and the suppression from the Prison of Heaven on the female corpse weakens. However, without the help of the Life-and-Death Silver Mirror, the female corpse can no longer attack you and can only resist the Prison of Heaven with all her might.]
[However, even though the female corpse has regained vitality, she has not truly resurrected and can only exert limited power. Under the suppression of the Prison of Heaven, she gradually falls into a disadvantage.]
[Three minutes later, the female corpse is ultimately unable to withstand the power of the Prison of Heaven and is sealed inside.]
"It's done."
The foresight is over, and Su Nan sighs in relief.
This trip to the Divine Ruins is essentially over.
Inside the Prison of Heaven.
"Elder, I have a way to deal with that female corpse now," Su Nan's avatar says.
"Oh? You have a way?" Zhou Lingyin is surprised, her face showing astonishment.
From the moment Su Nan asked for information about the female corpse to now, it's only been a few breaths.
In just a few breaths, Su Nan somehow came up with a solution, leaving Zhou Lingyin puzzled about how he did it.
"Are you sure you really have a way to open the coffin and retrieve what's inside?" she asks.
"Don't worry, Elder. We can act now with confidence."
With the foresight results, Su Nan is full of confidence.
Zhou Lingyin looks deeply at Su Nan and nods, saying, "Alright!"
With that, without any visible action on Zhou Lingyin's part, Su Nan suddenly feels a suppressive force on his bloodline rapidly spreading from within the Prison of Heaven.
Even though he's a kilometer away, Su Nan can still feel his bloodline's power being rapidly suppressed.
If he doesn't leave this place, he'll soon become an ordinary person without any power.
"No wonder the Star Point Sect wanted to obtain the Prison of Heaven back then, using it as a backup plan to evacuate from the Heavenly Cloud County."
"Such a treasure is like a portable Heaven Vault Restriction!"
The power of the Prison of Heaven is clearly one of suppression. In the face of such power, there seems to be no better way than to escape before all of one's power is completely suppressed.
The power of the Prison of Heaven erupts, and Su Nan doesn't have time to think further. He immediately uses Celestial Teleportation.
In the next moment, he appears near the demon emperor's coffin on the great tomb.
The Wheel of Destiny Scripture is spinning wildly, and Su Nan rushes to the coffin in two steps, using all his strength to open it.
Just as the coffin is opened, a mission completion notification pops up:
[Congratulations, you have completed the second stage of the main quest "Demon Emperor's Blood." Would you like to claim your reward now?]
Another main quest is completed, but Su Nan doesn't have time to pay attention to it.
The most important thing now is to deal with the demon emperor who is about to be resurrected.
Time is limited, and Su Nan immediately jumps into the coffin, reaching out for the demon emperor's body.
For that Celestial Clan female corpse, resurrecting a demon emperor is clearly not an easy task, and she wouldn't do it unless she had no other choice.
That's also why the demon emperor's body didn't resurrect in the first foresight.
Just as in the foresight, at the moment he touches the demon emperor's body, it rapidly changes.
Su Nan pays no attention to the changes in the body and keeps his eyes fixed on the karmic thread.
Finally, a karmic thread thicker than Zhou Lingyin's appears.
He instantly understands that it's the karmic thread of the demon emperor, and from that karmic thread, he learns the demon emperor's name.
Demon Emperor Hongyuan!
"Now is the time!"
Without hesitation, Su Nan immediately uses the Life Calamity technique.
[You consume ten points of Human Tribe's luck and cast the Life Calamity technique on Demon Emperor Hongyuan.]
[You consume ten points of Human Tribe's luck and cast the Life
Calamity technique on Demon Emperor Hongyuan.]
...
A series of prompts flash by, and the Human Tribe's luck is rapidly depleted.
Finally, after consuming a full two hundred points of Human Tribe's luck, the demon emperor, who had just opened his eyes and was about to attack, undergoes a transformation under the influence of the Life Calamity technique.
As if a certain terrifying power is crossing space, it descends onto the demon emperor's body in the coffin.
In the next moment, the demon emperor's face contorts, clearly aware of his impending fate, and he roars in reluctance.
He wants to struggle, to resist the force descending from the unknown, but in the face of that power, the demon emperor appears exceedingly insignificant.
In just an instant, he turns into ashes and scatters.
[Congratulations, by consuming two hundred points of luck, under your Life Calamity technique, Demon Emperor Hongyuan's calamity arrived prematurely, and he perished.]
[Demon Emperor Hongyuan, resurrected against the taboo of life and death, was obliterated by the heavens and the earth, turning to ashes.]
"What a pity, the demon emperor's body was so well-preserved. There must have been a lot of essence blood inside, certainly more than just a few drops, and now it's all gone."
Watching the drifting ashes, Su Nan sighed inwardly.
The body of an ancient Yao Emperor containing essence blood, that was definitely a huge fortune, but unfortunately, there was nothing left now.
However, it wasn't the time to think about this now.
He reacted quickly, almost as soon as the Yao Emperor turned to ashes, he immediately grabbed the moment when the sacred artifact fell.
Without wasting any time, he put it away and quickly left the great tomb.
"Elder Zhou, I've already taken care of the item."
Inside the Prison of Heaven, his avatar immediately reported.
"You actually managed to do it!" Zhou Lingyin looked at Su Nan with surprise in her eyes.
In fact, even without Su Nan saying anything, she had already sensed the change in the female corpse's power.
She was well aware of the danger of opening the coffin and the difficulty involved. Even if a King-level expert had come, it would have been difficult to accomplish.
She had asked Su Nan to open the coffin because there was simply no one else available, and she had adopted the attitude of trying as a last resort.
She had expected that Su Nan would take his time and use his ability as a guest to resurrect to try to open it, just like the last time.
But she never expected that from the moment she asked Su Nan to open the coffin until now, in just a moment, Su Nan had already completed the task.
Without the assistance of the "Life-and-Death Silver Mirror," the female corpse's power began to decline.
Three minutes later.
Inside the Prison of Heaven, the female corpse, who had originally been outside the Prison of Heaven, suddenly appeared in the room where Su Nan and Zhou Lingyin were, and the power of the Prison of Heaven quickly gathered here.
The female corpse realized the danger and struggled to open her eyes, but she was suppressed by the power of the Prison of Heaven and couldn't open her eyes. Even the vitality inside her body began to dissipate.
Zhou Lingyin looked at Su Nan and said, "This is not a place where you can stay right now. I need to fully control the Prison of Heaven to extract the essence blood from the female corpse's body. You should leave here now and come back in a day."
"Alright." Su Nan didn't say much and immediately used Celestial Teleportation to leave the Prison of Heaven.
A few minutes later.
A kilometer away from the great tomb, Su Nan retracted his avatar.
[Congratulations, you have completed the second stage of the main quest "Demon Emperor's Blood." Would you like to claim your reward now?]
The task completion notification appeared again, and Su Nan didn't hesitate to choose to claim the reward.
"Claim."
[Congratulations, you have obtained a mortal-level bloodline.]
[Congratulations, you have obtained a mortal-level Yao scripture.]
[Congratulations, you have obtained 30 points of Yao power.]
[Congratulations, you have obtained a spirit item, the Faux Breath Stone.]
[The third stage of the mission has been unlocked. Please go to the mission panel to check.]
Four rewards, only Yao power and the spirit item were useful.
He had 21 points of Yao power left from the previous upgrade of the Wheel of Destiny Scripture, and now he had 51 points available.
"Faux Breath Stone? What kind of spirit item is this?"
This was the fifth spirit item he had obtained. Apart from the Flame Essence and Dragon Blood Fruit, which had greatly helped him, the Ice Spirit Water had been swallowed by the Dragon Turtle, and the Divine Core Stone was still incubating in his soul.
Calculating the time, it would take at least another ten days to see any results.
Su Nan was looking forward to it and took out the so-called Faux Breath Stone without delay.
It was a jade stone about the size of a grape, crystal clear.
[Faux Breath Stone: A spirit item, an ancient creature, known as the Faux Breath Beast, possesses the ability to disguise itself as any realm. After its death, its entire essence blood merges with a spirit jade, forming this unique stone after thousands of years of incubation.]
[This stone possesses some of the abilities of the Faux Breath Beast. When worn close to the body, it can disguise one's realm by infiltrating the essence blood of Yao creatures.]
"Disguise realm? That's interesting."
Su Nan nodded and wasn't too surprised or disappointed.
The current spirit items couldn't enhance his strength or combat power, which wasn't very useful for others, but for him, this kind of thing might be able to play a special role at certain times.
For example, disguising himself as a Wolf Yao to hide his realm.
Taking out a drop of forbidden Yao creature essence blood, he dripped it onto the stone, and the crystal clear stone instantly turned red.
Su Nan suddenly realized that his aura had been affected, changing from Profound-level to Spiritual-level.
"Not bad. I wonder if there's a limit to this kind of disguise. If there isn't, then if I get a drop of Emperor-level Yao creature's essence blood, can I disguise myself as an Emperor-level Yao creature?"
Su Nan's eyes lit up as he realized another use for this stone.
He put the stone away and opened the mission panel to check the follow-up tasks for "Demon Emperor's Blood."
However, at this moment, a prompt popped up:
[Due to the Yao Emperor's body turning to ashes inside the coffin, the "Demon Emperor's Blood" mission has ended.]
"So it's over like this?"
"It seems that the original third-stage task should have been related to the Yao Emperor's body, but now it's a pity."
Su Nan was first surprised, then he understood what was going on.
Obviously, the direction of the "Demon Emperor's Blood" mission was not like it is now.
However, since the coffin underwent changes, everything has changed.
Now, even under his Life Calamity technique, the Yao Emperor's body had turned to ashes, making it impossible to carry out the original third-stage task.
"First, I lost a Yao Emperor's body, and now I've lost a four-star mainline mission. This loss is quite significant. I wonder if that fragment of the sacred artifact can make up for it."
Su Nan took a deep breath and took out the fragment called the "Life-and-Death Silver Mirror."
Now that the female corpse had been sealed inside the Prison of Heaven, it was impossible for her to use the power of this fragment anymore.
The silver fragment was the size of a palm, and you could tell that the original appearance of this item was a silver round mirror, but for some reason, it was broken.
Fortunately, this piece seemed to be one of the larger fragments.
[Life-and-Death Silver Mirror Fragment: A fragment of the Celestial Clan's sacred artifact, the Life-and-Death Silver Mirror. The complete Life-and-Death Silver Mirror has the powerful ability to shatter and reassemble one's fate.]
[This fragment is one-third of the complete artifact and possesses one-tenth of the power of the complete Life-and-Death Silver Mirror. It can only be used by those who control fate.]
"Shatter and reassemble one's fate?"
"The Life-and-Death Silver Mirror seems to kill using the shattered fate of others and resurrect using the reassembled fate of others."
Su Nan instantly understood the usage of the Life-and-Death Silver Mirror.
Looking at the last part of the description, he suddenly had another thought.
"It says it can only be used by those who control fate. Does that mean that as long as I control fate, even if I'm not a member of the Celestial Clan, I can use it?"
(End of this chapter)